Computer Vision for Security Applications
A special issue of Information (ISSN 2078-2489). This special issue belongs to the section "Artificial Intelligence".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (28 February 2025) | Viewed by 89052
Special Issue Editors
Interests: computer vision (feature extraction and pattern analysis); scene and event understanding (by people and/or vehicles and/or objects); human–computer interaction (pose estimation and gesture recognition by hands and/or body); sketch-based interaction (handwriting and freehand drawing); human–behaviour recognition (actions, emotions, feelings, affects, and moods by hands, body, facial expressions, and voice); biometric analysis (person re-identification by body visual features and/or gait and/or posture/pose); artificial intelligence (machine/deep learning); medical image analysis (MRI, ultrasound, X-rays, PET, and CT); multimodal fusion models; brain–computer interfaces (interaction and security systems); signal processing; visual cryptography (by RGB images); smart environments and natural interaction (with and without virtual/augmented reality); robotics (monitoring and surveillance systems with PTZ cameras, UAVs, AUVs, rovers, and humanoids)
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Interests: computer vision (feature extraction and pattern analysis); scene and event understanding (by people and/or vehicles and/or objects); human–behaviour recognition (actions, emotions, feelings, affects, and moods by hands, body, facial expressions, and voice); biometric analysis (person re-identification by body visual features and/or gait and/or posture/pose); artificial intelligence (machine/deep learning); brain–computer interfaces (interaction and security systems); signal processing; visual cryptography (by RGB images); robotics (monitoring and surveillance systems by PTZ cameras, UAVs, AUVs, rovers, and humanoids)
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Interests: computer vision (feature extraction and pattern analysis); scene and event understanding (by people and/or vehicles and/or objects); Human-Behaviour Recognition (actions, emotions, feelings, affects, and moods by hands, body, facial expressions, and voice); biometric analysis (person re-identification by body visual features and/or gait and/or posture/pose); artificial intelligence (machine/deep learning); medical image analysis (MRI, ultrasound, X-rays, PET, and CT); multimodal fusion models; signal processing; robotics (monitoring and surveillance systems by PTZ cameras, UAVs, AUVs, rovers, and humanoids)
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The MDPI Information journal invites submissions to a Special Issue on “Computer Vision for Security Applications”.
Automated security systems are gaining ever-increasing interest for both indoor and outdoor applications as a consequence of technological advances in acquisition devices. Specifically, video sequences, as well as static images, are exploited to obtain innovative solutions to heterogenous problems such as area surveillance and affect recognition. In particular, these applications are also employed in real-life security scenarios, including Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), disaster monitoring, train stations and airports, in multi-view camera surveillance for human action recognition, and high-stakes situations (e.g., interrogations and court trials) that affect recognition, highlighting the importance of reliable and well-performing systems. Moreover, while computer vision has significantly benefitted from deep learning algorithms and neural networks, well-known issues afflicting automated video-based security applications, such as different viewing angles, illumination changes, background clutter, occlusions, and long-term re-identification still remain open. Therefore, innovative solutions are required to further advance the available systems for their employment in real-life contexts.
This Special Issue is concerned with ground-breaking approaches addressing common issues of computer vision-based methods, with a particular emphasis on security applications.
Dr. Danilo Avola
Dr. Daniele Pannone
Dr. Alessio Fagioli
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- drone patrolling
- distributed smart cameras for person re-identification
- image analysis for action recognition
- machine/deep learning models in surveillance systems
- automatic scene understanding
- skeleton-based methods for person re-identification
- methods and models for affect recognition
- soft and hard biometrics
- soft computing for visual security applications
- application of 3D vision in security
- image sensor fusion
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