Computer Vision for Security Applications

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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