Idle Object Detection in Video for Banking ATM Applications

Abstract: This study proposes a method to detect idle object and applies it for analysis of suspicious events. Partitioning and Normalized Cross Correlation (PNCC) based algorithm is proposed for the detection of moving object. This algorithm takes less processing time, which increases the speed and also the detection rate. In this an approach is proposed for the detection and tracking of moving object in an image sequence. Two consecutive frames from image sequence are partitioned into four quadrants and then the Normalized Cross Correlation (NCC) is applied to each sub frame. The sub frame which has minimum value of NCC, indicates the presence of moving object. The proposed system is going to use the suspicious tracking of human behaviour in video surveillance and it is mainly used for security purpose in ATM application. The suspicious object's visual properties so that it can be accurately segmented from videos. After analyzing its subsequent motion features, different abnormal events like robbery can be effectively detected from videos. The suspicious action in ATM are many, such as using mobile phones, multiple persons trying to access the ATM machine in same time, kicking of each other, idle object and it shows event corresponding to Vandalism and robbery. In proposed system, idle object detection is used to identify by using PNCC algorithm with P-filter (Particle) and by extracting the features of the object in an enhanced way by using the curvelet based transformation

The Definition of Specific-Purpose English Language Competences Needed in Border Control and their Development Potentials II. : English for Border and Coast Guards: Specific-Purpose English Language Skills and the FRONTEX Tools Designed for their Development – Level A2/B1

The aim of this series of papers is to present modern methods of linguistics and language pedagogy concerning specific-purpose language competences and, applying them to English for Border Guards (EBG), to describe the English competences to be developed at language courses for border guards in EU member states and to explore the prospects for their improvement. Having discussed the dilemmas and methodology related to the definition of specific-purpose language competences and to needs analyses, indispensable for language course design in the first part of the series, the further parts wish to prove that the ongoing FRONTEX project entitled English Communication for Border and Coast Guards very well illustrates how the new approach to needs analysis methods is used to define the English language skills needed for border control in the EU. The author also presents that, based on the authentic material provided by border guards, the ESP competences needed for their work can be defined according to the categories used in applied linguistics and the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages. Due to the length limits of this paper, this part will only discuss elementary and intermediate (A2/B1) EBG competences

Pedestrian Detection and Tracking in Video Surveillance System: Issues, Comprehensive Review, and Challenges

Pedestrian detection and monitoring in a surveillance system are critical for numerous utility areas which encompass unusual event detection, human gait, congestion or crowded vicinity evaluation, gender classification, fall detection in elderly humans, etc. Researchers’ primary focus is to develop surveillance system that can work in a dynamic environment, but there are major issues and challenges involved in designing such systems. These challenges occur at three different levels of pedestrian detection, viz. video acquisition, human detection, and its tracking. The challenges in acquiring video are, viz. illumination variation, abrupt motion, complex background, shadows, object deformation, etc. Human detection and tracking challenges are varied poses, occlusion, crowd density area tracking, etc. These results in lower recognition rate. A brief summary of surveillance system along with comparisons of pedestrian detection and tracking technique in video surveillance is presented in this chapter. The publicly available pedestrian benchmark databases as well as the future research directions on pedestrian detection have also been discussed

COSPO/CENDI Industry Day Conference

The conference's objective was to provide a forum where government information managers and industry information technology experts could have an open exchange and discuss their respective needs and compare them to the available, or soon to be available, solutions. Technical summaries and points of contact are provided for the following sessions: secure products, protocols, and encryption; information providers; electronic document management and publishing; information indexing, discovery, and retrieval (IIDR); automated language translators; IIDR - natural language capabilities; IIDR - advanced technologies; IIDR - distributed heterogeneous and large database support; and communications - speed, bandwidth, and wireless

Internet of Things-aided Smart Grid: Technologies, Architectures, Applications, Prototypes, and Future Research Directions

Traditional power grids are being transformed into Smart Grids (SGs) to address the issues in existing power system due to uni-directional information flow, energy wastage, growing energy demand, reliability and security. SGs offer bi-directional energy flow between service providers and consumers, involving power generation, transmission, distribution and utilization systems. SGs employ various devices for the monitoring, analysis and control of the grid, deployed at power plants, distribution centers and in consumers' premises in a very large number. Hence, an SG requires connectivity, automation and the tracking of such devices. This is achieved with the help of Internet of Things (IoT). IoT helps SG systems to support various network functions throughout the generation, transmission, distribution and consumption of energy by incorporating IoT devices (such as sensors, actuators and smart meters), as well as by providing the connectivity, automation and tracking for such devices. In this paper, we provide a comprehensive survey on IoT-aided SG systems, which includes the existing architectures, applications and prototypes of IoT-aided SG systems. This survey also highlights the open issues, challenges and future research directions for IoT-aided SG systems