Security and INTelligence SYStem is an Italian research project
which aims to create an integrated system for the analysis of multi-modal data
sources (text, images, video, audio), to assist operators in homeland security
applications. Within this project the Scientific Research Unit of the University
of Palermo is responsible of the image and video analysis activity. The SRU of
Palermo developed a web service based architecture that provides image and
video analysis capabilities to the integrated analysis system. The developed architecture
uses both state of the art techniques, adapted to cope with the particular
problem at hand, and new algorithms to provide the following services: image
cropping, image forgery detection, face and people detection, weapon detection
and classification, and terrorist logo recognition. In the last phase of the
project we plan to include in our system new services, mainly oriented to the
video analysis, to study and understand the behaviour of individuals, either
alone or in a group