Guest Editorial: Intelligent Processing for Citizen Security
Andrzej Dziech, Remigiusz Baran, Mikołaj Leszczuk · Multimedia Tools and Applications · 2015
The contemporary world presents us with numerous dangers and challenges. We hear about traffic accidents, crimes, confrontations between football hooligans, building disasters, etc. on the news almost every day. In addition, terrorism has become a growing threat. In order to prevent and combat such hazards, new intelligent solutions are required. Traditional urban monitoring and surveillance systems, with operators overseeing any activities taking place, are no longer sufficient, mainly because of the petabytes of data per minute that need to be analyzed. Such a vast volume of data in current urban monitoring systems is the result of widespread and growing use of various sensors, mainly digital cameras and microphones. Therefore, new intelligent approaches for image and audio processing and recognition are vital for modern security systems; in turn, they would not be effective without innovative data encryption and protection techniques, including those relying on digital watermarking.