Authors:
            
                    Daniel Durães
                    
                        
                    
                    ; 
                
                    Luís F. Teixeira
                    
                        
                    
                     and
                
                    Luís Corte-Real
                    
                        
                    
                    
                
        
        
            Affiliation:
            
                    
                        
                    
                    INESC Porto, Faculdade de Engenharia, Universidade do Porto, Portugal
                
        
        
        
        
        
             Keyword(s):
            Intelligent Surveillance Systems, Modular Architecture, Multi-sensor surveillance, Data Analysis.
        
        
            
                Related
                    Ontology
                    Subjects/Areas/Topics:
                
                        Computer Vision, Visualization and Computer Graphics
                    ; 
                        Design and Implementation of Signal Processing Systems
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                        Distributed Multimedia Systems
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                        Motion, Tracking and Stereo Vision
                    ; 
                        Multimedia
                    ; 
                        Multimedia Systems and Applications
                    ; 
                        Telecommunications
                    ; 
                        Video Surveillance and Event Detection
                    
            
        
        
            
                Abstract: 
                Intelligent surveillance is becoming increasingly important for the enhanced protection of facilities such as airports and power stations from various types of threats. We propose a surveillance system architecture based on multiple sources of information to apply on large scale surveillance networks. The main contribution of this paper is the definition of the requirements for a flexible and scalable architecture that supports intelligent surveillance using, alongside video, different sources of information, such as audio or other sensors.