Project Professional's Dashboard (N6)
In many control rooms security guards are staring at their screens, waiting to catch suspect behavior. They hope to register something before a crime is committed. After a crime has been committed, the detective force may want to know quickly what was recorded. That is, if any cameras were present. They will always want an image of the crime scene. Or they will want to check whether confiscated video material contains, for example, child pornography. The goal is to detect perpetrators and victims as quickly as possible.
Today, all this research takes up a lot of time and analyzing the images can be very stressful for the detective. Is there a quicker or smarter way? The people at the worktable of the Professional Dashboard project have proven that such a solution exists.
Automatic alerts
The goal of the Professional Dashboard project is to develop prototypes that support the professional user in his daily practice. This means they develop advanced multimedia analysis and visualization tools. The professional dashboard supplies mobile and desktop-based interfaces that offer information in a condensed form, using state of the art analysis and visualization techniques. These interfaces then give out automatic alerts for important happenings, enabling the professional to react in a quick and adequate way. Application areas that profit from this knowledge are public safety and forensic analysis, as well as sports.
Participants
At the Professional Dashboard worktables, fundamental science (UvA, TU Delft) and applied science (TNO) work closely together with non-profit organizations (NS, NOC,*NSF, Dutch Forensic Institute (NFI), Police) and the business community (ZiuZ). The demanding parties at the worktable are organizations working in an area which grows in complexity by the day. They can only manage their work with the help of constant innovation. The scientific side of the worktable takes care of this by attuning demand and supply in an optimal way.
Spheres of activity
Together with the police a mobile warning system is developed, which provides an officer on the street with information at the right time. The NS worktable concentrates on camera surveillance at stations and in trains to warn the operator in case of aggressive behaviour.
A major subject at the NFI worktable is the support for forensic experts at the crime scene with tools that automatically make a 3D model of the crime scene. Another focus at this table is the development of applications to investigate large amounts of suspect material quickly.
This subject is also important at the worktable which seats Ziuz as a first user. At this table, the central focus is the intelligent search of large amounts of confiscated child pornography videos.
And finally, an application with which individual athletes can be camera-monitored during their trainings is built together with NOC*NSF. By analyzing the camera images automatically after having saved them in a personal video diary, NOC*NSF hopes to improve the athletes’ individual performances, so their chances on a golden medal at the next Olympic games will increase. For now, the research is mainly focused on swimming.
Learning Features (N1)
Multimodal Interaction (N2)
Ambient Multimedia Databases (N3)
Semantic Multimedia Access (N5)
Professional's Dashboard (N6)
Video At Your Fingertips (N7)
E-Culture (N9C)
PERsonal Information Services (N9MI)