Video analytics systems for smart border management on and between checking points

Experts of the Austrian research centre AIT Austrian Institute of Technology combine multi-camera networks with advanced computer vision algorithms to develop innovative solutions for a broad range of surveillance applications in the field of border security, passenger facilitation, as well as the protection of critical infrastructures and business intelligence. AIT combines ingenious algorithms with 3D stereo data to create access control solutions ranging from low to high security applications. Contactless biometric solutions are implemented in mobile devices to ease the work of Law Enforcement Agencies (LEAs) and other safeguards. The new approach for the contactless capture of fingerprints using a mobile device enhances security, speeds up the border control process, and makes biometric verification less cumbersome to individuals and officials.

The institute’s research covers the whole processing chain, from image and video acquisition to several steps of analysis and information extraction, and right up to the user-friendly presentation of results. AIT ’s development is based on scalable and platform-independent, service-oriented architectures which automatically extract temporal and spatial events from live and recorded video.

• scalable video analytics framework
• privacy-preserving object recognition
• 3D people tracking and queue detection
• model-based tracker
• visual indoor localisation
• tailgating and piggybacking detection
• left object detector
• smart intrusion detection for high security areas

Based on AIT ’s internationally recognised experience in the field of smart border control, and as a coordinator of major projects (e.g. FastPass, MobilePass), the institute develops solutions and prototypes for identifying individuals on the move.