About us
The SAMURAI consortium consists of 9 members spanning 6 countries
in Europe. While all countries are members of EU-25, two are from
relatively new member states.
The consortium partners have been carefully chosen
to have specific, independent and complementary skills essential for
completing SAMURAI's work. The consortium includes three
Small-to-Medium Enterprises (SMEs) of which two are from newer EU
countries.
The fourth industrial partner (ind) is a large
European manufacturer (ELS) who is a leader in the security industry
and has expertise in large system integration.
There are two universities (acad), required for
the forward looking nature of this research. To ensure relevance to the
societal needs of the EU, the full project partners include three
significant end users (user) in the transportation sector where the
need for security has, in the last decade, become a major issue.
Eleven further end-users make up the User Advisory Group, which will make recommendations on the
work and results of SAMURAI.
Scientific
Objective
SAMURAI will develop robust moving object, segmentation, categorisation
and tagging in video captured by multiple cameras from medium-long
range distance, e.g. identifying, monitoring and tracking people with
luggage between different locations at an airport. Automated focus of
attention and identification in a distributed sensor network that
includes fixed and mobile cameras, positioning sensors, and wearable
audio/video sensors. Global situational awareness assessment and
image retrieval of objects by types, movement patterns with incidents
across a distributed network of cameras. Online adaptive abnormal
behaviour monitoring for profiling and inference of abnormal behaviours
/ events captured by multiple cameras. We will also exploit methods for
feeding back into the algorithm human operator’s evaluation on
any abnormality detection output in order to guide and speed up the
incremental and adaptive behaviour profiling algorithm.SAMURAI will
develop groundbreaking technology that can be interfaced with existing
CCTV systems employed widely within the EU. By concentrating the
technology developments onto multiple cameras and mobile cameras, many
of the limitations of the existing state-of-the-art will be overcome by
incorporating strong end users with a widely deployed CCTV system in
the Consortium. SAMURAI will allow prevention and rapid-response to
events as they unfold.
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