1 Requirements from End-Users.- 1.1. User Focused Surveillance Systems Integration for Intelligent Transport System.- 1.2 Security in Ports: The User Requirements for Surveillance Systems.- 1.3 Highway Traffic Monitoring.- 1.4 The Prevention of Vandalism in Metro Stations.- 2.Video and Image Processing.- 2.1. Video-Based Management of Traffic Light at Pedestrian Road Crossing.- 2.2 Fuzzy Motion Detection For Highway Traffic Control.- 2.3 Image Processing for Traffic Management.- 2.4 Performances Evaluation Strategies of an Image Processing System for Surveillance Applications.- 3.Video Sequence Understanding.- 3.1 Automatic Visual Surveillance of Vehicles and People.- 3.2. Image Understanding for Prevention of Vandalism in Metro Stations.- 3.3 A Neural Tree-Based Image Understanding System for Advanced Visual Surveillance.- 3.4 The Advanced Visual Monitoring Project at Irst.- 4 Communications.- 4.1. Integration of Wireless Networks and AVS.- 4.2. Use of Advanced Video Surveillance and Communication Technologies for Remote Monitoring of Protected Sites.- 4.3 Remote Detection of Abandoned Objects in Unattended Railway Stations by Using a DS/CDMA Video-Surveillance Systems.- 5.Sensors and Systems.- 5.1 Advanced Incident Management and Tolling Enforcement Systems Based on Image Processing and Video Technologies.- 5.2 Automotive Vision Systems.- 5.3 Cromatica Project.- 5.4. Generation of Radar Images of Aircraft for Design and Test of Image Processing Algorithms in Radar Applications.

Advanced Video-Based Surveillance Systems presents second generation surveillance systems that automatically process large sets of signals for performance monitoring tasks. Included is coverage of different architecture designs, customization of surveillance architecture for end-users, advances in the processing of imaging sequences, security systems, sensors, and remote monitoring projects. Examples are provided of surveillance applications in highway traffic control, subway stations, wireless communications, and other areas.
This work will be of interest to researchers in image processing, computer vision, digital signal processing, and telecommunications.