ISIS - An Integrated Sensor Information System for Crime Prevention
Lead Research Organisation:
Queen's University Belfast
Department Name: Sch of Electronics, Elec Eng & Comp Sci
Abstract
ISIS will detect threats on public transport, inform key decision makes of that threat and manage its own network. It will use video cameras, audio microphones and RF/microwave sensors to detect threats as they enter buses or trains. ISIS will use template matching to use the video and audio streams to identify known criminals or terrorists and alert security and transport staff. In cases were the passenger is unknown it will use advanced RF scanning techniques to check for external intrusion into the vehicle space such as an explosive device placed under a bus or train and will also check to unknown electronics used as detonation mechanisms for explosives concealed insit a laptop or mobile phone.
Publications
McLaughlin K
(2008)
A Scalable Packet Sorting Circuit for High-Speed WFQ Packet Scheduling
in IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI) Systems
McLaughlin K
(2012)
Fully hardware based WFQ architecture for high-speed QoS packet scheduling
in Integration
Seymour R
(2008)
Comparison of Image Transform-Based Features for Visual Speech Recognition in Clean and Corrupted Videos
in EURASIP Journal on Image and Video Processing
Stewart D
(2013)
Gender classification via lips: static and dynamic features
in IET Biometrics
| Description | 1. Image recognition to detect high stress situations on bus transport which might lead to crime. 2. New image processing parsing methods for meta-tagging CCTV feeds automatically. 3. Linking real time bus position with neighbourhood and bus stop threat levels. |
| Exploitation Route | This research laid the foundation for our new CSIT Institute which has extensive links to industry and academia. |
| Sectors | Digital/Communication/Information Technologies (including Software) Electronics Security and Diplomacy Transport |
| Description | The results were used to help a local bus manufacturer and Transport for London suppliers realise the importance of security and crime prevention on bus public transport |
| First Year Of Impact | 2010 |
| Sector | Digital/Communication/Information Technologies (including Software),Transport |
| Impact Types | Economic |
| Description | EPSRC |
| Amount | £4,569,565 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | EP/G034303/1 |
| Organisation | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 03/2010 |
| End | 06/2015 |
| Description | EPSRC |
| Amount | £39,000 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 04/2010 |
| End | 06/2013 |
| Description | EPSRC |
| Amount | £2,704,971 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | EP/H049606/1 |
| Organisation | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 03/2010 |
| End | 06/2014 |
| Description | INTERREG IIIC North |
| Amount | £4,900,000 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | Interreg IVB North Sea Region Programme |
| Organisation | INTERREG IIIC North |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | France |
| Start | |
| Description | Invest Northern Ireland |
| Amount | £4,400,000 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | INI CSIT |
| Organisation | Invest Northern Ireland |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 04/2010 |
| End | 06/2015 |
| Description | Queens University |
| Amount | £8,800,000 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | CSIT |
| Organisation | Queen's University Belfast |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 03/2010 |
| End | 06/2015 |
| Description | Queens University |
| Amount | £8,800,000 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | CSIT |
| Organisation | Queen's University Belfast |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | |
| Description | Stream On |
| Organisation | Stream On |
| Country | Canada |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | This research helped Stream-On provide research based support to their customers |
| Collaborator Contribution | Stream-On were able to lead our research to the needs of the market |
| Impact | Some of our software ideas were used by Stream-On in their product design. |
| Start Year | 2007 |