Multimodal Surveillance: an Introduction

Multimodal sensing, data processing, and system integration are still in a fast growing stage of research and development. Much work needs to be done to ensure successful real-world, large-scale surveillance applications. The collection in this book is just samples of some representative works in the field and therefore by no means to be complete. However, we hope this collection will stimulate more interests in the research and development of multimodal surveillance techniques, including the further developments of multimodal sensors, multimodal data fusion algorithms, and multimodal surveillance systems.