NICTA has been granted $1.01 million by the federal government to develop an advanced video surveillance demonstrator for the Port of Brisbane.
The funding is part of the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet’s Research Support for National Security Program.
“This new funding will help us build an advanced video surveillance system at the Port of Brisbane which could then be replicated in other settings where the protection and safety of people and critical infrastructure is important,” NICTA Advanced Surveillance project leader Brian Lovell says.
According to NICTA, the new video surveillance will combine NICTA technologies including software that recognises individual faces from live video feeds before matching them to a database, along with technology that improves the clarity of video footage taken in poor conditions such as rain, dust or fog.
NICTA says the demonstrator will be further enhanced by NICTA’s sensor network research, linking all of these capabilities, creating a robust, superior system.
The expected completion date for the project is 31 December 2011.
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