InSPeCT: Integrated Surveillance for Port Container Traffic
Sadlier, David A., Ferguson, Paul, Zhang, Dian, O'Connor, Noel E. and Lee, HyowonORCID: 0000-0003-4395-7702
(2011)
InSPeCT: Integrated Surveillance for Port Container Traffic.
In: ACM Multimedia 2011 - ACM International Conference on Multimedia, 28 Nov - 1 Dec 2011, Scottsdale, AZ..
This paper describes a fully-operational content-indexing and management system, designed for monitoring and profiling freight-based vehicular traffic in a seaport environment. The 'InSPeCT' system captures video footage of passing vehicles and uses tailored OCR to index the footage according to vehicle license plates and freight codes. In addition to real-time functionality such as alerting, the system provides advanced search techniques for the efficient retrieval of records, where each vehicle is profiled according to multi-angled video, context information, and links to external information sources. Currently being piloted at a busy national seaport, the feedback from port officials indicates the system to be extremely useful in supplementing their existing transportation-security structures.