Latest News


End-users Workshop with the participation of GCD-member cities:

The city of Valencia hosted the DYVINE End-users Workshop at the Centre for Youth of the Valencia City Council, Calle Campoamor, nš 91, 4th floor, Valencia, Spain.

Agenda:

Wednesday, 17 September 2008
10h30 - 10h45: Welcome address by the City Council of Valencia and presentations
10h45 - 11h00: General Presentation of the DYVINE Project by the project coordinator, EADS France
11h00 - 11h30: Presentations of the DYVINE system, the Trials and achievements
11h30 - 11h45: Description of existing systems (from the users' perspective)
11h45 - 12h15: Coffee break
12h15 - 12h45: Showcase based on a questionnaire filled in in advance by the participants
12h45 - 13h15: Discussion on how DYVINE could be of help
13h15/13h30: Lunch.

Two-day meeting of the DYVINE consortium:

The European Commission evaluated the results of the Valencia Trial that took place in Valencia on 10 July 2008 at UPV and reviewed the second year of the project over two days:

Agenda of the EC Evaluation of the second Trial:

Thursday, 18 September 2008
09h30 - 12h00: Presentation of the trials in Valencia (ppt + small videos/replays + performances)
12h00 - 13h30: Evaluation by the end-users
13h30 - 15h00: Lunch
15h00 - 16h30: Presentation of the co-ordinator: Overview of the project, actions taken after the second review, allocation of resources, problems, proposed solutions and status of deliverables
16h30 - 18h30: Presentation of activities, WP by WP (led by each WP leader)
18h30: End of day 1

Agenda of the final review:

Friday, 19 September 2008
09h30 - 11h00: Exploitation plan, dissemination/presentation of the web-site
11h00 - 12h00: European Commission and experts separate deliberation
12h00 - 13h00: Results of the evaluation (EC)
13h00 - Wrap-up of the second day, open end


Two new articles about DYVINE:


Dynamic surveillance

Surveillance systems can often deliver more information than computer systems or the people who run them can handle. A new sytem promises to deliver more effective information.
Gary Mason reports: Jane's Police Product Review 8-9 2008.


DYVINE intervention

Britain has an incredibly high number of CCTV cameras - however, recently studies show that they're not having the intended effect of reducing crime or making people feel safer. But what if all the camerasin a given city could not only be joined up into one system, but had the intelligence to flag problems to control room operators? An EC-funded project is making that a reality. Police Professional travelled to Valencia, Spain, to watch the trials.
POLICEPROFESSIONAL July 31, 2008.



Valencia Trial

On 10 July 2008 the second trial within the project DYVINE has been successfully implemented in the city of Valencia. According to the ambitious aim of creating a DYnamic VIsual Network, the partners showed sound presentations. Part one and two of the trials demonstrated the integrated work that the partners have carried out in the second phase of the project.

Reflecting the various capabilities of DYVINE, the presentations and live demonstration of the two parts of the trial were shown according to the following agenda:

10h00 - 10h05: Welcome address

by Manuel Esteve representing the Valencia University of Polytechnics
(Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, UPV)
10h05 - 10h20: Presentation I: Project organisation and objectives

by Philippe Chrobocinski, EADS Defence and Security Systems SAS Global Security

  • Context;
  • Consortium;
  • DYVINE approach;
  • Objectives;
  • Industrial model;
  • General concept;
  • Phases of Valencia-trials.
    • 10h20-10h45: Presentation II: Solutions and Architecture

    by Guilhem Varangot, EADS Defence and Security Systems SAS Global Security

  • Achievements;
  • Key works;
  • Project process;
  • Situation overview;
  • General design concept.
    • 10h45 - 11h00: Presentation III: Legal aspects overview

    by Fanny Coudert, Interdisciplinary Centre for Law & ICT - K.U. Leuven

  • Privacy by design;
  • Better application of safeguards;
  • Legislation needs to be improved.
    • 11h00 - 11h30: Demonstration of sub-systems/components (1)
    1st Part System capabilities - Normal Use
    Transversal function:

    by Patrice Cauchois - EADS

  • Operator display, 3D Image;
  • Visual HQ Operator position.
    • Smart Sensor:

    by Cyril Humbert - Martec

  • Smart Sensor, local Video Content Analysis.

    • by Roselin Lionti - CEA LETI

  • Smart Sensor embedding compression.

    • by Franck Angella - EADS IW

  • Mono camera processing, forbidden area intrusion detection.
    • Mobile camera localization:

    by Francesc Moreno Noguer - École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)

  • 112 Call;
  • People using a smart phone, sending a photo or video to localize position.

    • Alternative scenario:

    by Francesc Moreno Noguer - EPFL

  • photo/video of a crisis taken by an individual further used to localize the event more precisely than via telecommunication networks.
    • Crowd Analysis:

    by Jérôme Berclaz - EPFL

  • People behaviour analysis.

    • by Jérôme Berclaz and Francesc Moreno Noguer, Computer Vision Laboratory, EPFL.

  • Multi-camera processing - abnormal behaviour detection in a tramway station.
    • System capabilities - Extended use:

    by Javier Martinez - UPV

  • Interconnection to legacy systems;
  • Interconnection to Valencia traffic surveillance system.

    • by Franck Angella - EADS

  • Multi-camera tracking of vehicles;
  • Following of a vehicle in the city centre of Valencia.
    • 11h30 - 11h50: Break
    11h50 - 12h20: Demonstration of sub-systems/components (2);
    2nd Part Crisis situation - Assessment and Recovering:

    by Dan He, University of Surrey

  • Wimax Link;
  • Radio solutions to recover from system collapse.

    • by Patrice Cauchois - EADS

  • Mobile command truck, operator directly at incident site.

    • by Olaf Heinzinger - EADS IW

  • Mobile sensor, managed by operator;
  • Remote controllable camera from centre.
    • 12h20 - 13h00: System deployment and reconfiguration demonstration:

    by Javier Martinez - UPV

  • Simacop: mesh video network;
  • Reconfiguration;
  • Mobility.
    • 13h00 - 13h15: Conclusions
    13h15 - 13h30: Question