Videoguard Project: intelligent image analysis to detect and pursue furtivism in Vigo

The Telecommunications Technology Center of Galicia participates in the Videoguard project, coordinated by Coremain, to develop a video surveillance system adapted to the maritime environment to detect and prosecute poaching in Vigo, in which Retegal also participates, Bastet and TRC.

Detect and pursue poaching in Galicia, specifically in Vigo, is the objective of the Videoguard project, that uses intelligent image analysis technology for video surveillance adapted to the maritime environment in conditions of low or no visibility.

In this project, coordinated by the Spanish technology consulting company Coremain, participates the Telecommunications Technology Center of Galicia (Gradiant – Galician Research and Development Center in Advanced Telecommunications), as well as the public telecommunications company Retegal, the design specialist, installation and maintenance of security and telecommunications systems Bastet Engineering and the technology integrator and developer Trc.

The Videoguard project, financed by the Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness through the funds of the Feder Interconecta Galicia program 2012-2014, focuses on the development of an intelligent video analytics platform specially adapted to maritime environments and, concretely, in its application in coastal surveillance for the prevention and prosecution of poaching and shellfishing.

Among other challenges, developments focus on testing the feasibility of a long-distance video surveillance deployment, taking advantage of the infrastructures available in the area.

On a technological level, the main objective of the project is the research and development of analysis algorithms adapted to natural environments, mainly to video surveillance from land in maritime and coastal environments, with systems that support the great variability of this environment and the low resolution of the objects in the image in conditions of very low or no visibility.

In this sense, new detection algorithms are being researched and developed, classification and tracking of video objects based on thermal imaging use , suitable for the specific case of boats and people in these scenarios, as furtivism usually occurs during night hours, or in conditions of low visibility, poor lighting, which adds up to adverse weather conditions.

This consortium of companies, coordinated by Coremaint and in collaboration with Gradiant, that has made available to the project its developments in intelligent video analysis and monitoring, tries to optimize technologies and video surveillance recording systems with new detection algorithms, classification and movement of objects with thermal infrared cameras, that so far offer low image resolution.

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