DTO/VACE – NRC/IIT workshop meeting on
deploying video technologies for national security.
When: June 5-6 (Tuesday-Wednesday), 2007,
Where: NRC-IIT
(M-50), Rm. 379,
Directions: http://iit-iti.nrc-cnrc.gc.ca/locations-bureaux/reach-ottawa-joindre_e.html
Coordinator: Dmitry Gorodnichy, NRC/IIT (Dmitry.Gorodnichy@nrc-cnrc.gc.ca)
Attendance: by invitation only (restricted to GoC Depts.)
History of meetings:
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Aug’06,
Presentation: http://vrs.iit.nrc.ca/vace/VACE-NRC-Brief-June2006.pdf
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Nov’06,
Brochures (unclassified):
- http://vrs.iit.nrc.ca/vace/vace_brochure.pdf
- http://vrs.iit.nrc.ca/vace/infox_brochure.pdf
Confirmed parties:
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DTO/VACE (
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NRC/IIT (Institute for Information Technology)/Computation
Video Group/Video Recognition Systems
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NRC/Administrative
Services and Property Management Branch / Security Operations / Security
Services
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NRC/ Institute for Microstructural
Sciences / Acoustics and Signal Processing Group
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NRC/ Institute for Aerospace Research/Flight Research
Laboratory
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CBSA (Canada Border Services Agency)/Laboratory and
Scientific Services Directorate
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RCMP/ Surveillance Technology Section / Covert Video
(CV), Remote Sensing Technologies (RST) and Special Purpose Vehicle (SPV) units
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RCMP/ Technical Security Branch
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DRDC/Automated Intelligent Systems/UAV
- DRDC/Network Information Operations Section
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DRDC/Centre for Operations
Research & Analysis (CORA)
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CPRC (
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CRC (Communications Research Centre)/Advanced Video Systems
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Transport
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Office of the Privacy Commissioner of
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DND/Forces (several depts.)
Agenda:
June 5 (Tue). UNCLASSIFIED meetings.
AM:
General audience presentations
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o overview of InfoX
o on VACE
o interests in Canadian programs
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- CBSA: 15 min - Systems related to port security for asset protection and office safety/ Systems related to automated license plate readers at major land border crossings /Covert systems for intelligence and investigations.
- RCMP Surveillance Technology Section: 15 min - Covert Video (CV), Remote Sensing Technologies (RST) and Special Purpose Vehicle (SPV)
- NRC-IIT Video Recognition Systems projects: 30 min –
o Video Recognition Systems projects
o ACE Surveillance demo (Example of deployment of Automated Surveillance System within Governmental premises)
- CRC Advanced Video Systems: 15 min
- OGDs (TBC)
June 5 (Tue). UNCLASSIFIED meetings.
PM:
Close-group discussions (with those specifically working with Video technologies): DTO with NRC-IIT, CBSA, RCMP, DRDC
- Issues to discuss:
- Sharing examples of successful VT deployment
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- SATE (State of the art) in VT technologies, which are available as of today?
- Testing/Using VACE technologies by GoC Depts.
Specifically
- for faces,
- for licence plates
- for “unmanned” and remote video surveillance systems
- ofr automatization in unattended video surveillance systems (detection and summarization of events of interest).
- remote power for mobile surveillance systems.
- post processing of recorded video information.
- national standards for digital video systems indicating compression type, compression amount and images per second required for specific scenarios.
- national standards for the transfer and storage of digital video evidence.
18:00. DINNER (Venue TBD)
(Those interested in attending the Dinner should contact Gerhard Roth)
June 6 (Wed). AM:
CLASSIFIED meeting (for those who requested it) - TBD
TBD: After/before/instead of CLASSIFIED meeting:
- Visit to NRC commissionaires for live demonstration of ACE Surveillance.
- Live Demonstration of other NRC-IIT’s technologies related to VACE or InfoX:
- Augmented Reality room and gadgets
- Vision-based hands-free control using Nouse (nose as mouse)
- TBD: Other IIT technologies