Siegfried Reich

SECIT – Cooperation between Salzburg Research and UPT Timisoara

August 25th, 2009

This days, the advanced networking centre (ANC) of Salzburg Research is organising a Workshop on “SECIT – Security IT”. This is a joint undertaking with UPT Timisoara, Rumania.

Our main idea is to join forces concerning evacuation scenarios: UPT for instance, offers know-how in the domain of object recognition, i.e., they can count the number of people by anlysing videos; companies such as Flexit, are looking for software (and know-how) that helps them developing smart evacuation systems; Salzburg Research/ANC offers know-how by developing models that combine object recognition techniques and evacuation needs and thus helps in linking knowledge from basic research with applied research. The following figure is adapted from a slide from TNO and tries to symbolise these relationships:

Also, I learned that data fusion is the technique that combines data from multiple sources in order to obtain satisfying results. Often, pure object recognition techniques are not sufficient, hence, one needs to combine various data sources (with varying degrees of trust and reliability).

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