video and intelligence processing for enhanced reconnaissance and surveillance (VIPERS)

VIPERS provides timely actionable intelligence by extracting the important events and activities of interest from video sources and reduces them to text. Manual monitoring of 24x7 video is a boring, mundane task that is non-productive and an inefficient use of valuable resources. Many events and activities of interest are often missed and it is extremely labour intensive to go back and review the acquired video to locate them. VIPERS uses leading-edge detection, tracking and analysis algorithms to intelligently process video and extract out events and activities of interest, converting them to a textual representation for presentation to a local or remote operator.

VIPERS applications:

critical infrastructure and asset surveillance (power, water, communications)
surveillance of key facilities and buildings (governmental, corporate, embassies)
port and harbour surveillance (wharves, docks, sheds)
targeted surveillance applications (residential houses, warehouses, buildings)
general unattended surveillance

VIPERS technology benefits:

manpower reduction: through the automated detection of events
faster response time to alarm events: automation allows the operator simply to determine the activity significance and act accordingly
easy generation of patterns of activity: through storage of textual descriptions over time
reduced storage and management requirements: targeted filtering of activities or events means only associated video is stored
low communications bandwidth: video can be reduced to still images or video snippets
compatibility with centralised monitoring: the video supplied to the VIPERS can be from any video source

Description	Pertinent information
Unattended Ground Sensor (UGS) systems provide significant force multipliers, reducing human exposure to danger. UGS systems are cost-effective and provide 24-hour, day and night surveillance. Sensors can be deployed at remote insertion points, choke points or mobility corridors. Using a combination of fused sensor data - including seismic, infra-red (IR), visible, magnetic and acoustic - a UGS system reliably provides high probability of target detection. VIPERS applications: critical infrastructure and asset surveillance surveillance of key facilities and buildings port and harbour surveillance targeted surveillance applications general unattended surveillance	VIPERS technology benefits: manpower reduction faster response time to alarm events easy generation of patterns of activity reduced storage and management requirements low communications bandwidth compatibility with centralised monitoring
Status	Company
VIPERS technology: has been delivered and is in service with a department of the Australian Government can be customised to suit individual customer surveillance requirements draws upon Tenix Defence Electronic Systems Division's leading edge capability in surveillance, video processing, low bandwidth communications and algorithm development	Team Australia - Tenix Defence - Electronic Systems Division

Description

Pertinent information

Unattended Ground Sensor (UGS) systems provide significant force multipliers, reducing human exposure to danger. UGS systems are cost-effective and provide 24-hour, day and night surveillance. Sensors can be deployed at remote insertion points, choke points or mobility corridors. Using a combination of fused sensor data - including seismic, infra-red (IR), visible, magnetic and acoustic - a UGS system reliably provides high probability of target detection.

VIPERS applications:

critical infrastructure and asset surveillance
surveillance of key facilities and buildings
port and harbour surveillance
targeted surveillance applications
general unattended surveillance

VIPERS technology benefits:

manpower reduction
faster response time to alarm events
easy generation of patterns of activity
reduced storage and management requirements
low communications bandwidth
compatibility with centralised monitoring

Status

Company

VIPERS technology:

has been delivered and is in service with a department of the Australian Government
can be customised to suit individual customer surveillance requirements
draws upon Tenix Defence Electronic Systems Division's leading edge capability in surveillance, video processing, low bandwidth communications and algorithm development

Team Australia - Tenix Defence - Electronic Systems Division