A MULTIMODAL WORKBENCH FOR AUTOMATIC SURVEILLANCE

Multimodal applications stand for the missing chain to overcome the limitations of classical multimedia processing tools currently used. Therefore data fusion is seen as a very active research field and is also set to grow in importance in the coming years. At Delft University of Technology there is a project running on the development of a software workbench with native capabilities for signal and information processing and for fusion of data acquired from hardware equipments such as microphones and video cameras. A first prototype of the system has been already developed. At the moment, one additional project aims to develop an automatic surveillance system by using only the resources of the workbench.