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Showing 1 to 20 of 2286 for “"surveillance"”.
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Intelligent video surveillance
… the context of video analytics. The manual video surveillance has been proven to have low effectiveness and, at the same time, high expense because of the need in manual labour of operators, which are additionally prone to erroneous decisions. Along with increase of the number of surveillance …
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The ability of surveillance capitalist technology firms to resist U.S. government surveillance
… technology firms to resist U.S. government surveillance. A political science adaptation of Affordance Theory was used to separate methods used to resist surveillance into four affordances: legal, political, technical, and market. Review of each firms’ actions provided a more granular …
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Toward autonomous harbor surveillance
… for underwater vehicles performing harbor surveillance and ship hull inspection. Maintaining accurate localization for the duration of a mission is important for a variety of tasks, such as planning the vehicle trajectory and ensuring coverage of the area to be inspected. Our approach uses …
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Maritime surveillance with small satellites
Maritime surveillance is one of the interesting topics nowadays. Monitoring of the ocean and the exclusive economic zone are a prevalent task for many countries. One of the crucial tasks is to make surveillance of the ship traffic and their activities in the ocean. Maritime surveillance usually …
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Evaluating a satellite surveillance system
… should prove useful for evaluating a satellite surveillance system. This model describes the fraction of orbits in which a long lived satellite will "see" a selected position on the earth's surface. The fraction of orbits, denoted by P, is a function of the latitude of the ground position in …
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Cyberspace, Surveillance, Law and Privacy
The thesis titled, Cyberspace, Surveillance, Law and Privacy analyses the implications of state sponsored cyber surveillance on the exercise of the human right to privacy of communications and data privacy of individuals, subject to untargeted interception of digital communications. The principle …
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Surveillance of Emerging Livestock Viruses
… were to provide improved diagnostic and surveillance capabilities for several emerging viral diseases impacting the livestock industry and to provide insight into appropriate control strategies. Recent, severe outbreaks of porcine epidemic diarrhea virus (PEDV) in Asia and North America …
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Automatic Dependant Surveillance-Broadcast Training
… based system using the Automatic Dependent Surveillance - Broadcast System (ADS-B). The FAA has set a mandate which requires all aircraft to be ADS-B equipped by the year 2020 in order to continue operating in the National Airspace System. However, the FAA has not set forth any training …
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Cyberspace, surveillance, law and privacy
… the implications of State sponsored cyber surveillance on the exercise of the human right to privacy of communications and data privacy of individuals subject to untargeted interception of digital communications. The principal aim of the thesis is to assess the legality of mass cyber …
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Surveillance: The Digital Dark Side
… prisoners, but also how this very early model of surveillance has developed over time and has found its way into the digital sphere of our world. By closely examining Dave Eggers’ novel <em>The Circle, s</em>pecifically by tracing the character arc of the main character Mae, this dystopian novel …
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Surveillance Studies and the Surveilled Subject
Surveillance studies has been somewhat inattentive to the perspective of the surveilled subject. It is the functioning of the surveillance apparatus, not the relatively inconsequential subject, which has tended to frame the focus of surveillance inquiries; leaving understandings of surveilled …
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Autonomous Space Surveillance for Arbitrary Domains
<p>Space is becoming increasingly congested every day and the task of accurately tracking satellites is paramount for the continued safe operation of both manned and unmanned space missions. In addition to new spacecraft launches, satellite break-up events and collisions generate large amounts of …
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Surveillance: From Solutions to New Problems
… the Internet has led to the creation of digital surveillance operations. The digital nature of these networks allows surveillance to be conducted in a broader and more automated fashion than traditional surveillance. In addition, the types of adversaries with surveillance motives and capabilities …
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Reinforcement Learning of Distributed Surveillance Plans
… a Reinforcement Learning algorithm on a camera surveillance model which is used to know the stackelberg strategies of attacker and defender. This reinforcement learning algorithm is compared with the uniform policy and hill climbing algorithms by executing them on a common set of different data …
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An online system for bioterrorism surveillance
… increasing these days, research in bioterrorism surveillance has been conducted to detect the threats at the earliest time. Following this research, some bioterrorism surveillance systems have been developed. Some of these systems use humans as indicators and the others use animals. Both of these …
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Tracking moving objects in surveillance video
… and tracking of potential objects of interest in surveillance video. The aim was to investigate and develop methods that might be suitable for eventual application through embedded software, running on a fixed-point processor, in analytics capable cameras. The work considers common approaches to …
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Youth Expression with Video Surveillance Technology
… examine the issues of identity, power/control, surveillance technology, love and freedom. The study made use of a number of data collection methods including interviews, round table discussions, and personal narratives. A hermeneutic theoretical framework is employed to develop an objective view …
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