Automated Generation of CCTV Camera Coverage Areas for Smart Cities Using Line-of-Sight Analysis
2024 (English)In: Proceedings - IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications 2024, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2024Conference paper, Published paper (Refereed)
Abstract [en]
In smart cities, Closed-Circuit Television (CCTV) cameras are crucial for enhancing law enforcement and public safety. Since CCTV cameras include both state-controlled and private-sector units in large numbers, it poses a considerable challenge to manage them. Automating the calculation of their coverage areas enables law enforcement and city planners to efficiently adapt surveillance strategies to the evolving needs of urban safety and dynamics.
This paper proposes a prototype that automates the digitization of a vast number of camera coverage areas, such as for a large city. Given the positions for each camera, its sector width, and length-of-view, the prototype automatically identifies each camera's capture area represented as a polygon of positions. The prototype's generated capture areas are validated to the ground truth representing the true capture areas for 51 cameras (in the city of Malmö, Sweden) provided by the Swedish law enforcement agencies.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2024.
Series
Proceedings of the IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications, ISSN 15301346
Keywords [en]
Camera coverage estimation, decision support systems, GIS, smart city, webbased prototype, CCD cameras, Automated generation, Closed circuit television, Coverage area, Coverage estimations, Decision supports, Line of Sight, Lines-of-sight, Support systems, Web-based prototype
National Category
Computer Sciences Other Legal Research Criminology
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:bth-27177DOI: 10.1109/ISCC61673.2024.10733715ISI: 001363176200152Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85209227583ISBN: 9798350354232 (print)OAI: oai:DiVA.org:bth-27177DiVA, id: diva2:1916992
Conference
29th IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications, ISCC 2024, Paris, June 26-29, 2024
Funder
Swedish Research Council, 2022-054422024-11-292024-11-292025-09-30Bibliographically approved