European scientists have for the four past years developed a proposed system for the automatic detection of potentially threatening behaviour that might be used to protect large crowds at sporting events (such as the Olympic Games), in town centres or at airports etc. The project’s goal is to facilitate the protection of EU citizens, property and infrastructure against threats of terrorism, crime, and riots, by early detection and alerting of potential threats to CCTV operators and other security staff.
The four year €3.5m project, called ADABTS or Automatic Detection of Abnormal Behaviour and Threats in crowded Spaces, was launched in August 2009, and is jointly funded by the European Commission and the partners involved who form an international consortium consisting of FOI (SE), BAE Systems (UK), Detec (NO), Home Office - Centre for Applied Science and Technology (CAST) (UK), Institute of Psychology – Ministry of the Interior (BG), SINTEF (NO), University of Amsterdam (NL) and TNO (NL).
