Dear Colleagues,

The goal of this special issue is to consider the video surveillance as a whole, from data acquisition to ethical reflections, including methods and applications. (https://www.mdpi.com/journal/applsci/special_issues/HZ9T2277PQ)

Data
Acquisition by color, infrared, thermal, depth and other types of cameras
Video management and analysis, from the edge to the cloud
Camera challenges like perspective effects, fish-eye distortions, mobile cameras, etc.
Open access datasets for reproducible research

Methods
Image processing, machine learning and deep learning for computer vision
Learning paradigms and transfer learning for videos
Gap reduction between offline training and online deployment
Multi-camera re-identification and tracking methods
Benchmarking state of the art methods

Applications
Video understanding, action and behavior recognition, video anomaly detection, perimeter intrusion detection, etc.
From area protected by a single camera to smart cities protected by a camera network
Intelligent video based systems and multi-modal systems

Ethics
Video surveillance or video protection? that is the question
Fairness and privacy in video surveillance
Panoptic society risk
Ethic-by-design video based systems

Dr. Quentin Barthélemy

Dr. Thierry Bouwmans
Guest Editors

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