Wiley Handbook of Science and Technology for Homeland Security, 4 Volume Set

2D-TO-3D FACE RECOGNITION SYSTEMS

MICHAEL I. MILLER, MARC VAILLANT, WILLIAM HOFFMAN, AND PAUL SCHUEPP

Animetrics, Conway, New Hampshire

1 INTELLIGENT VIDEO SYSTEMS

1.1 The Need for Intelligent Video Systems

Intelligent image and video interpretation systems of the future will be highly integrated with emergent video databases interacting with real-time access control and surveillance. The intelligent video surveillance software market, including video analysis, is experiencing meteoric growth. Airports, borders, ports, energy plants, historical buildings, monuments, manufacturing plants, retail establishments, and businesses all require access control and surveillance video solutions. Forrester predicts that 40% of businesses will need integrated security. The access control market is expected to reach nearly 14 billion dollars in 2009 [1]. Ultimately, these systems will integrate with and allow for the retrieval and cueing of the massive data stores such as the FBI’s archives that contain both annotated as well as un-annotated video resources.

Figure 1 depicts an access control and video surveillance system handling the identities and monitoring dynamically the locations of individuals. According to ABI Research [2], the video surveillance market, already $13.5 billion as of 2006, will grow to $46 billion by 2012. The goal of spotting individuals of particular identities, and indexing and analyzing video archives is a fundamental challenge to the future of noncooperative FR. Solving ...