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( Learn about S&T developing technology to meet todays challenge with the Surface Transportation
Explosive Threat Detection Program, helping provide a layered, integrated capability to detect and
mitigate the explosive threat at the speed of the traveling public. Courtesy of DHS S&T)
travelers and the open, unstructured FOVEA creates a summarized video
environment.
that can be hundreds of times short-
er than the original video, well beyond
S&T is developing technology to de-
what can be observed via fast forward.
tect potential threat items on per-
sons and in bags without negatively A path reconstruction tool guides the
impacting the speed of travel - to solve operator to the next relevant camera
the complex challenge of protecting view, allowing the operator to quickly
subways and rail systems from at- follow a person through many camer-
as and assemble a composite video of
tacks.
the activity.
The FOVEA tool allows public safety
agencies to speed up the process of re- A prototype of this tool has been de-
viewing and analyzing security footage ployed to two mass transit facilities
in the aftermath of an attack or during and integrated into their video man-
agement systems.
an event of interest.
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