Crimes such as homicide and theft, and drugs such as heroin and cocaine have always been of public concern, and there has been a recent focus on areas such as child sexual abuse, modern slavery, new psychoactive substances, online fraud, and online indecent images of children.
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RAnDMS will study, implement and evaluate Real-time Data and Visual Analytic techniques to enable intelligence agencies, the MoD, the police and emergency responders to monitor and make sense of local, regional and globa...
Funded by: EPSRC
Lead research organisation: University of Sheffield
The project RAnDMS focuses on monitoring and making sense of real-time data from social and traditional media streams, which aligns with the question's requirement of monitoring and analyzing threats and hazards in real time using non-traditional sources such as social media.
Effective automatic intelligent video analysis of large scale data from public spaces is an important tool in the fight against crime and for safeguarding public safety. Yet, it is challenging to extract critical informa...
Funded by: Innovate UK
Lead research organisation: VISION SEMANTICS LIMITED
The project Developing and Commercialising Intelligent Video Analytics Solutions for Public Safety focuses on developing intelligent video analytics systems for public safety, which partially addresses the question's requirement of monitoring and analyzing threats and hazards in real time using non-traditional sources such as social media.
The project will develop a demonstrator capable of bringing together isolated strands of research on event detection, monitoring, interpretation, tracking and visualisation into a single system capable of situation aware...
Funded by: EPSRC
Lead research organisation: University of Edinburgh
The project ReDites focuses on developing a system for real-time detection, tracking, monitoring, and interpretation of events in social media, which partially addresses the question's requirement of monitoring and analyzing threats and hazards in real time using non-traditional sources such as social media.