We sent an open letter to the Federal Ministry of the Interior to get some answers about the INDECT-Project.

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Reblogged from: Dennis Weblog

This is a call to all my Polish readers. Let your voices be heard! At the start of this summer, there will be a meeting regarding project INDECT. I’m asking you to stand up, demonstrate and make sure your representatives in the government understand that this is a serious matter! If you have never read 1984 by Orwell, than you definitely should. At least, that is if you want to know what your future will look like if we don’t do something right now!

Later, I will post a message telling you when I will be going to Poland, also to protest against this ‘Orwellian’ way of controlling our society. Let me know when you will be going, and what the plans are. We have to stand up. I will not live in a world where our government needs to control ever-existing, potential threats by controlling innocent people like you and me.

Click here to read more about ’5th International Conference On Multimedia Communications, Services & Security (MCSS ’12)

Aims and Goals of the Conference

In recent years, Multimedia Communications, Services and Security have
been contributing extensively to our life experience and are expected to
be among the most important applications in the future. The objective of
the Multimedia Communications, Services & Security (MCSS’11) conference
is to present research and developing activities contributing to aspects
of multimedia communications, systems and security. We are inviting both
theoretical and experimental papers as well as work-in-progress
research. The main topics of interest are as follows:

Audio-visual systems including novel multimedia architectures/platforms and management of service oriented architectures
Multimedia and data fusion in personal, sensor, peer-to-peer and ad-hoc networks
Acquisition of multimedia content and Quality of Experience management in content distribution networks
Seamless mobility of multimedia services including mobile and broadband wireless access networks
Watermarking technology and applications
Network measurement/monitoring and performance evaluation of multimedia services
Reliability, availability, serviceability of multimedia services
Searching methods, search engines and applications
Multimedia surveillance and compound security
Semantic description of multimedia data and metadata information systems
Intelligent monitoring of objects and areas, recognition with automatic categorization
Modern computing methods for multimedia systems and authentication of multimedia content
Interactive multimedia applications
Ethical issues in video surveillance and Internet monitoring
Intelligent urban environment observation systems including safety monitoring and evacuation
Cybercrime – threats and counteracting
Law aspects in security research
Cryptography and data protection
Quantum cryptography
Object tracking and threat detection
Evaluation of security features in end-user applications
Experiments/lessons from recent deployments
Video processing through cloud computing
Multi-core parallel processing of audio & video
Intelligent searching of multimedia content
Biometric applications
Transcoding of video

The conference objectives are in conformance with the objectives of the FP7
Security Research (http://cordis.europa.eu/fp7/security/home_en.html).
During the conference, a presentation of the FP7 Security Research will
be shown. Objectives of the FP7 Security Research are as follows:

to develop technologies for building capabilities needed to ensure the security of citizens from threats (terrorism, natural disasters, crime), while respecting human privacy,
to ensure optimal use of technologies to the benefit of civil European security,
to stimulate the cooperation for civil security solutions,
to improve the competitiveness of the European security industry, and
to deliver mission-oriented research results to reduce security gaps.

Proceedings

MCSS’11 papers will be published by Springer-Verlag in a book from the CCIS series book (http://www.springer.com/series/7899).

Special Issue Journal Publication: Extended versions of the best papers
of the conference will appear in Special Issue of the Springer’s
International Journal of Multimedia Tools and Applications.

http://www.springer.com/computer/information+systems+and+applications/journal/11042