Surveillance in Action

Part I - Surveillance of Human Features.- A Survey of Using Biometrics for Smart Visual Surveillance: Gait Recognition.- Comparative Face Soft Biometrics for Human Identification.- Video-Based Human Respiratory Wavelet Extraction and Identity Recognition.- A Study on Human Recognition using Auricle and Side View Face Images.- Cross-spectral Iris Matching for Surveillance Applications.- Facial Surveillance and Recognition in the Passive Infrared Bands.- Deep Feature Learning for Classification when using Single Sensor Multi-Wavelength based Facial Recognition Systems in SWIR Band.- Part II - Surveillance for Security and Defense.- Managing Uncertainty from the Sky: Surveillance through three Generations of Commercial Earth Observation Satellites.- Drones Surveillance - Challenges and Techniques.- Early Warning Against Stealth Aircraft, Missiles and Unmanned Aerial Vehicles. Mobile Data Fusion for Maritime Surveillance.- Mobile stand-off and stand-in surveillance against biowarfare and bioterrorism agents.- Social Networks for Surveillance and Security: 'Using Online Techniques to make something happen in the real or cyber world'.- Surveillance, targeted killing and the fight against Terrorism: a fair-played game.- Part III - Cyber Surveillance Data Hiding in the Wild: Where Computational Intelligence Meets Digital Forensics.- Methods to Detect Cyber threats on Twitter.- Detecting Users Who Share Extremist Content on Twitter.- An Organizational Visualization Profiler Tool Based on Social Interactions.- Cyber-Surveillance Analysis for Supercomputing Environments.

Panagiotis Karampelas holds a Ph.D. in Electronic Engineering from the University of Kent at Canterbury, UK and a Master of Science degree from the Department of Informatics, Kapodistrian University of Athens with specialization in "High Performance Algorithms". He also holds a Bachelor degree in Mathematics from the same University majoring in Applied Mathematics. He has worked for 3 years as an associate researcher in the Foundation for Research and Technology-Hellas (FORTH), Institute of Computer Science. During this collaboration, he had the opportunity to work in numerous European funded research projects in the area of Information Society Technologies Programme practicing his expertise in User Interface Design, Usability Evaluation and Programming. He has also worked for several years as a user interface designer and usability expert in several IT companies designing and implementing large-scale research and commercial information systems. Among others he collaborated with Hellenic Army, General Staff, Signal Directorate as Studies and Research Officer, IntelliSolutions, Greece as Senior Developer implementing large-scale information systems in Vodafone Greece, General Bank of Greece, Microsoft, etc. Then he joined Hellenic American University as Assistant Professor teaching human computer interaction, programming, managing information systems and database management in the Graduate and Undergraduate programs. In parallel, he was visiting the School of Pedagogical and Technological Education, Greece as Assistant Professor teaching courses at the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering Educators. Currently, he is with the Department of Informatics and Computers, at the Hellenic Air Force Academy teaching courses to pilots and engineers.

His areas of interest include Human Computer Interaction, Information Visualization, Data Mining, Social Network Analysis, Counterterrorism Informatics, Power Management System, Artificial Neural