Abstract
Security breaches are a major concern by both governmental and corporative organisations. This is the case, among others, of airports and official buildings, where X-ray security scanners are deployed to detect elements representing a threat to the human life. In this paper we propose a formal distributed schema, formally specified and analysed, to detect suspicious artefacts. Our approach consists in the integration of several image detection algorithms in order to detect a wide spectrum of weapons, such as guns, knifes and bombs. Also, we present a case of study, where some performance experiments are carried out for analysing the scalability of this schema when it is deployed in current systems.
Research partially supported by the Spanish MEC projects ESTuDIo and DArDOS (TIN2012-36812-C02-01 and TIN2015-65845-C3-1-R) and the Comunidad de Madrid project SICOMORo-CM (S2013/ICE-3006).
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Cañizares, P.C., Merayo, M.G., Núñez, A. (2016). FARTHEST: FormAl distRibuTed scHema to dEtect Suspicious arTefacts. In: Nguyen, N.T., Trawiński, B., Fujita, H., Hong, TP. (eds) Intelligent Information and Database Systems. ACIIDS 2016. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 9621. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-49381-6_74
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