SAFEGUARD

SAFEGUARD aims at developing a next-generation holistic suite of tools that significantly improve LEA capabilities to protect public spaces against terrorist attacks through the entire lifecycle of their operations. To this end, SAFEGUARD leverages the successful outcomes of EU-funded projects (S4AllCities, CONNEXIONs, CREST, PREVISION, PRAETORIAN), providing a complete and powerful framework for intelligent threat detection relevant to the context of safety of public spaces. The outcomes of the project will result in the improvement of public spaces, such as malls, open crowded areas and events by deploying tools and technologies for acquiring intelligence regarding terrorist attacks and supporting LEA operations in an efficient and effective manner. Moreover, SAFEGUARD aspires to develop knowledge on the potential use of AI techniques and algorithms related to the protection of public spaces. The SAFEGUARD framework will be validates in a series of field demonstrations based on operational use cases with the involvement of Greek and Bulgarian LEAs. Finally, the uptake of SAFEGUARD tools and technologies will be achieved through extensive training of the LEA personnel, joint exercises and training material.

ITI- the Coordinator of SAFEGUARD and responsible for the project coordination and management, the technical management of the project activities, as well as for the data management. In addition, ITI-CERTH has a significant role in the project leading an Activity related to advanced intelligence gathering & analysis, where it is responsible for developing tools for (i) Web & social media monitoring, (ii) multilingual text analysis and machine translation and (iii) AI-based multimodal analytics. Moreover, ITI-CERTH heavily contributes in visual monitoring & tracking sub-activities deploying (iv) object detection & tracking, (v) activity detection & recognition and (vi) crowd analysis AI-based tools. Finally, the ITI-CERTH extensively contributes to the system architecture & technical requirements of the project, while also being responsible for the system integration.

Consortium

Ethniko Kentro Erevnas kai Technologikis Anaptyxis, Greece
Foundation for Research and Technology – HELLAS, Greece
Center for Security Studies, Greece
Hellenic Police Headquarters, Greece
Institute of Communication and Computer Systems, Greece
Family and Child Care Center, Greece
Bulgarian Defense Institute, Greece
Bulgarian National Service of Protection, Greece