DELIVERABLES

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D3.1 Progress report on models of patterns of human behaviours

This deliverable is part of LETSCROWD WP3, Dynamic Risk Assessment. The scope of the document is to list and catalogue a set of suspicious signs / abnormal behaviour that may indicate threats to mass gathering events originating from terror activity.
The suspicious signs / abnormal behaviour threat indicators were collected from open sources available to the public from various law enforcement publications, academic studies, industry state of the art, European Commission research projects and contribution of consortium members.

 

D3.2 Progress report on dynamic risks for mass gatherings

This document is the first version of the report on WP3 risk assessment, including identified vulnerabilities, threats and hazards, the related likelihoods and consequences and possible approaches to implement a methodology for static and dynamic risk assessment in mass gatherings.

 

D3.3 Progress report on soft and hard mitigations

The scope of this document is to identify soft and hard solutions usable to mitigate the vulnerabilities, threats and hazards identified and reported in D3.2 Progress report on dynamic risks for mass gatherings.
The main objectives of the document can be summarised as follows:
– to introduce the risk treatment process;
– to describe the existing soft and hard mitigation measures including the possible effects on frequency and severity; the potential adverse effects and the stakeholders responsible for implementing the mitigation action;
– to suggest possible mitigation actions coming out from the work carried out in LETSCROWD to be further developed in the second version of the deliverable D3.7.

 

D3.4 LETSCROWD ESM implementation guidelines for crowd protection Version 1

This document represents the first version of the overall dynamic risk assessment methodology to effectively produce policies and deploy technologies following the ESM principles.

The scope of this document is:
– To define a possible approach to Dynamic Risk Assessment (DRA) taking into account the findings of Deliverable D3.2 and further feedback from LEAs.
– To define an architecture for the DRA and the corresponding information flow.

 

D3.6 Dynamic risks for mass gatherings

This document represents a revised version of Deliverable D3.2 and D3.4 including:
– An updated summary of the findings of Deliverable D3.2 on vulnerabilities, threats and hazards, the related likelihoods and consequences for crowds during mass gathering events.
– An improved version of the Dynamic Risk Assessment (DRA) methodology after a series of interactions with the involved LEAs.
– The most innovative contributions on:
i) the analysis of the credibility and reliability of the sensors used to detect weak signals;
ii) the rules to be applied for the clustering of Weak Signals into Suspicious Events or Patterns.

 

D3.7 Soft and hard mitigations

This document is the second version of the report on soft and hard mitigation measures. It presents an update of the mitigation measures reported in D3.3 including the new attack modes included in D3.6. In addition, the present deliverable reports the mitigation actions currently applied by LEAs to mitigate the negative effects of specific types of terroristic attacks.

 

D3.8 LETSCROWD ESM implementation guidelines for crowd protection

Deliverable D3.8 summarises all the work done in WP3, Tasks 3.2 and 3.4 to develop a methodology – the Dynamic Risk Assessment (DRA) – for the continuous assessment of risks in the rapidly changing circumstances of mass gathering events, in order to implement the control measures necessary to ensure an acceptable level of safety and/or security. The document summarises and updates the findings reported in Deliverable D3.3, D3.4 and D3.6 with the results of the further discussion with the involved LEAs and the technological LETSCROWD partners, the feedback from the Practical Demonstrations and some implementation details.

 

D4.1 Progress report on security policy indicators and measures

The purpose of this document is to present the general methodology to define policy indicators and measures that will be used in the LETSCROWD Policy Making Toolkit, and the first steps of this methodology consisting of the analysis of the best practices and policies in security of mass gatherings, with special consideration of those involving the citizens.

 

D4.2 Progress reports on analytics for security policies

One of the outcomes of the LETSCROWD project is the creation of a Policy Making Toolkit (PMT), whose goal is to support policy makers in the creation, enhancement and implementation of security policies in the protection of crowds during mass gatherings. The PMT includea a data analysis and visualization tool (DAVT) whose aim is to analyse the data defined and collected within the project (including indicators, measurements and best practices about policies related to mass gathering events), and to provide visualization and assessment functionality that allow the PMT users to navigate such data and to investigate and assess the effects of measures put in place in several regions and the impact of their practices, improving their decision making process.
The purpose of this deliverable is to present a first sketch of the DAVT, based on the information on the PMT and on the data it will contain that are currently available from the project activities.

 

D4.3 Security policy specification Version 1

This deliverable defines decision making and police intelligence key aspects to set guidelines for policy making and specification, as a guide and help for the implementation of LETSCROWD Policy Making Toolkit.
The purpose of the deliverable is to scope down the context, defining Mass Gathering and methodologies, to then specify guidelines for Security Policy Specification.

 

D4.5 Security policy indicators and measures

This deliverable defines decision making and police intelligence key aspects to set guidelines for policy making and specification, as a guide and help for the implementation of LETSCROWD Policy Making Toolkit.
The purpose of the deliverable is to scope down the context, defining Mass Gathering and methodologies, to then specify guidelines for Security Policy Specification.

 

D4.6 Data analytics for security policies

This document presents the results of task T4.2. Several data analysis and visualization functionalities are proposed for the user roles of the LETSCROWD application, which allow them to explore data about events and policies, and to extract information useful to carry out their event management tasks.

 

D4.7 Security policy specification

This deliverable defines decision making and police intelligence key aspects to set guidelines for policy making and specification, as a guide and help for the implementation of LETSCROWD’s Policy Making Toolkit.

 

D5.2 Progress report on Human Factors – based procedures and communication strategies

This deliverable reports on the Innovative Communication Procedures (ICP), which aim at improving security operators and first responders’ situational awareness, intercultural competences and commitment in the pre-event phase and during the execution of the event.
The ICP also aim to support the actors building their context-specific tool for an effective multicultural crowd management in case of emergency. It means that the ICP users could use the LETSCROWD communication guidelines to refine their current communication practices taking into account the context – specific characteristics of a given event (e.g. socio-cultural characteristics of the crowd; crowd motivation; regulations of the country hosting the event; etc.).
Far from being exhaustive, guidelines stand as a starting point for further actions. They do not provide a list of specific messages or communication measures, but present general and specific recommendations (related to certain types of events) and trace a process for building collaborative partnerships to enhance LEAs’ multi-cultural communication competences.

 

D5.4 Human-centred computer vision for crowd protection Version 1

This document is a progress report on LETSCROWD task T5.4, aimed at developing a human-centred computer vision tool to support Law Enforcement Agency (LEA) operators in monitoring and investigation tasks related to the security of mass gathering events. The human-centred computer vision tool will provide three functionalities as distinct software tools: (1) person re-identification (retrieving images of an individual of interest based on clothing appearance similarity with a query image of that individual), (2) people search (retrieving images of individuals whose clothing appearance matches a given textual description), and (3) crowd monitoring (including crowd density estimation, detection of patterns of crowd movement, and detection of anomalous/suspicious crowd behaviours). This document describes the work that has already been carried out toward the development of the human-centred computer vision tool (analysis of background research, definition and analysis of requirements, design of the person re-identification and people search tools), and the ongoing activities (design of the crowd monitoring tool, implementation of the three tools, and integration with the crowd modelling and Dynamic Risk Assessment tools).

 

D5.6 Human Factors – based procedures and communication strategies

This document includes the final version of the Innovative Communication Procedures (ICP) that aim at improving security officers, event organizers and first responders’ crowd awareness and intercultural competences in the pre-event and the execution phases of an event. ICP consist of a communication toolkit including highlights from the literature, helpful tips to improve the communication with the public in normal and critical situations and four different communication tools that can be used to define the communication strategy for a specific event and to identify useful solutions to manage multicultural crowds, especially in case of emergencies.tool (analysis of background research, definition and analysis of requirements, design of the person re-identification and people search tools), and the ongoing activities (design of the crowd monitoring tool, implementation of the three tools, and integration with the crowd modelling and Dynamic Risk Assessment tools).

 

D5.8 Human-centred computer vision for crowd protection

This document describes the Human-centred Computer Vision tool developed in the context of work package WP5. It consists of a prototype software tool with three integrated functionalities to support operators and officers of Law Enforcement Agencies in the use of video surveillance systems to search for individuals of interest, such as suspect individuals, in large amounts of video data (appearance-based person re-identification and attribute-based people search) and to monitor in real time the size of a crowd (crowd density estimation). This document reports a comprehensive literature survey, an analysis of the state of the art, definition of requirements, the design of the HCV tool modules, their implementation and validation.

 

D6.1 Demonstrators definition

Not only does LETSCROWD aim to develop a set of tools for different stakeholders in order to improve security levels of mass gatherings, but also these tools need to be validated with a direct involvement of the LEAs (Law Enforcement Agencies). To achieve this, several Practical Demonstrations (PDs) will be conducted during the project. The PDs will act as a proof-of-concept of the LETSCROWD outcomes (methodologies, guidelines, technical outputs and scientific concepts).
This deliverable defines the scope of PDs and, after that, presents a guideline which is expected to be used by PD leaders to determine all issues involved in each trial. Therefore, this document will be used as a basis for the design of PDs.

 

D6.3 Report on validation results Version I

The D6.3 – Report on validation results Version I aims at defining and describing the overall validation process and methods adopted to assess the LETSCROWD outcomes and reporting the main results of the LETSCROWD outcomes assessment carried out in the first cycle of practical demonstrations. The LETSCROWD validation approach is based on the principles of the Human centred design approach (HCD) by integrating the user’s perspective into the tools development. In the HCD approach a distinction between formative and summative evaluation is usually made. This document reports the results and recommendations that are part of the formative evaluation.

 

D7.1 Dissemination and communication plan & strategy

This document describes the first version of the “Dissemination and communication plan” of the LETSCROWD Project. According to the European Commission, “By definition, the Plan for the Exploitation and Dissemination of Results is a document which summarises the beneficiaries’ strategy and concrete actions related to the protection, dissemination and exploitation of the project results”.
Consequently, this document proposes a list of possible targets to which the research products must be disseminated. At the same time, the document indicates a set of possible actions which can be performed in order to reach such targets.
The objective is to maximise the visibility, credibility and impact of the project.

 

D7.2 Dissemination and communication plan, strategy and activities M12

This document reports on the dissemination activities carried out in the first 12 months of the project, and provides a comprehensive description of dissemination and communication activities conducted by the consortium, on par with the dissemination strategy described within D7.1 “Dissemination and communication plan and strategy”.
It also provides an update on the plan foreseen for the project’s next 12 months of activities presenting a timeline of the planned activities for the next year.

 

D7.4 Dissemination and communication plan, strategy and activities M24

This document reports on the dissemination activities carried out in the second year of the project, and provides a comprehensive description of communication activities conducted by the consortium, on par with the dissemination strategy described within D7.1 “Dissemination and communication plan and strategy”.
It also provides an update on the plan foreseen for the project’s next 6 months of activities presenting a timeline of the planned activities.