Topics with Impact: Big Brother Is Watching You?

How about applying the high performance and industry weathered robustness of machine vision technology to the analysis of surveillance camera images? How far could one get by comparing and matching performance and requirements of both areas - Vision and Security? Could automating the surveillance processes help in protecting privacy?
In this year´s panel discussion during the Industrial Vision Days at Vision 2008 in Stuttgart, six experts from both industries were invited by INSPECT to discuss state-of-the-art and future developments of camera based surveillance.