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2012
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On the detection and localization of radioactive sources in public facilities

Abstract
The localization and tracking of radioactive sources in public facilities like airports or stations is a problem of highest security relevance. The accumulation and the severity of terrorist attacks during the past decade give reason to the assumption that future attacks could also involve radioactive material packaged with conventional explosives. The only way to avoid such kind of attacks is to localize and arrest the person carrying the material to its destination. But since radiation is not perceivable by human beings, the security guards are largely dependent on technical decision support to perform this task. We consider a security assistance system comprising three gamma scintillation detectors that are distributed along a corridor wall to check passing people for radioactive material. Furthermore, the system consists of a set of tracking sensors simultaneously providing the positions of all persons during their walk through the corridor. In this paper we propose techniques to estimate the assignment of radioactive detections to person tracks. These techniques provide a measure for each person that reflects the probability that the person is a radioactive source carrier. The problem of source localization is thus reduced to a matching problem between person tracks and sequences of count rates.
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Wieneke, Monika
Fraunhofer-Institut für Kommunikation, Informationsverarbeitung und Ergonomie FKIE
Koch, Wolfgang
Fraunhofer-Institut für Kommunikation, Informationsverarbeitung und Ergonomie FKIE
Friedrich, Hermann
Fraunhofer-Institut für Naturwissenschaftlich-Technische Trendanalysen INT
Chmel, Sebastian
Fraunhofer-Institut für Naturwissenschaftlich-Technische Trendanalysen INT
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Future Security. 7th Security Research Conference 2012. Proceedings
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Security Research Conference "Future Security" 2012
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10.1007/978-3-642-33161-9_56
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English
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Fraunhofer-Institut für Kommunikation, Informationsverarbeitung und Ergonomie FKIE
Fraunhofer-Institut für Naturwissenschaftlich-Technische Trendanalysen INT
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  • radiation detection

  • source localization

  • person tracking

  • data association

  • estimation

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