The concentration of government buildings within urban environments has become a source of serious security vulnerability. Administrators and security experts face a variety of evolving threats that are hard to anticipate. To secure a government building against multiple threats while maintaining a minimal level of transparency and accessibility requires an integral security approach. It demands interdisciplinary collaboration between different experts from different domains. Currently, there is no efficient method or tool that allows the experts of different stripes to efficiently design, evaluate and implement appropriate security concepts. Existing ones do not allow for the effective creation, analysis, assessment, and sharing of security concepts that will help government administrators provide a secure environment for personnel and citizens.The VASCO project addresses two important objectives. First, it will design, implement and evaluate an innovative IT tool that will enable security professionals and administrators to jointly formulate, test, and adjust security concepts and measures in a virtual environment. This provides a cost-effective and risk- free environment in which to devise an evidence-based, all-risk approach for the protection of government buildings. Second, it will produce a knowledge and best practice database, which captures dynamic and visual reference scenarios created with the VASCO system. To accomplish these aims, the project will adopt an iterative methodology that enables the constant involvement of its world-class security and crisis management experts, assisted by a solid and open user group, during the whole project. It makes use of the latest advances in interactive visualisation, simulation, crisis management, and artificial intelligence to provide end-users with an unprecedented tool that dramatically improves the way in which they collaborate to secure critical government assets both at home and abroad. CRS4, together with ISTI-CNR, will concentrate on techniques for acquisition and exploration of indoor environments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":11198,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"gruppo":[123],"class_list":["post-19620","projects","type-projects","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","gruppo-data-intensive-computing-en"],"acf":{"title":"A Virtual Studio for Security Concepts and Operations","acronym":"VASCO","project_uuid":"6198c776-b567-1032-95fe-0030485a3848","start_date":"01\/03\/2014","end_date":"28\/02\/2017","funder":"EU FP7","partners":"\n
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|---|---|---|
| Diginext<\/a><\/td>\n | France<\/td>\n | Coordinator<\/td>\n <\/tr>\n\n |
| Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche<\/a><\/td>\n | Italy<\/td>\n | Contractor<\/td>\n <\/tr>\n\n |
| Immersion<\/a><\/td>\n | France<\/td>\n | Contractor<\/td>\n <\/tr>\n\n |
| Center for Security Studies<\/a><\/td>\n | Greece<\/td>\n | Contractor<\/td>\n <\/tr>\n\n |
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He holds a Laurea (M. Sc.) degree (1999) in Computer Engineering from the University of Padova. His current research interests include out-of-core data processing, compression multiresolution modeling and time-critical rendering. He has participated as a key developer in industrial and research projects that have led to the development of state-of-the-art tools for large scale model rendering. He has co-authored papers in major international refereed journals and conferences, including SIGGRAPH, Eurographics, and IEEE Visualization. He has been EGPGV (Eurographics Symposium on Parallel Graphics) symposium chair (Cagliari, 2012) and paper co-chair (Girona, 2013). He is IPC member for Web3D from 2011. He serves as reviewer for international computer graphics journals and conferences. 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He received the Ph.D. degree in Electronic and Computer Engineering in 2007, working on Computer Vision algorithms and software applied to Scanning Electron Microscope. He also supported didactic activities. In the same year, he was awarded with an Italian Government Grant, and he worked as a visiting researcher in the Multimedia Communications and Networking Lab at the Hewlett-Packard Laboratories, California, US. His research focused on photometric stereo techniques applied to conventional flatbed scanners. Since November 2007 he has been part of the Visual Computing group of CRS4 (Center for Advanced Studies, Research and Development in Sardinia). His research interests have shifted towards Computer Graphics topics. In particular, the primary focus is the development of algorithms for acquisition, out-of-core processing, time-critical rendering and 3D printing of massive models, mostly applied to large scale color and geometry Cultural Heritage datasets. 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