Results of the VASCO project have been presented at the 3rd International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response And Management in Mediterannern Countries (ISCRAM-Med 2016) in Madrid, Spain, in October 26-28, 2016. For those who couldn't

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18 November - Leiden

The VASCO consortium will meet in Leiden for its 3 ^rd End-User Workshop to present the final release of the VASCO system. End-users extern to the project have been invited to discover the possibilities

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KEMEA partner presented the VASCO project results at the 2 ^nd ICT forum in Athens, Greece on May 25, 2016. It was the opportunity to show the project progress to an ICT audience who was very interested…

Crisisplan has demonstrated the VASCO project results to many Dutch end users, including security experts from the Technical University of Delft. Feedback from these demos is positive and will help shape the final system developments !

DIGINEXT presented the VASCO project results at the SIMulation OPerationelle (SIMOPS) exhibition, in the city of Saumur, France. DIGINEXT showed the functionalities of the VASCO DMU Editor and the Security Editor tools, from the preparation of the…

DIGINEXT presented the VASCO project to the French Defence and National Security Department which showed great interest in this tool to enable civil security forces to prepare, plan, discuss and assess the envisionned tactics and response. Discussions…

The VASCO project was presented by DIGINEXT at the International Exhibition for National Security & Resilience 2016 in Abu Dhabi, from March 15 to 17. It was the oppotunity to demonstrate the project results which were appreciated by…

The VASCO project will present its first results at the The 13th International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management (ISCRAM 2016) which will be take place in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in May 22-25,

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Research results of the VASCO project focusing on indoor reconstruction has been selected for a publication and presentation at the IEEE Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision ! It will be held March 7-9, 2016 at the

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The VASCO consortium will meet to review and evaluate the project's technical progress as well as to define the future steps to meet upcoming validation challenges. The meeting will take place in the Netherlands and will be…

May 22-27, 2016
The VASCO project results will be presented at the Society Information Display during the Display Week 2016 International Symposium, Seminar and Exhibition which will be held on May 22-27 2016 at the Moscone Covention…

Critical Infrastructure Protection Workshop, Athens, 14-15 December 2015
KE.ME.A (Center for Security Studies) and the Joint Research Center of the European Commission jointly organized a two-day workshop - educational program on "Protection of Critical Infrastructures”. The event gathered…

Discover the VASCO system to plan and brief your interventions by watching the following video.

25-26 November - Toulouse

After the presentation of the VASCO beta release, the VASCO consortium will meet for evaluation of the project by the European Commission representatives.

The review will take place in Toulouse on the 25th and

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18 September - Stockholm

The VASCO consortium will travel to Stockholm to present the beta version of the system at the Swedish Defence University. Around 20 end users have been invited for a presentation and demonstration of the

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7-8 July - Toulouse

End-users will come to Toulouse to validate the capacities of the VASCO system at this date. Validating the improvements since the alpha meeting will alow us to refine the system for the beta release.

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Interactive mapping of indoor building structures through mobile devices We present a practical system to map and reconstruct multi-room indoor structures using the sensors commonly available in commodity smartphones. Our approach combines and extends state-of-the-art results to…

Stereo-browsing from Calibrated Cameras Modern Structure-from-Motion (SfM) methods enable the registration of a set of cameras and the reconstruction of the corresponding sparse point cloud of the object/location depicted in the input images. Despite the quality of…

31 March - 1 April 2015 - Bordeaux

The VASCO alpha meeting will take place in Bordeaux on the 31st of march ans 1st of april. Immersion will receive all partners in their premises for a first trial of

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ExploreMaps: Efficient Construction and Ubiquitous Exploration of Panoramic View Graphs of Complex 3D Environments We introduce a novel efficient technique for automatically transforming a generic renderable 3D scene into a simple graph representation named ExploreMaps, where nodes…

Building an IT Platform for Strategic Crisis Management Preparation This paper presents the result of the work achieved in the frame of three successive European Projects, which aimed to build an innovative system to assist security managers…

Effective Mobile Mapping of Multi-room Indoor Structures We present a system to easily capture building interiors and automatically generate floor plans scaled to their metric dimensions. The proposed approach is able to manage scenes not necessarily limited…

15-16 October 2014 - Bordeaux

The first VASCO technical meeting took place on the 15th and 16th of October in Bordeaux. The partners were able to define the technical means to achieve the main functionalities of VASCO. The

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19-20 June 2014 - Athens

The first end-user workshop of the VASCO project, gathering its partners from all over europe, took place on the 19th and 20th of June in Athens. During this meeting the VASCO consortium discussed

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EU Research for a Secure Society May 2014

VASCO / Virtual Studio for Security Concepts and Operations

Project objectives:

The concentrated localisation of government

24-26 March 2014 - Toulouse

The VASCO project kick-off meeting took place from the 24th to the 26th of March in Toulouse.