Detecting Terrorist Activities – “Making Sense”

EPSRC Sandpit on Detecting Terrorist Activities, May 2009.

Analysis and Visualisation of multi-modal data which is:

Partial

Unreliable

Contradictory

Interactive, visualisation-based “Decision Support Assistant”.

Imperial led, 10 partners, started February 2010.

“Making Sense” : Challenges

Collection

New developments in computer forensics, automatic gisting, data management and resource allocation.

Fusion and inference

Integration of data of variable sources, locating missing data, resolution of contradictions.

Analysis

Summarizing fused data, machine learning to identify relevant connections in the data.

Visualisation

From multiple perspectives both shared and operational;

Informed by the operational model(s) of data analysis, risk assessment and legal considerations.

“Making Sense” : The Team

Multi-disciplinary:

Psychology

Law

Operations research

Computational linguistics

Visual analytics

Machine learning and artificial intelligence

Human computer interaction

Computer science

Approximately 300 person months over 36 months(full economic cost: £2.6m).

Links with UK-RVAC activity.