Creating the future of airport security
By YoungHee Jang
Northeastern News
April 28, 2016
According to the International Air Transport Association, about 8 million travelers make their way through airports around the world each day. Traditional security requires passengers to stand still while being screened, but Northeastern researchers are developing cutting-edge technology that can detect suspicious behavior, even when passengers are on the move.
You’re waiting to get your boarding pass or go through the first security checkpoint, unaware of whether or not people nearby may have a weapon hidden in their luggage or under their clothes, and are planning an attack. Click here to watch Carey Rappaport speak to airport detection research.
Seeing the unseen and identifying a concealed threat is the focus of assistant professor Jose Martinez Lorenzo’s research. Click here to watch his video interview.
You’re focused on your final destination, so you may not notice whether someone is walking in the wrong direction or has left a bag behind. But that’s the job of a system developed by Northeastern researchers. Click here to watch an interview with Octavia Camps as she describes this research area.
The original story from Northeastern News is available here.
