Artificial Intelligence Fights Crime and Terrorism at a New Level

High expansion of urban population and infrastructure complemented by recent geopolitical world events, triggered an increasingly alarming number of threats. Law enforcement authorities are now challenged to redesign societal security concepts. Although current technological advances eased the information access, e.g., via video surveillance cameras, satellite data, drones, wearables, manual analysis of such big and diverse data to extract strategic knowledge is not a solution anymore. There is the critical need for automatic solutions. Artificial Intelligence (AI) and the breakthrough of deep neural networks opened a new perspective for providing such solutions with a human-grade accuracy. Here, we provide a snapshot of our AI research for counter terrorism on automatic person and object identification, retrieval of speech intelligence, and dissimulated behavior analysis. The research was carried out during the UEFISCDI SPIA-VA research project at CAMPUS Research Center, University “Politehnica” of Bucharest, with the participation of UTI Grup and of the Military Equipment and Technologies Research Agency (ACTTM), having as public beneficiary the Protection Guard Service, Romania (SPP).