TRESSPASS was a Horizon 2020 research project (2018–2021) focused on risk-based border management across air, maritime and land border crossing points. The project addressed multimodal travel routes and explored how information available before and during border crossing could support more proportionate and efficient screening and control processes.
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The TRESSPASS Project
TRESSPASS brought together a European consortium to develop and validate a risk-based border management concept spanning air, land and maritime border crossing contexts. The project combined operational, legal, ethical and technological perspectives, and included pilot demonstrators in three settings: Schiphol Airport, the Polish land border and the Port of Piraeus.
The project aimed to:
- Develop a single cohesive risk-based border management concept
- Develop and test pilot demonstrators in air, land and maritime settings
- Validate the concept through simulations and red teaming
- Support future development by linking results to related European and national initiatives
Video Analysis in Complex Operational Settings
Within TRESSPASS, VicarVision contributed computer vision expertise relevant to video analysis in complex operational settings. This consisted of work on person detection and cross-camera video analysis in a research context, building on earlier R&D and adapting algorithms to varying camera positions and recording conditions. In addition, this included research on individual multimodal communication signals to potentially inform an interview strategy.
Project Partners
TRESSPASS was carried out by a European consortium of 22 partners and funded by the European Union under the Horizon 2020 programme (Grant Agreement No. 787120). The project was coordinated by NCSR Demokritos.
