Celem Projektu jest opracowanie kompleksowego, zintegrowanego systemu monitorowania, obrazowania i ostrzegania o zagrożeniach identyfikowanych w cyberprzestrzeni państwa, ocenę ich potencjalnych skutków oraz skoordynowane reagowanie na incydenty komputerowe na poziomie krajowym.

1. W. Szynkiewicz, W. Kasprzak, C. Zieliński, W. Dudek, M. Stefańczyk, A. Wilkowski, and M. Figat
   Utilisation of Embodied Agents in the Design of Smart Human–Computer Interfaces – A Case Study in Cyberspace Event Visualisation Control

   Electronics, vol. 9, no. 6, p. 976, 2020
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   @article{utilisation2020-twiki,
     author = {Szynkiewicz, Wojciech and Kasprzak, Włodzimierz and Zieliński, Cezary and Dudek, Wojciech and Stefańczyk, Maciej and Wilkowski, Artur and Figat, Maksym},
     title = {{Utilisation of Embodied Agents in the Design of Smart Human–Computer Interfaces -- A Case Study in Cyberspace Event Visualisation Control}},
     journal = {Electronics},
     year = {2020},
     volume = {9},
     number = {6},
     article-number = {976},
     pages = {976},
     doi = {10.3390/electronics9060976},
     projects = {npc},
     twiki = {journal},
     url = {https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/9/6/976}
   }
   

   The goal of the research reported here was to investigate whether the design methodology utilising embodied agents can be applied to produce a multi-modal human–computer interface for cyberspace events visualisation control. This methodology requires that the designed system structure be defined in terms of cooperating agents having well-defined internal components exhibiting specified behaviours. System activities are defined in terms of finite state machines and behaviours parameterised by transition functions. In the investigated case the multi-modal interface is a component of the Operational Centre which is a part of the National Cybersecurity Platform. Embodied agents have been successfully used in the design of robotic systems. However robots operate in physical environments, while cyberspace events visualisation involves cyberspace, thus the applied design methodology required a different definition of the environment. It had to encompass the physical environment in which the operator acts and the computer screen where the results of those actions are presented. Smart human–computer interaction (HCI) is a time-aware, dynamic process in which two parties communicate via different modalities, e.g., voice, gesture, eye movement. The use of computer vision and machine intelligence techniques are essential when the human is carrying an exhausting and concentration demanding activity. The main role of this interface is to support security analysts and operators controlling visualisation of cyberspace events like incidents or cyber attacks especially when manipulating graphical information. Visualisation control modalities include visual gesture- and voice-based commands.

2. A. Wilkowski, M. Stefańczyk, and W. Kasprzak
   Training Data Extraction and Object Detection in Surveillance Scenario

   Sensors, vol. 20, no. 9, p. 2689, 2020
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   @article{wilkowski2020training,
     author = {Wilkowski, Artur and Stefańczyk, Maciej and Kasprzak, Włodzimierz},
     title = {{Training Data Extraction and Object Detection in Surveillance Scenario}},
     journal = {Sensors},
     year = {2020},
     volume = {20},
     number = {9},
     pages = {2689},
     article-number = {2689},
     doi = {10.3390/s20092689},
     projects = {npc},
     twiki = {journal},
     url = {https://www.mdpi.com/1424-8220/20/9/2689}
   }
   

   Police and various security services use video analysis for securing public space, mass events, and when investigating criminal activity. Due to a huge amount of data supplied to surveillance systems, some automatic data processing is a necessity. In one typical scenario, an operator marks an object in an image frame and searches for all occurrences of the object in other frames or even image sequences. This problem is hard in general. Algorithms supporting this scenario must reconcile several seemingly contradicting factors: training and detection speed, detection reliability, and learning from small data sets. In the system proposed here, we use a two-stage detector. The first region proposal stage is based on a Cascade Classifier while the second classification stage is based either on a Support Vector Machines (SVMs) or Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs). The proposed configuration ensures both speed and detection reliability. In addition to this, an object tracking and background-foreground separation algorithm is used, supported by the GrabCut algorithm and a sample synthesis procedure, in order to collect rich training data for the detector. Experiments show that the system is effective, useful, and applicable to practical surveillance tasks.

3. W. Dudek and W. Szynkiewicz
   Cyber-security for Mobile Service Robots–Challenges for Cyber-physical System Safety

   Journal of Telecommunications and Information Technology, 2019
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   @article{dudek2019cyber,
     title = {Cyber-security for Mobile Service Robots--Challenges for Cyber-physical System Safety},
     author = {Dudek, Wojciech and Szynkiewicz, Wojciech},
     journal = {Journal of Telecommunications and Information Technology},
     year = {2019},
     doi = {10.26636/jtit.2019.131019},
     projects = {npc},
     url = {https://www.itl.waw.pl/czasopisma/JTIT/2019/2/29.pdf}
   }
   

   A review of the known and an indication of the new threats for cyber-physical robotic systems, caused by cybernetic attacks, serves, in this paper, as a basis for the analysis of the known methods relied upon to detect and mitigate consequences of such attacks. A particular emphasis is placed on threats specific for cyber-physical systems, as they are a feature distinguishing these systems from their traditional Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) counterparts. Based on the review of literature and own analyses, unresolved issues regarding the cyber-security of robot systems are presented and discussed.