A distributed surveillance system for detection of abandoned objects in unmanned railway environments

IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology

Volumn 49, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 2013-2026

  Sacchi, Claudio ^a   Regazzoni, Carlo S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Image processing; multimedia communication; rail transportation; site security monitoring; surveillance

Indexed keywords

DISTRIBUTED SURVEILLANCE SYSTEM; MONOCHROMATIC CAMERA; SITE SECURITY MONITORING; UNMANNED RAILWAY ENVIRONMENT;

BIT ERROR RATE; CAMERAS; CODE DIVISION MULTIPLE ACCESS; DIRECT SEQUENCE SYSTEMS; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; MULTIMEDIA SYSTEMS; OBJECT RECOGNITION; PERSONAL COMPUTERS; QUALITY OF SERVICE; TELECOMMUNICATION LINKS;

VIDEO SIGNAL PROCESSING;

EID: 0034261701     PISSN: 00189545     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/25.892603     Document Type: Article

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