Automatic pan-tilt-zoom calibration in the presence of hybrid sensor networks

VSSN 2005 - Proceedings of the 3rd ACM International Workshop on Video Surveillance and Sensor Networks, co-located with ACM Multimedia 2005

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 113-119

  Wren, Christopher R ^a   Erdem, U Murat ^b   Azarbayejani, Ali J ^a  

^a MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (United States)

^b BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptive systems; Sensor networks; Video surveillance

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE SYSTEMS; BLENDING; CALIBRATION; CAMERAS; COMPUTER SYSTEM RECOVERY; GEOMETRY; HYBRID SENSORS; MONITORING; MOTION ANALYSIS; OBJECT RECOGNITION; RECOVERY; SENSOR NETWORKS; SENSOR NODES;

COMPREHENSIVE MODEL; CONTEXTUAL INFORMATION; ENABLING TECHNOLOGIES; MISSING INFORMATION; PAN-TILT-ZOOM CAMERA; RECONSTRUCTION ERROR; SURVEILLANCE SYSTEMS; VIDEO SURVEILLANCE;

SECURITY SYSTEMS;

EID: 33750460523     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1099396.1099418     Document Type: Conference Paper

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