An active vision system for multitarget surveillance in dynamic environments

IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Part B: Cybernetics

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 190-198

  Bakhtari, Ardevan ^a   Benhabib, Beno ^b  

^a Promation Engineering Ltd   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Active vision; Dispatching; Facial recognition; Sensor fusion; Surveillance

Indexed keywords

CAMERAS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FACE RECOGNITION; IMAGE ACQUISITION; IMAGE SENSORS; INTELLIGENT AGENTS; OBJECT RECOGNITION;

ACTIVE VISION SYSTEM; MULTITARGET SURVEILLANCE; ONLINE DISPATCHING STRATEGY;

COMPUTER VISION;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; AUTOMATED PATTERN RECOGNITION; BIOMETRY; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; EVALUATION; FACE; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; METHODOLOGY; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; BIOMETRY; FACE; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; SECURITY MEASURES;

EID: 33847619797     PISSN: 10834419     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSMCB.2006.883423     Document Type: Article

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