Autoconfiguration of a dynamic nonoverlapping camera network

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

Volumn 37, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 803-816

  Junejo, Imran N ^a   Cao, Xiaochun ^b   Foroosh, Hassan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

^b OBJECTVIDEO INC   (United States)

Author keywords

Image of the absolute conic (IAC); Nonoverlapping camera network; Self calibration; Vanishing line

Indexed keywords

CALIBRATION; FOCUSING; IMAGE ANALYSIS;

AUTOCONFIGURATION; IMAGE OF THE ABSOLUTE CONIC (IAC); NONOVERLAPPING CAMERA NETWORK; SECURITY CAMERAS; SELF-CALIBRATION;

MOTION PICTURE CAMERAS;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; AUTOMATED PATTERN RECOGNITION; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; METHODOLOGY; PHOTOGRAPHY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; PHOTOGRAPHY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 34547237658     PISSN: 10834419     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSMCB.2007.895366     Document Type: Article

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