Optimal camera placement for automated surveillance Tasks

Journal of Intelligent and Robotic Systems: Theory and Applications

Volumn 50, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 257-295

  Bodor, Robert ^a   Drenner, Andrew ^a   Schrater, Paul ^a   Papanikolopoulos, Nikolaos ^a  

^a University of Minnesota   (United States)

Author keywords

Camera networks; Observability; Optimization; Robot camera placement; Sensor networks; Vision based robotics

Indexed keywords

CAMERAS; DYNAMIC PROGRAMMING; IMAGE RESOLUTION; OBSERVABILITY; OPTIMIZATION; POSITION CONTROL; SENSOR NETWORKS;

CAMERA NETWORKS; ROBOT/CAMERA PLACEMENT; VISION BASED ROBOTICS;

COMPUTER VISION;

EID: 35348896569     PISSN: 09210296     EISSN: 15730409     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10846-007-9164-7     Document Type: Article

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