Geometric tools for multicamera surveillance systems

2007 1st ACM/IEEE International Conference on Distributed Smart Cameras, ICDSC

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 132-139

  Rieffel, Eleanor G ^a   Girgensohn, Andreas ^a   Kimber, Don ^a   Chen, Trista ^a   Liu, Qiong ^a  

^a FX PALO ALTO LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Calibration; Camera placement; Deployment support; Geometric modeling; Multicamera systems; Multiple views; Surveillance; Tracking

Indexed keywords

CAMERAS; FLOORS; THREE DIMENSIONAL; VISUALIZATION;

3-D MODELING; BUILDING GEOMETRY; DISTRIBUTED SMART CAMERAS; EXTRINSIC CAMERA; FLOOR PLANNING; FOREGROUND OBJECTS; GEOMETRIC TOOLS; IMAGE FEATURES; INTERACTIVE VISUALIZATIONS; INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES; MULTI CAMERAS; PUBLIC SPACES; REAL TIME; SURVEILLANCE SYSTEM (MSS); SURVEILLANCE TASKS; VISUALIZATION AND ANALYSIS; VISUALIZATION TOOLS;

SECURITY SYSTEMS;

EID: 47349107395     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICDSC.2007.4357516     Document Type: Conference Paper

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