Smart camera networks in virtual reality

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

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 87-94

  Qureshi, Faisal ^a   Terzopoulos, Demetri ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b University of California   (United States)

Author keywords

Camera networks; Computer vision; Multi camera coordination and control; Persistent surveillance; Smart cameras; Virtual vision

Indexed keywords

AGGLOMERATION; CAMERAS; COMMUNICATION; COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY; COMPUTER CONTROL SYSTEMS; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; GRAPHIC METHODS; RESEARCH; VIRTUAL REALITY;

'SMART' CAMERAS; CAMERA CALIBRATIONS; CAMERA HAND OFF; CAMERA NETWORKS; CENTRAL CONTROLLER; COMMUNICATION ERRORS; CONTROL STRATEGIES; DISTRIBUTED SMART CAMERAS; INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES; PUBLIC SPACES; SIMULATION TECHNOLOGIES; SMART CAMERA NETWORKS; VIDEO SURVEILLANCE CAMERAS; VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENTS (VE); WORLD MODELING;

SECURITY SYSTEMS;

EID: 47349110593     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICDSC.2007.4357510     Document Type: Conference Paper

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