Smart camera networks in virtual reality

Proceedings of the IEEE

Volumn 96, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 1640-1656

  Qureshi, Faisal ^a   Terzopoulos, Demetri ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ONTARIO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Canada)

^b University of California   (United States)

Author keywords

Camera networks; Computer vision; Persistent human observation; Sensor networks; Smart cameras; Virtual reality; Visual surveillance

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL LIFE; CAMERAS; COMPUTER VISION; MONITORING; SENSOR NETWORKS; VIRTUAL REALITY;

CAMERA CONTROL STRATEGY; CAMERA NETWORK; COMMUNICATION FAILURE; HUMAN OBSERVATIONS; SMART CAMERA NETWORKS; SMART CAMERAS; VIDEO SURVEILLANCE CAMERAS; VISUAL SURVEILLANCE;

SECURITY SYSTEMS;

EID: 55549128202     PISSN: 00189219     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JPROC.2008.928932     Document Type: Article

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