Multi-Ccamera control through constraint satisfaction for persistent surveillance

Proceedings - IEEE 5th International Conference on Advanced Video and Signal Based Surveillance, AVSS 2008

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 211-218

  Qureshi, Faisal Z ^a   Terzopoulos, Demetri ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b Engineering IV   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAMERAS; SENSOR NETWORKS; VIRTUAL REALITY;

CAMERA NETWORKS; CAMERA SELECTIONS; COALITION FORMATIONS; CONFLICT RESOLUTIONS; CONSTRAINT SATISFACTIONS; CONTRACT NETS; EMPIRICAL EVALUATIONS; ERROR RECOVERY MECHANISMS; NODE FAILURES; PERSISTENT SURVEILLANCES; SMART CAMERAS; TASK ALLOCATION PROTOCOLS; VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENTS;

SECURITY SYSTEMS;

EID: 60949099045     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/AVSS.2008.37     Document Type: Conference Paper

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