Visual sensor technology for advanced surveillance systems: Historical view, technological aspects and research activities in Italy

Sensors

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 2252-2270

  Foresti, Gian Luca ^a   Micheloni, Christian ^a   Piciarelli, Claudio ^a   Snidaro, Lauro ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UDINE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Active vision; Advanced visual surveillance; Human behaviour understanding; Object detection; Tracking; Visual sensor networks

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE VISION; HUMAN BEHAVIOURS; OBJECT DETECTION; VISUAL SENSOR NETWORKS; VISUAL SURVEILLANCE;

SECURITY SYSTEMS; SENSOR NETWORKS; SURFACE DISCHARGES;

RESEARCH;

EID: 64149094794     PISSN: 14248220     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/s90402252     Document Type: Review

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