Algebraic approach to recovering topological information in distributed camera networks

2009 International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks, IPSN 2009

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 193-204

  Lobaton, Edgar J ^a   Ahammad, Parvez ^b   Sastry, Shankar ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b HOWARD HUGHES MEDICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Camera network coverage; Distributed sensing; Homology theory; Topological reconstruction

Indexed keywords

ALGEBRAIC APPROACHES; BUILDING LAYOUT; CAMERA LOCATIONS; CAMERA NETWORK; CAMERA NETWORK COVERAGE; COMPUTATIONAL POWER; DISTRIBUTED SENSING; EXPERIMENTAL SETUP; GEOMETRIC CONSTRAINT; HOMOLOGY THEORY; INDOOR/OUTDOOR; LOCALIZATION INFORMATION; MONITORING AND TRACKING; NETWORK COVERAGE; OBJECT TRACKING; TOPOLOGICAL INFORMATION; TOPOLOGICAL RECONSTRUCTION; URBAN ENVIRONMENTS;

AD HOC NETWORKS; CAMERAS; DATA PROCESSING; SENSOR NETWORKS; WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS;

SECURITY SYSTEMS;

EID: 70449346119     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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