Localization and trajectory reconstruction in surveillance cameras with nonoverlapping views

IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence

Volumn 32, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 709-721

  Pflugfelder, Roman ^a   Bischof, Horst ^b  

^a AIT AUSTRIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

^b GRAZ UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

Author keywords

Camera localization; Direct reference plane method; Nonoverlapping camera views; Simultaneous localization and tracking

Indexed keywords

3-D SPACE; CAMERA LOCALIZATION; DIRECT REFERENCE PLANE; FIELDS OF VIEWS; IMAGE DATA; INTERNAL PARAMETERS; LOCALIZATION AND TRACKING; NON-OVERLAPPING CAMERAS; OBJECT TRAJECTORIES; ORTHOGONAL STRUCTURES; SELF-CALIBRATING; SMOOTH TRAJECTORIES; SURVEILLANCE CAMERAS; SYSTEM OF LINEAR EQUATIONS; TRAJECTORY RECONSTRUCTION; WORLD COORDINATES;

CAMERAS; MOTION PICTURE CAMERAS; ROTATION; SINGULAR VALUE DECOMPOSITION; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

SECURITY SYSTEMS;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; AUTOMATED PATTERN RECOGNITION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FACE; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; METHODOLOGY; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); STATISTICAL MODEL; VIDEORECORDING;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FACE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MOVEMENT; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; VIDEO RECORDING;

EID: 77649245252     PISSN: 01628828     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPAMI.2009.56     Document Type: Article

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