Cluster-based distributed face tracking in camera networks

IEEE Transactions on Image Processing

Volumn 19, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 2551-2563

  Yoder, Josiah ^a   Medeiros, Henry ^a   Park, Johnny ^a   Kak, Avinash C ^a  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Camera networks; Distributed tracking; Face tracking; Object detection

Indexed keywords

CAMERA NETWORK; CENTRAL SERVERS; CLUSTER-BASED; CLUSTERING PROTOCOL; COMPUTATIONAL LOADS; DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMS; DISTRIBUTED TRACKING; FACE TRACKING; FACE TRACKING SYSTEMS; MULTI-CAMERAS; OBJECT DETECTION; PROPAGATION MECHANISM; SYSTEM FAILURES; TARGET OBJECT;

CAMERAS; NETWORK PROTOCOLS; OBJECT RECOGNITION; SYSTEMS ENGINEERING; TELEPHONE SYSTEMS;

TARGET TRACKING;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; AUTOMATED PATTERN RECOGNITION; BIOMETRY; BODY POSTURE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMPUTER NETWORK; HEAD MOVEMENT; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; NONVERBAL COMMUNICATION; PHOTOGRAPHY; PHYSIOLOGY;

ALGORITHMS; BIOMETRIC IDENTIFICATION; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMPUTER COMMUNICATION NETWORKS; HEAD MOVEMENTS; HUMANS; NONVERBAL COMMUNICATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; PHOTOGRAPHY; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; POSTURE;

EID: 77956909896     PISSN: 10577149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIP.2010.2049179     Document Type: Article

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