A distributed topological camera network representation for tracking applications

IEEE Transactions on Image Processing

Volumn 19, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 2516-2529

  Lobaton, Edgar ^a   Vasudevan, Ramanarayan ^b   Bajcsy, Ruzena ^b   Sastry, Shankar ^b  

^a Brooks Computer Science Building   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Multitarget tracking; Network coverage; Sensor networks; Simplicial homology; Smart camera networks

Indexed keywords

AMOUNT OF INFORMATION; BINARY DETECTION; CAMERA LOCATIONS; CAMERA NETWORK; DISTRIBUTED NETWORKS; EXPERIMENTAL SETUP; HOMOTOPIC; MULTI-TARGET TRACKING; NETWORK COVERAGE; PHYSICAL LAYOUT; PRIORI KNOWLEDGE; ROBUST ALGORITHM; SIMPLICIAL HOMOLOGY; SMART CAMERA NETWORKS; TOPOLOGICAL INFORMATION; TRACKING APPLICATION; VISUAL COVERAGES;

CAMERAS; SENSOR NETWORKS; SIGNAL FILTERING AND PREDICTION; TOPOLOGY; WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS;

AD HOC NETWORKS;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; AUTOMATED PATTERN RECOGNITION; AUTOMATION; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); VIDEORECORDING;

ALGORITHMS; AUTOMATION; HUMANS; MOVEMENT; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; VIDEO RECORDING;

EID: 77956912871     PISSN: 10577149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIP.2010.2052273     Document Type: Article

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