Automated Object Identification Using Optical Video Cameras on Construction Sites

Computer-Aided Civil and Infrastructure Engineering

Volumn 26, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 368-380

  Chi, Seokho ^a   Caldas, Carlos H ^b  

^a QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

^b The University of Texas at Austin   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATED MONITORING SYSTEMS; BACKGROUND SUBTRACTION ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER-AIDED PROCESS; CONSTRUCTION SITES; FUTURE APPLICATIONS; HEAVY EQUIPMENT; HUMAN INTERVENTION; IMAGE SEQUENCE; MOVING OBJECTS; OBJECT IDENTIFICATION; REAL-TIME DETECTION; REAL-TIME REASONING; RECORDING DEVICES; SAFETY MONITORING; WEBCAMS; WORK ZONE SAFETY;

AUTOMATION; CAMERAS; CIVIL ENGINEERING; PIXELS;

VIDEO CAMERAS;

ALGORITHM; AUTOMATION; CLASSIFICATION; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; CONSTRUCTION; DETECTION METHOD; IDENTIFICATION METHOD; PHOTOGRAPHY; PIXEL;

EID: 79955535622     PISSN: 10939687     EISSN: 14678667     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8667.2010.00690.x     Document Type: Article

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