Mobile camera positioning to optimize the observability of human activity recognition tasks

2005 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, IROS

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 1564-1569

  Bodor, Robert ^a   Drenner, Andrew ^a   Janssen, Michael ^a   Schrater, Paul ^a   Papanikolopoulos, Nikolaos ^a  

^a University of Minnesota   (United States)

Author keywords

Human activity monitoring; Observability; Patrol robotics; Tracking

Indexed keywords

INTELLIGENT ROBOTS; NONLINEAR PROGRAMMING; OBSERVABILITY; PATTERN RECOGNITION; SURFACE DISCHARGES;

ANALYTICAL FORMULATION; HUMAN ACTIVITY MONITORING; HUMAN ACTIVITY RECOGNITION; MULTICAMERA SYSTEMS; NON-LINEAR OPTIMIZATION; OPTIMAL PLACEMENTS; PERFORMANCE OF SYSTEMS; POSITION AND ORIENTATIONS;

CAMERAS;

EID: 79957977723     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IROS.2005.1545599     Document Type: Conference Paper

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