Collaborative sensing in a distributed PTZ camera network

IEEE Transactions on Image Processing

Volumn 21, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 3282-3295

  Ding, Chong ^a   Song, Bi ^b   Morye, Akshay ^a   Farrell, Jay A ^a   Roy Chowdhury, Amit K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b SONY CORPORATION   (Japan)

Author keywords

Camera networks; cooperative camera control; distributed estimation; game theory; video analysis

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE CAMERA; CAMERA CONTROLS; CAMERA NETWORK; CO-OPERATIVE CONTROL; COLLABORATIVE SENSING; CONTROL FRAMEWORK; DISTRIBUTED ESTIMATION; DISTRIBUTED OPTIMIZATION; DYNAMIC SCENES; DYNAMIC TARGET; ERROR COVARIANCES; ESTIMATION ALGORITHM; FEATURE ACQUISITION; HIGHER RESOLUTION; IMAGE DATA; INTEGRATED ANALYSIS; NEGOTIATION STRATEGY; PERFORMANCE CRITERION; PTZ CAMERA; SCENE UNDERSTANDING; SIMULATION ENVIRONMENT; TRACKING ACCURACY; VIDEO ANALYSIS; WIDE FIELD OF VIEW;

ALGORITHMS; GAME THEORY; IMAGE RESOLUTION; OPTIMIZATION; SENSOR NETWORKS;

CAMERAS;

EID: 84862514530     PISSN: 10577149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIP.2012.2188806     Document Type: Article

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