Bayesian fusion of thermal and visible spectra camera data for region based tracking with rapid background adaptation

IEEE International Conference on Multisensor Fusion and Integration for Intelligent Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 192-199

  Stolkin, Rustam ^a   Rees, David ^a   Talha, Mohammed ^a   Florescu, Ionut ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b STEVENS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARBITRARY NUMBER; AUTOMATIC ADJUSTMENT; BACKGROUND ADAPTATION; BACKGROUND MODEL; BAYESIAN FUSION; CAMERA MOTIONS; DEFORMING OBJECTS; IMAGING MODALITY; MOVING ROBOTS; MOVING TARGETS; PIXEL INFORMATION; REGION-BASED; TARGET MODEL; THERMAL IMAGING CAMERAS; TRACKING ALGORITHM; VISIBLE SPECTRA;

DATA FUSION; INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS; TARGET TRACKING; VISUAL SERVOING;

CAMERAS;

EID: 84870589095     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/MFI.2012.6343021     Document Type: Conference Paper

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