Video analysis in pan-tilt-zoom camera networks

IEEE Signal Processing Magazine

Volumn 27, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 78-90

  Micheloni, Christian ^a   Rinner, Bernhard ^b   Foresti, Gian Luca ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UDINE   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KLAGENFURT   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

CAMERA NETWORK; EGO MOTION; FIELD OF VIEWS; MOVING CAMERAS; MOVING TARGETS; PAN-TILT-ZOOM CAMERA; SENSOR COVERAGE; VIDEO ANALYSIS;

CAMERAS;

EID: 85032752375     PISSN: 10535888     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/MSP.2010.937333     Document Type: Article

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