Robert Collins and Takeo Kanade,
"Multi-Camera Tracking and Visualization for Surveillance and Sports,"
Fourth International Workshop on Cooperative Distributed Vision,
Kyoto Japan, March 22-24, 2001, pp.27-55.
Abstract
We present two systems developed at the Robotics Institute of Carnegie
Mellon University (CMU) that use multiple active cameras to track and
display objects moving through an outdoor scene. The Video
Surveillance and Monitoring (VSAM) system uses a network of smart
sensors to perform campus surveillance. Using a cost-based scheduling
approach, multiple sensors are automatically tasked to cooperatively
track objects over long distances and through occlusion. Multi-sensor
fusion algorithms use viewpoint-independent descriptors to combine
these object hypotheses into coherent 2D and 3D graphical
visualizations of the dynamic scene. The second system presented is
designed for sports broadcasting. Multiple cameras surrounding a
stadium form a master-slave servo system that allows a single
cameraman to track a player simultaneously from many viewpoints.
Playing back frames from one time step across a sequence of cameras
gives the appearance of moving around the action while it is frozen in
time. This heightens the viewer's ability to perceive the 3D spatial
relationships between players, the ball, and field markers.
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