Planning ahead for PTZ camera assignment and handoff

Author

Qureshi, Faisal Z. ; Terzopoulos, Demetri

Author_Institution

Fac. of Sci., Univ. of Ontario Inst. of Technol., Oshawa, ON, Canada

fYear

2009

fDate

Aug. 30 2009-Sept. 2 2009

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

8

Abstract

We present a visual sensor network, comprising wide field-of-view (FOV) passive cameras and pan/tilt/zoom (PTZ) active cameras, which automatically captures high quality surveillance video of selected pedestrians during their prolonged presence in an area of interest. A wide-FOV static camera can track multiple pedestrians, while any PTZ active camera can follow a single pedestrian at a time. The proactive control of multiple PTZ cameras is required to record seamless, high quality video of a roaming individual despite the observational constraints of the different cameras. We formulate PTZ camera assignment and handoff as a planning problem whose solution achieves optimal camera assignment with respect to predefined observational goals.

Keywords

image sensors; target tracking; traffic engineering computing; video cameras; video surveillance; PTZ camera assignment; handoff procedure; high quality surveillance video; multiple pedestrian tracking; pan-tilt-zoom active camera; planning problem; proactive control; static camera; visual sensor network; wide field-of-view passive camera; Automatic control; Biometrics; Cameras; Computer science; Humans; Image resolution; Layout; Object detection; Surveillance; Technology planning;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Distributed Smart Cameras, 2009. ICDSC 2009. Third ACM/IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Como

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-4620-9

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-4620-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICDSC.2009.5289420

Filename

5289420