Multi-Camera Networks

CHAPTER 5 Optimal Placement of Multiple Visual Sensors

Eva Hörster, Rainer Lienhart

Multimedia Computing Lab, University of Augsburg, Augsburg, Germany

Abstract

In this chapter we will focus on the optimal placement of visual sensors such that a predefined area is maximally or completely covered at a certain resolution. We consider different tasks in this context and describe two types of approaches to determine appropriate solutions. First we propose algorithms that give a globally optimal solution. Then we present heuristics that solve the problem within a reasonable time and with moderate memory consumption, but at the cost of not necessarily determining the global optimum.

Keywords

sensor placement • pose optimization • multi-camera ...