CHAPTER 7 Collaborative Control of Active Cameras in Large-Scale Surveillance
Abstract
A system that controls a set of pan-tilt-zoom (PTZ) cameras for acquiring closeup views of subjects in a surveillance site is presented. The PTZ control is based on the output of a multi-camera, multi-target tracking system operating on a set of fixed cameras, and the main goal is to acquire views of subjects for biometrics purposes, such as face recognition and nonfacial identification. For this purpose, this chapter introduces an algorithm to address the generic problem of collaboratively controlling a limited number ...
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