CHAPTER 8 Pan-Tilt-Zoom Camera Networks

A. Del Bimbo, F. Dini, F. Pernici

MICC University of Florence, Florence, Italy

A. Grifoni

Thales Italia, Florence, Italy

Abstract

Pan-tilt-zoom (PTZ) camera networks play an important role in surveillance systems. They can direct attention to interesting events in the scene. One method to achieve such behavior is a process known as sensor slaving: One master camera (or more) monitors a wide area and tracks moving targets to provide positional information to one slave camera (or more). The slave camera can thus foveate at the targets in high resolution.

In this chapter we consider the problem of estimating online the time-variant transformation of a human’s foot position in the image of a fixed camera ...

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