Title :
Accurate fusion of robot, camera and wireless sensors for surveillance applications
Author :
Gilbert, A. ; Illingworth, John ; Bowden, Richard ; Capitan, Jesus ; Merino, Luis
Author_Institution :
CVSSP, Univ. of Surrey, Guildford, UK
fDate :
Sept. 27 2009-Oct. 4 2009
Abstract :
Often within the field of tracking people within only fixed cameras are used. This can mean that when the the illumination of the image changes or object occlusion occurs, the tracking can fail. We propose an approach that uses three simultaneous separate sensors. The fixed surveillance cameras track objects of interest cross camera through incrementally learning relationships between regions on the image. Cameras and laser rangefinder sensors onboard robots also provide an estimate of the person. Moreover, the signal strength of mobile devices carried by the person can be used to estimate his position. The estimate from all these sources are then combined using data fusion to provide an increase in performance. We present results of the fixed camera based tracking operating in real time on a large outdoor environment of over 20 non-overlapping cameras. Moreover, the tracking algorithms for robots and wireless nodes are described. A decentralized data fusion algorithm for combining all these information is presented.
Keywords :
image sensors; laser ranging; object detection; robot vision; sensor fusion; surveillance; wireless sensor networks; camera; data fusion algorithm; illumination; laser rangefinder sensors; mobile devices; objects tracking; robot fusion; surveillance applications; wireless sensors; Cameras; Humans; Monitoring; Robot kinematics; Robot sensing systems; Robot vision systems; Sensor fusion; Sensor systems; Surveillance; Wireless sensor networks;
Conference_Titel :
Computer Vision Workshops (ICCV Workshops), 2009 IEEE 12th International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Kyoto
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-4442-7
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4244-4441-0
DOI :
10.1109/ICCVW.2009.5457462