Video surveillance has a large market as the number of installed cameras around us can show. There are immediate commercial needs for smart video surveillance systems that can make use of the existing camera net-work ...
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Video surveillance has a large market as the number of installed cameras around us can show. There are immediate commercial needs for smart video surveillance systems that can make use of the existing camera net-work (e.g. CCTV) for more intelligent security systems and to contribute in more applications (beside or) rather than security applications. This work introduces a new classification for smart video surveillance systems depending on their commercial applications. This paper highlights different links between the research and the commercial applications. The work reported here has both research and commercial motivations. Our goals are first to define a generic model of smart video surveillance systems that can meet requirements of strong commercial applications. Our second goal is to categorize different smart video surveillance applications and to relate capabilities of computer vision algorithms to the requirement of commercial application.
The purpose of this paper is to introduce a cost-effective way to design robot vision and control software using Matlab for an autonomous robot designed to compete in the 2004 Intelligent Ground Vehicle Competition (I...
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The purpose of this paper is to introduce a cost-effective way to design robot vision and control software using Matlab for an autonomous robot designed to compete in the 2004 Intelligent Ground Vehicle Competition (IGVC). The goal of the autonomous challenge event is for the robot to autonomously navigate an outdoor obstacle course bounded by solid and dashed lines on the ground. Visual input data is provided by a DV camcorder at 160 x 120 pixel resolution. The design of this system involved writing an image-processing algorithm using hue, satuaration, and brightness (HSB) color filtering and Matlab image processing functions to extract the centroid, area, and orientation of the connected regions from the scene. These feature vectors are then mapped to linguistic variables that describe the objects in the world environment model. The linguistic variables act as inputs to a fuzzy logic controller designed using the Matlab fuzzy logic toolbox, which provides the knowledge and intelligence component necessary to achieve the desired goal. Java provides the central interface to the robot motion control and image acquisition components. Field test results indicate that the Matlab based solution allows for rapid software design, development and modification of our robot system.
computer vision algorithms are composed of different sub-algorithms often applied in sequence. Determination of the performance of a total computervision algorithm is possible if the performance of each of the sub-al...
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computer vision algorithms are composed of different sub-algorithms often applied in sequence. Determination of the performance of a total computervision algorithm is possible if the performance of each of the sub-algorithm constituents is given. The performance characterization of an algorithm has to do with establishing the correspondence between the random variations and imperfections in the output data and the random variations and imperfections in the input data. In this paper we illustrate how random perturba tion models can be set up for a vision algorithm sequence involving edge finding, edge linking, and gap filling. By starting with an appropriate noise model for the input data we derive random perturbation models for the output data at each stage of our example sequence. By utilizing the perturbation model for edge detector output derived, we illustrate how pixel noise can be successively propagated to derive an error model for the boundary extraction output. It is shown that the fragmentation of an ideal boundary can be described by an alternating renewal process and that the parameters of the renewal process are related to the probability of correct detection and grouping at the edge linking step. It is also shown that the characteristics of random segments generated due to gray-level noise are functions of the probability of false alarm of the edge detector. Theoretical results are validated through systematic experiments.
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