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Agent-based Automatic Camera Placement for Video Surveillance Systems  

Burn, U-In ((주)세나테크놀로지)
Nam, Yun-Young (아주대학교 유비쿼터스컨버전스연구소)
Cho, We-Duke (아주대학교 전자공학부)
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Journal of Internet Computing and Services / v.11, no.1, 2010 , pp. 103-116 More about this Journal
Abstract
In this paper, we propose an optimal camera placement using agent-based simulation. To derive importance of space and to cover the space efficiently, we accomplished an agent-based simulation based on classification of space and pattern analysis of moving people. We developed an agent-based camera placement method considering camera performance as well as space priority extracted from path finding algorithms. We demonstrate that the method not only determinates the optimal number of cameras, but also coordinates the position and orientation of the cameras with considering the installation costs. To validate the method, we compare simulation results with videos of real materials and show experimental results simulated in a specific space.
Keywords
surveillance system; camera placement; software agents; simulation; optimal camera placement;
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