Systems and Algorithms for Autonomously Simultaneous Observation of Multiple Objects Using Robotic PTZ Cameras Assisted by a Wide-Angle Camera Conference Paper uri icon

abstract

  • We report an autonomous observation system with multiple pan-tilt-zoom (PTZ) cameras assisted by a fixed wide-angle camera. The wide-angle camera provides large but low resolution coverage and detects and tracks all moving objects in the scene. Based on the output of the wide-angle camera, the system generates spatiotemporal observation requests for each moving object, which are candidates for close-up views using PTZ cameras. Due to the fact that there are usually much more objects than the number of PTZ cameras, the system first assigns a subset of the requests/objects to each PTZ camera. The PTZ cameras then select the parameter settings that best satisfy the assigned competing requests to provide high resolution views of the moving objects. We solve the request assignment and the camera parameter selection problems in real time. The effectiveness of the proposed system is validated in comparison with an existing work using simulation. The simulation results show that in heavy traffic scenarios, our algorithm increases the number of observed objects by over 200%. 2009 IEEE.

name of conference

  • 2009 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems

published proceedings

  • 2009 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems

author list (cited authors)

  • Xu, Y., & Song, D.

citation count

  • 8

complete list of authors

  • Xu, Yiliang||Song, Dezhen

publication date

  • October 2009