Efficient algorithms for shared camera control Conference Paper uri icon

abstract

  • We consider a system that allows n networked users to share control over a robotic webcamera. Each user guides the camera pan, tilt and zoom, by drawing a rectangle in the user interface. The server adjusts the camera to best satisfy the user requests, by solving a geometric optimization problem that requires fitting one rectangle to many. We improve upon previous results with an O(n3/2 log3 n) time exact algorithm for this problem. We also present a simple near-linear time -approximation algorithm. We have implemented the latter and report on experimental results.

name of conference

  • Proceedings of the 19th ACM Symposium on Computational Geometry, San Diego, CA, USA, June 8-10, 2003

published proceedings

  • Proceedings of the Annual Symposium on Computational Geometry

author list (cited authors)

  • Har-Peled, S., Koltun, V., Song, D., & Goldberg, K.

complete list of authors

  • Har-Peled, S||Koltun, V||Song, D||Goldberg, K

publication date

  • July 2003