• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제4권6호
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• pp.1169-1193
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• 2010

In this paper, we present and compare two different multiple camera collaboration strategies to reduce false association in finding the correspondence of objects. Collaboration matrices are defined with the required minimum separation for an effective collaboration because homographic lines for objects association are ineffective with the insufficient separation. The first strategy uses the collaboration matrices to select the best pair out of many cameras having the maximum separation to efficiently collaborate on the object association. The association information in selected cameras is propagated to unselected cameras by the global information constructed from the associated targets. While the first strategy requires the long operation time to achieve the high association rate due to the limited view by the best pair, it reduces the computational cost using homographic lines. The second strategy initiates the collaboration process of objects association for all the pairing cases of cameras regardless of the separation. In each collaboration process, only crossed targets by a transformed homographic line from the other collaborating camera generate homographic lines. While the repetitive association processes improve the association performance, the transformation processes of homographic lines increase exponentially. The proposed methods are evaluated with real video sequences and compared in terms of the computational cost and the association performance. The simulation results demonstrate that the proposed methods effectively reduce the false association rate as compared with basic pair-wise collaboration.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제4권3호
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• pp.358-379
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• 2010

Multiple object association is an important capability in visual surveillance system with multiple cameras. In this paper, we introduce locally initiating line-based object association with the parallel projection camera model, which can be applicable to the situation without the common (ground) plane. The parallel projection camera model supports the camera movement (i.e. panning, tilting and zooming) by using the simple table based compensation for non-ideal camera parameters. We propose the threshold distance based homographic line generation algorithm. This takes account of uncertain parameters such as transformation error, height uncertainty of objects and synchronization issue between cameras. Thus, the proposed algorithm associates multiple objects on demand in the surveillance system where the camera movement dynamically changes. We verify the proposed method with actual image frames. Finally, we discuss the strategy to improve the association performance by using the temporal and spatial redundancy.

• 한국산학기술학회논문지
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• 제15권12호
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• pp.7302-7308
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• 2014

특정한 제한을 두지 않는 복잡한 자연환경에서 사용자가 원하는 목표 물체만을 정확하게 검출하는 작업은 컴퓨터 비전 및 영상처리 분야에서 중요하지만 매우 어려운 문제 중의 하나이다. 본 논문에서는 반사가 존재하는 여러 환경에서 목표하는 물체를 강인하게 검출하는 새로운 방법을 제안한다. 제안된 방법에서는 먼저 스테레오 카메라를 이용하여 목표 물체를 촬영한 다음, 물체를 가장 잘 표현하는 라인과 코너 특징들을 추출한다. 그런 다음, 촬영된 좌우 영상으로부터 호모그래픽 변환을 이용하여 실제로 존재하지 않는 반사된 특징들을 효과적으로 제거한다. 마지막으로, 반사된 특징들을 제거한 실제 특징들만을 군집화하여 대상 물체만을 강건하게 검출한다. 본 논문의 실험결과에서는 제안된 알고리즘이 기존의 알고리즘에 비해서 반사가 존재하는 자연 환경에서 목표 물체를 보다 강인하게 검출한다는 것을 보여준다.