Distributed saddle-point subgradient algorithms with Laplacian averaging

D Mateos-Núnez, J Cortés - IEEE Transactions on Automatic …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We present distributed subgradient methods for min-max problems with agreement
constraints on a subset of the arguments of both the convex and concave parts. Applications …

Visual coverage control for teams of quadcopters via control barrier functions

R Funada, M Santos, J Yamauchi… - … on Robotics and …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper presents a coverage control strategy for teams of quadcopters that ensures that
no area is left unsurveyed in between the fields of view of the visual sensors mounted on the …

Attentive monitoring of multiple video streams driven by a Bayesian foraging strategy

P Napoletano, G Boccignone… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, we shall consider the problem of deploying attention to the subsets of the video
streams for collating the most relevant data and information of interest related to a given …

Optimizing the detection performance of smart camera networks through a probabilistic image-based model

C Kyrkou, EG Christoforou, S Timotheou… - IEEE transactions on …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Networks of smart cameras, equipped with on-board processing and communication
infrastructure, are increasingly being deployed in a variety of different application fields …

Visual surveillance of human activities via gradient-based coverage control on matrix manifolds

T Hatanaka, R Funada, M Fujita - IEEE Transactions on Control …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this article, we address visual surveillance of human activities for a network of cameras
with controllable orientations based on gradient-based coverage control techniques. We first …

Dynamic multi-target coverage with robotic cameras

W Hönig, N Ayanian - … on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
When tracking multiple targets with autonomous cameras for 3D scene reconstruction, eg, in
sports, a significant challenge is handling the unpredictable nature of the targets' motion …

Real-time distributed multi-object tracking in a PTZ camera network

A Choudhary, S Sharma, I Sreedevi… - Pattern Recognition and …, 2015 - Springer
A visual surveillance system should have the ability to view an object of interest at a certain
size so that important information related to that object can be collected and analyzed as the …

A camera uncertainty model for collaborative visual sensor network applications

C Kyrkou, E Christoforou, T Theocharides… - Proceedings of the 9th …, 2015 - dl.acm.org
Visual Sensor Networks (VSNs) exploit the processing and communication capabilities of
modern smart cameras to handle a variety of applications such as security and surveillance …

Distributed camera control via moving horizon Bayesian optimization

AA Morye, E Franco… - 2014 American …, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Active distributed optimal control of PTZ (pan, tilt, zoom) camera networks can yield accurate
target tracking with high resolution imagery at opportunistic time instants, even when the …

Face recognition using an outdoor camera network

CH Chen, R Chellappa - Human Recognition in Unconstrained …, 2017 - Elsevier
Face recognition in outdoor environment is a challenging task due to illumination changes,
pose variations, and occlusions. In this chapter, we discuss several techniques for …