Distributed Visual Processing for a Home Visual Sensor Network

deliver objects, handle emergency, wherever he/she is inside the home. In addition, the burden of processing We address issues dealing with distributed visual power can be distributed to several processing elements in processing for a personal service robot in the Intelligent the home network, such as processors for the camera Home environment. We propose an efficient and reliable nodes on the wall, and even to a separate server, resulting framework to organize and coordinate the vision sensor in a fast and reliable system. nodes:fixed cameras mounted on walls, and camera(s) on As shown in Figure 1, Each functional module in a the mobile robot. We also propose key visual camera node, such as people detection and tracking, or functionalities necessary for the robot to perform its gesture recognition, should run concurrently and in realactivities. They include people detection and time with a level of performance that allows the robot to identification, action recognition, gesture recogn...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2008
• Where: WACV
• Authors: Kwangsu Kim, Gérard G. Medioni
• Keywords: Camera, Camera Nodes, Computer Vision, Gesture Recognition, WACV 2008