Survey and analysis of multimodal sensor planning and integration for wide area surveillance

• Published in: ACM computing surveys Vol. 41; no. 1; pp. 1 - 36
• Main Authors: Abidi, Besma R., Aragam, Nash R., Yao, Yi, Abidi, Mongi A.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY Association for Computing Machinery 01.12.2008
• Subjects: Applied sciences; Artificial intelligence; Computer science; control theory; systems; Computer systems and distributed systems. User interface; Exact sciences and technology; Geographic information systems; Information systems. Data bases; Intelligent systems; Memory organisation. Data processing; Pattern recognition. Digital image processing. Computational geometry; Sensors; Software; Studies; Surveillance; Autonomous system; Image processing; wireless sensor network; Sensor fusion; Adaptive method; Image reconstruction; Robotics; Design; ubiquitous surveillance; Radar; threat object recognition; Monitoring; Photogrammetry; Computer vision; persistent surveillance; Multisensor; Measurement sensor; Parking; multimodal sensing; Context aware; Terminal; Security; Sensor planning; Algorithms; Surveillance; Airport; Wireless network; Tridimensional image; Thermal imaging; Internet; Planning; cooperative sensing; Sensor array; Performance

Although sensor planning in computer vision has been a subject of research for over two decades, a vast majority of the research seems to concentrate on two particular applications in a rather limited context of laboratory and industrial workbenches, namely 3D object reconstruction and robotic arm m...