New Projective Invariant for Camera Network References

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Background materials in Computer Vision

  • http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~dyer/cs766/notes.html: CS 766 Computer Vision lecture notes by Prof. Dyer.
  • [Szeliski04] Richard Szeliski, "Acquiring Detailed 3D Models From Images and Video," Tutorial given in 2004 Neural Information Processing Symposium. Presentation
  • Yi Ma, S. Soatto, J. Kosecka, and S. S. Sastry, Invitation to 3-D vision : from images to geometric models, Springer, NY, NY, 2004. Available at Wendt Library Reserve Collection, 2nd Floor Call Number: TA1634 A5 2004
  • [zhang98] Zhengyou Zhang, "Determining the Epipolar Geometry and its Uncertainty: A Review," Int'l J. Computer Vision, Vol. 27, no. 2, pp. 161-198, 1998.

Background of Geometric Invariants

  • Peter Olver's Papers, Many references on moving frames and invariants are available here.
  • [Calabi98] Calabi, E., Olver, P.J., Shakiban, C., Tannenbaum, A., and Haker, S., Differential and numerically invariant signature curves applied to object recognition, Int. J. Computer Vision 26 (1998) 107-135.
  • [Olver01a] Olver, P.J., Moving frames: a brief survey, in: Symmetry and Perturbation Theory, D. Bambusi, M. Cadoni and G. Gaeta, eds., World Scientific, Singapore, 2001, pp. 143-150.
  • [Olver01b] Olver, P.J., Moving frames --- in geometry, algebra, computer vision, and numerical analysis, in: Foundations of Computational Mathematics, R. DeVore, A. Iserles and E. Suli, eds., London Math. Soc. Lecture Note Series, vol. 284, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2001, pp. 267-297.
  • [Olver04] Olver, P.J., An introduction to moving frames, in: Geometry, Integrability and Quantization; vol. 5, I.M. Mladenov and A.C. Hirschfeld, eds., Softex, Sofia, Bulgaria, 2004, pp. 67-80.
  • [olver05] Olver, P.J., A survey of moving frames, in: Computer Algebra and Geometric Algebra with Applications, Li, H., Olver, P.J., Sommer, G., eds., Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 3519, Springer-Verlag, New York, 2005, pp. 105-138.
  • [weiss93] Weiss, I., “Geometric invariants and object recognition,” International Journal of Computer Vision, 1993, vol. 10, no. 3, pp. 207 – 231.

Background in Wireless Sensor Network

  • Archana Bharathidasan's Sensor Network page
  • I.F. Akyildiz, W. Su*, Y. Sankarasubramaniam, E. Cayirci, " Wireless Sensor Networks: A Survey", Computer Networks, vol. 38, pp. 393-422, 2002.
  • [ahmed04] Ayed Ahmed and M. Rasit Eskicioglu, Technical Report TR-01-06/04, June 2004, Telecommunication Research Labs, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.
  • [Blumenthal] Jan Blumenthal, Matthias Handy, Frank Golatowski, Marc Haase, Dirk Timmermann, "Wireless Sensor Networks - New Challenges in Software Engineering"

Projective Invariants

  • [Astrom95] K. Astrom, “Fundamental limitations on projective invariants of planar curves,” IEEE Trans. PAMI, vol. 17, pp. 77-81, 1995.
  • [Marhic98] B. M. Marhic, El.M.; Pegard, C., “A localisation method with an omnidirectional vision sensor using projective invariant,” Proc. Int'l conf. Intelligent Robots and Systems, 1998, pp. 1078-1083.
  • [Roh97] K. S. Roh, Wang Heon Lee, and In So Kweon, “Obstacle detection and self-localization without camera calibration using projective invariants,” Proc. Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS'97), 1997, pp. 1030-1035.
  • [Shashua93] A. Shashua, “A geometric invariant for visual recognition and 3D reconstruction from two perspective/orthographic views,” Proc. IEEE workshop on Qualitative Visision, 1993, pp. 107-117.
  • [Tsonis98] V. S. Tsonis, K.V. Chandrinos; Trahanias, P.E., “Landmark-based navigation using projective invariants,” Proc. Int'l conf. Intelligent Robots and Systems, 1998, pp. 342-347.
  • [Velipasalar05] S. W. Velipasalar, W., “Frame-level temporal calibration of video sequences from unsynchronized cameras by using projective invariants,” Proc. Advanced Video Signal-based Surveillance (AVSS'05), 2005, pp. 462-467.

Multi-Camera, Multi-view Calibration

  • [Baker00] P. Baker, and Yiannis Aloimonos,, “Complete Calibration of a Multi-camera Network,” Proc. IEEE Workshop on Omnidirectional Vision (OMNIVIS'00), 2000, pp. 134.
  • [Chen03] X. Chen, Jie Yang, and A. Waibel, “Calibration of a hybrid camera network,” Proc. Int'l Conf. Computer Vision (ICCV'03), 2003, pp. 150-155.
  • [chen06] I.-H. Chen, and Sheng-Jyh Wang, “Efficient Vision-Based Calibration for Visual Surveillance Systems with Multiple PTZ Cameras,” Proc. Int'l Conf. Computer Vision Systems (ICVS'06), 2006.
  • [Izo04] T. G. Izo, W.E.L., “Simultaneous Pose Estimation and Camera Calibration from Multiple Views,” Proc. Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Workshop (CVPRW'04), 2004.
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  • [Porikli03] F. D. Porikli, A., “Multi-camera calibration, object tracking and query generation,” Proc. Int'l Conf. Multimedia and Expo (ICME'03), 2003, pp. 653-656.
  • [Rekleitis05] Rekleitis, I., and G. Dudek, “Automated calibration of a camera sensor network,” Proc. Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS'05), 2005, pp. 3384-3389.
  • [Sinha04] S. N. Sinha, M. Pollefeys, and McMillan, L., “Camera network calibration from dynamic silhouettes,” Proc. IEEE Conf. Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR'04), 2004, pp. 195-202.
  • [Sinha05] S. N. Sinha, and Pollefeys, M., “Synchronization and calibration of a camera network for 3D event reconstruction from live video,” Proc. Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR'05), 2005, pp. 1196.
  • [Tsui97] H. T. Tsui; Zhang, Z.Y.; Kong, S.H., “Feature tracking from an image sequence using geometric invariants,” Proc. Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR'97), 1997, pp. 244-249.
  • [Unal04] G. Unal, and Yezzi, A., “A variational approach to problems in calibration of multiple cameras,” Proc. Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR'04), 2004, pp. 172-178.
  • [Yamazoe06] H. Yamazoe, Utsumi, A., and S. Abe, “Multiple Camera Calibration with Bundled Optimization using Silhouette Geometry Constraints,” Proc. Int'l Conf. Pattern Recognition (ICPR'06), 2006, pp. 960-963.
  • [Ying04] X. Ying , and Zhanyi Hu, “Catadioptric camera calibration using geometric invariants,” IEEE Trans. PAMI, vol. 26, pp. 1260-1271, 2004.
  • [valera05] M. Valera and S. A. Velastin, "Intelligent distributed Surveillance systems: A Review," IEE Proceedings: Vision, Image and Signal Processing vol. 152, no. 2, pp. 192-204, April 2005.

Camera Sensor Network Information and Signal Processing

  • [albu06] Albu, A.B.; Laurendeau, D.; Comtois, S.; Ouellet, D.; Hebert, P.; Zaccarin, A.; Parizeau, M.; Bergevin, R.; Maldague, X.; Drouin, R.; Drouin, S.; Martel-Brisson, N.; Jean, F.; Torresan, H.; Gagnon, L.; Laliberte, F.; "MONNET: Monitoring Pedestrians with a Network of Loosely-Coupled Cameras", Proc. ICPR 2006, Vol. 4, 20-24 Aug. 2006, Page(s):924 - 928.
  • [Chippendale05] P. T. Chippendale, F., "Collective calibration of active camera groups," Proc. Advanced Video and Signal-based Survelillance (AVSS'05), 2005, pp. 456-461.
  • [Ellis02] T. Ellis, "Multi-camera video surveillance," Proc. Int'l Conf. Security Technology, 2002, pp. 228-233.
  • [Funiak06] Funiak, S.; Guestrin, C.; Paskin, M.; Sukthankar, R., "Distributed localization of networked cameras", Proc. IPSN'06, Page(s): 34- 42.
  • [Erdem05] Erdem, U.M.; Sclaroff, S.; "Look there! Predicting where to look for motion in an active camera network," Proc. Advanced Video and Signal Based Surveillance (AVSS 2005) Sept. 15-16, 2005, Page(s):105 - 110.
  • [Fleck06] Fleck, Sven; Busch, Florian; Biber, Peter; Strasser, Wolfgang, "3D surveillance - A distributed network of smart cameras for real-time tracking and its visualization in 3D" Proc. 2006 Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Workshops, June 17-22, 2006.
  • [Gehrig06] N. Gehrig, and Dragotti, P.L., "Distributed sampling and compression of scenes with finite rate of innovation in camera sensor networks," Proc. Data Compression Conf. (DCC'06), 2006, pp. 83-92.
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  • [hengel06] Anton van den Hengel and Anthony Dick and Rhys Hill, "Activity Topology Estimation for Large Networks of Cameras," Proc. IEEE Int'l Conf. on Video and Signal Based Surveillance (AVSS'06), Washington, DC, USA, 2006, pp. 44-

SIFT

Links to work and demos on using SIFT features for the PhotoTourism project:

http://phototour.cs.washington.edu/

http://research.microsoft.com/IVM/PhotoTours/

  • [Photo_Tourism] Noah Snavely, Steven M. Seitz, Richard Szeliski, "Photo tourism: Exploring photo collections in 3D," ACM Transactions on Graphics (SIGGRAPH Proceedings), 25(3), 2006, 835-846. (Presentation)

COMPRESSIVE SENSING

Tutorial:

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