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Summary: Camera handoff and placement for automated tracking systems with multiple
omnidirectional cameras
Chung-Hao Chen *, Yi Yao, David Page, Besma Abidi, Andreas Koschan, Mongi Abidi
Imaging, Robotics, and Intelligent Systems Laboratory, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN 37996, USA
a r t i c l e i n f o
Article history:
Received 12 March 2008
Accepted 13 April 2009
Available online 8 July 2009
Keywords:
Omnidirectional camera
Consistent labeling
Camera placement
Camera handoff
Multi-object multi-camera tracking
Automated surveillance systems
a b s t r a c t
In a multi-camera surveillance system, both camera handoff and placement play an important role in
generating an automated and persistent object tracking, typical of most surveillance requirements. Cam-
era handoff should comprise three fundamental components, time to trigger handoff process, the execu-
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