Camera cooperation for achieving visual attention

  • Authors:
  • Radu Horaud;David Knossow;Markus Michaelis

  • Affiliations:
  • INRIA Rhône-Alpes, 655, Avenue de l'Europe, Montbonnot Saint-Martin, France;INRIA Rhône-Alpes, 655, Avenue de l'Europe, Montbonnot Saint-Martin, France;INRIA Rhône-Alpes, 655, Avenue de l'Europe, Montbonnot Saint-Martin, France

  • Venue:
  • Machine Vision and Applications
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

In this paper we address the problem of establishing a computational model for visual attention using cooperation between two cameras. More specifically we wish to maintain a visual event within the field of view of a rotating and zooming camera through the understanding and modeling of the geometric and kinematic coupling between a static camera and an active camera. The static camera has a wide field of view thus allowing panoramic surveillance at low resolution. High-resolution details may be captured by a second camera, provided that it looks in the right direction. We derive an algebraic formulation for the coupling between the two cameras and we specify the practical conditions yielding a unique solution. We describe a method for separating a foreground event (such as a moving object) from its background while the camera rotates. A set of outdoor experiments shows the two-camera system in operation.