GlobeAll Vision System

The goal of this project is to develop a modular framework for vision-based intelligent environments (Easy Living, Smart Rooms, Intelligent Houses) A generic configuration of the system includes five modules: a panoramic video input component that uses an electronic pan-tilt-zoom camera array, a background learning and foreground extraction component, a tracking component and an interpretation component. A challenging application of such device is the use of multiple GlobeAll sensors for capturing the real 3D body motion from video streams. We show that an integration of the 2D views captured by a set of two or more GlobeAll camera systems provides an accurate 3D representation of the human body and an efficient approach for disambiguating human motion.

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