VSAM Research

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IFD VSAM Research

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IFD VSAM Publications

Collins, Lipton, Kanade, Fujiyoshi, Duggins, Tsin, Tolliver, Enomoto, and Hasegawa, "A System for Video Surveillance and Monitoring: VSAM Final Report," Technical report CMU-RI-TR-00-12, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, May, 2000.
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Lipton, "Virtual Postman - Real-Time, Interactive Virtual Video", IASTED CGIM, Palm Springs, CA, October 1999 [Lipton, 1999a]

Lipton, "Local Application of Optic Flow to Analyse Rigid versus Non-Rigid Motion", in ICCV Workshop on Frame-Rate Vision, Corfu, Greece, September 1999 [Lipton, 1999b]

Dellaert and Collins, "Fast Image-Based Tracking by Selective Pixel Integration," in ICCV Workshop on Frame-Rate Vision, Corfu, Greece, September 1999

Wixson and Hansen, "Detecting Salient Motion by Accumulating Directionally-Consistent Flow," ICCV, 1999, pp.797-804.

Collins and Tsin, "Calibration of an Outdoor Active Camera System" IEEE Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR99), Fort Collins, CO, June 23-25, 1999, pp. 528-534.

Collins, Lipton and Kanade, "A System for Video Surveillance and Monitoring," Proc. American Nuclear Society (ANS) Eighth International Topical Meeting on Robotics and Remote Systems, Pittsburgh, PA, April 25-29, 1999.

Lipton, Fujiyoshi and Patil, "Moving Target Classification and Tracking from Real-time Video" IEEE Workshop on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV), Princeton NJ, October 1998, pp.8-14.

Fujiyoshi and Lipton, "Real-time Human Motion Analysis by Image Skeletonization" IEEE Workshop on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV), Princeton NJ, October 1998, pp.15-21.

Kanade, Collins, Lipton, Burt, Wixson, "Advances in Cooperative Mult\i-Sensor Video Surveillance," DARPA Image Understanding Workshop (IUW), Monterey, CA, November 1998, pp. 3-24.

Wixson, Eledath, Hansen, Mandelbaum, Mishra, "Image Alignment for Precise Camera Fixation and Aim," IEEE Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 1998, pp.708-715.

Collins, Tsin, Miller and Lipton, "Using a DEM to Determine Geospatial Object Trajectories," DARPA Image Understanding Workshop (IUW), Monterey, CA, November 1998, pp. 115-122.

Selinger and Wixson, "Classifying moving objects as rigid or non-rigid without correspondences" DARPA Image Understanding Workshop (IUW), Monterey, CA, November 1998, pp. 341-348.

Kanade, Collins, Lipton, Anandan, Burt, Wixson, "Cooperative Multi-Sensor Video Surveillance," DARPA Image Understanding Workshop (IUW), New Orleans, LA, May 1997, pp. 3-10.

FRE Research Links

Twelve focused research efforts (FREs) were funded under VSAM. Try clicking on a group's project page first to get the most recent, most comprehensive information. If the page is no longer available, use the "Cached" link to get a copy of the page as it appeared as of June 2000. Note, however, that not all information has been cached. In particular, large figures, papers or movies have not been copied.

Institute	Project Page	Cached	Interests
USC	Surveillance and Monitoring Using Video Images from A UAV	Cached	A
Cornell	Robust, On-line Event Detection and Classification for Video Monitoring	Cached	G,A
Hebrew/Weizmann	Multi-sensor Representation of Extended Scenes Using Multi-view Geometry	Cached	G,A,V
U.Rochester	Calibration-Free View Augmentation for Semi-Autonomous VSAMs	Cached	H,V
UCSD	Multiple Perspective Interactive Video Surveillance and Monitoring	Cached	G,H,V
TI	Robust Video Motion Detection and Recognition	Cached	G,H
U.Maryland	Model-Supported Visual and Acoustic Surveillance and Monitoring System	Cached	H
MIT Media Lab	Learning and Understanding Action in Video Imagery	Cached	H
MIT AI Lab	A Forest of Sensors	Cached	G,H,S
SRI	Extra Set of Eyes		G,S
U. Wisconsin	Steerable Gaze Control for a Video-Based Virtual Surveillant	Cached	V
Columbia U.	Omnidirectional Sensors and Live IUE for Video Surveillance and Monitoring	Cached	S

Key	Interest Group
G	Ground-based vehicle monitoring and event analysis
H	Human activity monitoring
A	Airborne (UAV) video processing
V	Visualization and VR overlays
S	Sensors and sensor-level processing