TY - JOUR
T1 - Setup and calibration of a distributed camera system for surveillance of laboratory space
AU - Eggers, M.
AU - Dikov, V.
AU - Mayer, C.
AU - Steger, C.
AU - Radig, B.
N1 - Funding Information:
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS This work was partly supported by the cluster of excellence CoTeSys–Cognition for Technical System (http://www.cotesys.org) within the project Position and Gesture Tracking (PoGeT) funded by the DFG.
PY - 2013
Y1 - 2013
N2 - This paper describes the setup and realization of a distributed camera system designed to survey a laboratory area where humans and mobile manipulator robots collaborate jointly. The system consists of 40 industrial grade cameras surveying a 10 m by 10 m area from a top-down perspective, connected via Gigabit Ethernet (GigE) to a cluster of 40 computers for distributed image processing. The cameras were fully calibrated, achieving an average reprojection error of 0.13 pixels for the complete system, which exceeds state-of-the art accuracy. Current long-term testing has the system running with at least 99.994% availability for up to two weeks. Successful application tests of the system were conducted, where it was used to track the movements of robots and humans across the surveyed area.
AB - This paper describes the setup and realization of a distributed camera system designed to survey a laboratory area where humans and mobile manipulator robots collaborate jointly. The system consists of 40 industrial grade cameras surveying a 10 m by 10 m area from a top-down perspective, connected via Gigabit Ethernet (GigE) to a cluster of 40 computers for distributed image processing. The cameras were fully calibrated, achieving an average reprojection error of 0.13 pixels for the complete system, which exceeds state-of-the art accuracy. Current long-term testing has the system running with at least 99.994% availability for up to two weeks. Successful application tests of the system were conducted, where it was used to track the movements of robots and humans across the surveyed area.
KW - computer vision
KW - multi-camera calibration
KW - multi-camera systems
KW - performance evaluation
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84890878161&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1134/S1054661813040032
DO - 10.1134/S1054661813040032
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84890878161
SN - 1054-6618
VL - 23
SP - 481
EP - 487
JO - Pattern Recognition and Image Analysis
JF - Pattern Recognition and Image Analysis
IS - 4
ER -