Optimizing Visual Surveillance Sensor Coverage Using Dynamic Programming

Optimizing the visual sensors coverage to perform security monitoring tasks has an undeniable impact on the performance as well as the cost of video surveillance systems. The placement arrangement is an NP-hard problem, in which the main target is to seek an approximate solution. This paper addresse...

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Main Authors: Altahir, A.A., Asirvadam, V.S., Hamid, N.H.B., Sebastian, P., Saad, N.B., Ibrahim, R.B., Dass, S.C.
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Published: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. 2017
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spelling utp-eprints.194732018-04-20T05:59:39Z Optimizing Visual Surveillance Sensor Coverage Using Dynamic Programming Altahir, A.A. Asirvadam, V.S. Hamid, N.H.B. Sebastian, P. Saad, N.B. Ibrahim, R.B. Dass, S.C. Optimizing the visual sensors coverage to perform security monitoring tasks has an undeniable impact on the performance as well as the cost of video surveillance systems. The placement arrangement is an NP-hard problem, in which the main target is to seek an approximate solution. This paper addresses the placement of security cameras to maximize the total coverage of the camera network. The coverage of the visual sensor array is modeled descriptively using an enhanced pinhole camera model to obtain the layout of the field of view. The main contribution of the paper is to introduce a dynamic programming algorithm, which defines an optimal policy for solving the visual sensor coverage problem. To validate the proposed algorithm, we compared the outcomes of the dynamic programming algorithm with the existing benchmarking placement optimization techniques. The assessment reveals the effectiveness of the proposed dynamic programming solution to maximize the coverage for a set of predefined locations. © 2001-2012 IEEE. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. 2017 Article PeerReviewed https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85028942024&doi=10.1109%2fJSEN.2017.2694385&partnerID=40&md5=dcc896060464a45bee85a6d19cfbd99e Altahir, A.A. and Asirvadam, V.S. and Hamid, N.H.B. and Sebastian, P. and Saad, N.B. and Ibrahim, R.B. and Dass, S.C. (2017) Optimizing Visual Surveillance Sensor Coverage Using Dynamic Programming. IEEE Sensors Journal, 17 (11). pp. 3398-3405. http://eprints.utp.edu.my/19473/
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description Optimizing the visual sensors coverage to perform security monitoring tasks has an undeniable impact on the performance as well as the cost of video surveillance systems. The placement arrangement is an NP-hard problem, in which the main target is to seek an approximate solution. This paper addresses the placement of security cameras to maximize the total coverage of the camera network. The coverage of the visual sensor array is modeled descriptively using an enhanced pinhole camera model to obtain the layout of the field of view. The main contribution of the paper is to introduce a dynamic programming algorithm, which defines an optimal policy for solving the visual sensor coverage problem. To validate the proposed algorithm, we compared the outcomes of the dynamic programming algorithm with the existing benchmarking placement optimization techniques. The assessment reveals the effectiveness of the proposed dynamic programming solution to maximize the coverage for a set of predefined locations. © 2001-2012 IEEE.
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author Altahir, A.A.
Asirvadam, V.S.
Hamid, N.H.B.
Sebastian, P.
Saad, N.B.
Ibrahim, R.B.
Dass, S.C.
spellingShingle Altahir, A.A.
Asirvadam, V.S.
Hamid, N.H.B.
Sebastian, P.
Saad, N.B.
Ibrahim, R.B.
Dass, S.C.
Optimizing Visual Surveillance Sensor Coverage Using Dynamic Programming
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title Optimizing Visual Surveillance Sensor Coverage Using Dynamic Programming
title_short Optimizing Visual Surveillance Sensor Coverage Using Dynamic Programming
title_full Optimizing Visual Surveillance Sensor Coverage Using Dynamic Programming
title_fullStr Optimizing Visual Surveillance Sensor Coverage Using Dynamic Programming
title_full_unstemmed Optimizing Visual Surveillance Sensor Coverage Using Dynamic Programming
title_sort optimizing visual surveillance sensor coverage using dynamic programming
publisher Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
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