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Distributed Smart Cameras and Distributed Computer Vision

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Distributed smart cameras are multiple-camera systems that perform computer vision tasks using distributed algorithms. Distributed algorithms scale better to large networks of cameras than do centralized algorithms. However, new approaches are required to many computer vision tasks in order to create efficient distributed algorithms. This chapter motivates the need for distributed computer vision, surveys background material in traditional computer vision, and describes several distributed computer vision algorithms for calibration, tracking, and gesture recognition.

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This work was supported in part by the National Science Foundation under grant 0720536.

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    Marilyn Wolf

  2. Department of Electrical Engineering, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, USA

    Jason Schlessman

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Wolf, M., Schlessman, J. (2013). Distributed Smart Cameras and Distributed Computer Vision. In: Bhattacharyya, S., Deprettere, E., Leupers, R., Takala, J. (eds) Handbook of Signal Processing Systems. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-6859-2_15

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