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Behavior monitoring for assistive environments using multiple views

Author: Dimitrios I. Kosmopoulos

Published in: Universal Access in the Information Society | Issue 2/2011

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This work presents an approach to behavior understanding using multiple cameras. This approach is appropriate for monitoring people in an assistive environment for the purpose of issuing alerts in cases of abnormal behavior. The output of multiple classifiers is used to model and extract abnormal behavior from both the target trajectory and the target short-term activity (i.e., walking, running, abrupt motion, etc.). Spatial information is obtained after an offline camera registration using homography information. The proposed approach is verified experimentally in an indoor environment. The experiments are performed with a single moving target; however, the method can be generalized to multiple moving targets, which may occlude each other, due to the use of multiple cameras.

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Title: Behavior monitoring for assistive environments using multiple views
Author: Dimitrios I. Kosmopoulos
Publication date: 01-06-2011
Publisher: Springer-Verlag
Published in: Universal Access in the Information Society / Issue 2/2011
Print ISSN: 1615-5289
Electronic ISSN: 1615-5297
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10209-010-0193-9

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