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Video Surveillance and Monitoring
This lab is no longer active.

Head: Takeo Kanade
Contact: Robert Collins (rcollins@andrew.cmu.edu)

Mailing address:
Carnegie Mellon University
Robotics Institute
5000 Forbes Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA 15213

Associated center: VASC

For more information, see this lab's homepage.

The VSAM lab is developing a state-of-the-art video surveillance system that coordinates a network of active sensors to seamlessly track multiple moving objects through a large, cluttered environment.

Name - Title <Email Address>
• Robert Collins - Adjunct Faculty (Adjunct) <rcollins@andrew.cmu.edu>
• Yongtae Do - Visiting Associate Professor
• David Duggins - Program Manager/ARL CTA Project Manager <duggins@ri.cmu.edu>
• Nobuyoshi Enomoto - Visiting Industrial Scholar
• Hironobu Fujiyoshi - Visiting Research Scientist
• Osamu Hasegawa - Visiting Scientist
• [Home] Takeo Kanade - U.A. and Helen Whitaker University Prof., RI/CS <tk@cs.cmu.edu>
• [Home] Alan Lipton - Systems Scientist (Adjunct) <ajl@andrew.cmu.edu>
• Raju Patil - Graduate Student
• David Tolliver - Systems Scientist, CS <tolliver@cs.cmu.edu>
• [Home] Yanghai Tsin - PhD Student, RI

• Video Surveillance and Monitoring - cooperative multi-sensor military surveillance system

• A method for monitoring activities of multiple objects by using stochastic model
  N. Enomoto and T. Kanade
  Vol. 84-D, No. 12, December, 2001, pp. 1705 - 1712.
  Download: pdf [998 KB] copyrighted

• Algorithms for cooperative multisensor surveillance
  R. Collins, A. Lipton, H. Fujiyoshi, and T. Kanade
  Proceedings of the IEEE, Vol. 89, No. 10, October, 2001, pp. 1456 - 1477. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [624 KB] copyrighted

• A Statistical Model for 3D Object Detection Applied to Faces and Cars
  H. Schneiderman and T. Kanade
  IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, IEEE, June, 2000. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [474 KB], ps.gz [1662 KB] copyrighted

• A Statistical Approach to 3D Object Detection Applied to Faces and Cars
  H. Schneiderman
  doctoral dissertation, tech. report CMU-RI-TR-00-06, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, May, 2000. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [1947 KB], ps.gz [5938 KB] copyrighted

• A System for Video Surveillance and Monitoring
  R. Collins, A. Lipton, T. Kanade, H. Fujiyoshi, D. Duggins, Y. Tsin, D. Tolliver, N. Enomoto, and O. Hasegawa
  tech. report CMU-RI-TR-00-12, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, May, 2000. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [3066 KB], ps.gz [8876 KB] copyrighted

• Virtual Postman - Real-Time Interactive Virtual Video
  A. Lipton
  IASTED CGIM '99, October, 1999. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [812 KB], ps.gz [1507 KB] copyrighted

• Fast Image-Based Tracking by Selective Pixel Integration
  F. Dellaert and R. Collins
  ICCV 99 Workshop on Frame-Rate Vision, September, 1999. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [867 KB] copyrighted

• Local Application of Optic Flow to Analyse Rigid versus Non-Rigid Motion
  A. Lipton
  ICCV Workshop on Frame-Rate Vision, September, 1999. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [402 KB], ps.gz [423 KB] copyrighted

• Application of neural networks for stereo-camera calibration
  Y. Do
  1999 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN '99), July, 1999.
  Download: pdf [114 KB] copyrighted

• Calibration of an Outdoor Active Camera System
  R. Collins and Y. Tsin
  IEEE Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR '99), June, 1999, pp. 528 - 534. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [277 KB], ps.gz [665 KB] copyrighted