Panoptes: Servicing Multiple Applications Simultaneously Using Steerable Cameras

Steerable surveillance cameras offer a unique opportunity to support multiple vision applications simultaneously. However, stateof-art camera systems do not support this as they are often limited to one application per camera. We believe that we should break the one-to-one binding between the steera...

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Published in:IPSN 2017 : proceedings, 2017 16th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks : 18-20, April 2017, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA pp. 119 - 130
Main Authors: Jain, Shubham, Nguyen, Viet, Gruteser, Marco, Bahl, Paramvir
Format: Conference Proceeding
Language:English
Published: ACM 01.04.2017
Subjects:
Camera
Cameras
Cloud computing
Lenses
Pan-Tilt-Zoom
Scheduling
Smart infrastructure
Surveillance
Tracking
Video analytics
Virtual views
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Summary:Steerable surveillance cameras offer a unique opportunity to support multiple vision applications simultaneously. However, stateof-art camera systems do not support this as they are often limited to one application per camera. We believe that we should break the one-to-one binding between the steerable camera and the application. By doing this we can quickly move the camera to a new view needed to support a different vision application. When done well, the scheduling algorithm can support a larger number of applications over an existing network of surveillance cameras. With this in mind we developed Panoptes, a technique that virtualizes a camera view and presents a different fixed view to different applications. A scheduler uses camera controls to move the camera appropriately providing the expected view for each application in a timely manner, minimizing the impact on application performance. Experiments with a live camera setup demonstrate that Panoptes can support multiple applications, capturing up to 80% more events of interest in a wide scene, compared to a fixed view camera.
DOI:10.1145/3055031.3055085