The diffusion of visual sensor networks, and in particular of smart camera networks, is motivating an increasing interest on the research of distributed solutions for several vision problems. Specifically, in this paper we propose a distributed solution to the problem of reconstructing target positions in large Motion Capture (MoCap) systems. Real time reconstruction by means of centralized procedures is practically unfeasible for very large systems, while the use of distributed computation allows to significantly reduce the computational time required for reconstruction, thus allowing the development of real time solutions. Then the proposed distributed reconstruction procedure is optimized by exploiting information about the structure of the system: the visibility matrix states which objects in the scene are somehow measurable by a sensor (sensor-object matrix). Often, the typical localization of data from real application scenarios induces an underlying structure on the visibility matrix, that can be exploited to improve the performance of the system in understanding the surrounding environment. Unfortunately, usually these data are not properly organized in the visibility matrix: for instance, listing the sensors in a pseudo-random order can hide the underlying structure of the matrix. This paper considers the problem of recovering such underlying structure directly from the visibility matrix and designs an algorithm to perform this task. Our simulations show that the distributed reconstruction algorithm optimized by means of the estimation of the structure of the visibility matrix allows a particularly relevant computational time reduction with respect to the standard (centralized) reconstruction algorithm.

Structure-based approach for optimizing distributed reconstruction in Motion Capture systems

MASIERO, ANDREA;CENEDESE, ANGELO
2014

Abstract

The diffusion of visual sensor networks, and in particular of smart camera networks, is motivating an increasing interest on the research of distributed solutions for several vision problems. Specifically, in this paper we propose a distributed solution to the problem of reconstructing target positions in large Motion Capture (MoCap) systems. Real time reconstruction by means of centralized procedures is practically unfeasible for very large systems, while the use of distributed computation allows to significantly reduce the computational time required for reconstruction, thus allowing the development of real time solutions. Then the proposed distributed reconstruction procedure is optimized by exploiting information about the structure of the system: the visibility matrix states which objects in the scene are somehow measurable by a sensor (sensor-object matrix). Often, the typical localization of data from real application scenarios induces an underlying structure on the visibility matrix, that can be exploited to improve the performance of the system in understanding the surrounding environment. Unfortunately, usually these data are not properly organized in the visibility matrix: for instance, listing the sensors in a pseudo-random order can hide the underlying structure of the matrix. This paper considers the problem of recovering such underlying structure directly from the visibility matrix and designs an algorithm to perform this task. Our simulations show that the distributed reconstruction algorithm optimized by means of the estimation of the structure of the visibility matrix allows a particularly relevant computational time reduction with respect to the standard (centralized) reconstruction algorithm.
2014
Proceedings of the 19th IFAC World Congress
9783902823625
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