Distributed Smart Cameras
Dr. Wayne WolfProfessor, School of ECE, Georgia Tech.
Date: Thursday, April 17, 2008 at 12:00 PM
Room: ELAB 38
Abstract
The nature of cameras is changing---in the 21st century, a camera is not a box and it doesn't take pictures. Smart cameras perform embedded computer vision to recognize objects and activities in real time. Distributed smart cameras analyze scenes by coordinating multiple smart cameras using distributed algorithms. In this talk, we will describe two distributed smart camera systems---one for gesture recognition and one for tracking---and make some general observations about the motivation for such systems.
Presenter Bio
Wayne Wolf received his bachelor's, master's, and doctoral degrees in electrical engineering from Stanford University in 1980, 1981, and 1984, respectively. He was with AT&T Bell Laboratories in Murray Hill, N.J. from 1984 to 1989 and was with Princeton University from 1989 until 2007. In July 2007, Dr. Wolf joined Georgia Tech as the Rhesa "Ray" S. Farmer, Jr. Distinguished Chair in Embedded Computing Systems and Georgia Research Alliance Eminent Scholar. He has developed a number of techniques for embedded computing, ranging from hardware/software co-design algorithms and real-time scheduling algorithms to code compression and distributed smart cameras. He is a co-founder of Verificon Corporation, which designs smart camera systems. He helped to start several technical conferences, including CODES and MPSoC. He has written four textbooks.
