List of Tables

TABLE 1: COMPARISON OF FUSION LEVELS (ADAPTED FROM [53])

TABLE 2: CONFLICTS BETWEEN SENSING TASKS AND CAMERA MOTION

TABLE 3: ROOM EXPERIMENT DATA

 

List of Figures

FIGURE 1: AUDIO-VISUAL SENSOR FUSION IN THE BARN OWL

FIGURE 2: SENSOR CONFIGURATION

FIGURE 3: COMPONENT INTERCONNECTIONS

FIGURE 4: DATA FLOW BLOCK DIAGRAM

FIGURE 5: SOUND LOCALIZATION GEOMETRY

FIGURE 6: ONSET SIGNAL GENERATION

FIGURE 7: DIRECT AND ECHO PATH LENGTHS

FIGURE 8: ECHO/DIRECT SOUND VOLUME RATIO DECAY RATES

FIGURE 9: STEREO SAMPLING OF THE WORD "TESTING"

FIGURE 10: ENVELOPE SIGNALS FROM "TESTING"

FIGURE 11: ONSET SIGNALS FROM "TESTING"

FIGURE 12: CROSS-CORRELATION OF ONSET SIGNALS AND ORIGINAL SIGNALS

FIGURE 13: GAIN OF THE ONSET GENERATION PROCESS

FIGURE 14: ROOM LAYOUT WITH SPEAKER AND MICROPHONE LOCATIONS

FIGURE 15: MIRRORED-ROOM METHOD OF ECHO IMAGING

FIGURE 16: FIR CONVOLUTION OPERATOR FOR LEFT MICROPHONE, SPEAKER LOCATION 20, 50% WALL ABSORPTION

FIGURE 17: ONSET CORRELATION FOR TIME-DOMAIN ECHO SIMULATION, LOCATIONS 5(8, 50% ABSORPTION

FIGURE 18: RAW CROSS-CORRELATION FOR SPEAKER LOCATIONS 1(8, 50% ABSORPTION

FIGURE 19: SOUND ABSORPTION OF CARPET (SOLID) AND CEILING TILE (DOTTED)

FIGURE 20: ONSET CORRELATION FOR FREQUENCY-DOMAIN SIMULATION, LOCATIONS 17(20

FIGURE 21: RAW CORRELATION FOR FREQUENCY DOMAIN SIMULATION, LOCATIONS 17(20

FIGURE 22: ONSET CORRELATION FOR ROOM EXPERIMENT, LOCATIONS 5(8

FIGURE 23: RAW CORRELATION FOR ROOM EXPERIMENT, LOCATIONS 5(8

FIGURE 24: LOCALIZATION ERRORS FOR ONSET AND RAW CORRELATION

FIGURE 25: PERFORMANCE FOR TWO SPEAKERS

FIGURE 26: ORIGINAL IMAGE

FIGURE 27: CURRENT IMAGE

FIGURE 28: PIXELS CHANGED

FIGURE 29: ORIGINAL IMAGE

FIGURE 30: INTER-FRAME DIFFERENCE

FIGURE 31: DETECTED HUMAN

FIGURE 32: ORIGINAL CAMERA IMAGE

FIGURE 33: ORIGINAL REFERENCE IMAGE

FIGURE 34: OBJECT BEING ASSIMILATED INTO IMAGE

FIGURE 35: FINAL REFERENCE IMAGE

FIGURE 36: SPHERE UNDER ILLUMINATION

FIGURE 37: SPECTRAL CLUSTERING

FIGURE 38: CHROMATICITY SPACE

FIGURE 39: SKIN TONE CHROMATICITY SAMPLE POPULATION

FIGURE 40: IMAGE OF THE AUTHOR

FIGURE 41: DETECTION OF SKIN PIXELS

FIGURE 42: DETECTION OF FACES BY CHOOSING THE LARGEST SKIN TONE-COLORED REGION

FIGURE 43: PIXEL-LEVEL AUDIOVISUAL FUSION FOR DETECTING A TALKING FACE

FIGURE 44: IMAGES FROM SOUND LOCALIZATION DATA

FIGURE 45: AUDIOVISUAL FUSION GEOMETRY

FIGURE 46: FUSION OF SOUND LOCALIZATION WITH SKIN TONE

FIGURE 47: TARGET DETECTION AFTER FILTERING AND SEGMENTATION.

FIGURE 48: COLOR IMAGE

FIGURE 49: DETECTION OF PERSON SPEAKING

FIGURE 50: TRACKING IN THREE DIMENSIONS

FIGURE 51: MODEL OF TARGET DYNAMICS

FIGURE 52: NOISE ENTERING THE PLANT

FIGURE 53: TRACKING A PERSON WALKING

FIGURE 54: POSITION ESTIMATE WHILE TRACKING A FACE

FIGURE 55: TARGET TRACKING OF A FACE IN 3D

FIGURE 56: EXAMPLE MEMBERSHIP FUNCTIONS

FIGURE 57: CENTROID FOR FUZZY OUTPUT

FIGURE 58: CENTROID FOR SINGLETON OUTPUT

FIGURE 59: RULE COMPONENTS

FIGURE 60: COMBINATION OF RULES

FIGURE 61: ACCEPTABLE COMPROMISES

FIGURE 62: MUTUALLY EXCLUSIVE OPTIONS

FIGURE 63: UNACCEPTABLE CENTROIDS

FIGURE 64: FUSION OF LOCAL AGENTS BY A FUZZY MULTIPLEXER

FIGURE 65: SOUND-FOLLOWING BEHAVIOR

FIGURE 66: CAMERA MOTION FOLLOWING SOUND

FIGURE 67: BEHAVIOR FOR FOLLOWING A FACE

FIGURE 68: INTEGRATION OF FACE AND SOUND TRACKING

FIGURE 69: FACE SELECTION AND CAMERA RESPONSE DUE TO SOUND DIRECTION

FIGURE 70: CAMERA BEHAVIOR WHILE FOLLOWING A CONVERSATION

FIGURE 71: CAMERA PAN BEHAVIOR WHEN TRACKING A FACE

FIGURE 72: FOLLOW-MOVING-TARGET BEHAVIOR COMPONENTS

FIGURE 73: CAMERA PAN BEHAVIOR WHEN TRACKING A BODY

FIGURE 74: BEHAVIOR COMPONENTS FOR VIDEOCONFERENCING

FIGURE 75: GEOMETRY OF FACE WIDTH ANGLE

FIGURE 76: CAMERA BEHAVIOR FOR VIDEOCONFERENCING

FIGURE 77: BEHAVIOR INTEGRATION FOR SURVEILLANCE

FIGURE 78: CAMERA TRACKING MOTION FOR SURVEILLANCE