15.1.4.5 Visibility Analysis

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Planning. Visibility. See also Hardware, Sensor and Camera Arrangements for Surveillance Systems.

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Taycher, L.[Leonid], Darrell, T.J.[Trevor J.],
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Taycher, L.[Leonid], Darrell, T.J.[Trevor J.],
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Rana, S.[Sanjay],
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PhEngRS(69), No. 8, August 2003, pp. 881-888. Use of fundamental topographic features such as peaks, pits, passes, channels, and ridges as targets in line-of-sight analysis reduces the computation time of visibility dominance without any signifant information loss.
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Isler, V.[Volkan], Kannan, S.[Sampath], Daniilidis, K.[Kostas], Valtr, P.[Pavel],
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Mittal, A.[Anurag], Davis, L.S.[Larry S.],
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Mittal, A.[Anurag],
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Line-based recognition; Plane sweep; Real plane; Visibility test BibRef

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Ruiz, D.[Diego], Hagihara, K.[Kaori], Macq, B.[Benoit],
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Tang, Y.[Yang], Wu, H.Z.[Hui-Zhong], Xiao, F.[Fu], Xiao, L.[Liang],
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Kaucic, B., Zalik, B.,
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Houpert, S.,
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Kang, S.B.[Sing Bang], Seitz, S.M.[Steven M.], Sloan, P.P.[Peter-Pike],
Visual Tunnel Analysis for Visibility Prediction and Camera Planning,
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from a sequence taken by moving along a path BibRef

Stevens, M.R.[Mark R.], Beveridge, J.R.[J. Ross],
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Sirakov, N.M.[Nikolai Metodiev],
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McDermott, D., Gelsey, A.,
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Chapter on Active Vision, Camera Calibration, Mobile Robots, Navigation, Road Following continues in
Active Vision: Foveal Sensing .


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