A Preliminary Study on Optimal Placement of Cameras
This addresses a domain-specific issue for surveillance or monitoring systems, but it appears incremental as it builds on existing coverage optimization methods.
The paper tackles the problem of determining the optimal placement of cameras to maximize their utilization by converting it into a coverage maximization problem, and it analyzes camera poses to find the best arrangement without providing specific numerical results.
This paper primarily focuses on figuring out the best array of cameras, or visual sensors, so that such a placement enables the maximum utilization of these visual sensors. Maximizing the utilization of these cameras can convert to another problem that is simpler for the formulation, that is, maximizing the total coverage with these cameras. To solve the problem, the coverage problem is first defined subject to the capabilities and limits of cameras. Then, poses of cameras are analyzed for the best arrangement.