Multi-modal Data Fusion Techniques and Applications

In recent years, camera networks have been widely employed in several application domains such as surveillance, ambient intelligence or video conferencing. The integration of heterogeneous sensors can provide complementary and redundant information that fused to visual cues allows the system to obtain an enriched and more robust scene interpretation. A discussion about possible architectures and algorithms is proposed showing, through systems examples, the benefits of the combination of other sensor typologies for camera network-based applications.