Francis Deboeverie

Mr. Francis Deboeverie


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Academic Career Length

13Years (2014-Present)

(Calculated once Scilit publication data is synced: current year − year of first publication + 1)

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4 November 2014 in Sensors
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NBNyan Bo Bo
Nyan Bo Bo
FDFrancis Deboeverie
Francis Deboeverie
MEMohamed Eldib
Mohamed Eldib
JGJunzhi Guan
Junzhi Guan
XXXingzhe Xie
Xingzhe Xie
WPWilfried Philips
Wilfried Philips
This paper proposes an automated system for monitoring mobility patterns using a network of very low resolution visual sensors (30 × 30 pixels). The use of very low resolution sensors reduces privacy concern, cost, computation requirement and power consumption. The core of our proposed system is a robust people tracker that uses low resolution videos provided by the visual sensor network. The distributed processing architecture of our tracking system allows all image processing tasks to be done on the digital signal controller in each visual sensor. In this paper, we experimentally show that reliable tracking of people is possible using very low resolution imagery. We also compare the performance of our tracker against a state-of-the-art tracking method and show that our method outperforms. Moreover, the mobility statistics of tracks such as total distance traveled and average speed derived from trajectories are compared with those derived from ground truth given by Ultra-Wide Band sensors. The results of this comparison show that the trajectories from our system are accurate enough to obtain useful mobility statistics.