Omni-Directional Camera Networks and Data Fusion for Vehicle Tracking in an Indoor Parking Lot

A fixed single camera is not sufficient for monitoring a wide area. More cameras can be used, but a problem with integrating all of them will arise. In this paper, a monitoring system to detect and track moving objects in an indoor environment using multiple omni-directional cameras is proposed. Objects captured from different cameras can be integrated automatically, and we can add more cameras to enlarge the monitoring range without changing the system architecture. Such a system is currently being applied to a model of a parking lot for detecting the paths of vehicles.