@CONFERENCE\{IMM2008-06168, author = "S. Guðmundsson and R. Larsen and H. Aan{\ae}s and M. Pardas and J. Casas", title = "{TOF} imaging in Smart room environments towards improved people tracking", year = "2008", pages = "1-6", booktitle = "{IEEE} Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Workshops", volume = "", series = "", editor = "", publisher = "", organization = "", address = "", url = "http://www2.compute.dtu.dk/pubdb/pubs/6168-full.html", abstract = "In this Paper we present the use of Time-of-Flight (TOF) cameras in Smart-rooms and how this leads to improved results in segmenting the people in the room from the background and consequently better {3D} reconstruction of the people. A calibrated rig of one Swissranger SR3100 Time-of-flight range camera and a high resolution standard camera is set in a smart-room consisting of 5 other standard cameras. A probabilistic background model is used to segment each view and a shape from silhouette {3D} volume is constructed. It is shown that the presence of the range camera gives ways of eliminating regional artifacts and therefore a more robust input for higher level applications such people tracking or human motion analysis." }