A Rapidly Adaptive Collaborative Ubiquitous Computing Environment to Allow Passive Detection of Marked Objects

This paper presents a tool to support the rapid and adaptive deployment of a collaborative, ubiquitous computing environment. A key tool for the configuration and deployment of this environment is a calibration tool to quickly and efficiently calculate the positions of cameras in a dynamic environment. This tool has been incorporated into our current Passive Detection Framework. The paper describes the context where our rapidly adaptive collaborative ubiquitous computing environment would be deployed. The results of a study to test the accuracy of the calibration tool are also presented. This study found that the calibration tool can calculate the position of cameras to within 25 mm for all lighting conditions examined.

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