Visual system for monitoring people in dynamic environments

A safety monitoring system for a work area. The workspace refers to an area with an automated mobile facility. Several vision-based imaging devices capture time-synchronized image data of the workspace. Each view-based imaging device repeatedly captures a time-synchronized image of the work area from a particular viewpoint that is substantially different from the other respective vision-based imaging devices. A visual processing unit is for analyzing the time-synchronized image data. The visual processing unit processes the captured image data to identify a human relative to a non-human object within the workspace. The visual processing unit also determines potential interactions between a human and the automated mobile device. The visual processing unit also generates control signals to enable dynamic reconfiguration of the automated mobile device based on the potential interactions between the human and the automated mobile device in the work area.