Deployment Optimization of Spotlights for Visual Coverage in Pure Dark Indoor Scene

Abstract

In this paper, a deployment method of spotlights is studied for visual coverage task in pure dark indoor scene. To characterize the illumination performance of target in visual sensor, a criterion called illumination strength of spotlight with combining the diffuse reflection and specular reflection on the basis of distance/angle illumination attenuation of light source as well as shading is proposed. Then, an optimization problem is formulated for a number of spotlights with the aim of covering the target with a desired luminance value in camera network as uniformly as possible. An elimination genetic algorithm possessing faster convergence rate and better convergence performance than standard genetic algorithm is utilized to solve the optimization problem. Finally, numerical simulations and experiments are conducted to validate the proposed deployment method of multiple spotlights for visual coverage task in pure dark indoor scene.