Abstract
The recent interest in the surveillance of public, military, and commercial scenarios is increasing the need to develop and deploy intelligent and/or automated distributed visual surveillance systems. Many applications based on distributed resources use the so-called software agent technology. In this paper, a multi-agent framework is applied to coordinate videocamera-based surveillance. The ability to coordinate agents improves the global image and task distribution efficiency. In our proposal, a software agent is embedded in each camera and controls the capture parameters. Then coordination is based on the exchange of high-level messages among agents. Agents use an internal symbolic model to interpret the current situation from the messages from all other agents to improve global coordination.
Original language | English |
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Article number | 98639 |
Pages (from-to) | 1-21 |
Number of pages | 21 |
Journal | Eurasip Journal on Advances in Signal Processing |
Volume | 2007 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 2007 |
Externally published | Yes |