Robust data fusion in a visual sensor multi-agent architecture

FUSION 2007 - 2007 10th International Conference on Information Fusion

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages

  Castanedo, F ^a   Patricio, M A ^a   Garcia J ^a   Molina, J M ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD CARLOS III DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

Distributed surveillance systems; Multi camera image fusion; Multi agent systems

Indexed keywords

CONTEXT INFORMATION; DATA SOURCING; DISTRIBUTED SURVEILLANCE SYSTEMS; FUSION PROCESSES; GROUND PLANE; INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES; MULTI AGENTS; MULTI CAMERA IMAGE FUSION; MULTI-AGENT ARCHITECTURES; REAL VIDEO SEQUENCES; RELIABLE MODELING; ROBUST DATA FUSION; SINGLE SOURCING; SURVEILLANCE SYSTEM; TRACKING METHODS; TWO PHASE ALGORITHMS; VISION SYSTEMS; VISUAL SENSORS;

DATA FUSION; FUSION REACTIONS; HEURISTIC ALGORITHMS; HEURISTIC METHODS; HEURISTIC PROGRAMMING; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; INDUSTRIAL MANAGEMENT; INFORMATION FUSION; MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS; NUCLEAR PHYSICS; PHOTOGRAPHY; SECURITY SYSTEMS; VIDEO RECORDING; VISUAL COMMUNICATION;

SENSOR DATA FUSION;

EID: 50149085321     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICIF.2007.4408121     Document Type: Conference Paper

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