Analysis of distributed fusion alternatives in coordinated vision agents

Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Information Fusion, FUSION 2008

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages

  Castanedo, Federico ^a   García, Jesús ^a   Patricio, Miguel A ^a   Molina, José M ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD CARLOS III DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

Distributed data fusion; Multi agent systems; Visual sensor networks

Indexed keywords

AGENTS; DATA FUSION; FUSION REACTIONS; IMAGE SENSORS; INFORMATION FUSION; MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS; SENSOR NETWORKS; SENSORS;

ACTIVE FUSIONS; COORDINATION SCHEMES; DISTRIBUTED DATA FUSION; DISTRIBUTED DATUMS; DISTRIBUTED FUSIONS; FEEDBACK INFORMATIONS; MULTI AGENTS; REAL SYSTEMS; TECHNICAL ALTERNATIVES; VISUAL SENSOR NETWORKS; VISUAL SENSORS;

SENSOR DATA FUSION;

EID: 56749117841     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICIF.2008.4632357     Document Type: Conference Paper

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