A multi-agent architecture to support active fusion in a visual sensor network

2008 2nd ACM/IEEE International Conference on Distributed Smart Cameras, ICDSC 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

Data fusion; Multi agent systems; Visual sensor network

Indexed keywords

AGENTS; CAMERAS; DATA FUSION; IMAGE SENSORS; INTELLIGENT NETWORKS; MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS; SENSOR NETWORKS; SENSORS; SOFTWARE AGENTS; SOFTWARE ARCHITECTURE;

ACTIVE FUSIONS; FEEDBACK INFORMATIONS; FIELD OF VIEWS; INCONSISTENT SYSTEMS; MULTI AGENTS; SCENARIO EVALUATIONS; TRACKING OBJECTS; VISUAL SENSOR NETWORK; VISUAL SENSOR NETWORKS; VISUAL SENSORS;

SENSOR DATA FUSION;

EID: 57349164294     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICDSC.2008.4635715     Document Type: Conference Paper

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