Distributed architectures and logical-task decomposition in multimedia surveillance systems

Proceedings of the IEEE

Volumn 89, Issue 10, 2001, Pages 1419-1439

  Marcenaro, Lucio ^a   Oberti, Franco ^b   Foresti, Gian Luca ^a   Regazzoni, Carlo S ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF UDINE   (Italy)

^c IAPR   (Italy)

Author keywords

Communication; Dynamic resource allocation; Embedded tasks; Functionality distributed decomposition; Multimedia surveillance; Multisensor networks; Representation recognition

Indexed keywords

EID: 6344283723     PISSN: 00189219     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/5.959339     Document Type: Article

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