Communication in distributed tracking systems: An ontology-based approach to improve cooperation

Expert Systems

Volumn 28, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 288-305

  Gómez Romero, Juan ^a   Patricio, Miguel Á ^a   García, Jesús ^a   Molina, José M ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD CARLOS III DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

information fusion; multi agent systems; ontologies; tracking; video surveillance

Indexed keywords

COMPONENT INTEROPERABILITY; COMPUTER VISION SYSTEM; COOPERATIVE SURVEILLANCE; DISTRIBUTED TRACKING; FORMAL ONTOLOGY; HETEROGENEOUS CAMERAS; INFORMATION FUSION TECHNIQUES; MOVING OBJECTS; MULTI-CAMERA SURVEILLANCE; MULTIAGENT FRAMEWORK; ONTOLOGICAL REPRESENTATION; ONTOLOGY-BASED; SPONTANEOUS COMMUNICATION; SURVEILLANCE SYSTEMS; SYMBOLIC REPRESENTATION; SYSTEM SCALABILITY; VIDEO SURVEILLANCE; VISUAL DATA;

CAMERAS; COMPUTER VISION; DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; ENGINEERING RESEARCH; EXPERT SYSTEMS; INFORMATION FUSION; INTELLIGENT AGENTS; INTEROPERABILITY; MONITORING; MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS; ONTOLOGY; SECURITY SYSTEMS; VIDEO CAMERAS;

INFORMATION MANAGEMENT;

EID: 80052723329     PISSN: 02664720     EISSN: 14680394     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-0394.2011.00600.x     Document Type: Article

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