Evaluating centralized and distributed multi-agent architectures for visual surveillance applications

The paper proposes the use of agent technology to implement the basic framework for distributed visual surveillance applications. A complex environment is usually monitored by a set of cameras with partially overlapping fields of view. A parametrically varied simulation of the camera data flow is used to evaluate implementations of distributed and centralized architectures. The performance evaluation on the basis of the synthetic data generated by the simulator was carried out.