Title :
Distributed Sensor Network for Multi-Agent Motion Tracking in Intelligent Space
Author :
Jin, Tae-Seok ; Morioka, Kazuyuki ; Hashimoto, Hideki
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Mechatronics Eng., DongSeo Univ., Busan
Abstract :
Latest advances in hardware technology and state of the art of mobile agent, and artificial intelligence research can be employed to develop autonomous and distributed monitoring systems. The intelligent space (lSpace) is the space where many intelligent devices, such as computers and sensors, are distributed. According to the cooperation of many intelligent devices, the environment, it is very important that the system knows the location information to offer the useful services. In order to achieve these goals, we present a method for representing, tracking and human following by fusing distributed multiple vision systems in ISpace, with application to pedestrian tracking in a crowd. And the article presents the integration of color distributions into particle filtering. Particle filters provide a robust tracking framework under ambiguity conditions. We propose to track the moving objects by generating hypotheses not in the image plan but on the top-view reconstruction of the scene. Comparative results on real video sequences show the advantage of our method for multi-object tracking. Simulations are carried out to evaluate the proposed performance. Also, the method is applied to the intelligent environment and its performance is verified by the experiments
Keywords :
distributed sensors; image colour analysis; image fusion; image motion analysis; image sequences; mobile agents; multi-agent systems; particle filtering (numerical methods); traffic engineering computing; autonomous distributed monitoring system; color distribution; distributed multiple vision system; distributed sensor network; hardware technology; image processing; intelligent space; mobile agent; mobile robot; multiagent motion tracking; particle filtering; pedestrian tracking; robust tracking framework; video sequence; Artificial intelligence; Computerized monitoring; Distributed computing; Hardware; Intelligent networks; Intelligent sensors; Intelligent systems; Mobile agents; Space technology; Tracking; Sensor network; image processing; intelligent space; mobile robot; motion tracking;
Conference_Titel :
SICE-ICASE, 2006. International Joint Conference
Conference_Location :
Busan
Print_ISBN :
89-950038-4-7
Electronic_ISBN :
89-950038-5-5
DOI :
10.1109/SICE.2006.315169