Title :
Coordination of multiple agents for probabilistic object tracking
Author :
Mottaghi, Roozbeh ; Payandeh, Shahram
Author_Institution :
Sch. of Eng. Sci., Simon Fraser Univ., Canada
Abstract :
In this paper, we develop a new tracking approach which is based on cooperation and coordination of multiple agents which are pan-tilt-zoom cameras to optimize the cost of tracking and communication while simultaneously focus on the details of the object of interest. Each agent is able to track the object individually but the problem arises when the object goes suddenly out of the field of view of one agent because of an occlusion or an unexpected event. So each agent has to decide to take an action among a set of finite possible actions to overcome this situation in a way that optimizes the task of tracking.
Keywords :
cameras; multi-agent systems; object detection; target tracking; cooperative tracking; multiple agents; pan-tilt-zoom tracker; particle filtering; probabilistic object tracking; Computer vision; Robot kinematics; Robot vision systems; Cooperative Tracking; Pan-Tilt-Zoom Tracker; Particle Filtering;
Conference_Titel :
Computer and Robot Vision, 2005. Proceedings. The 2nd Canadian Conference on
Print_ISBN :
0-7695-2319-6
DOI :
10.1109/CRV.2005.30