Distributed Data Fusion for Network-Centric Operations

17	Distributed Data and Information Fusion in Visual Sensor Networks Federico Castanedo, Juan Gomez-Romero, Miguel A. Patricio, Jesus Garcia and Jose M. Molina

CONTENTS

17.1  Introduction

17.2  Visual Sensor Networks

17.2.1  Requirements and Issues

17.2.1.1  Communication

17.2.1.2  Camera Calibration

17.2.1.3  Object Detection

17.2.1.4  Object Tracking

17.2.1.5  Classification

17.2.1.6  Process Enhancement

17.2.2  Related Research

17.2.3  Context-Based Approaches to High-Level Information Fusion

17.3  Multi-Agent Systems in Visual Sensor Networks

17.3.1  Belief–Desire–Intention Paradigm

17.3.2  Communication and Coordination

17.4  Multi-Agent Approach to Manage Data in VSN

17.4.1  Sensor Agents: Object Tracking

17.4.2  Fusion Agents: Low-and ...