A socio-economic approach to online vision graph generation and handover in distributed smart camera networks

Lukas Esterle; Peter R. Lewis; Marcin Bogdanski; Bernhard Rinner; Xin Yao

doi:10.1109/ICDSC.2011.6042902

A socio-economic approach to online vision graph generation and handover in distributed smart camera networks

Lukas Esterle, Peter R. Lewis, Marcin Bogdanski, Bernhard Rinner, Xin Yao

College of Engineering and Physical Sciences

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Abstract

In this paper we propose an approach based on self-interested autonomous cameras, which exchange responsibility for tracking objects in a market mechanism, in order to maximise their own utility. A novel ant-colony inspired mechanism is used to grow the vision graph during runtime, which may then be used to optimise communication between cameras. The key benefits of our completely decentralised approach are on the one hand generating the vision graph online which permits the addition and removal cameras to the network during runtime and on the other hand relying only on local information, increasing the robustness of the system. Since our market-based approach does not rely on a priori topology information, the need for any multi-camera calibration can be avoided.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	5th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Distributed Smart Cameras (ICDSC 2011)
Publisher	IEEE
Number of pages	6
ISBN (Electronic)	978-1-4577-1706-2
ISBN (Print)	978-1-4577-1708-6
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/ICDSC.2011.6042902
Publication status	Published - 2011
Event	5th ACM/IEEE international conference on distributed smart cameras - Ghent, Belgium Duration: 22 Aug 2011 → 25 Aug 2011

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Conference	5th ACM/IEEE international conference on distributed smart cameras
Abbreviated title	ICDSC 2011
Country/Territory	Belgium
City	Ghent
Period	22/08/11 → 25/08/11

Keywords

smart camera networks
multi-camera tracking
market-based control
topology identification
ant algorithms

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