In a dynamic situation like robot soccer any individual player can only observe a limited portion of their environment at any given time. As such to develop strategies based upon planning and cooperation between different players it is imperative that they be able to share information which may or may not be in any individual player’s field of vision. In this paper we propose a method for multi...

A three-layer framework is proposed for cooperative distributed face tracking. In this framework, multiple distributed cameras cooperate both for stable face tracking and for effective registrations. The framework consists of an independent task layer, a local cooperation layer and a global cooperation layer. In the independent task layer, each camera asynchronously works as an agent to track a...

This paper describes the design of the ‘BAT’ (Bonn Articulated Tracker) visual tracking framework. This system allows the easy implementation of real-time, multi-camera motion tracking that can be distributed (also in multithreaded sense) across several computing nodes (or CPU cores). The system in itself does not realize any specific tracking system, but manages a meta-algorithm flow between p...

Today, more than ever, monitoring and surveillance systems play an important role in many aspects of our lives. Technology plays a vital role in our efforts to create, store and analyze vast amounts of data for both security and commercial purposes. In this paper, we propose an application which combines research performed in computer networks, multimedia databases and computer vision. We consi...

The sensor network paradigm uses multiple autonomous sensor nodes to cooperatively construct an ad hoc computational entity. The authors have implemented applications using this approach with a network of sensor prototypes. In the paper, entity tracking is described as a two-tier process: (i) clusters of nodes locally estimate parameters used in entity tracking (i.e. time, class, position, and ...

As enterprise applications rely increasingly on commodity messaging middleware, message tracking has become instrumental in testing and run-time monitoring. However, building an effective message tracking system is challenging because of the large scale and high message rate of enterprise-wide applications. To address this challenge, we consider the case of message tracking for distributed mess...

In different areas of applications such as education, entertainment, medical surgery, or space shuttle launching, distributed visual tracking systems are of increasing importance. In this paper we describe the design, implementation and evaluation of a distributed omni-directional visual tracking system, developed at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, with the Adaptive Middleware A...

Exploiting a new distributed cooperative processing scheme where multiple processors cooperate in finding a global minimum, we have developed a new efficient maximum likelihood-based calculation method for multitarget motion analysis under a fixed networked multisensor environment. The marked improvement in computational efficiency and also in stability is achieved by replacing the well known H...