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An Overview of Distributed Tracking and Control in Camera Networks

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Wide Area Surveillance

Part of the book series: Augmented Vision and Reality ((Augment Vis Real,volume 6))

Abstract

In many applications, the information from all the cameras are transmitted to a centralized processing unit. However, for larger networks, centralized schemes can be unscalable and they also exhibit the risk of having a single point of failure. These are some of the many reasons why distributed schemes are being chosen over centralized schemes in various applications nowadays. This chapter provides a comprehensive overview of state-of-the-art distributed tracking and control strategies using a camera network and identifies the main directions of future work.

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Notes

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    For this section, we assume that all cameras in the network possess a single consensus state estimate \(\bar{\bf x}^{j-}(k)\) for target \(T^j\) with consensus covariance matrix \({\bf P}^{j-}\).

  2. 2.

    Note that the same properties apply to the local imaging utility represented by \(U_{I_i}(\cdot)\)

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  1. Department of Electrical Engineering, University of California, Riverside, CA, 92521, USA

    A. T. Kamal, J. A. Farrell & Amit K. Roy-Chowdhury

  2. Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of California, Riverside, CA, 92521, USA

    C. Ding & A. A. Morye

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Kamal, A.T., Ding, C., Morye, A.A., Farrell, J.A., Roy-Chowdhury, A.K. (2014). An Overview of Distributed Tracking and Control in Camera Networks. In: Asari, V. (eds) Wide Area Surveillance. Augmented Vision and Reality, vol 6. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/8612_2012_10

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