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A Ubiquitous Vision System based on the Identified Contract Net Protocol  

Kim, Chi-Ho (연세대학교 전기전자공학과)
You, Bum-Jae (한국과학기술연구원 지능로봇연구센터)
Kim, Hagbae (연세대학교 전기전자공학과)
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The Transactions of the Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers D / v.54, no.10, 2005 , pp. 620-629 More about this Journal
Abstract
In this paper, a new protocol-based approach was proposed for development of a ubiquitous vision system. It is possible to apply the approach by regarding the ubiquitous vision system as a multiagent system. Thus, each vision sensor can be regarded as an agent (vision agent). Each vision agent independently performs exact segmentation for a target by color and motion information, visual tracking for multiple targets in real-time, and location estimation by a simple perspective transform. Matching problem for the identity of a target during handover between vision agents is solved by the Identified Contract Net (ICN) protocol implemented for the protocol-based approach. The protocol-based approach by the ICN protocol is independent of the number of vision agents and moreover the approach doesn't need calibration and overlapped region between vision agents. Therefore, the ICN protocol raises speed, scalability, and modularity of the system. The protocol-based approach was successfully applied for our ubiquitous vision system and operated well through several experiments.
Keywords
Protocol-Based Approach; Ubiquitous Vision System; Multiagent System; Handover; ICN Protocol;
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