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A resource-aware distributed event space for pervasive smart camera networks

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Pervasive smart cameras (PSC) are an emerging technology with the goal of providing user-centric and ubiquitous visual sensor networks. System autonomy and resource-awareness are challenging requirements making local image processing for event-based communication a necessary design constraint. In this paper we present the distributed event space (DES)---a middleware service for the resource-aware management of distributed event data. The DES architecture is based on a decentralized tuple space which describes local events by tuples consisting of position and time of the events as well as a set of features describing the detected objects. The DES supports prompt distribution of detected local events and application-specific functions for sophisticated event filtering. We present a distributed tracking application to demonstrate its applicability.

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ICDSC '10: Proceedings of the Fourth ACM/IEEE International Conference on Distributed Smart Cameras
August 2010
252 pages
ISBN:9781450303170
DOI:10.1145/1865987
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  1. distributed person tracking
  2. event distribution
  3. middleware
  4. smart cameras

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