1 3-30 Versatile Cooperative Multiple-Object Tracking by Active Vision Agents

In this paper, we propose a real-time multitarget tracking system by employing cooperative distributed vision system. This system consists of multiple Active Vision Agents (AVAs), a rational model of the network-connected computer with an active camera. A real-time tracking system has to dynamically change its behavior to adapt the various situation in the real-world. In this paper, we put our focus upon the dynamics of target objects. To cope with this problem, each AVA should change its target so that all the AVAs always gaze at the appropriate targets. We, therefore, designed protocols to realize a dynamic interaction scheme for cooperation among all AVAs. These protocols define the statetransition of AVA and the communication among AVAs. Using these protocols, each AVA decides its own behavior taking into account both the sharing of the observed targets ' information and the other AVAs ' states. As a result, all the AVAs can cooperatively track multiple moving objects as each AVA change its role and target dynamically.