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Auction protocol for camera active control

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Auction protocol for camera active control
In this paper, we apply the auction-based theories in economics to camera networks. We develop a set of auction protocols to do camera active control (pan/tilt/zoom) intelligently. Unlike the economic auction, the bid price in our case is formulated to have a vector representation, such that when a camera is available to follow multiple objects, we consider the "willingness" of this camera to track a particular object. Most of the computation is decentralized by computing the bid price locally while the final decision is made by a virtual auctioneer based on all the available bids, which is analogous to a real auction in economics. Thus, we can take the advantages of distributed/centralized computation and avoid their pitfalls. The experimental results show that the proposed approach is effective and efficient for dynamically active control based on user defined performance metrics.
Yiming Li, Bir Bhanu, Wei Lin
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Type Journal
Year 2010
Where ICIP
Authors Yiming Li, Bir Bhanu, Wei Lin
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