Patricio Guisado, Miguel ÁngelCarbó Rubiera, Javier IgnacioPérez Concha, ÓscarGarcía, JesúsMolina López, José Manuel2016-01-292016-01-292007EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing, 2007, Article ID 986391687-6172 (Print)1687-6180 (Online)https://hdl.handle.net/10016/782921 pages, 21 figures.-- Journal special issue on Visual Sensor Networks.The recent interest in the surveillance of public, military, and commercial scenarios is increasing the need to develop and deploy intelligent and/or automated distributed visual surveillance systems. Many applications based on distributed resources use the so-called software agent technology. In this paper, a multi-agent framework is applied to coordinate videocamera-based surveillance. The ability to coordinate agents improves the global image and task distribution efficiency. In our proposal, a software agent is embedded in each camera and controls the capture parameters. Then coordination is based on the exchange of high-level messages among agents. Agents use an internal symbolic model to interpret the current situation from the messages from all other agents to improve global coordination.application/pdfengAtribución-NoComercial-SinDerivadas 3.0 Españaresearch articleInformática10.1155/2007/98639open accessEURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing2007