| Intelligent sensor processing helps researchers in developing systems that can interact with their environment. However, the ability of one isolated device to provide this kind of information is highly limited. Quite frequently robotic systems require the coordination of many distributed machines and their processors to sense the external events and to integrate the gained information in a meaningful way.; The main objective of this thesis is the development of a sensing network for dynamic dispatching purpose in a surveillance environment. This competitive multi-sensor network consists of three main units to function properly: A motion estimation module to provide tracking and prediction ability for the system, a dynamic dispatching module to continuously control and dispatch the reconfigurable sensors in real-time, and a complete vision module including data acquisition, processing, and fusion algorithms to process the images taken by multiple cameras and to fuse them into a more reliable form. |
