Overview

Owing to the rapid development of technology, especially in the field of Internet systems, there is an increasing demand both for intelligent, mobile and autonomous systems and for the usage and conveyance of multi-media information through cyberspace. In this paper, we propose an innovative, intelligent multi-agent based model, namely iJADE-(intelligent Java Agent Development Environment), to provide an intelligent agent-based platform in the e-commerce environment. From the implementation point of view, we introduce an intelligent multimedia processing system known as iMASS an intelligent Multi-resolution Agent-based Surveillance System based on the integration of the following modules: a) an automatic coarse-to-fine figure-ground scene segmentation module using the CNOW (Composite Neuro-Oscillatory Wavelet-based) model; b) an automatic human face detection and extraction module using an Active Contour Model (ACM) with facial landmarks vectors; c) invariant human face identification based on the Elastic Graph Dynamic Link Model (EGDLM). In order to conform to the current (and future) multimedia system standard, the whole iMASS is implemented using the MPEG7 system framework with comprehensive Description Schemes (DS), feature Descriptors (D) and model framework.

17.1 Surveillance Systems A Brief Overview

The surveillance system is by far one of the most attractive topics, both from the research point of view including the areas of machine vision, scene analysis, real-time 2D to 3D object modeling and recognition, and others; but also an important problem domain from the commercial and industrial point of view. Numerous research studies have been conducted...