The advance of technologies in several areas has allowed the development of smart city
applications, which can improve the way of life in modern cities. When employing visual …

This article revises the state of the art of the application of agent technology within the scope
of surveillance systems. Thus, the potential of the practical use of the concepts and …

This paper introduces a multi-agent system (MAS) approach using the detailed process
provided by Prometheus methodology for the design of a moving robot application for the …

In this paper a method for selecting features for Human Activity Recognition from sensors is
presented. Using a large feature set that contains features that may describe the activities to …

This paper presents a distributed system for the recognition of human actions using views of
the scene grabbed by different cameras. 2D frame descriptors are extracted for each …

Tracking algorithms in computer vision usually fail when dealing with complex scenarios.
This paper presents an extension of a general tracking system that uses context knowledge …

The newest surveillance applications is attempting more complex tasks such as the analysis
of the behavior of individuals and crowds. These complex tasks may use a distributed visual …

Classical tracking methods are often insufficient when dealing with complex scenarios. In
order to solve tracking errors, innovative techniques based on the use of information about …

VigilAgent is a methodology for the development of agent‐oriented monitoring applications
that uses agents as the key abstraction elements of the involved models. It has not been …

Context knowledge is essential to achieve successful information fusion, especially at high
JDL levels. Context can be used to interpret the perceived situation, which is required for …