Goal driven visual object identification and tracking system for a heterogeneous sensor network

智能空间是一个物理环境，它充满了感官、计算和通信能力，以及将它们集成在一起的软件。它将预见住户的需要，并在他们需要时提供服务。这些空间在医疗保健、制造、教育、环境监测、指挥中心和安全等不同领域都有应用。使这种系统成为现实所需的一个关键组成部分是识别、定位和跟踪该空间中的物体（包括有生命的和无生命的）的能力。这种能力还为确定智能空间的居住者之间的活动模式铺平了道路。在本提案中，我们讨论了软件框架的开发以及一组用于传感器数据收集和分析的工具，这些工具将实现用于传感器网络的此构建块。

A smart space is a physical environment that is saturated with sensory, computing and communication capabilities together with the software that integrates them. It will anticipate the needs of its occupants and will provide services as and when they are needed. Such spaces have applications in diverse areas such as healthcare, manufacturing, education, environment monitoring, command centers and security. A key building block that is needed to make such a system a reality is the capability to identify, locate and track objects (both animate and inanimate) in this space. Such a capability also paves way for determining patterns of activity among the occupants of a smart space. In this proposal, we discuss the development of a software framework together with a set of tools for sensory data collection and analysis that will implement this building block for use in a sensor network.