Target tracking in complex situations is challenging
especially in visual tracking
which is always performed in single-view system.Because of the conflict between resolution and tracking range
however
single-view tracking is not robust and accurate.This paper presents a distributed multi-view tracking system using collaborative signal processing (CSP) in distributed wireless sensor networks (DWSNs)
and introduces a progressive distributed data fusion mechanism.This mechanism dynamically chooses the optimal sensor nodes and schedules the fusion process with several measures of energy consumption and information utility.Finally
an indoor target tracking experiment is illustrated
and then tracking performance
execution time and energy consumption of progressive distributed data fusion based CSP are compared with centralized data fusion based CSP.Experimental results demonstrate that the distributed multi-view tracking system using progressive distributed data fusion based CSP in DWSNs can track the 3-D positions of targets quickly and accurately
and decrease the congestion
energy consumption and time latency in communication.