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Being interactively connected, cameras that constitute a network represent a promising visual system for wireless positioning, with the ultimate goal of replacing or enhancing conventional sensors. Developing a highly efficient algorithm for collaborating cameras in the network is of particular interest. This paper presents an intelligent positioning system, which is capable of integrating visual information, obtained by large quantities of cameras, through self-configuration. The use of the extended Kalman filter predicts the position, velocity, acceleration and jerk (the third derivative of position) in the moving target. As a result, the camera-network-based visual positioning system is capable of locating a moving target with high precision: relative errors for positional parameters are all smaller than 10%; relative errors for linear velocities (vx, vy) are also kept to an acceptable level, i.e., lower than 20%. 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