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Author Ang, Li-minn, 1971- author.

Title Wireless multimedia sensor networks on reconfigurable hardware : information reduction techniques / Li-minn Ang, Kah Phooi Seng, Li Wern Chew, Lee Seng Yeong, Wai Chong Chia
Published Berlin : Springer, [2013]
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Description 1 online resource (xxi, 283 pages) : illustrations
Contents Chap -- 1 Introduction -- Chap -- 2 Wireless Multimedia Sensor Network Technology -- Chap -- 3 Hardware Technology and Programming Languages for Reconfigurable Devices -- Chap -- 4 FPGA Wireless Multimedia Sensor Node Hardware Platforms -- Chap -- 5 Single-View Information Reduction Techniques for WMSN Using Event Detection -- Chap -- 6 Single-View Information Reduction Techniques for WMSN Using Event Compression -- Chap -- 7 Multiple-View Information Reduction Techniques for WMSN Using Image Stitching -- Appendix -- References
Summary Traditional wireless sensor networks (WSNs) capture scalar data such as temperature, vibration, pressure, or humidity. Motivated by the success of WSNs and also with the emergence of new technology in the form of low-cost image sensors, researchers have proposed combining image and audio sensors with WSNs to form wireless multimedia sensor networks (WMSNs). This introduces practical and research challenges, because multimedia sensors, particularly image sensors, generate huge amounts of data to be processed and distributed within the network, while sensor nodes have restricted battery power and hardware resources. This book describes how reconfigurable hardware technologies such as field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) offer cost-effective, flexible platforms for implementing WMSNs, with a main focus on developing efficient algorithms and architectures for information reduction, including event detection, event compression, and multicamera processing for hardware implementations. The authors include a comprehensive review of wireless multimedia sensor networks, a complete specification of a very low-complexity, low-memory FPGA WMSN node processor, and several case studies that illustrate information reduction algorithms for visual event compression, detection, and fusion. The book will be of interest to academic researchers, R & D engineers, and computer science and engineering graduate students engaged with signal and video processing, computer vision, embedded systems, and sensor networks
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 271-278) and index
Notes English
Subject Wireless sensor networks.
Computer science.
Computer network architectures.
Multimedia systems.
Computer vision.
Computer engineering.
Electrical engineering.
Electronic Data Processing
electrical engineering.
COMPUTERS -- General.
Computer engineering
Computer network architectures
Computer science
Computer vision
Electrical engineering
Multimedia systems
Wireless sensor networks
Form Electronic book
Author Seng, Kah Phooi, 1974- author.
Chew, Li Wern, author
Yeong, Lee Seng, author
Chia, Wai Chong, author
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