A Survey on Sensor Coverage and Visual Data Capturing/Processing/Transmission in Wireless Visual Sensor Networks
Wireless Visual Sensor Networks (WVSNs) where camera-equipped sensor nodes can capture, process and transmit image/video information have become an important new research area. As compared to the traditional wireless sensor networks (WSNs) that can only transmit scalar information (e.g., temperature...
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| author | Florence G. H. Yap Hong-Hsu Yen |
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| description | Wireless Visual Sensor Networks (WVSNs) where camera-equipped sensor nodes can capture, process and transmit image/video information have become an important new research area. As compared to the traditional wireless sensor networks (WSNs) that can only transmit scalar information (e.g., temperature), the visual data in WVSNs enable much wider applications, such as visual security surveillance and visual wildlife monitoring. However, as compared to the scalar data in WSNs, visual data is much bigger and more complicated so intelligent schemes are required to capture/process/ transmit visual data in limited resources (hardware capability and bandwidth) WVSNs. WVSNs introduce new multi-disciplinary research opportunities of topics that include visual sensor hardware, image and multimedia capture and processing, wireless communication and networking. In this paper, we survey existing research efforts on the visual sensor hardware, visual sensor coverage/deployment, and visual data capture/ processing/transmission issues in WVSNs. We conclude that WVSN research is still in an early age and there are still many open issues that have not been fully addressed. More new novel multi-disciplinary, cross-layered, distributed and collaborative solutions should be devised to tackle these challenging issues in WVSNs. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-49984f7106f24f938e9f0677c24adabc2022-12-22T02:12:25ZengMDPI AGSensors1424-82202014-02-011423506352710.3390/s140203506s140203506A Survey on Sensor Coverage and Visual Data Capturing/Processing/Transmission in Wireless Visual Sensor NetworksFlorence G. H. Yap0Hong-Hsu Yen1English Division, Center for General Education, Chang Gung University, Taoyuan, 333, TaiwanDepartment of Information Management, Shih-Hsin University, Taipei, 116, TaiwanWireless Visual Sensor Networks (WVSNs) where camera-equipped sensor nodes can capture, process and transmit image/video information have become an important new research area. As compared to the traditional wireless sensor networks (WSNs) that can only transmit scalar information (e.g., temperature), the visual data in WVSNs enable much wider applications, such as visual security surveillance and visual wildlife monitoring. However, as compared to the scalar data in WSNs, visual data is much bigger and more complicated so intelligent schemes are required to capture/process/ transmit visual data in limited resources (hardware capability and bandwidth) WVSNs. WVSNs introduce new multi-disciplinary research opportunities of topics that include visual sensor hardware, image and multimedia capture and processing, wireless communication and networking. In this paper, we survey existing research efforts on the visual sensor hardware, visual sensor coverage/deployment, and visual data capture/ processing/transmission issues in WVSNs. We conclude that WVSN research is still in an early age and there are still many open issues that have not been fully addressed. More new novel multi-disciplinary, cross-layered, distributed and collaborative solutions should be devised to tackle these challenging issues in WVSNs.http://www.mdpi.com/1424-8220/14/2/3506sensor coveragevisual data capturingvisual data processingvisual data transmissionwireless visual sensor networks |
| spellingShingle | Florence G. H. Yap Hong-Hsu Yen A Survey on Sensor Coverage and Visual Data Capturing/Processing/Transmission in Wireless Visual Sensor Networks Sensors sensor coverage visual data capturing visual data processing visual data transmission wireless visual sensor networks |
| title | A Survey on Sensor Coverage and Visual Data Capturing/Processing/Transmission in Wireless Visual Sensor Networks |
| title_full | A Survey on Sensor Coverage and Visual Data Capturing/Processing/Transmission in Wireless Visual Sensor Networks |
| title_fullStr | A Survey on Sensor Coverage and Visual Data Capturing/Processing/Transmission in Wireless Visual Sensor Networks |
| title_full_unstemmed | A Survey on Sensor Coverage and Visual Data Capturing/Processing/Transmission in Wireless Visual Sensor Networks |
| title_short | A Survey on Sensor Coverage and Visual Data Capturing/Processing/Transmission in Wireless Visual Sensor Networks |
| title_sort | survey on sensor coverage and visual data capturing processing transmission in wireless visual sensor networks |
| topic | sensor coverage visual data capturing visual data processing visual data transmission wireless visual sensor networks |
| url | http://www.mdpi.com/1424-8220/14/2/3506 |
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