Pfinder: real-time tracking of the human body
FG '96 Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition (FG '96)
An Image Sensor Node for Wireless Sensor Networks
ITCC '05 Proceedings of the International Conference on Information Technology: Coding and Computing (ITCC'05) - Volume II - Volume 02
Panoptes: scalable low-power video sensor networking technologies
ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications, and Applications (TOMCCAP)
Cyclops: in situ image sensing and interpretation in wireless sensor networks
Proceedings of the 3rd international conference on Embedded networked sensor systems
SensEye: a multi-tier camera sensor network
Proceedings of the 13th annual ACM international conference on Multimedia
FPGA architecture for static background subtraction in real time
SBCCI '06 Proceedings of the 19th annual symposium on Integrated circuits and systems design
A survey on wireless multimedia sensor networks
Computer Networks: The International Journal of Computer and Telecommunications Networking
Computer Networks: The International Journal of Computer and Telecommunications Networking
Design and Implementation of a Dual-Camera Wireless Sensor Network for Object Retrieval
IPSN '08 Proceedings of the 7th international conference on Information processing in sensor networks
Reconfigurable Hardware Implementations for Lifting-Based DWT Image Processing Algorithms
ICESS '08 Proceedings of the 2008 International Conference on Embedded Software and Systems
An efficient folded architecture for lifting-based discrete wavelet transform
IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II: Express Briefs
Robust Image Transmission Over Wireless Sensor Networks
Mobile Networks and Applications
A survey of multimedia streaming in wireless sensor networks
IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials
The JPEG2000 still image coding system: an overview
IEEE Transactions on Consumer Electronics
Efficient parallel architecture for multi-level forward discrete wavelet transform processors
Computers and Electrical Engineering
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To date, wireless sensor networks lack the most powerful human sense - vision. This is largely due to two main problems: (1) available wireless sensor nodes lack the processing capability and energy resource required to efficiently process and communicate large volume of image data and (2) the available protocols do not provide the queue control and error detection capabilities required to reduce packet error rate and retransmissions to a level suitable for wireless sensor networks. This paper presents an innovative architecture for object extraction and a robust application-layer protocol for energy efficient image communication over wireless sensor networks. The protocol incorporates packet queue control mechanism with built-in CRC to reduce packet error rate and thereby increase data throughput. Unlike other image transmission protocols, the proposed protocol offers flexibility to adjust the image packet size based on link conditions. The proposed processing architecture achieves high speed object extraction with minimum hardware requirement and low power consumption. The system was successfully designed and implemented on FPGA. Experimental results obtained from a network of sensor nodes utilizing the proposed architecture and the application-layer protocol reveal that this novel approach is suitable for effectively communicating multimedia data over wireless sensor networks.