Visual Sensor Networks: Architectures and Applications
A special issue of Sensors (ISSN 1424-8220). This special issue belongs to the section "Sensor Networks".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 March 2021) | Viewed by 505
Special Issue Editors
Interests: industrial communication systems; dependability/performability modeling and evaluation; safety-critical systems; wireless networks; smart cities; embedded systems
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Interests: smart cities; Internet of Things; sensor networks; embedded systems; multimedia sensing
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The development of more efficient and cheaper technologies for visual sensing has supported the maturation of the wireless sensor networks field, with the opening of new possibilities for distributed camera-based monitoring applications. Such maturation is taking place amid the evolving internet of things landscape, bringing visual sensing to heterogeneous applications in scenarios such as smart cities, industry 4.0, intelligent healthcare, and vehicular networks. This wealth context keeps pushing for new innovations and performance enhancements for visual sensor networks (VSN), fostering new developments in this area.
When considering the research initiatives related to distributed visual sensing and wireless networking, many challenges are yet to be properly addressed. Concerning architecture and communication protocols, issues such as routing, real-time data delivery, reliability, availability, security, and network engineering are some of the topics that have driven relevant research efforts and that still present open challenges. On the other hand, applications of visual sensor networks in different scopes have also faced relevant challenges that demand proper attention.
In this Special Issue, innovative research papers addressing relevant research challenges in the development and applicability of visual sensor networks are particularly sought. New algorithms and protocols, communication architectures, sensing frameworks, coding strategies, and different types of innovative visual sensing applications can bring relevant contributions to the area and thus deserve as much attention as possible. These and other contributions related to visual sensor networks are then the targets of this Special Issue.
Prof. Dr. Paulo Portugal
Prof. Dr. Daniel G. Costa
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- Protocols and architectures for VSN
- New paradigms for communications in VSN
- 5G and LoraWAN in visual sensor networks
- Reliability, availability and fault tolerance
- Security and privacy in VSN
- Electronics and development of visual sensors
- QoS, QoE and visual data quality
- Soft computing in visual sensor networks
- Big data and machine learning for VSN applications
- Emerging applications of VSN
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