Architecture of Wireless Visual Sensor Node with Region of Interest Coding

• The challenges involved in designing a wirelessVision Sensor Node include the reduction in processing andcommunication energy consumption, in order to maximize itslifetime. This work presents an architecture for a wireless VisionSensor Node, which consumes low processing andcommunication energy. The processing energy consumption isreduced by processing lightweight vision tasks on the VSN andby partitioning the vision tasks between the wireless VisionSensor Node and the server. The communication energyconsumption is reduced with Region Of Interest coding togetherwith a suitable bi-level compression scheme. A number ofdifferent processing strategies are investigated to realize awireless Vision Sensor Node with a low energy consumption. Theinvestigation shows that the wireless Vision Sensor Node, usingRegion Of Interest coding and CCITT group4 compressiontechnique, consumes 43 percent lower processing andcommunication energy as compared to the wireless Vision SensorNode implemented without Region Of Interest coding. Theproposed wireless Vision Sensor Node can achieve a lifetime of5.4 years, with a sample period of 5 minutes by using 4 AAbatteries.

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TEKNIK OCH TEKNOLOGIER  -- Elektroteknik och elektronik (hsv//swe)

ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY  -- Electrical Engineering, Electronic Engineering, Information Engineering (hsv//eng)

Keyword

architecture

wireless vision sensor node

Region of interest coding

Smart camera

wireless visual sensor networks

wireless multimedia sensor networks.

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