Multimedia Sensor Networks for Intelligent Vision Monitoring Applications

Dear Colleagues,

A wireless multimedia sensor network (WMSNs) is a network of wirelessly interconnected sensor nodes equipped with cameras, microphones, and other multimedia devices capable of retrieving and processing video, audio, images, as well as other structured scalar sensor data.

WMSNs have emerged and shifted the focus from the conventional scalar sensor networks to heterogeneous networks with various multimedia devices. The capabilities of wireless multimedia sensor networks make them very suitable for large-scale monitoring systems.

WMSNs are able to store, process in real-time, correlate and fuse multimedia data originating from a variety of sources, and so they can be widely used in industrial surveillance, intelligent transport, logistics management, visual surveillance, telemedicine, structural health monitoring, emergency management, environmental monitoring and other hot research fields. WMSNs are also increasingly being deployed for surveillance and intelligent vision monitoring applications. Moreover, many emerging technologies are also suitable for application in this field.

This Special Issue aims to gather the latest research and development achievements in the field of Multimedia Sensor Networks for Intelligent Vision Monitoring Applications. Original papers that address the most current issues and challenges are solicited. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

• Wireless Visual Surveillance;
• Multimedia Sensor Networks;
• Multimedia Signal Processing;
• Industrial Optimization with Multi-Sensor Information Fusion;
• Control and Signal Processing Based on Sensor Networks;
• Distributed Vision Information Processing and Fusion;
• Multi-Sensor-Oriented Multimedia GIS for Disaster Management;
• Sensor Fusion for Human Activity and Behavior Analysis;
• Object Monitoring and Activity Recognition;
• Smart City and Intelligent Transport;
• Smart Home Monitoring;
• Surveillance Information Retrieval;
• QoS in Wireless Multimedia Sensor Networks;
• Congestion Control for Real-Time Multimedia Applications;
• Wireless Edge Computing Theory and Applications in WMSNs;
• Cybersecurity and Blockchain Theory and Applications in WMSNs;
• Virtual Reality and Metaverse Theory and Applications in WMSNs.

Dr. Li Xie
Dr. Xiang Su
Guest Editors

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