Platforms and Architectures for Distributed Smart Cameras -- A Survey of Systems-on-Chip Solutions for Smart Cameras -- Reconfigurable Architectures for Distributed Smart Cameras -- Design and Verification Environment for High-Performance Video-Based Embedded Systems -- Distributed Mobile Computer Vision: advances, challenges and applications -- Autonomous Tracking of Vehicle Taillights and Alert Signal Detection by Embedded Smart Cameras -- Autonomous Tracking of Vehicle Taillights and Alert Signal Detection by Embedded Smart Cameras -- Tracking by Detection Algorithms Using Multiple Cameras -- Consistent Human Tracking over Self-Organized and Scalable Multiple-Camera Networks -- Soft-biometrics and Reference Set Integrated Model for Tracking Across Cameras -- A parallel approach for statistical texture parameter calculation.

This publication addresses distributed embedded smart cameras -cameras that perform onboard analysis and collaborate with other cameras. This book provides the material required to better understand the architectural design challenges of embedded smart camera systems, the hardware/software ecosystem, the design approach for, and applications of distributed smart cameras together with the state-of-the-art algorithms. The authors concentrate on the architecture, hardware/software design, realization of smart camera networks from applications to architectures, in particular in the embedded and mobile domains. •                    Examines energy issues related to wireless communication such as decreasing energy consumption to increase battery-life •                    Discusses processing large volumes of video data on an embedded environment in real-time •                    Covers design of realistic applications of distributed and embedded smart cameras.