Special Session on Image/Video Processing & Wireless
Sensor Networks
Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) are widely applicable to many sophisticated military or industrial applications including environmental monitoring, surveillance or object tracking, etc. In many applications, sensor nodes can be equipped with very tiny video cameras to facilitate the task of tracing a particular object of interest, or the continuous/periodic monitoring of any change in the environment. However, each sensor typically has a very limited battery and processing power. In addition, due to the high costs involved, most of sensors are not equipped with GPS and thus do not have precise knowledge about their own locations during actual deployment. Therefore, the challenging issues that need to be addressed in many advanced image/video/multimedia-related applications on WSNs include, but are not limited to, the following topics:
effective image/video capturing (in case the pan/tilt function is available in the small cameras) such as sufficient image coverage and object tracking;
cost-effective routing mechanism for image/video delivery, possibly for further processing in servers;
in-network (pre-)processing such as image/video compression during transmission or in the clusterhead node, and collaborative signal and information processing; and
how to combine other domain knowledge such as the location/angle information of the cameras to edit/process the obtained image/video on-the-fly, etc.
The goal of this Special Session is to provide a platform for practitioners/researchers in their communities, such as image/video processing or multimedia, to exchange ideas/experiences with researchers/engineers from the area of WSNs or wireless networks in general. In addition to shared knowledge/experience, the results/experiences accumulated from such exchanges may bring real impacts to the future multimedia or WSN related applications.
A team of reviewers with diverse and appropriate expertise, including the organizers as the core team, will help to ensure that high quality papers can be selected and reviewed on time, with at approximately 2-3 paper reviews provided for each submitted paper.
Submission Instructions
Authors are invited to submit regular technical papers or position papers. The position papers should present novel technologies at an early stage of development or share future vision. All submissions should describe original, previously unpublished research, not currently under review by another conference or journal. Manuscripts should not exceed five (5) pages in double-column IEEE format. Please submit the paper through EDAS. Formatting details can be found under Author Information on the CCNC web site.
Session Organizers
Dr. Vincent Tam, vgtam@eee.hku.hk, (Dept. of EEE, The University of Hong Kong) has focused his interests on localization, event distribution schemes and real-life applications on wireless sensor networks. Dr. Tam has published in several international conferences and journals, including 8 conference and 1 journal publications. Among them, 3 of which were published in the IEEE CCNC'06 and CCNC'07. Dr. Tam was the Session Chairs of two Special Sessions in CCNC'06.
Dr. K.S. Lui, kslui@eee.hku.hk, (Dept. of EEE, The University of Hong Kong) has published in many international conferences and journals on wireless sensor networks. Particularly, Dr. Lui focuses on the scheduling, routing, and security issues of WSNs.
Dr. Edmund Lam, elam@eee.hku.hk, (Dept. of EEE, The University of Hong Kong) has conducted research in many areas of image processing, more recently including image transmission in visual sensor networks.
