多媒体传感器网络及其研究进展

作为一种全新的信息获取和处理技术,多媒体传感器网络较之传统传感器网络更多地关注于音频、视频、图像等大数据量、大信息量媒体的采集与处理,在军事、民用及商业领域中具有广阔的应用前景.介绍了多媒体传感器网络的概念与特点,着重探讨了多媒体传感器网络所面临的挑战与国内外的研究进展,最后分析了当前亟待解决的问题,并展望了其未来的发展趋势.多媒体传感器网络是一种新的概念系统但也存在较多的问题需要解决,其研究具有很强的理论意义和实用价值.

Multimedia Sensor Network and Its Research Progresses

As a novel information acquiring and processing technology, compared to other traditional sensor networks, multimedia sensor networks pay more attention to the information-intensive data (e.g. audio, video, image). Potential applications of multimedia sensor networks span a wide spectrum from military to industrial, from commercial to environmental monitoring. This paper introduces the concept and characteristics of multimedia sensor networks, and discusses the technical challenges in this field. In particular, this paper summarizes the current research progresses. Finally, the open research problems are also pointed out. Multimedia sensor networks discussed in this paper is a novel conceptual system; and many issues need to be solved. The research on this topic is with great theoretical and practical value.