Advances in Multimedia
Volume 2009 (2009), Article ID 640386, 21 pages
doi:10.1155/2009/640386
Review Article

A Survey of Visual Sensor Networks

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Rochester, Rochester NY 14627, USA

Received 20 March 2009; Accepted 13 May 2009

Academic Editor: Shiwen Mao

Copyright © 2009 Stanislava Soro and Wendi Heinzelman. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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