The emergence of visual crowdsensing: Challenges and opportunities

B Guo, Q Han, H Chen, L Shangguan… - … Surveys & Tutorials, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Visual crowdsensing (VCS), which leverages built-in cameras of smart devices to attain
informative and comprehensive sensing of interesting targets, has become a predominant …

Visual sensors hardware platforms: A review

DG Costa - IEEE Sensors Journal, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In the last two decades, visual sensor networks have been developed to gather visual data
from different monitoring scenarios, directly contributing to the maturation of the Internet of …

Visual sensing for urban flood monitoring

SW Lo, JH Wu, FP Lin, CH Hsu - Sensors, 2015 - mdpi.com
With the increasing climatic extremes, the frequency and severity of urban flood events have
intensified worldwide. In this study, image-based automated monitoring of flood formation …

Discrete grey wolf optimization algorithm for solving k-coverage problem in directional sensor networks with network lifetime maximization viewpoint

VR Ekhlas, MH Shirvani, A Dana, N Raeisi - Applied Soft Computing, 2023 - Elsevier
Unlike the traditional wireless sensor networks (WSNs) which apply omni-directional
sensors, the directional sensor networks (DSNs) utilize directional sensor nodes. Each …

Utilizing active sensor nodes in smart environments for optimal communication coverage

T Xie, C Zhang, Z Zhang, K Yang - IEEE Access, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Wireless sensor networks are widely used in smart environments to capture and detect the
activities of human beings, and achieving reliable transmission between sensor nodes has …

[HTML][HTML] A promising trend for field information collection: An air-ground multi-sensor monitoring system

Y Zhang, D Chen, S Wang, L Tian - Information processing in agriculture, 2018 - Elsevier
Timely identifying and quantifying significant spatial and temporal variability in agricultural
field has been a crucial factor for improving agricultural production and management. This …

Efficient sensor placement optimization using gradient descent and probabilistic coverage

V Akbarzadeh, JC Lévesque, C Gagné, M Parizeau - Sensors, 2014 - mdpi.com
We are proposing an adaptation of the gradient descent method to optimize the position and
orientation of sensors for the sensor placement problem. The novelty of the proposed …

[HTML][HTML] Enhancing the availability of wireless visual sensor networks: Selecting redundant nodes in networks with occlusion

DG Costa, F Vasques, P Portugal - Applied Mathematical Modelling, 2017 - Elsevier
Availability is a major design issue that should play an important role when deploying and
operating wireless sensor networks, specially for critical monitoring applications. Actually …

Wireless sensor network monitoring system: architecture, applications and future directions

M Abdelhafidh, M Fourati, LC Fourati… - International Journal …, 2019 - inderscienceonline.com
Wireless sensor network monitoring systems (WSNMS) have emerged as one of the most
promising research area due to reliable technology progress related to the deployed …

Wireless visual sensor network platform for indoor localization and tracking of a patient for rehabilitation task

M Idoudi, EB Bourennane, K Grayaa - IEEE Sensors Journal, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Wireless visual sensor networks (WVSNs) are commonly using information technologies of
modern networking and computing platforms. Today, visual network computing applications …