This book describes how reconfigurable hardware technology like field programmable gate
arrays can be used to offer a cost-efficient and flexible platform for implementation in …

Purpose.: To use the suppression of optokinetic nystagmus (OKN) as an objective measure
of subjects' ability to distribute their visual attention to different elements—static or dynamic …

Object or region based image processing can be performed more efficiently with information
pertaining locations that are visually salient to human perception with the aid of a saliency …

This chapter presents background material for wireless multimedia sensor network (WMSN)
technology. The chapter will describe the general structure for a WMSN and various …

Object detection is vital for visual processing applications. In this work, the desired object in
an image is detected by the help of the wavelet coefficient feature (WCF) extraction and …

Visual system of human beings does not process the complete area of image rather focus
upon limited area of visual image. But in which area does the visual attention focused is a …

This chapter presents the designs and implementations for the FPGA wireless multimedia
sensor node (WMSN) hardware platforms. Two platforms will be described: a low-cost …

The wireless multimedia sensor network (WMSN) is an example of a platform for a multiple
camera application. Since the devices in the WMSN are powered by batteries, energy …

This chapter presents single-view information reduction techniques using the set partitioning
in hierarchical tree (SPIHT) image compression algorithm. An overview of image …

Studies in the area of computational vision have shown the capability of visual attention (VA)
processing in aiding various visual tasks by providing a means for simplifying complex data …