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A '''visual sensor network''' is a network of spatially distributed [[smart camera]] devices capable of processing and fusing images of a scene from a variety of viewpoints into some form more useful than the individual images. A visual sensor network may be a type of [[wireless sensor network]], and much of the theory and application of the latter applies to the former. The network generally consists of the cameras themselves, which have some local [[image processing]], communication and storage capabilities, and possibly one or more central computers, where image data from multiple cameras is further processed and [[sensor fusion|fused]] (this processing may, however, simply take place in a distributed fashion across the cameras and their local controllers). Visual sensor networks also provide some high-level services to the user so that the large amount of data can be distilled into information of interest using specific queries. <ref name="obraczka2002">{{cite journal|first=K.|last=Obraczka|coauthors=Manduchi, R., Garcia-Luna-Aveces, J. J.|title=Managing the Information Flow in Visual Sensor Networks|url=https://www.soe.ucsc.edu/~manduchi/Papers/178-obraczka.pdf |journal=Proc. 5th Intl. Symposium on Wireless Personal Multimedia Communications|pages=1177–1181|month=October| year=2002|doi=10.1109/WPMC.2002.1088364|volume=3|isbn=0-7803-7442-8}}</ref> <ref name="akdere2006">{{cite journal|first=M.|last=Akdere|coauthors=Centintemel, U., Crispell, D., Jannotti, J., Mao, J., Taubin, G.|title=Data-Centric Visual Sensor Networks for 3D Sensing|url=http://www.cs.brown.edu/~jj/papers/3d-geo06.pdf |journal=Proc. 2nd Intl. Conf. on Geosensor Networks|month=October| year=2006}}</ref>

<ref>Castanedo, F., Patricio, M. A., García, J., and Molina, J. M. 2006. Extending surveillance systems capabilities using BDI cooperative sensor agents. In Proceedings of the 4th ACM international Workshop on Video Surveillance and Sensor Networks (Santa Barbara, California, USA, October 27 – 27, 2006). VSSN '06. ACM Press, New York, NY, 131–138. DOI= http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1178782.1178802 </ref>