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The Sensorium Infrastructure and associated projects in the Computer Science Department at Boston University aim to catalyze fundamental advances in image and video computing, network protocols, and resource management to deal with unique spatio-temporal constraints of sensor networks in general and of video sensor networks in particular. When fully acquired, the Sensorium research infrastructure will be composed of a sensor network of video cameras spanning several rooms, networked processing units, and a terabyte database, managed together to satisfy queries using those generated by mobile users within this environment. The Sensorium infrastructure will enable a number of collaborative research projects led by various research groups in the department. Information about these projects is available in a 15-page document describing in some depth the technical challenges and range of problems to be tackled along the dimensions highlighted below. The Image and Video Computing Group will lead research on modeling, interpretation, and prediction of human motion in video streams at multiple scales in space/time and at multiple layers of detail. The Web and InterNetworking Group will lead research on the development of efficient location management, routing, transport, and content distribution protocols for multi-resolution/scale streaming sensory data networks. Also, it will work on efforts to characterize and model network traffic and access patterns in mobile and wireless (video) sensor networks. The Operating Systems and Services Group will lead research on instrumentation of embedded real-time operating systems to enable coordinated resource management, and on the development of middleware services for the management of active and ad-hoc sensor networks. The Database Group will investigate issues in the indexing and mining of large spatio-temporal non-textual sensory datasets, with a particular emphasis on mining of human motions and activities. The Programming Languages and Systems Group will work on techniques to enhance code safety for embedded systems through the use of type systems and run-time support, with emphasis on flow-oriented programming. The Security and Applied Cryptography Group will focus on the development of algorithms for supporting security and trust, and for protecting the confidentiality and integrity of data in video sensor networks and repositories. The Sensorium Infrastructure is supported partially by a National Science Foundation Research Infrastructure grant entitled Sensorium: Research Infrastructure for Managing Spatio-Temporal Objects in Video Sensor Networks. For more information, check the Sensorium Web pages at http://www.cs.bu.edu/groups/sensorium To see the collection of prior postings to the list, visit the Sensorium Archives.
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