Mechanisms which are not fully understood today, exist in human visual system that reduces the bulk of input sensory data and makes possible for visual system to analyze a scene in real time. The reduction of sensory input is based on saliency map i.e. a topographical map of salient regions, of the scene. Research work presented in this book has investigated the effect of blur on human visual attention. Hypothesis has been investigated that the sharp regions tend to capture attention irrespective of intensity, color or contrast. The second objective of this research was to find such algorithm...

The power of wireless sensor networks (WSN) lies in the ability to deploy large numbers of tiny nodes that assemble and configure themselves. Usage scenarios for these devices range from real-time tracking, to monitoring of environmental conditions, to Military applications, to monitoring of the health of structures or equipment. There is extensive research in the development of new algorithms for data aggregation ,ad hoc routing, and distributed signal processing in the context of wireless sensor networks. As the algorithms and protocols for wireless sensor network are developed, they must...