Optimizing a Wireless Camera Network for Real-time Surveillance

Wireless camera networks provide a unique opportunity for collaborative surveillance. Performance evaluation and optimization of camera networks, however, has seldom been addressed. This chapter fills this gap by detailing an approach by which individual cameras and a whole network of cameras can be simultaneously optimized in terms of Pareto efficiency using multi-objective optimization of performance metrics. Experiments are performed on a set of 37 wireless cameras from a testbed built from the ground up at the University of California