FoVs Correlation Model for Wireless Multimedia Sensor Networks Based on Three-dimensional Perception

Wireless multimedia sensor networks have become the focus of research in a wide variety of areas in recent years. The camera sensor nodes observe the phenomenon at different locations in the field, and the spatially proximal cameras could have highly overlapped field of views (FoVs). Based on the three-dimensional sensing model of camera sensor node, a FoVs correlation model was proposed in this paper. Then, a grid-based and a relative position-based approach were respectively designed to calculate the correlation coefficient between two cameras. Simulation results and algorithm complexity analysis demonstrate that the relative position-based method has highly efficiency and nearly reduces two orders of magnitude of time complexity to the former.