Low-complexity video compression for wireless sensor networks

We study the problem of compression of videosurveillance sequences collected by a wireless sensor network. In particular, we propose a low-complexity coding framework based on change detection and JPEG-like compression of regions of interest, along with a suitable low-complexity change detection algorithm. We show that on typical videosurveillance sequences the performance of the proposed compression algorithm is similar to that of MPEG-2, at a much less computational cost. Energy profiling results on a TMS320VC5204 board validate the coder design for the proposed application.