Virtual vision and smart camera networks

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Camera networks are an emerging enabling technology for a broad range of applications, including video surveillance, environment and traffic monitoring, elderly care, intelligent environments, and urban and participatory sensing. Most researchers who are motivated by the challenging open problems in camera network research, however, simply do not have the resources to work with a large-scale physical camera network, given the cost and other serious impediments of deploying and experimenting with a camera network of appropriate complexity in an extended public space. A compelling alternative is ``Virtual Vision'', a novel camera network research paradigm that prescribes using visually and behaviorally realistic virtual environments for developing and evaluating camera networks. Virtual vision enables researchers to deploy virtual camera networks in visually and behaviorally realistic 3D computer simulated environments and to experiment with these networks under realistic conditions.