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A Survey of Systems-on-Chip Solutions for Smart Cameras

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With the advances in electronic manufacturing technologies, integration of disparate technologies including sensors, analog components, mixed signal units and digital processing cores into a single chip has become reality, which is an increasing trend in different application domains, especially for distributed smart camera products. In this chapter, a survey of existing System-on-Chip solutions for distributed smart cameras able to capture and intelligently process video in real-time and communicate with other cameras and sensors remotely is presented.

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    Ali Ahmadinia & David Watson

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Ahmadinia, A., Watson, D. (2014). A Survey of Systems-on-Chip Solutions for Smart Cameras. In: Bobda, C., Velipasalar, S. (eds) Distributed Embedded Smart Cameras. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-7705-1_2

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