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This chapter describes a Distributed Sensor Network (DSN) that is applied to integrating data coming from multiple sensors in the context of important computer vision tasks such as object recognition and scene understanding.
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Foresti, G.L. (2002). Distributed Sensor Networks and Neural Trees for Multisensor Data Fusion in Computer Vision. In: Hyder, A.K., Shahbazian, E., Waltz, E. (eds) Multisensor Fusion. NATO Science Series, vol 70. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-0556-2_7
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