Simple On-Line Single-View Video Summarization for Machine-to-Machine Wireless Multimedia Sensor Network

Wireless Multimedia Sensor Networks (WMSN) engender a wide scope of important Machine-to-Machine video based applications. However, energy consumption in WMSN determines the complete network lifespan. Communication is the greediest energy consumption task which grows exponentially with the increase of transformed data. Even though video data is considered the richest information holder, it is the most energy craving data. In this paper, we propose a new Simple On-line Single-view video summarization mechanism (SOS). This mechanism adds a low-complexity video summarization task to the sensor nodes. Nevertheless, it reduces the transfer load of network through extracting only significant video information. Simulation results confirm the efficiency of our proposition in saving the life of WMSN. Resource consuming reduction reaches as high as 40%.