CMOS Image Sensors in Surveillance System Applications

Recent technology advances in CMOS image sensors (CIS) enable their utilization in the most demanding of surveillance fields, especially visual surveillance and intrusion detection in intelligent surveillance systems, aerial surveillance in war zones, Earth environmental surveillance by satellites in space monitoring, agricultural monitoring using wireless sensor networks and internet of things and driver assistance in automotive fields. This paper presents an overview of CMOS image sensor-based surveillance applications over the last decade by tabulating the design characteristics related to image quality such as resolution, frame rate, dynamic range, signal-to-noise ratio, and also processing technology. Different models of CMOS image sensors used in all applications have been surveyed and tabulated for every year and application.

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Recent advancements in CMOS image sensors have allowed for their usage in various surveillance fields, such as visual surveillance, aerial surveillance, environmental monitoring by satellites, agricultural monitoring, and driver assistance in the automotive industry. This paper provides an overview of CMOS image sensor-based surveillance applications over the past decade, detailing design characteristics and surveying different models used in each application.