this book presents a comprehensive, systematic approach to the development of vision system architectures that employ sensory-processing concurrency and parallel processing to meet the autonomy challenges posed by a variety of safety and surveillance applications. coverage includes a thorough analysis of resistive diffusion networks embedded within an image sensor array. this analysis supports a systematic approach to the design of spatial image filters and their implementation as vision chips in cmos technology. the book also addresses system-level considerations pertaining to the embedding of these vision chips into vision-enabled wireless sensor networks. describes a system-level approach for designing of vision devices and embedding them into vision-enabled, wireless sensor networkssurveys state-of-the-art, vision-enabled wsn nodesincludes details of specifications and challenges of vision-enabled wsnsexplains architectures for low-energy cmos vision chips with embedded, programmable spatial filtering capabilitiesincludes considerations pertaining to the integration of vision chips into off-the-shelf wsn platforms.