CHAPTER Embedded Middleware for Smart Camera Networks and Sensor Fusion Bernhard Rinner, Markus Quaritsch Institute of Networked and Embedded Computing, Klagenfurt University, Klagenfurt, Austria 22 Abstract Smart cameras represent an interesting research field that has evolved over the last decade. In this chapter we focus on the integration of multiple, potentially heterogeneous smart cameras into a distributed system for computer vision and sensor fusion. Because an important aspect of distributed systems is the system- level software, also called middleware, we discuss the middleware requirements of distributed smart cameras and the services the middleware must provide. In our