Part I: Distributed Sensing – Architectures -- Towards Cognitive and Perceptive Video Systems -- Access-Centric In-Network Storage Optimization in Distributed Sensing Networks -- Decentralized Human Tracking in Visual Sensor Networks -- Real-Time Tracking for Moving Target in WSN with Uncovered Holes -- Sequential Anomaly Detection Using Wireless Sensor Networks in Unknown Environment -- Part II: Distributed Sensing – Applications -- A Full-Scale Hardware Solution for Crowd Evacuation via Multiple Cameras -- Visual Sensor Networks – Adaptive Online Configuration of Surveillance Networks with Distributed Smart Cameras -- Human Detection and Tracking in Healthcare Applications Through the Use of a Network of Sensors -- Automatic Players Detection and Tracking in Multi-Camera Tennis Videos -- Data Fusion with a Dense Sensor Network for Anomaly Detection in Smart Homes -- People Counting Across Non-Overlapping Camera Views by Flow Estimation among Foreground Regions -- 2D Human Pose Estimation and Tracking in Non-Overlapping Cameras -- Exploiting Crowd Synthesis for Multi-Camera Human Tracking -- Part III: Multi-Robot Systems -- Distributed Probabilistic Search and Tracking of Agile Mobile Ground Targets Using a Network of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles -- A Heterogeneous Robotic Network for Distributed Ambient Assisted Living -- Cooperative Multi-Robot Patrol in an Indoor Infrastructure -- Distributed Thermal Identification and Exploitation for Multiple Soaring UAVs -- Distributed Coordination of Networked Robots for Perimeter Surveillance Tasks -- Social-Aware Coordination of Multi-Robot Systems Based on Institutions -- Design of Safety Map with Collectives of Smartphone Sensors.