Multimedia Techniques for Device and Ambient Intelligence

✍ Scribed by Kangjun Lee, Gwanggil Jeon, Jechang Jeong (auth.), Jechang Jeong, Ernesto Damiani (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer US
• Year: 2009
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 209
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Ambient Intelligence is a vision of the future where the world will be surrounded by electronic environments sensitive and responsive to people, wherein devices work in concert to support people in carrying out their everyday life activities, in an easy and natural way.

This edited volume is based on the workshop Multimedia Techniques for Ambient Intelligence (MTDAI08), held in Mogliano Veneto, Italy in March 2008. Contributed by world renowned leaders in the field from academia and industry, this volume is dedicated to research on technologies used to improve the intelligence capability of multimedia devices for imaging, image processing and computer vision. Focuses on recent developments in digital signal processing, including evolutions in audiovisual signal processing, analysis, coding and authentication, and retrieval techniques.

Designed for researchers and professionals, this book is also suitable for advanced-level students in computer science and electrical engineering.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages 1-12
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
GOP Structure Conversion in Transcoding MPEG-2 to H.264/AVC....Pages 1-14
Simple Low Level Features for Image Analysis....Pages 17-42
Fast and robust Face Detection....Pages 43-72
Automatic 3D Facial Fitting for Tracking in Video Sequence....Pages 73-111
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Input Devices and Interaction Techniques for VR-Enhanced Medicine....Pages 115-134
Bridging Sensing and Decision Making in Ambient Intelligence Environments....Pages 135-164
Ambient Intelligence in Multimeda and Virtual Reality Environments for the rehabilitation....Pages 165-177
Artificial Neural Networks for Processing Graphs with Application to Image Understanding: A Survey....Pages 179-199
Back Matter....Pages 1-1

✦ Subjects

Computer Communication Networks; Information Storage and Retrieval; Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics); Multimedia Information Systems; Signal, Image and Speech Processing; Computer Imaging, Vision, Pattern Recognition and Graphics