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Multimedia techniques for device and ambient intelligence: A continuing endeavor

Article type: Book Review

Authors: van den Broek, Egon L.

Affiliations: Human-Centered Computing Consultancy, Vienna, Austria, URL: http://www.human-centeredcomputing.com/, E-mail: [email protected]

Note: [] Additional affiliations: Human Media Interaction (HMI), Faculty of EEMCS, University of Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands; Karakter University Center, Radboud University Medical Center (UMC) Nijmegen, Nijmegen, The Netherlands; and Statistics and Surveys Section, Policy Analysis and Research Branch, United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), Vienna, Austria.

Keywords: Ambient Intelligence (AmI), device intelligence, multimedia, low level processing, knowledge based

DOI: 10.3233/AIS-2011-0095

Journal: Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Smart Environments, vol. 3, no. 1, pp. 67-68, 2011

Published: 2011
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Abstract

The edited volume “Multimedia techniques for device and ambient intelligence” consists of two parts: i) an introduction to a variety of basic low level image processing techniques, leaving aside other modalities, and ii) work on high level, knowledge based processing, including interesting chapters on context aware computing and graph based pattern recognition. However, in the search for ambient multimedia techniques, the book can only partly redeem its promise.

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