Robust multimodal audio-visual processing for advanced context awareness in smart spaces

Personal and Ubiquitous Computing

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 3-14

  Pnevmatikakis, A ^a   Soldatos, J ^a   Talantzis, F ^a   Polymenakos, L ^a  

^a ATHENS INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INFORMATION SERVICES; SOFTWARE PROTOTYPING;

AUDIO VISUALS; CONTEXT AWARENESSES; CONTEXT-AWARE; MODELING APPROACHES; MULTI MODALS; MULTIMODAL TRACKING; PRE-REQUISITES; SMART SPACES; TRACKING ALGORITHMS; VISUAL PROCESSING;

VISUAL COMMUNICATION;

EID: 56749181028     PISSN: 16174909     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00779-007-0169-9     Document Type: Article

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