Context-based scene recognition from visual data in smart homes: An Information Fusion approach

Personal and Ubiquitous Computing

Volumn 16, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 835-857

  Gomez Romero, Juan ^a   Serrano, Miguel A ^a   Patricio, Miguel A ^a   Garcia, Jesus ^a   Molina, Jose M ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD CARLOS III DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

Ambient intelligence; Computer vision; Context; Data and information fusion; Ontologies

Indexed keywords

AMBIENT INTELLIGENCE; COGNITIVE FRAMEWORKS; COMPUTATIONAL SYSTEM; CONTEXT; CONTEXT-BASED; CURRENT SITUATION; DATA AND INFORMATION; LOCAL INTERPRETATION; PROCESS DATA; PROTOTYPE SYSTEM; REAL TIME; SCENE OBJECT; SCENE RECOGNITION; SINGLE CAMERAS; SMART HOMES; VISUAL DATA; VISUAL SENSOR; VISUAL SENSOR NETWORKS;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; AUTOMATION; COMPUTER VISION; INFORMATION FUSION; INTELLIGENT BUILDINGS; ONTOLOGY; SENSOR NETWORKS;

DIGITAL STORAGE;

EID: 84869125742     PISSN: 16174909     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00779-011-0450-9     Document Type: Article

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