Gian Luca Foresti - Böcker

Ambient Intelligence - A Novel Paradigm details the current state-of-the-art and new research techniques including those related to intelligent visual monitoring, face and speech recognition, innovative education methods, as well as smart and cognitive environments. This edited report includes a description of the iDorm as an example of a smart environment conforming to the AmI paradigm, and explains the introduction of computer vision as an important component of the system. Other computer-vision examples span visual monitoring for the elderly, classic and novel surveillance techniques using clusters of cameras installed in in-door and out-door application domains, and the monitoring of public spaces. Also included is a discussion of face-and-speech recognition systems, as well as enhanced LEGO blocks for novel educational purposes. Lastly, the authors discuss how a cybernetic system can be designed as the backbone of a human machine interaction.

Multimedia surveillance systems is an emerging field that includes signal and image processing, communications, and computer vision. This work combines research results from these areas for use by engineers and end-users involved in the design of surveillance systems in the fields of transportation and services. The text covers emerging surveillance requirements, including new digital sensors for real-time acquisition of surveillance data, low-level image processing algorithms, and event detection methods. It also discusses problems related to knowledge representation in surveillance systems, wireless and wired multimedia networks, and a new generation of surveillance communication tools. Information is presented on digital watermarking, broadband multimedia transmission, legal use of surveillance systems, performance evaluation criteria, and other emerging topics, along with applications for transports and pedestrian monitoring. The information contained in this work aims to bridge the distance between present practice and research findings, and the book should be a useful reference tool for professional engineers.

This compilation focuses on multisensor fusion aspects of video monitoring and surveillance. It addresses several current research and application issues by providing a selective set of invited contributions on topics ranging from complex event detection and human behaviour understanding to biometric feature extraction for combatting terrorism. Contributors to this volume are from the leading international laboratories in the field of video surveillance. The authors include coverage of numerous technical problems related to image monitoring of complex sites using multiple sensors, and apply cutting edge techniques to actual problems in different environments. The book is intended for researchers and technical personnel involved in the design of video surveillance systems in the fields of transportation and security services. Professionals and advanced level students with an interest in computer-based analysis of video sequences, intelligent transport systems, and related areas will find this work especially useful.

Ambient Intelligence (AmI) is an integrating technology for supporting a pervasive and transparent infrastructure for implementing smart environments. Such technology is used to enable environments for detecting events and behaviors of people and for responding in a contextually relevant fashion. AmI proposes a multi-disciplinary approach for enhancing human machine interaction.Ambient Intelligence: A Novel Paradigm is a compilation of edited chapters describing current state-of-the-art and new research techniques including those related to intelligent visual monitoring, face and speech recognition, innovative education methods, as well as smart and cognitive environments.The authors start with a description of the iDorm as an example of a smart environment conforming to the AmI paradigm, and introduces computer vision as an important component of the system. Other computer vision examples describe visual monitoring for the elderly, classic and novel surveillance techniques using clusters of cameras installed in indoor and outdoor application domains, and the monitoring of public spaces. Face and speech recognition systems are also covered as well as enhanced LEGO blocks for novel educational purposes. The book closes with a provocative chapter on how a cybernetic system can be designed as the backbone of a human machine interaction.

Monitoring of public and private sites is increasingly becoming a very important and critical issue, especially after the recent flurry of terrorist attacks including the one on the Word Trade Center in September 2001. It is, therefore, imperative that effective multisensor surveillance systems be developed to protect the society from similar attacks in the future. The new generation of surveillance systems to be developed have a specific requirement: they must be able to automatically identify criminal and terrorist activity without sacrificing individual privacy to the extent possible. Privacy laws concerning monitoring and surveillance systems vary from country to country but, in general, they try to protect the privacy of their citizens. Monitoring and visual surveillance has numerous other applications. It can be employed to help invalids or handicapped and to monitor the activities of elderly people. It can be used to monitor large events such as sporting events, as well. Nowadays, monitoring is employ~d in several different contexts including transport applications, such as monitoring of railway stations and airports, dangerous environments like nuclear facilities or traffic flows on roads and bridges. The latest generation of surveillance systems mainly rely on hybrid analog-digital, or completely digital video communications and processing methods and take advantage of the greater of flexibility offered by video processing algorithms that are capable focusing a human operator's attention on a set of interesting situations.

Multimedia surveillance systems is an emerging field that includes signal and image processing, communications, and computer vision. Multimedia Video-Based Surveillance Systems: Requirements, Issues and Solutions, combines the most recent research results from these areas for use by engineers and end-users involved in the design of surveillance systems in the fields of transportation and services. The book covers emerging surveillance requirements, including new digital sensors for real-time acquisition of surveillance data, low-level image processing algorithms, and event detection methods. It also discusses problems related to knowledge representation in surveillance systems, wireless and wired multimedia networks, and a new generation of surveillance communication tools. Timely information is presented on digital watermarking, broadband multimedia transmission, legal use of surveillance systems, performance evaluation criteria, and other new and emerging topics, along with applications for transports and pedestrian monitoring. The information contained in Multimedia Video-Based Surveillance Systems: Requirements, Issues and Solutions, bridges the distance between present practice and research findings, and the book is an indispensable reference tool for professional engineers.

This two-volume set LNCS 14233-14234 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Image Analysis and Processing, ICIAP 2023, held in Udine, Italy, during September 11–15, 2023. The 85 full papers presented together with 7 short papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 144 submissions.

This two-volume set LNCS 14233-14234 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Image Analysis and Processing, ICIAP 2023, held in Udine, Italy, during September 11–15, 2023.The 85 full papers presented together with 7 short papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 144 submissions.

The two-volume set LNCS 14365 and 14366 constitutes the papers of workshops hosted by the 22nd International Conference on Image Analysis and Processing, ICIAP 2023, held in Udine, Italy, in September 2023. In total, 72 workshop papers and 10 industrial poster session papers have been accepted for publication.

The two-volume set LNCS 14365 and 14366 constitutes the papers of workshops hosted by the 22nd International Conference on Image Analysis and Processing, ICIAP 2023, held in Udine, Italy, in September 2023.In total, 72 workshop papers and 10 industrial poster session papers have been accepted for publication. Part II of the set, volume 14366, contains 41 papers from the following workshops:– Medical Imaging Hub:• Artificial Intelligence and Radiomics in Computer-Aided Diagnosis (AIR-CAD)• Multi-Modal Medical Imaging Processing (M3IP)• Federated Learning in Medical Imaging and Vision (FedMed)– Digital Humanities Hub:• Artificial Intelligence for Digital Humanities (AI4DH)• Fine Art Pattern Extraction and Recognition (FAPER)• Pattern Recognition for Cultural Heritage (PatReCH)• Visual Processing of Digital Manuscripts: Workflows, Pipelines, BestPractices (ViDiScript)

The two-volume set LNCS 6978 + LNCS 6979 constitutes the proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Image Analysis and Processing, ICIAP 2011, held in Ravenna, Italy, in September 2011. They deal with the following topics: image analysis and representation; image and video analysis and processing and its applications.