Ambient multimedia intelligent systems (AMIS)

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"Ambient intelligence" refers to pervasive computing environments that are sensitive and responsive to the presence and movements of people. This notion was proposed in 1998 by Philips, Netherlands, and first appeared in the literature in 1999. Ambient Intelligence opens up a world of very rich experiences. The interactions of people-with-people, or people-with-machines, using electronic devices will change as context-awareness, natural interfaces, and ubiquitous availability of information are realized. Distributed multimedia applications and their processing on embedded static and mobile platforms will play a major role in the development of ambient-intelligent environments. The proposed research program will focus on the design, implementation, testing and evaluation of multimedia technologies and applications running in ambient intelligence environments. Multimedia applications will be composed of combinations of media such as audio, video, text, graphics, animation, Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality and Haptics, where the media have space, time and/or semantic relationships. Natural interfaces, such as human gestures and body movements will be in the core of this research. User-centric computing, employing the user profile, preferences and context will be main points of interest. Multimedia content adaptation and delivery, according to user and situation context will be effected, using standards such as MPEG-7 (for indexing), MPEG-21 (for adaptation and stream control) and MPEG-4 (for content coding, transport and rendering). The role of intelligent algorithms in this research is apparent because it is the key enabling factor for realizing natural interaction. The applications of this research are plentiful, ranging from the smart-home and smart-workplace of the future, to entertainment, digital media in health applications and digital media in the arts.