AVIARY: Audio-Video
Interactive Appliances, Rooms, and systems, identifies a major research
effort pursued by the CVRR team for developing new kinds of devices,
interfaces, and systems required for Intelligent Environments. Intelligent
or Smart Rooms are spaces that automatically derive and continuously maintain
an awareness of the space, its composition, and events and activities
taking place in them. We have pursued several research directions that
together provide the technology for comprehensive and robust intelligent
environments:
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Activity analysis in intelligent rooms: the system that is aware of the identities
of people present and of their activities. Remote participants and review
of past events are supported through a rich interface
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Multimodal and audio analysis:
using both audio and video to achieve a robust performance
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Televiewing:
virtual view generation using multiple omnidirectional video streams and
seamless merging of high resolution rectilinear images with low resolution
omnidirectional images which provide wide coverage
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AVIARY: framework and 3D
sensing
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Semantic
event databases: databases designed to recognize activities
specified using a rich query language
