Smart rooms provide advanced interfaces for networked information systems. Smart rooms include a variety of sensors that can analyze the behavior of persons in the room; these sensors allow people to issue commands without direct contact with equipment. Video is one important modality for smart room input--video analysis can be used for determining the presence of people in the room, gesture analysis, facial analysis, etc. This paper outlines the architecture of a real-time video analysis system for smart rooms. The system uses multiple cameras, each with its own video signal processor. We use algorithms that can be performed in real-time to capture basic information about the persons in the room.

Date Published: 20 July 2001
PDF: 7 pages
Proc. SPIE 4519, Internet Multimedia Management Systems II, (20 July 2001); doi: 10.1117/12.434257

Published in SPIE Proceedings Vol. 4519:
Internet Multimedia Management Systems II
John R. Smith; Sethuraman Panchanathan; C.-C. Jay Kuo; Chinh Le, Editor(s)