ambient intelligence a novel paradigm

[...]... F.Pecora,2 R.Rasconi2 and L.Scozzafava1 1 Dipartimento di Informatica e Sistemistica, University of Rome, La Sapienza, Italy {bahadori, iocchi, leone, nardi, scozzafava}@dis.uniroma1.it 2 Planning and Scheduling Team, Italian National Research Council, Italy {a. cesta, fpecora, rasconi}@istc.cnr.it Keywords: 1 Artificial Intelligence, Ambient Intelligence, intelligent sensors, situation monitoring, assistance,... detection algorithm, it is possible to create a temporal model of the scene, keeping track of where the person has been and when storing spatial and temporal information as a Markov chain as shown in [17][8][7] and also described in Chapters 7 and 6 of the book 4 Conclusions This chapter has introduced AmI as a novel paradigm able to create new synergies between human and machine An AmI system is meant to... entertainment and conventional visual surveillance systems, easily portable to other domains of application, such as the training of professionals The AmI paradigm can be realised only through a number of technologies, all involving modern computing hardware and software In particular, an AmI system requires the use of distributed sensors and actuators to create a pervasive technological layer, able... computational artifacts is a physically portable computational artifact Typically these take the form of wearable technology that can monitor and control the iDorm wirelessly The handheld iPAQ shown in Figure 1.3(middle right) contains a standard Java process that can access and control the iDorm directly, this forms a type of “remote control” interface that would be particularly suitable to elderly and... Physica-Verlag, 2002 [5] H Hagras, V Callaghan, M Colley, G Clarke, A Pounds-Cornish, and H Duman Creating an ambient- intelligence environment using embedded agents IEEE Intelligent Systems, 2004 14 AMBIENT INTELLIGENCE [6] H Hagras, M Colley, V Callaghan, G Clarke, H Duman, and A Holmes A fuzzy incremental synchronous learning technique for embedded agents learning and control in intelligent inhabited... to interact transparently with a user, either passively by observing and trying to interpret what the user actions and intentions are, but 2 AMBIENT INTELLIGENCE also actively, by learning the preferences of the user and adapting the system parameters (applied to sensors and actuators, for instance) to improve the quality of life and work of the occupant It must be born in mind that the AmI paradigm. .. development of integrated systems Service oriented architectures (SOA) have evolved over the last years to support high performance, scalability, reliability and availability In basic terms a service is an application that can be accessed through a programmable interface Different distributed computing protocols such as CORBA, DCOM and RMI have been adopted to access these services Although they are very effective... important for an AmI compliant system References [1] D A. Forsyth and J.Ponce Computer Vision A Modern Approach Prentice Hall, 2003 [2] F Doctor, H Hagras, and V Callaghan A type-2 fuzzy embedded agent for ubiquitous computing environments In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Fuzzy Systems, 2004 [3] F Doctor, H.Hagras, and V Callaghan An intelligent fuzzy agent approach for realising ambient. .. with available and fascinating techniques borrowed from other disciplines Whoever will read this collection might be a little disappointed, because it has a strong technological slant and it relies on some mathematical, statistical and artificial intelligence techniques - computer vision being one of them To the disappointed we wish to convey that we have started down a new road, and we have to learn... values are considered 10 AMBIENT INTELLIGENCE greatly and their contribution slowly decays as reaches its lower threshold, set to a small value, typically 0.2, to allow a contribution from newly read pixel values A user can then be detected as a compact ensemble of foreground pixels by estimating whether a newly read pixel value statistically falls within acceptable boundaries The described method is a . Multicamera Surveillance System T.Ellis, J.Black, M.Xu and D.Makris 7 Mapping an Ambient Environment D.Makris, T.Ellis and J.Black 8 Fast Online Speaker Adaptation for For Smart Room Applications S.Kadambe 9 A. S.Velastin 2 Towards AmI for the Domestic Care of the Elderly S.Bahadori, A. Cesta, L.Iocchi, G.R.Leone, D.Nardi et al 3 Scaling Ambient Intelligence P.Marti, H.H.Lund 4 A Context-based Ambient Intelligence. entertainment and conventional visual surveillance systems, easily portable to other domains of application, such as the training of professionals. The AmI paradigm can be realised only through a