• INTERACTIVE MULTIMODAL INFORMATION MANAGEMENT: SHAPING THE VISION – Meeting capture, analysis and access – The IM2 Swiss National Center of Competence in Research – Related international projects and consortia
• Human-Computer Interaction and Human Factors
• HUMAN FACTORS IN MULTIMODAL INFORMATION MANAGEMENT – Role of human factors – Prominent research topics in human factors – Methodological approach in human factors – Empirical studies – Discussion and implications
• USER ATTENTION DURING MOBILE VIDEO CONSUMPTION – Modeling user behavior – Data acquisition experiment – Data processing and results – Conclusions
• WIZARD OF OZ EVALUATIONS OF THE ARCHIVUS MEETING BROWSER – The Archivus meeting browser – Multimodal Wizard of Oz evaluation – Conclusions
• DOCUMENT-CENTRIC AND MULTIMODAL MEETING ASSISTANTS – The Smart Meeting Minutes application – Document centric meeting browsing – Cross-meeting and ego-centric browsing – Multimodal user interfaces prototyping for online meeting assistants – The Communication Board application – Conclusion
• SEMANTIC MEETING BROWSERS AND ASSISTANTS – The JFerret framework and browser – TQB: a transcript-based query and browsing interface – Evaluation of meeting browsers – Automatic meeting browsers and assistants – Conclusions and perspectives
• MULTIMEDIA INFORMATION RETRIEVAL – Introduction – Multimedia information retrieval: from information to user satisfaction – Interaction log mining: from user satisfaction to improved information retrieval – Multimedia information retrieval in a wider context
• Visual and Multimodal Analysis of Human Appearance and Behavior
• FACE RECOGNITION FOR BIOMETRICS – Introduction – Face processing in a nutshell – From face detection to face recognition – Statistical generative models for face recognition – Cross-pollination to other problems – Open data and software – Conclusion and future work
• FACIAL EXPRESSION ANALYSIS – Introduction and state-of-the-art – Recognizing action units – Modeling human perception of static facial expressions – Conclusion
• SOFTWARE FOR AUTOMATIC GAZE AND FACE/OBJECT TRACKING – Gaze tracking – Face tracking in real environments – Application to autism spectrum disorder – Conclusion
• LEARNING TO LEARN NEW MODELS OF HUMAN ACTIVITIES IN INDOOR SETTINGS – Introduction – Related work – Proposed approach – Activity tracking for unusual event detection – Knowledge transfer for unusual event learning – Experiments – Conclusion
• NONVERBAL BEHAVIOR ANALYSIS – Introduction: a brief history of nonverbal behavior research in IM2 – VFOA recognition for communication analysis in meeting rooms and beyond – Social signal processing – Behavioral analysis of video blogging – Final remarks
• MULTIMODAL BIOMETRIC PERSON RECOGNITION – Introduction – Biometric classification with quality measures – Modeling reliability with Bayesian networks – A-stack: biometric recognition in the score-age-quality classification space – Conclusions
• MEDICAL IMAGE ANNOTATION – Introduction – Multiple cues for image annotation – Exploiting the hierarchical structure of data: condence-based opinion fusion – Facing the class imbalance problem: virtual examples – Experiments – Conclusions
• Speech, Language, and Document Processing
• SPEECH PROCESSING – Methods for automatic speech recognition – Front-end processing of speech – Posterior-based automatic speech recognition – The Juicer decoder – Conclusions
• RESEARCH TRENDS IN SPEAKER DIARIZATION – Goals and applications of speaker diarization – A state-of-the-art speaker diarization system – Research problems in speaker diarization – Conclusions and perspectives
• SPEAKER DIARIZATION OF LARGE CORPORA – Two-stage cross-meeting diarization – Speaker linking – Experimental results – Conclusions
• LANGUAGE PROCESSING IN DIALOGUES – Objectives of language analysis in meetings – Dialogue acts – Discourse particles – Thematic episodes and hot spots – Semantic cross-modal alignment – Conclusion and perspectives
• ONLINE HANDWRITING RECOGNITION – Introduction – Online word recognition – From word to text recognition – From text to documents – Conclusions
• Online Handwriting Analysis and Recognition – Introduction – Database acquisition – Online mode detection – Online handwriting recognition – Writer identification – Conclusion
• ANALYSIS OF PRINTED DOCUMENTS – Extracting and reorganizing digital content from printable documents – Tagging the information extracted from digital documents – Video recording alignment and the temporal dimension of printable documents – Aligning digital documents with audio recordings – From printable documents to cross-media alignment and indexing – Conclusion
• IT WAS WORTH IT! ASSESSMENT OF THE IMPACT OF IM2 – Motivation and procedure – The assessment questions – Synthesis of the interviews – Conclusion
• TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER: TURNING SCIENCE INTO PRODUCTS – Visual recognition on mobile devices: kooaba AG – Joining capture and webcast: Klewel SA – Business experience meets technology: KeyLemon SA – XED and Dolores for ebooks: sugarcube Information Technology Sarl – From speech to text: Koemei SA – Look me in the eye: Pomelo SARL – The Association for Interactive Multimodal Information Management – The International Create Challenge
• CONCLUSION AND PERSPECTIVES – Looking back on the initial motivations of IM2 – Scientific achievements of IM2 – Structural achievements – Technology transfer achievements – Perspectives

Publisher: EPFL Press English Imprint

Collection: Communication Sciences

Published: 3 october 2013

Edition: 1^st edition

Media: Book

Pages count Book: 372

Format (in mm) Book: 160 x 240

Weight (in grammes): 830

Language(s): English

EAN13 Book: 9782940222711