Multimodal Processing and Interaction
Audio, Video, Text

This volume presents high quality research ideas and results from theoretic, algorithmic and application viewpoints. It specifically focuses on interaction with multimedia content with special emphasis on multimodal interfaces for accessing multimedia information.

This volume presents high quality, state-of-the-art research ideas and results from theoretic, algorithmic and application viewpoints. It contains contributions by leading experts in the obsequious scientific and technological field of multimedia. The book specifically focuses on interaction with multimedia content with special emphasis on multimodal interfaces for accessing multimedia information. The book is designed for a professional audience composed of practitioners and researchers in industry. It is also suitable for advanced-level students in computer science.

Preface.- Tutorial Review of State of the Art.- Cross-Modal Integration/Interaction for Performance Improving in Multimedia: State-of-the-Art Review.- Human-Computer Interfaces for Multimedia Retrieval: State of the Art.- New Research Directions: Integrated Multimedia Analysis And Recognition.- Stochastic Models for Multimodal Video Analysis.- Adaptive Multimodal Fusion by Uncertainty Compensation with Application to Audio-Visual Speech Recognition.- Action Recognition in Multimedia Streams.- Surveillance Using Both Video and Audio.- Movie Analysis with Emphasis to Dialogue Detections.- Audio-Visual Attention Modeling and Salient Event Detection.- New Research Directions: Searching Multimedia Content.- Interactive Image Retrieval using a Hybrid Visual and Conceptual Content Representation.- Multimodal Analysis of Text and Audio Features for Music Information Retrieval.- Toward the Integration of NLP and ASR: POS Tagging and Transcription.- Design Principles for Multimodal Spoken Dialogue Systems.- Eye Tracking for Image Retrieval.- Natural/ Novel User Interfaces for Mobile Devices.