We have witnessed great interest and a wealth of promise in content-based image retrieval
as an emerging technology. While the last decade laid foundation to such promise, it also …

The proliferation of MP3 players and the exploding amount of digital music content call for
novel ways of music organization and retrieval to meet the ever-increasing demand for easy …

Artificial Intelligence has the tremendous potential to produce progress and innovation in
society. Designing AI for people has been expressed as essential for societal well-being and …

Smart homes equipped with ambient intelligence technology constitute a promising direction
to enable the growing number of elderly to continue to live in their own home as long as …

In this paper, we review the major approaches to multimodal human–computer interaction,
giving an overview of the field from a computer vision perspective. In particular, we focus on …

The past decades have witnessed a rapid growth of Distributed Interactive Multimedia
Environments (DIMEs). Despite their intensity of user-involved interaction, the existing …

Can we contribute to developing a consistent terminology and, to some extent, an
acceptable ontology in the rapidly expanding field of human systems integration (HSI)? We …

In this paper we review the major approaches to multimodal human computer interaction
from a computer vision perspective. In particular, we focus on body, gesture, gaze, and …

This article provides a systematic review of research articles applying Kansei/Affective
Engineering methodologies for the development of Social and Service Robots. We describe …

The prevalence of multimedia applications has drastically increased the amount of
multimedia data. With the drop of the hardware cost, more and more mobile devices with …