Algorithms in Ambient Intelligence - Philips Research Book Series 1st Ed. Softcover of Orig. Ed. 2004 edition

Marc Notes: Originally published: 2004.; The result of a number of discussions prompted by a Philips symposium on intelligent algorithms, this volume presents examples of ambient intelligent systems that can be integrated into consumer electronic devices and telecommunication systems, including the Internet and Web. Table of Contents: 1. Algorithms in Ambient Intelligence.- I User Interaction.- 2. Multimodality and Ambient Intelligence.- 3. From Stereotypes to Personal Profiles via Viewer Feedback.- 4. CubyHum: Algorithm for Query by Humming.- 5. Personalized Multimedia Summarization.- 6. Features for Audio Classification.- 7. Information Retrieval in the Audio Domain.- 8. Approaches in Machine Learning.- 9. Machine Learning for Ambient Intelligence: Boosting in Automatic Speech Recognition.- 10. Exchange Clustering and EM Algorithm for Phrase Classification in Telephony Applications.- II System Interaction.- 11. Algorithms for Audio and Video Fingerprinting.- 12. Near Video-on-Demand with Limited Client Bandwidth and Distributed Servers.- 13. Methods to Optimally Trade Bandwidth against Buffer Size for a VBR Stream.- 14. Dynamic Control of Scalable Media Processing Applications.- 15. Saving Energy in Portable Multimedia Storage.- 16. Storage of VBR Video Content on a Multi-Zone Recording Disk based on Resource Usage.- 17. Test Resource Management and Scheduling for Modular ManufacturingTest ofSOCs. Contributor Bio:  Aarts, Emile Emile Aarts is Vice-President and Scientific Program Director of the Philips Research Laboratories. Eindhoven, and a Professor of Computer Science at Eindhoven University of Technology. Contributor Bio:  Korst, Jan Jan Korst received his M. Sc. degree in mathematics from Delft University of Technology, and his Ph. D.degree from Eindhoven University of Technology, both in the Netherlands. Since 1985, he has been with the Philips Research Laboratories in Eindhoven. His research lies mainly in the areas of scheduling and resource management problems in the areas of IC design and multimedia systems. Verus Pronk received his M. Sc. degree with distinction in mathematics from Eindhoven University of Technology, in the Netherlands. Since 1988, he has been with the Philips Research Laboratories in Eindhoven, where he has been active in the fields of fault-tolerant computing and communication, resource management in multimedia systems, contract negotiation and charging in ATM networks, and MAC protocols and scheduling in access networks. His current activities focus on performance issues and quality of service in access networks and in video-on-demand systems.