Abstract User Location Discovery (ULD) is a key issue in smart home ecosystems, as it plays
a critical role in many applications. If a smart home management system cannot detect the …

The notion of remote biometrics or biometrics at a distance is today of paramount importance
to provide a secure mean for user-friendly identification and surveillance. In 2007 the …

Omnidirectional cameras have a lot of potential for surveillance and ambient intelligence
applications, since they provide increased coverage with fewer cameras. We introduce the …

For an environment to be perceived as being smart, contextual information has to be
gathered to adapt the system's behavior and its interface towards the user. Being a rich …

Person tracking is an important topic in ambient living systems as well as in computer vision.
In particular, detecting a person from a ceiling-mounted camera is a challenge since the …

Modern gaming has changed substantially through the use of speech, vision, and other
modalities, which enhanced the more traditional input modalities like keyboard, mouse …

An apparatus comprises a plurality of microphone units including at least a first microphone
unit and a second micro phone unit, each of the first and second microphone units …

Smart homes and ambient intelligence show great promise in the fields of medical
monitoring, energy efficiency and ubiquitous computing applications. Their ability to adapt …

The security concerns due to the September 11 and later terroristic attacks, fostered the
development of more advanced techniques for biometric identification. This had a positive …

Relative positioning of microphones in an array has a significant impact on how well the
array can localize sound sources. Two-or three-dimensional localization accuracy of a …