{"title":"Dynamic multi-agent architecture for multimedia multimodal dialogs","authors":"H. Djenidi, C. Tadj, A. Ramdane-Cherif, N. Lévy","doi":"10.1109/KMN.2002.1115171","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/KMN.2002.1115171","url":null,"abstract":"There is a real need for clear and sound design specifications of dynamic architecture for multimedia multimodal dialogs. These specifications must take into account the dynamic aspect in order to satisfy quality attributes such as adaptability, maintainability and understandability. Multimodal systems featuring fusion for natural human-computer interaction involve complex intelligent architectures to handle unexpected errors and mistakes made by users. These architectures should react to events that occur simultaneously with eventual redundancy from different input media. In this paper, dynamic based intelligent agent architectures for multimedia multimodal dialog protocols are proposed Global agents are decomposed into relevant sub-agents, called components. Each sub-agent is modeled separately. Timed colored Petri nets are used to specify the structure and behavior of each agent in our architecture and to prove that this architecture satisfies the desired structural and behavioral properties. This paper describes work in progress and presents a sound idea of designing dynamic architecture using agents for multimedia applications.","PeriodicalId":215129,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings. IEEE Workshop on Knowledge Media Networking","volume":"9 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2002-07-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128167640","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"How to evaluate networked communication tools","authors":"K. Yamashita","doi":"10.1109/KMN.2002.1115176","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/KMN.2002.1115176","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents a new approach to evaluate networked communication tools that support or facilitate communications for community members. We propose a standardized scale based on psychological scaling of human need. We report the progress of evaluation of Public Opinion Channel (POC) within the framework of social intelligence.","PeriodicalId":215129,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings. IEEE Workshop on Knowledge Media Networking","volume":"48 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2002-07-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122831342","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Incremental PDFA learning for conversational agents","authors":"Masayuki Okamoto","doi":"10.1109/KMN.2002.1115179","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/KMN.2002.1115179","url":null,"abstract":"When finite-state machines are used for dialogue models of a conversational agent, learning algorithms which learn probabilistic finite-state automata with the state merging method are useful. However these algorithms should learn the whole data every time the number of example dialogues increases. Therefore, the learning cost is large when we construct dialogue models gradually. We proposed a learning method which decreases the number of compatibility checks by caching the merging information, and evaluated it and the perplexities of learned models. From the comparison among the dialogue models, the method which caches only the compatibility-changed states reduced the total number of compatibility checks by 13%. We also applied the algorithm to an actual conversational agent.","PeriodicalId":215129,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings. IEEE Workshop on Knowledge Media Networking","volume":"23 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2002-07-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133177472","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Hand detection and tracking using pixel value distribution model for multiple-camera-based gesture interactions","authors":"A. Utsumi, N. Tetsutani, S. Igi","doi":"10.1109/KMN.2002.1115159","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/KMN.2002.1115159","url":null,"abstract":"We present a vision-based hand tracking system for gesture-based man-machine interactions and a statistical hand detection method. Our hand tracking system employs multiple cameras to reduce occlusion problems. Non-synchronous multiple observations enhance system scalability. In the system, users can manipulate a virtual scene by using predefined gesture commands. We propose a statistical method to detect hand regions in images using geometrical structures involved in the appearances of the target objects. Most conventional gesture recognition systems utilize a simpler method for hand detection such as background subtractions with assumed static observation conditions and those methods are not robust against camera motions, illumination changes, and so on. Our method can describe and recognize the appearances of hands based on geometrical structures. Experimental results show the effectiveness of our method.","PeriodicalId":215129,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings. IEEE Workshop on Knowledge Media Networking","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2002-07-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114025157","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Town map system for sharing accessibility information using card data structure","authors":"A. Hattori, T. Yasuda, S. Yokoi","doi":"10.1109/KMN.2002.1115174","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/KMN.2002.1115174","url":null,"abstract":"This paper describes a town map system for sharing accessibility information. Our system's unique contribution is handling all information as card data and associating those cards with a map. Using this system, users can share information in a map-based unified way. Our system not only stores information from users, but also organizes it. Users can therefore easily make their own plan for going out by relating more than two stored cards. They can also efficiently search for necessary information. Furthermore, in order to provide reliable information, we incorporated a function in which users can give a card positive or negative comments. If a card is given a negative comment, our system might make it invisible. Through evaluation of the prototype system, it was proved that our proposed system was effective in shaping accessibility information.","PeriodicalId":215129,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings. IEEE Workshop on Knowledge Media Networking","volume":"39 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2002-07-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122043690","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Naoki Kirimoto, M. Kosuga, T. Yamazaki, Tomonori Nakanishi, M. Masuzaki, K. Hasuike
{"title":"Composing a multimedia service by plural terminals in ubiquitous networks","authors":"Naoki Kirimoto, M. Kosuga, T. Yamazaki, Tomonori Nakanishi, M. Masuzaki, K. Hasuike","doi":"10.1109/KMN.2002.1115163","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/KMN.2002.1115163","url":null,"abstract":"It is a challenging task to develop a high quality and secure multimedia service for mobile terminals used in the ubiquitous computing environment. One of the issues is the resource limitation of mobile terminals. We present a multimedia service composition scheme for sharing computer and communication resources by using terminals to compensate for this resource limitation. The proposed scheme is based on user authentication, service access control, and the multi-agent-based adaptive QoS control framework that we developed. We also propose a novel access mode control based on the trustworthiness of users and extension of the multi-agent-based adaptive QoS control framework to many users. Focusing on the home network as a typical ubiquitous network, we implement a prototype testbed system and show experimental results for the multimedia service composition.","PeriodicalId":215129,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings. IEEE Workshop on Knowledge Media Networking","volume":"4 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2002-07-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126717416","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"PDA Watch for mobile surveillance services","authors":"Sheng-Tun Li, Huang-Chih Hsieh, Ly-Yen Shue, Wen-Shen Chen","doi":"10.1109/KMN.2002.1115162","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/KMN.2002.1115162","url":null,"abstract":"Delivering real-time surveillance services to handheld devices over the Internet is an interesting application in mobile environments. Developing such system necessitates tackling considerable design challenges including device shortcomings, platform heterogeneity and bandwidth limitation. In this paper we present a Java-based approach for developing a mobile surveillance system which allows PDA users to overcome these challenges. This approach applies emerging Java technologies including J2ME, RMI, and JMF for mobile computing, handheld devices, distributed computing, and multimedia computing. To achieve the thin-client goal in the post-PC era, a textual-based application-level communication protocol is also designed. We demonstrate the effectiveness of our design approach via actual experimentations on the Palm PDA. With the advent of J2ME standardization, our system is expected to be generically applicable to various handheld and mobile devices.","PeriodicalId":215129,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings. IEEE Workshop on Knowledge Media Networking","volume":"2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2002-07-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133133170","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Construction of network system and the first step of summarization for human daily action data in the sensing room","authors":"H. Noguchi, T. Mori, T. Sato","doi":"10.1109/KMN.2002.1115157","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/KMN.2002.1115157","url":null,"abstract":"This paper describes the: 1) construction of a network system for measurement and accumulation of sensor data in a room equipped with sensors; and 2) proposition of a summarization algorithm as the first step of analysis for the accumulated data. The network system is constructed via distributed object technology. The network has a module structure and three layers for easy integration of a large amount of sensors. The accumulation system is also created for an application. The accumulation is performed over the long term to analyze the human daily action data. The summarization algorithm focuses attention on the changes of the sensor data in the room. The summarized data is useful for grasping the room states at a glance.","PeriodicalId":215129,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings. IEEE Workshop on Knowledge Media Networking","volume":"4 6","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2002-07-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"113993486","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Generating the 3D model of an object for realizing the 3D space-shared communication over the network","authors":"M. Sein, Y. Suzuki, H. Kakeya, Y. Arakawa","doi":"10.1109/KMN.2002.1115160","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/KMN.2002.1115160","url":null,"abstract":"We aimed to develop a new 3D reconstruction system that provides the realization of 3D space-shared communication over the network. We would like to introduce our recent result on 3D model generation research. A multiple eye stereo camera system is basically applied in this research project. The model of an object is reconstructed using the depth images grabbed by the multiple eye cameras from different viewing angles. The reconstructed models of the reference object relative to the multiple views generate the complete 3D model. By using the communication system software, which is called NetUNIVERS, the reconstructed object can be shared among the multiple places. Furthermore, the space-shared communication space can be synthesized completely with the 3D information space through this research.","PeriodicalId":215129,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings. IEEE Workshop on Knowledge Media Networking","volume":"39 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2002-07-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125327043","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Proactive information supply for activating conversational interaction in virtual communities","authors":"N. Kurabayashi, T. Yamazaki, T. Yuasa, K. Hasuike","doi":"10.1109/KMN.2002.1115180","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/KMN.2002.1115180","url":null,"abstract":"This paper describes a method for activating conversational interaction in virtual communities. Our method supplies information proactively to promote utterances of participants. The notion of subjective usefulness of information is introduced to guide conversation effectively so that the participants can obtain or exchange useful information. We implemented an agent that employs our method and conducted the experiments to verify validity of our method. As a result, we found that our method was able to activate conversational interaction and assist participants in obtaining or exchanging useful information.","PeriodicalId":215129,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings. IEEE Workshop on Knowledge Media Networking","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2002-07-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131196716","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}