Multimodal Signal Processing: Human Interactions in Meetings - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1107022290 ISBN 13: 9781107022294

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2012

Synopsis

Bringing together experts in multimodal signal processing, this book provides a detailed introduction to the area, with a focus on the analysis, recognition and interpretation of human communication. The technology described has powerful applications. For instance, automatic analysis of the outputs of cameras and microphones in a meeting can make sense of what is happening - who spoke, what they said, whether there was an active discussion and who was dominant in it. These analyses are layered to move from basic interpretations of the signals to richer semantic information. The book covers the necessary analyses in a tutorial manner, going from basic ideas to recent research results. It includes chapters on advanced speech processing and computer vision technologies, language understanding, interaction modeling and abstraction, as well as meeting support technology. This guide connects fundamental research with a wide range of prototype applications to support and analyze group interactions in meetings.

About this title

Book Description:

A comprehensive synthesis of recent advances in multimodal signal processing applications for human interaction analysis and meeting support technology. With directly applicable methods and metrics along with benchmark results, this guide is ideal for those interested in multimodal signal processing, its component disciplines and its application to human interaction analysis.

About the Author:

Steve Renals is Director of the Institute for Language, Computation, and Cognition (ILCC) and Professor of Speech Technology in the School of Informatics at the University of Edinburgh. He has over 150 publications in speech and language processing, is the co-editor-in-chief of the ACM Transactions on Speech and Language Processing and has led several large projects in the field. With Hervé Bourlard, he was the joint coordinator of the AMI and AMIDA European Integrated Projects, which form the basis for the book.

About this edition

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 1107022290
• ISBN 13: 9781107022294
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 286
• Editor: Renals Steve, Bourlard Hervé, Carletta Jean, Popescu-Belis Andrei