Constrained image understanding for an Internet robot supporting telepresence

Author

Ferworn, Alexander ; Shiu, Wing-Hong ; Plataniotis, Kostas

Volume

2

fYear

2001

fDate

2001

Firstpage

1229

Abstract

The Network-Centric Applied Research Team (N-CART) introduces a distributed model for constrained image recognition for a Web-enabled video robot supporting aspects of telepresence. The recognition engine resides on a network node apart from the actual robot streaming the video. We have found that by employing such a model, the cost and complexity of the robot can be reduced while allowing the recognition services to be reused by other devices. We also discuss how we are using the notion of distributed services to deploy video preprocessing for limited capability wireless devices

Keywords

Internet; handicapped aids; image recognition; radio equipment; robots; telecontrol; video signal processing; visual communication; Internet robot; MAX architecture; N-CART; Network-Centric Applied Research Team; Web-enabled video robot; constrained image recognition; constrained image understanding; distributed model; distributed services; handicapped access buttons; mobile Internet appliances; network node; recognition engine; recognition services; robot complexity; robot cost; telepresence; video preprocessing; video streaming; wireless devices; Collaboration; Communication cables; Costs; Image recognition; Internet telephony; Robots; Search engines; Streaming media; Video sharing; World Wide Web;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Electrical and Computer Engineering, 2001. Canadian Conference on

Conference_Location

Toronto, Ont.

ISSN

0840-7789

Print_ISBN

0-7803-6715-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CCECE.2001.933617

Filename

933617