Springer New Directions in Intelligent Interactive Multimedia Systems and Services - 2: 226 (Studies in Computational Intelligence, 226)

The theme of the 2nd International KES Symposium on Intelligent Interactive Multimedia Systems and Services was integration of multimedia processing techniques in a new wave of user-centric services and processes. This text offers the symposium’s proceedings. From the Back Cover This volume contains the Proceedings of the  2nd International KES Symposium on Intelligent Interactive Multimedia Systems and Services (KES-IIMSS 2009) This second edition of the KES-IIMSS Symposium was organized by the  Department of Information Technologies of the University of Milan, Italy in conjunction  with Hanyang University, Korea and KES International. KES-IIMSS is a new series of international scientific symposia aimed at presenting novel research in the fields of intelligent multimedia systems relevant to the development of a new generation of interactive  services.   The major theme underlying KES-IIMSS 2009 is the rapid integration of multimedia processing techniques within a new wave of user-centric services and processes. Indeed, pervasive computing has blurred the traditional distinction between conventional information technologies and multimedia processing, making multimedia an integral part of a new generation of IT-based interactive systems. This volume can provide useful insight to researchers, professors, and graduate students in the areas of multimedia and service-oriented computing, as it reports novel research work on challenging open issues in the area of intelligent multimedia services.