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ROTUNDE - A Smart Meeting Cinematography Initiative: Tools, Datasets, and Benchmarks for Cognitive Interpretation and Control
We construe smart meeting cinematography with a focus on professional
situations such as meetings and seminars, possibly conducted in a distributed
manner across socio-spatially separated groups. The basic objective in smart
meeting cinematography is to interpret professional interactions involving
people, and automatically produce dynamic recordings of discussions, debates,
presentations etc in the presence of multiple communication modalities. Typical
modalities include gestures (e.g., raising one's hand for a question,
applause), voice and interruption, electronic apparatus (e.g., pressing a
button), movement (e.g., standing-up, moving around) etc. ROTUNDE, an instance
of smart meeting cinematography concept, aims to: (a) develop
functionality-driven benchmarks with respect to the interpretation and control
capabilities of human-cinematographers, real-time video editors, surveillance
personnel, and typical human performance in everyday situations; (b) Develop
general tools for the commonsense cognitive interpretation of dynamic scenes
from the viewpoint of visuo-spatial cognition centred perceptual
narrativisation. Particular emphasis is placed on declarative representations
and interfacing mechanisms that seamlessly integrate within large-scale
cognitive (interaction) systems and companion technologies consisting of
diverse AI sub-components. For instance, the envisaged tools would provide
general capabilities for high-level commonsense reasoning about space, events,
actions, change, and interaction.Comment: Appears in AAAI-2013 Workshop on: Space, Time, and Ambient
Intelligence (STAMI 2013
Research in software allocation for advanced manned mission communications and tracking systems
An assessment of the planned processing hardware and software/firmware for the Communications and Tracking System of the Space Station Freedom (SSF) was performed. The intent of the assessment was to determine the optimum distribution of software/firmware in the processing hardware for maximum throughput with minimum required memory. As a product of the assessment process an assessment methodology was to be developed that could be used for similar assessments of future manned spacecraft system designs. The assessment process was hampered by changing requirements for the Space Station. As a result, the initial objective of determining the optimum software/firmware allocation was not fulfilled, but several useful conclusions and recommendations resulted from the assessment. It was concluded that the assessment process would not be completely successful for a system with changing requirements. It was also concluded that memory requirements and hardware requirements were being modified to fit as a consequence of the change process, and although throughput could not be quantitized, potential problem areas could be identified. Finally, inherent flexibility of the system design was essential for the success of a system design with changing requirements. Recommendations resulting from the assessment included development of common software for some embedded controller functions, reduction of embedded processor requirements by hardwiring some Orbital Replacement Units (ORUs) to make better use of processor capabilities, and improvement in communications between software development personnel to enhance the integration process. Lastly, a critical observation was made regarding the software integration tasks did not appear to be addressed in the design process to the degree necessary for successful satisfaction of the system requirements
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