@conference {13689, title = {Video analysis applications for pervasive environments}, booktitle = {1st International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Multimedia}, year = {2002}, month = {2002///}, pages = {48 - 55}, abstract = {Network capabilities are expanding at arate that will soon allow a much wider range of image and video content to be delivered to and transmitted from mobile wireless devices. Current pervasive applications provide image and video content primarily in high performance networks or by streaming video over low-bandwidth networks. For video to be truly integrated into ubiquitous applications, we must carefully consider the role of automated video analysis to move beyond simple content delivery. Compression and content adaptation have been significant areas of research for some time and deal with the problem of moving media to devices with limited network, software and hardware capabilities. In the near future, mobile wireless devices that have been primarily consumers of image and video will be able to produce such content as well. In this paper, we will review some of the significant issues associated with providing video capabilities in pervasive environments. We consider not only streaming video applications, but point-to- point video and video messaging capabilities as well. We will show how our previous work on content adaptation is being applied to these types of environments, show what role more general video analysis can play and describe a general architecture for video capture, storage, analysis and transmission. }, author = {Karunanidhi,A. and David Doermann and Parekh,N. and Rautio,V.} }