Ambient Intelligence Multimedia Management Framework

Ambient intelligence has been gaining a lot of momentum in recent years due to the unprecedented potential it can bring by achieving a ubiquitous, inconspicuous, and interconnected technological surroundings that are sensitive, adaptive, and responsive to the presence of humans. Multimedia management including its creation, annotation, storage, sharing, retrieval and delivery in such a distributed and interconnected environment, is a challenging task to perform. The challenge stems primarily from the heterogeneity of multimedia data that need to be managed and delivered while taking into consideration the context of users, devices, networks, and surrounding environments. In this paper, we first state the requirements of an ambient intelligence environment and keeping these requirements in mind, propose a multimedia management framework. We describe the several activities of multimedia management, its related issues, and provide the architecture of the proposed framework. A prototype application is developed that handles the capturing, storage, retrieval and delivery of multimedia data. Finally, we present some experimental results and outline future works in this direction.