Special session Organizers: Prof. A.N. Skodras, Hellenic Open University, Greece, Dr. V.F. Ruiz, University of Reading, UK
Personalized and natural interaction with an intelligent environment can only become a reality when multimodal data of the inhabitants can be properly acquired and analyzed. Environments can really react and provide ‘intelligent’ or ‘smart’ services by processing of such data and extracting features and knowledge.

The focus of this special session is primarily on the following topics:

• Video-based monitoring of environments
• Biometric data analysis (eye – iris – face – fingerprint – signature – voice analysis)
• Behavioral analysis (posture – gait – user habits analysis and modeling)
• Content-based encoding of visual and behavioral data
• Personalised and natural interaction applications

Instructions for Manuscripts

Authors are requested to submit a PDF file for their manuscript. The paper should not be more than 10 pages long and has to follow strictly The Institution of Engineering and Technology's guidelines which are available at http://www.theiet.org/Events/ConfExh/layout.pdf
All manuscripts should be Emailed to the special session organizers at one of the following emails: skodras@eap.gr or v.f.ruiz@reading.ac.uk. All manuscripts should be received by the workshop deadline for paper submission which is the 4th April 2006.

For more information please contact:
Prof. A.N. Skodras, Hellenic Open University, Greece (skodras@eap.gr)
Dr. V.F. Ruiz, University of Reading, UK (v.f.ruiz@reading.ac.uk)