MUE2007 :: 2007 International Conference on Multimedia and Ubiquitous Engineering ::

Invited Speakers

2007 International Conference on Multimedia and Ubiquitous Engineering

April 26th ~ 28th, 2007
Korean Bible University , Seoul, Korea
　

1. Dr. Sajal K. Das (University Texas at Arlington, USA)
2. Dr. Laurence T. Yang (St. Francis Xavier University, Canada)
3. Dr. Andrzej Czyzewski (Technical University of Gdansk, Poland)
4. Dr. Sankar K. Pal (Indian Statistical Institute, India)
5. Dr. Timothy K. Shih (Tamkang University, Taiwan)

	Multimedia Approach for Traffic Noise Monitoring
	Dr. Andrzej Czyzewski Professor, Gdansk University of Technology, Poland
Summary of His Talk
The paper presents a part of an advanced system for railway and road traffic monitoring in metropolitan areas utilizing analyses of sound, vision and air polution based on a ubiquitous computing approach. This system is a functional part of a more complex solution designed for environmental monitoring in cities. The system consists of many autonomous, universal measuring units and a multimedia server, which gathers, processes and presents data obtained from the distributed measuring units. The results are visualized on numerical maps. The paper contains a functional and a technical description of the monitoring system. It describes also the algorithm for moving vehicle detection in video sequences based on a pixel-level difference among the image frames and a continually updated background model utilizing mixtures of Gaussians. The experiments carried out involve the implemented algorithm to the detection of vehicles in the recorded video sequences. The results obtained are illustrated with some examples and discussed.
About Dr. Andrzej Czyzewski
Prof. Andrzej Czyzewski is a native of Gdansk, Poland, born here in 1956. He received his M.Sc. degree in Sound Engineering from the Gdansk University of Technology in 1982, his Ph.D. degree in 1987 and his D.Sc. degree in 1992. In December 1999 Mr. President of Poland granted him the title of Professor. In 2002 the Senate of his University approved him to the position of Full Professor. His main interest is in research & education in multimedia and in modern communication technologies.