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This book proposes a new methodology to automatically analyze human behavior in narrow domains using video streaming. This chapter begins discussing the main technological innovations that are creating the premise to implement such kind of systems. Next, the principal application fields of these systems are briefly presented and then the main issues that the scientific community are facing to realize them are presented. Finally the proposed methodology is briefly presented and the remaining part of the book is outlined.

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Amato, A., Di Lecce, V., Piuri, V. (2013). Introduction. In: Semantic Analysis and Understanding of Human Behavior in Video Streaming. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-5486-1_1

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