| 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.
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