This volume presents high quality, state-of-the-art research ideas and results from theoretic, algorithmic and application viewpoints. It contains contributions by leading experts in the obsequious scientific and technological field of multimedia. The book specifically focuses on interaction with multimedia content with special emphasis on multimodal interfaces for accessing multimedia information. The book is designed for a professional audience composed of practitioners and researchers in industry. It is also suitable for advanced-level students in computer science.

Review of the State of the Art.- Cross-Modal Integration for Performance Improving in Multimedia: A Review.- Human-Computer Interfaces to Multimedia Content a Review.- Integrated Multimedia Analysis And Recognition.- Stochastic Models for Multimodal Video Analysis.- Adaptive Multimodal Fusion by Uncertainty Compensation with Application to Audio-Visual Speech Recognition.- Action Recognition in Multimedia Streams.- Surveillance Using Both Video and Audio.- Movie Analysis with Emphasis to Dialogue and Action Scene Detection.- Audiovisual Attention Modeling and Salient Event Detection.- Toward the Integration of Natural Language Processing and Automatic Speech Recognition: Using Morpho-Syntax and Pragmatics for Transcription.- Searching Multimedia Content.- Interactive Image Retrieval Using a Hybrid Visual and Conceptual Content Representation.- Multimodal Analysis of Text and Audio Features for Music Information Retrieval.- Intelligent Search for Image Information on the Web through Text and Link Structure Analysis.- Interfaces to Multimedia Content.- IDesign Principles for Multimodal Spoken Dialogue Systems.- Eye Tracking: A New Interface for Visual Exploration.- User Interaction for Mobile Devices.