Integration of audiovisual sensors and technologies in a smart room

At the Technical University of Catalonia (UPC), a smart room has been equipped with 85 microphones and 8 cameras. This paper describes the setup of the sensors, gives an overview of the underlying hardware and software infrastructure and indicates possibilities for highand low-level multi-modal interaction. An example of usage of the information collected from the distributed sensor network is explained in detail: the system supports a group of students that have to solve a lab assignment related problem