Plan, Activity, and Intent Recognition

Preface

The diversity of applications and disciplines encompassed by the subfield of plan, intent, and activity recognition, while producing a wealth of ideas and results, has unfortunately contributed to fragmentation in the area because researchers present relevant results in a broad spectrum of journals and at conferences. This book serves to provide a coherent snapshot of the exciting developments in the field enabled by improved sensors, increased computational power, and new application areas. While the individual chapters are motivated by different applications and employ diverse technical approaches, they are unified by the ultimate task of understanding another agent’s behaviors.

As there is not yet a single common conference for this ...