Quasper R&D Project - QUAlification et certification des Systèmes de PERception
Quasper R&D is a French project from June 2010 to may 2012. It gathers 3 objectives to serve companies and laboratories: (1) to encourage R&D and the design of new perception systems; (2) to develop and support the definition of European standards to evaluate the functional results of perception systems; (3) to support the qualification and certification of sensors, software and integrated perception systems. Target domains are Security, Transportation and Automotive. The coordinator is THALES SERVICES SAS and other partners are AFNOR, AKKA, DURAN, INRETS, SAGEM SECURITE, ST MICROELECTRONICS, THALES RT, VALEO VISION SAS, CEA, CITILOG, INSTITUT d'OPTIQUE, CIVITEC, SOPEMEA, ERTE, HGH.
I mainly focus on the design of the evaluation platform.

COFRIEND Project - Cognitive Vision System able to adapt itself to unexpected situations
European project Cofriend aims at conceiving cognitive vision system for automatic monitoring of human activities. Cofriend project started in February 2008 and ended in February 2011 and follows up the Avitrack project. The project studies all activities occurring around aircraft parked on aprons at Toulouse airport. Most specifically the system have to adapt itself to lighting condition changes, weather changes, to new airport configurations, to the arrival of new servicing vehicles and new aircraft types. The performance of the system to recognise correctly the actions of interest and its capability to adapt itself to unexpected situations is a keypoint of this project. Six teams are involved in Cofriend: INRIA Sophia-Antipolis, Akka Toulouse airport (France), University of Reading and of Leeds (UK), University of Hamburg (Germany).

CIU-Santé Project - elderly care at Hospital
CIU-Santé (Centre d'Innovation et d'Usages en Santé) is a DGCIS French project from November 2008 to 30 April 2012 (42 months) on long-term monitoring of elderly people at Hospital with CSTB, the Nice City Hospital, Pole SCS, Thales Aliena Space, Actis Ingenierie, Movea, CEA and UNSA. In this project two experimental rooms have been built in Nice-Cimiez Hospital for monitoring Alzheimer patients.

VANAHEIM Project - Autonomous Monitoring Of Underground Transportation Environment
VANAHEIM (Video/Audio Networked surveillance system enhAncement through Human-cEntered adaptIve Monitoring) is a FP7-ICT-2009-4 Cognitive Systems and Robotics IP European project which has started on February 1st 2010 and will end in 2013 (42 months). The aim of this proposal is to study innovative surveillance components for Autonomous Monitoring Of Multi-Sensory And Networked Infrastructure Such As Underground Transportation Environment. The prime partner is Multitel (Belgium) and others partners are: INRIA Sophia-Antipolis (France), Thales Communications (France), IDIAP (Switzerland), Torino GTT (Italy) and Rantégie Autonome des Transports Parisiens RATP (France), Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Urban Ethology (Austria) and Thales Communications (Italy).

Thales-Mexico

GERHOME - Elderly Monitoring at Home
In 2006, we started the GERHOME project in collaboration with CSTB (Centre Scientifique et Technique du Batiment) and the Nice City Hospital (Groupe de Recherche sur la Tophicite et le Viellissement). The GER'HOME project was funded by the PACA region. GER'HOME project is devoted to experiment and develop techniques that allow long-term monitoring of elderly people at home. In this project an experimental home has been built in Sophia Antipolis instrumented with environmental sensors such as pressure contract, water and electric consumption sensors. We have developed unsupervised event learning and recognition techniques to be integrated in a platform to provide services and to perform experiments.

SYSTEM@TIC SIC Project - sensitive building monitoring
I am participating in the SIC project from the SYSTEM@TIC competitivity cluster (``pole de competivite'') which is a strategic initiative in security from the Paris region. More precisely the SIC project has been founded for 42 months from October 2006 to April 2010 in perimeter security for sensitive buildings. The partners include Thales, EADS, Alcatel, BULL, SAGEM, Bertin, Trusted Logic, CEA, Sodern, Axalto, GET/INT, Paris Sud and RATP. The solutions proposed by SIC project will be validated through two demonstrators, RATP subway station and Bobigny administrative building.

STmicroelectronics - Intelligent Cameras
We have been in cooperated with STmicroelectronics and Ecole des Mines de Paris at Fontainebleau in the framework of PACA Lab from March 2003 till March 2008. We have designed intelligent cameras integrating image analysis and interpretation capabilities. In particular I have developed a new algorithm for 3D human posture recognition in real-time from video cameras. This work has been applied to the long-term monitoring of elderly people living at home.