EURASIP Journal on Applied Signal Processing 
Volume 2005 (2005), Issue 14, Pages 2359-2374
doi:10.1155/ASP.2005.2359

Design and Assessment of an Intelligent Activity Monitoring Platform

Alberto Avanzi,1 François Brémond,2 Christophe Tornieri,2 and Monique Thonnat2

1i-DTV Group, Bull SA, avenue Jean Jaurès, Les Clayes-Sous-Bois, 78340, France
2ORION Group, INRIA Sophia Antipolis, 2004 route des Lucioles, B.P. 93, Sophia Antipolis Cedex, 06902, France

Received 26 January 2004; Revised 25 January 2005

Abstract

We are interested in designing a reusable and robust activity monitoring platform. We propose three good properties that an activity monitoring platform should have to enable its reusability for different applications and to insure performance quality: (1) modularity and flexibility of the architecture, (2) separation between the algorithms and the a priori knowledge they use, and (3) automatic evaluation of algorithm results. We then propose a development methodology to fulfill the last two properties. The methodology consists in the interaction between end-users and developers during the whole development of a specific monitoring system. To validate our approach, we present a platform used to generate activity monitoring systems dedicated to specific applications, we also describe in details the technical validation and the end-user assessment of an automatic metro monitoring system built with the platform and briefly the validation results for bank agency monitoring and building access control.