Background and Experience: I am a postdoctoral researcher working in the area of activity recognition in smart environments. In particular, I am exploring machine learning and pattern recognition frameworks for recognizing activities in large scale datasets(data collected over months) gathered from realworld environments. My doctoral dissertation focused on a computational framework for wearabl...

Extracting automatically the semantics from visual data is a real challenge. We describe in this paper how recent work in cognitive vision leads to significative results in activity recognition for visualsurveillance and video monitoring. In particular we present work performed in the domain of video understanding in our PULSAR team at INRIA in Sophia Antipolis. Our main objective is to analyse...