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EquipEx AmiQual4Home - Ambient Intelligence for Quality of Life
Participants : Stan Borkowski, Sabine Coquillart, Joelle Coutaz, James Crowley [correspondant] , Alexandre Demeure, Thierry Fraichard, Amaury Nègre, Patrick Reignier, Dominique Vaufreydaz.
Ambient Intelligence, Equipment d'Excellence, Investissement d'Avenir
The AmiQual Innovation Factory is an open research facility for innovation and experimentation with human-centered services based on the use of large-scale deployment of interconnected digital devices capable of perception, action, interaction and communication. The Innovation Factory is to be composed of a collection of workshops for rapid creation of prototypes, surrounded by a collection of living labs and supported by a industrial innovation and transfer service. Creation of the Innovation Factory has been made possible by a 2.140 Million Euro grant from French National programme "Investissement d'avenir", together with substantial contributions of resources by Grenoble INP, Univ Joseph Fourier, UPMF, CNRS, Schneider Electric and the Commune of Montbonnot. The objective is to provide the academic and industrial communities with an open platform to enable research on design, integration and evaluation of systems and services for smart habitats.
The core of the AmiQual Innovation Factory is a Creativity Lab composed of a collection of five workshops for the rapid prototyping of devices that integrate perception, action, interaction and communications into ordinary objects. The Creativity Lab is surrounded by a collection of six Living Labs for experimentation and evaluation in real world conditions. The combination of fabrication facilities and living labs will enable students, researchers, engineers, and entrepreneurs to experiment in co-creation and evaluation. The AmiQual Innovation Factory will also include an innovation and transfer service to enable students, researchers and local entrepreneurs to create and grow new commercial activities based on the confluence of digital technologies with ordinary objects. The AmiQual Innovation Factory will also provide an infrastructure for participation in education, innovation and research activities of the European Institute of Technology (EIT) KIC ICTLabs.
The AmiQual Innovation Factory is a unique combination of three different innovation instruments: (1) Workshops for rapid prototyping of devices that embed perception, action, interaction and communication in ordinary objects nased on the MIT FabLab model, (2) Facilities for real-world test and evaluation of devices and services organised as open Living labs, (3) Resources for assisting students, researchers, entrepreneurs and industrial partners in creating new economic activities. The proposed research facility will enable scientific research on these problems while also enabling design and evaluation of new forms of products and services with local industry.
The AmiQual Innovation Factory will enable a unique new form of coordinated ICT-SHS research that is not currently possible in France, by bringing together expertise from ICT and SHS to better understand human and social behaviour and to develop and evaluate novel systems and services for societal challenges. The confrontation of solutions from these different disciplines in a set of application domains (energy, comfort, cost of living, mobility, well-being) is expected to lead to the emergence of a common, generic foundation for Ambient Intelligence that can then be applied to other domains and locations. The initial multidisciplinary consortium will progressively develop interdisciplinary expertise with new concepts, theories, tools and methods for Ambient Intelligence.
The potential impact of such a technology, commonly referred to as "Ambient Intelligence", has been documented by the working groups of the French Ministry of Research (MESR) [35] as well as the SNRI (Stratégie Nationale de la Recherche et de l'Innovation).
INRETS Intelligent Urban Spaces Platform
Participants : Claudine Combe, James Crowley [correspondant] , Lukas Rummelhard.
Visual detection and tracking of pedestrians, Intelligent Urban Space
The project ANR-07-TSFA-009-01 CIPEBUS ("Carrefour Intelligent - Pôle d'Echange - Bus) has been proposed by INRETS-IFSTTAR, in collaboration with Inria, Citilog, Fareco, and the city of Versaille. The Objective of the CIPEBUS project is to develop an experimental platform for observing activity in a network of urban streets in order to experiment with techniques for optimizing circulation by context aware control of traffic lights.
Within CipeBus, Inria jas developed a real time multi-camera computer vision system to detect and track people using a network of surveillance cameras. The CipeBus combines real time pedestrian detection with 2D and 3D Bayesian tracking to record the current position and trajectory of pedestrians in an urban environment under natural view conditions. The system extends the sliding window approach to use a half-octave Gaussian Pyramid to explore hypotheses of pedestrians at different positions and scales. A cascade classifier is used to determine the probability that a pedestrian can be found at a particular position and scale. Detected pedestrians are then tracked using a particle filter.
The resulting software system has been installed and tested at the INRETS CipeBus platform and is currently used for experiments in controlling the traffic lights to optimize the flow of pedertrians and public transportation while minimizing the delay imposed on private automobiles.
FUI 3Dlive
Participants : Frédéric Devernay, Sylvain Duchêne, Matthieu Volat.
3Dlive (http://3dlive-project.com ) is a collaborative project, supported by French Ministry of Industry, and involving 3 industry and research clusters: Images & Reseaux (Brittany and Pays-de-la-Loire regions), Imaginove (Rhône-Alpes region), Cap Digital (Paris region). The objectives of this project are to create expertise in France for the live filming and transmission of 3D stereo contents, and to help French industry and universities to be major global 3D actors. 3Dlive won the Loading the Future trophy from the Images & Reseaux cluster in 2011. The consortium consists of:
The role of PRIMA within this project is to develop new algorithms for real-time processing of stereoscopic video streams. This includes:
view interpolation, and extraction of stereoscopic metadata for the adaptation of the stereoscopic content to the projection screen.
These algorithms rely on view- and scale- invariant feature extraction, feature matching, dense stereoscopic reconstruction, and computer graphics techniques (matting, and accelerated processing and rendering using the GPU).
FUI PRAMAD
Participants : Wafa Benkaouar, Claudine Combe, Dominique Vaufreydaz [correspondant] .
Pramad is a collaborative project about Plateforme Robotique dÁssistance et de Maintien à Domicile. There are seven partners:
The objectives of this project are to design and evaluate robot companion technologies to maintain frail people at home. Working with its partners, PRIMA research topics are:
Large-scale initiative action PAL
Participants : Rémi Barraquand, Thierry Fraichard, Patrick Reignier, Dominique Vaufreydaz.
The 12 Inria Project-Teams (IPT) participating in a Large-scale initiative action Personally Assisted Living (PAL http://pal.inria.fr ) propose to work together to develop technologies and services to improve the autonomy and quality of life for elderly and fragile persons. The goal of this program is to unite these groups around an experimental infrastructure, designed to enable collaborative experimentations.
PAL is organized arround 12 IPT:
Coprin, Demar, E-Motion, Flowers, Lagadic, Lagadic-Sophia, Maia, Phoenix, Prima, Pulsar, Reves and Trio.
The role of PRIMA within this project is to develop new algoritms mainly along two research axes: