ActIPret

"Interpreting and Understanding Activities of Expert Operators for Teaching and Education"

FP5 RTD - IV.2.1.:  Real time distributed systems, Project No: IST-2001-32184 (official project web-page)

November 2001 - November 2004

Contact Person
Dipl.-Ing. Dr. Markus Vincze tel.: +43-01-504 14 46 11
INFA - Vienna University of Technology fax: +43-01-58801 36199
Gusshausstr. 27-29/361 e-mail: vm@flexaut.tuwien.ac.at
A-1040 Wien - Austria  

Objective

The objective of ActIPret (Activity InterPretation) project is to devise a vision methodology to interpret, understand and record the actions of a person handling an object. The tasks considered are observable by video stream. The goal is to understand the activities such that they can be stored in an activity plan for later reference by the user. The focus of the developments is on active observation and interpretation of the activities, extraction of the essential activities and their functional dependence, and parsing the sequences into constituent behaviour elements. The approach is active in that it seeks to obtain better views and exploits task and context knowledge to constrain interpretation. Of utmost importance is the ability to produce a robust result. Robust perception and interpretation of scene and activities is the key to capturing the essential information, allowing reproduction of task sequences from easy-to-understand representations and providing a user-friendly tool for the trainee.

Consortium

INFA
Coordinator (Austria)		 Institute of flexible Automation
Vienna University of Technology
CMP
Partner (Czech Republic)		 The Center for Machine Perception
Czech Technical University, Prague
COGS
Partner (Great Britain)		 School of Cognitive and Computing Science
University of Sussex, Falmer
ICS-FORTH
Partner (Greece)		 Institute of Computer Science
Foundation for Research and Technology - Hellas, Heraklion
PROFACTOR
Partner (Austria)		 PROFACTOR
Produktionsforschungs GmbH, Steyr

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