The major challenge for video-surveillance is the huge amount of data that are produced, even by medium size systems. As an event arise, time spent by users to retrieve the data of interest is therefore very long, and is requesting an strong involvement of them that has a impact in terms of cost. The delay for delivering the information of interest (the proof image) is one of the critical issues (the image quality is another one), with a direct impact for the security of the citizens and the perceived efficiency of video-surveillance systems. Video analytics algorithms have progressed along the time and can be envisaged for helping the retrieval of information in large video-surveillance systems, whereas this task is still done manually (as an example for RATP and SNCF public transports operators). For enabling the use of such algorithms it is therefore mandatory to be able to predict with a good precision the expected performances of such algorithms, when they will be applied on real video-surveillance data. This issue is very critical for video-analytics as the context differs from the assessment of big software systems due to the very large variability of parameters. It is also difficult or even unrealistic to do an exhaustive test on a database covering all situations and contexts. The main objective of METHODEO is to establish an evaluation methodology for the video-analytic algorithms, especially for the exploitation of video-surveillance recordings, for being able to anticipate their behaviour on different types of data bases and contexts. After a study and assessment of the pre-existing methodologies, with consideration of the user’s requirements and the realistic contexts, the METHODEO methodology will be studied and developed. The tracks to be followed by the project and its technical orientations will be decided by the Strategic Committee, chaired by the coordinator, with a representative person from each of the partners, linked to the Steering Committee that will involve three users of METHODEO: • Steven Aimé - STSI/CTSI • Marie-Hélène Bonneau - UIC • Jean-François Sulzer - Thales Security Solutions and Services SBL Protection Systems

The aging population is a very strong concern in Europe. The significant increase in life expectancy leads to worry about increasing the quality of life of seniors. There is a strong link between aging and loneliness. The objective of the Amalys project is to bring maturing part of six years of research and laboratory experiments conducted by the SID (Services Innovants pour Personnes Dépendantes, Innovative Services for Dependent Persons) of Télécom Bretagne. The project targets the elderly and / or dependent living in institutions or at home, he wants to offer services using the image through the medium of choice for this population today: the television. Amalys answer: - Strengthening intergenerational ties by maintaining networks emotional senior citizens; - To offset the loss of autonomy by the deployment of communications solutions between dependents, the family and the team of professional carers. The main technological building blocks of the system have been developed in previous projects (T@pa, Companym@ges-AIPA) and validated in experiments in situ in a nursing home since September 2009. The technical infrastructure must now be consolidated in terms of network access and data storage, and enriched the range of services. Finally, the technical solution, achieved today for deployment in an institution, must be adapted for wider deployment in the homes of the elderly. The platform Amalys intended to be transferred, via a contract for licensing of know-how at a future start-up (tentatively named Elder - Elder's Interactive solution) which will be accompanied by the incubator Telecom Bretagne in Rennes which creation is expected in the first half of 2011.