A multimodal data collection of daily activities in a real instrumented apartment

This paper presents technical setup and methodology used for the data collection in progress within the NETCARITY project, as of middle of February, 2008. The goal of this work is to collect a large amount of high quality acoustic and visual data, concerning people doing common activities of daily living. The final expected structured and annotated database of activities will be helpful to develop systems that, starting from audio-visual cues, automatically analyze the daily behaviour of humans and recognize different kinds of daily living activities (distinguished in single activities, parallel activities, and single activities with some background noises).