Final Report Summary - MARIE (Multimodal activity recognition for interactive environments)
Evaluation is an essential component of any scientific research field. Activity recognition is no different. For many years the field continued with severe drawbacks in the way researchers measured and evaluated their work. Some of these drawbacks were identified in the researcher's earlier PhD work. Through the MARIE project we introduced a complete system of evaluation - results comparison, error scoring, metric calculation - and demonstrated these on widely available activity recognition datasets. We demonstrated the utility of our approach in comparison to the standard methods. This work has recently been accepted for publication in a forthcoming ACM journal, and has already drawn a number of interested users from the activity recognition research community.
In a parallel work through collaboration with over 30 of the leading researchers in activity recognition, we drew together a consensus on how activity recognition can best proceed in future. A publication summarising this work is now under way. This has a strong the potential to influence the entire research field in future.