Research on audio and speech technologies in the framework of the CHIL European project on multimodal interfaces
Speaker: Professor Climent Nadeu, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya
When: 2005-07-28 12:30:00
Venue: N54_2.06 Bray Centre, Griffith University, Nathan campus
Host: (seminar host unavailable)
Abstract:In the first part of the talk, I am going to succinctly describe the
objectives of the project CHIL (Computers in the Human Interaction
Loop). This EU-funded project, which was launched in January 2004
and has a 3 years duration, lies in the area of multimodal
interfaces, and focuses on a meeting-room environment. Several of
the European and North American partners involved in CHIL have got a
smart room where perceptive interface technologies working with
video and audio signals are being deployed and investigated. In the
second part, I will talk about the work at the UPC on several audio
and speech technologies during the first 18 month of the
project. Concretely, recent results on acoustic talker localization,
speech activity detection, and acoustic event classification will be
presented.
Biography:Climent Nadeu received the PhD in 1982, from the Universitat
Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC), Barcelona, Spain, where he is
currently a Professor in signal processing. He has more than 130
publications in books, scientific journals, and conference
proceedings, mainly in the area of speech technologies, and was the
first Director of the Research Center for Technologies and
Applications of Language and Speech (TALP), from 1998 to 2004. His
research interests lie in the areas of signal processing, pattern
recognition, and multimodal interfaces. During his sabbatical leave,
he has been a Visiting Researcher at AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray
Hill (NJ), and at the International Computer Science Institute,
Berkeley (CA), and he currently is at the Signal Processing
Laboratory, Griffith University.
Type: Research Lunch
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