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Best Paper Award at IEEE MMSP’13

Radu Horaud — Fri, 04 Oct 2013 14:53:46 +0000

The article “Alignment of Binocular-Binaural Data Using a Moving Audio-Visual Target” received the “Best Paper Award” at the IEEE International Workshop on Multimedia Signal Processing (MMSP’13), Pula, Italy, September-October 2013. The paper is authored by Vasil Khalidov (IDIAP), Radu Horaud (INRIA) and Florence Forbes (INRIA).

The paper addresses the problem of of aligning visual and auditory data using a sensor that is composed of a camera-pair and a microphone-pair. The original contribution of the paper is a method for audio-visual data aligning through estimation of the 3D positions of the microphones in the visual centred coordinate frame defined by the stereo camera-pair.

The paper can be downloaded here: Alignment of Binocular-Binaural Data Using a Moving Audio-Visual Target.

Outstanding Paper Award at ICMI’12

Radu Horaud — Fri, 22 Mar 2013 15:30:45 +0000

The article “Linking Speaking and Looking Behavior Patterns with Group Composition, Perception, and Performance” received one of the “Outstanding Paper Awards” (best papers) at the IEEE/ACM 14th International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI’12), Santa-Monica, CA USA, October 2012. The paper is authored by Dineshbabu Jayagopi, Dairazalia Sanchez-Cortes, Kazuhiro Otsuka, Junji Yamato, and Daniel Gatica-Perez (IDIAP)

This paper addresses the task of mining typical behavioral

patterns from small group face-to-face interactions and linking them to social-psychological group variables

This paper addresses the task of mining typical behavioral patterns from small group face-to-face interactions and linking them to social-psychological group variables. The paper can be downloaded here: Linking Speaking and Looking Behavior Patterns with Group Composition, Perception, and Performance

HUMAVIPS and the “Cocktail Party Effect”

Radu Horaud — Wed, 21 Mar 2012 08:42:48 +0000

An article about the HUMAVIPS project published in Hörakustik (Median-Verlag), January 2012:

Cocktailparty-Effekt: Bibliothek im Gehirn

by Herman Nilson.

Das menschliche Gehirn kann Geräusche auch dann unterscheiden, wenn mehrere Schallquellen wie Stimmengewirr und Musik gleichzeitig verarbeitet werden müssen. Dieses Phänomen – der sogenannte Cocktailparty-Effekt – ist auch nach 60 Jahren Forschung nicht eindeutig geklärt. Wissenschaftler des Bernstein Zentrums und der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität (LMU) München haben nun ein mathematisches Modell entwickelt, das den Prozess der Geräuscherkennung beim Menschen erstmals erklären könnte.

Outstanding Paper Award at ICMI’11

Radu Horaud — Mon, 21 Nov 2011 20:34:53 +0000

The article “Finding Audio-Visual Events in Informal Social Gatherings” received the “Outstanding Paper Award” (best paper) at the IEEE/ACM 13th International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI’11), Alicante, Spain, November 2011. The paper is authored by Xavi Alameda-Pineda (INRIA), Vasil Khalidov (IDIAP), Radu Horaud (INRIA) and Florence Forbes (INRIA).

The paper addresses the problem of detecting and localizing audio-visual events (such as people) in a complex/cluttered scenario such as a cocktail party. This paper is addressing one of the core problems associated with robust interactions between a robot and a group of people.

The paper can be downloaded here: Finding Audio-Visual Events in Informal Social Gatherings