Category: Seminars

Egocentric Audio-Visual Scene Analysis, by Xavier Alameda-Pineda

Tuesday, October 15, 2013, 10:00 to 10:45, Grand Amphi, INRIA Montbonnot PhD public defense by Xavier Alameda-Pineda, Perception Team, INRIA Montbonnot Abstract. Along the past two decades, the industry has developed several commercial products with audio-visual sensingcapabilities. Most of them consists on a videocamera with an embedded microphone (mobile phones, tablets, etc). Other, such as Kinect, include …

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The Future of Television, by Josep R. Casas

Tuesday, October 15, 2013, 2:00 to 3:00, room C207, INRIA Montbonnot by Josep Ramon Casas, Technical University of Catalonia (UPC), Barcelona Abstract.  Television, a telecommunication medium for the transmission of moving images and sound (cf.wikipedia). It substantiates the “far sight” concept of its mixed Greek-Latin etymology. But this definition may be misleading. Are the current technological solutions …

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Microphone Array Processing: Algorithms & Applications, by Sharon Gannot

Tuesday, September 24, 2013, 4:00 to 5:00, room F107, INRIA Montbonnot by Sharon Gannot, Bar-Ilan University, Israel Abstract. A major challenge in modern acoustic communication systems is the acquisition of a sound of interest. In the last decade, the use of multiple microphones has shown to provide significant advantages compared to the use of a single …

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