Seminar by Thomas Hueber, CNRS, GIPSA-lab, Grenoble Thursday 8 February, 10:00 – 11:00, room F107 INRIA Montbonnot Saint-Martin Abstract. Propelled by the progress of machine learning, speech technologies such as automatic speech recognition and text-to-speech synthesis have become enough advanced to be deployed in several consumer products and used in…
PhD defense by Vincent Drouard Monday 18 December 2017, 11:00 – 12:00, Grand Amphithéatre INRIA Montbonnot Saint-Martin In this thesis, we address the well-known problem of head-pose estimation in the context of human-robot interaction (HRI). We accomplish this task in a two step approach. First, we focus on the estimation…
Seminar by Manuel J. Marin-Jimenez, Universidad de Córdoba Tuesday 19 December 2017, 11:00 – 12:00, room F107 INRIA Montbonnot Saint-Martin Abstract: This talk targets people identification in video based on the way they walk (i.e. gait). While classical methods typically derive gait signatures from sequences of binary silhouettes, in this…
Data Science Seminar Series, 12 Octobrer 2017 Radu Horaud Abstract: Robots have gradually moved from factory floors to populated spaces. Therefore, there is a crucial need to endow robots with communicative skills. One of the prerequisites of human-robot communication (or more generally, interaction) is the ability of robots to perceive…
Seminar by Fabrice Lefèvre, Université d’Avignon Room C207 9:30 – 11:00 Abstract: Stochastic techniques, supervised or not, or by reinforcement, are now largely spread on every modules intervening in academic systems of human-machine dialog. Current researches strive to improve even further their quality to reach satisfying and acceptable global…
Yutong Ban (PhD student) and his co-authors, Xavier Alameda-Pineda, Fabien Badeig, and Radu Horaud, were among the five finalists of the “Novel Technology Paper Award for Amusement Culture” at the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), Vancouver, Canada, September 2017, for their paper Tracking a Varying Number…
As an ERC Advanced Grant holder, Radu Horaud was awarded a Proof of Concept grant for his project Vision and Hearing in Action Laboratory (VHIALab). The project develops software packages enabling companion robots to robustly interact with multiple users.
Israel Dejene Gebru (PhD student) and his co-authors, Christine Evers, Patrick Naylor (both from Imperial College London) and Radu Horaud, received the best paper award at the IEEE Fifth Joint Workshop on Hands-free Speech Communication and Microphone Arrays, San Francisco, USA, 1-3 March 2017, for their paper Audio-visual Tracking by…
Wednesday, 22 March 2017, 10:30 – 11:30 am, room F107, INRIA Montbonnot Seminar by Simon Leglaive, Telecom ParisTech, Paris Abstract: We tackle the problem of multichannel audio-source separation in under-determined reverberant mixtures. The aim of this talk is to present source separation approaches that can take advantage of prior…
We just made public our novel AVDIAR dataset. AVDIAR stands for “audio-visual diarization”. The dataset contains recordings of social gatherings done with two cameras and six microphones. Both the audio and visual data were carefully annotated, such that it is possible to evaluate the performance of various algorithms, such as…
