2016 Award for Outstanding Contributions in Neural Systems!

Antoine Deleforge (former team member, now with the PANAMA team, INRIA Bretagne-Atlantique), Florence Forbes (MISTIS team) and Radu Horaud received the 2016 Hojjat Adeli Award for Outstanding Contributions in Neural Systems for their paper: A. Deleforge, F. Forbes,  and R. Horaud (2015), “Acoustic Space Learning for Sound-source Separation and Localization on Binaural…

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The AVDIAR Dataset

AVDIAR: A Dataset for Audio-Visual Diarization Publicly available dataset in conjunction with paper “Audio-Visual Speaker Diarization Based on Spatiotemporal Bayesian Fusion“ The AVDIAR dataset is only available for non-commercial use   Citation Introduction Recording Setup Annotations Data Download Introduction AVDIAR (Audio-Visual Diarization) is a dataset dedicated to the audio-visual analysis…

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Multimodal head and body pose estimation, by Xavier Alameda-Pineda

Monday, November 23, 2015, 2:00pm to 3:00pm, room F107, INRIA Montbonnot Seminar by Xavier Alameda-Pineda, University of Trento, Italy Detecting social attention attractors in free-standing conversational groups through multimodal head and body pose estimation Abstract: During natural social gatherings, humans tend to organize themselves in the so-called free-standing conversational groups (FCGs). Studying…

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ACM Multimedia 2015 Best Paper Award!

Xavier (Xavi) Alameda-Pineda, former Ph.D student in the PERCEPTION group (2010-2013) and his co-authors, Yan Yan (University of Trento, Italy), Elisa Ricci, Oswald Lanz (Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Italy), and Nicu Sebe (University of Trento, Italy), received the “Best Paper Award” at ACM MULTIMEDIA 2015 for the paper Analyzing Free-standing Conversational Groups:…

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The AVTRACK-1 Dataset

We release the AVTRACK-1 dataset: audio-visual recordings used in the paper [1]. This dataset can only be used for scientific purposes. The dataset is fully annotated with the image locations of the active speakers and the other people present in the video. The annotated locations correspond to bounding boxes. Each person…

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IEEE ICIP’15: Best Student Paper Award!

Vincent Drouard (PhD student) and his co-authors received the “Best Student Paper Award” (second place) at IEEE ICIP’15 for the paper Head Pose Estimation via High-Dimensional Regression. The conference took place in Quebec City, Canada, September 2015. There were five papers awarded, two “Best Paper” and three “Best Student Paper” out of…

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