Deadline for sending applications: 30 November 2013. Project proposed by Laurent Girin and Radu Horaud. The PERCEPTION team at INRIA investigates audiovisual scene analysis for a humanoid robot. In particular, the team is interested in implementing advanced “social skills” on the consumer robot NAO (http://www.aldebaran-robotics.com/fr/). The challenge is to provide NAO…
The PERCEPTION team has recently completed the EU ICT-FP7 STREP project HUMAVIPS (http://humavips.inrialpes.fr). HUMAVIPS (Humanoids with Audio and Visual Abilities in Populated Spaces) was a three year project coordinated by Radu Horaud and composed of the following partners: INRIA, Cech Technical University, Aldebaran Robotics, Bielefeld University, and IDIAP. The objective of HUMAVIPS has…
The CAVA database is a unique set of audiovisual recordings using binocular and binaural camera/microphone pairs both mounted onto a person’s head. The database was gathered in order to develop computational methods and cognitive models for audiovisual scene analysis, as part of the European project POP (Perception on Purpose, FP6-IST-027268)….
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…
