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Job Opportunity at Idiap

By avincia, on April 27th, 2011%

Applications are invited for a PhD position in speech processing and machine learning funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation and supported by the the European Network of Excellence in Social Signal Processing SSPNet. The duration of the appointment is for a maximum of 4 years with a competitive PhD salary. The position is available from November 2011 onwards. Starting date [...] [...]

Job Opportunity at TU Delft

By avincia, on April 27th, 2011%

All details at the following link: http://mmi.tudelft.nl/?q=node/7581 PHD IN EMOTION AND AMBIENCE RECOGNITION FROM UNOBTRUSIVE SENSORS Faculty: Department Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science Level: Master degree Maximum employment: Maximum of 38 hours per week (1 FTE) Duration of contract: 4 years Salary: €2042 to €2612 per month gross JOB DESCRIPTION As a PhD student you will collaborate to the ACE project (Adaptive Ambience [...] [...]

SSPNet spinout wins John Logie Baird award

By srenals, on April 8th, 2011%

SpeechGraphics, a company co-founded by Edinburgh SSPNet researcher Gregor Hofer, was awarded a John Logie Baird award in March 2011 for their innovative audio-driven animation. See the Press Association report on the 2011 John Logie Baird awards. [...]

Call for Papers: Special issue on Conceptual frameworks for Multimodal Social Signal Processing

By Paul Brunet, on March 28th, 2011%

The Journal on Multimodal User Interfaces is a publication of OpenInterface (www.openinterface.org) Editor in Chief: Jean-Claude Martin Founding Editor: Benoît Macq www.jmui.org Guest editors: Paul Brunet, Queen’s University Belfast Roddy Cowie, Queen’s University Belfast Dirk Heylen, University of Twente Anton Nijholt, University of Twente Marc Schröder, DFKI This special issue will address the rapidly emerging field of social signal processing, which covers both recognition and interpretation [...] [...]

Active appearance models

By dmjtax, on March 24th, 2011%

This tool comprises a basic Matlab implementation of active appearance models, as well as an extension of active appearance models that has a more powerful texture models (it models texture using a m...

Hidden-Unit Conditional Random Fields

By dmjtax, on March 24th, 2011%

The hidden-unit conditional random field (CRF) is a model for structured prediction that is more powerful than standard linear CRFs. The additional modeling power of hidden-unit CRFs stems from its b...

IEEE International Workshop on Socially Intelligent Surveillance and Monitoring (SISM 2011)

By avincia, on March 23rd, 2011%

[ November 12, 2011; ] Mission In general terms, surveillance and monitoring technologies aim at understanding what people do in a given environment, whether this means to ensure the safety of workers on the factory floor, to detect crimes occurring in indoor or outdoor settings, or to monitor the flow of large crowds through public spaces. Computer vision & pattern recognition [...] [...]

The detection of concept frames using Clustering Multi-Instance Learning

By mvalstar, on March 22nd, 2011%

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D. Tax, E. Hendriks, M. Valstar, and M. Pantic, "The detection of concept frames using Clustering Multi-Instance Learning," in Proceedings of International Conference on Pattern Recognition, 2010, pp. 2917-2921. full entry [ download ]

Smiling and laughter in naturally occurring dyadic interactions: relationship to conversation, body contacts, and displacement activities

By avincia, on March 22nd, 2011%

2011

M. Mehu, "Smiling and laughter in naturally occurring dyadic interactions: relationship to conversation, body contacts, and displacement activities," Human Ethology Bulletin, vol. 26, iss. 1, pp. 10-28, 2011. full entry [ download ]

AAM-FPT Facial Point Tracker

By mvalstar, on March 20th, 2011%

The AAM-FPT (Active Appearance Model-based Facial-point Tracker) can be used to track 40 characteristic facial points. AAM-FPT consists of a hierarchy of three Active Appearance Models (AAM) and ...

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