Description, Indexing, Access to Sound and Ethnomusicological Documents The laboratory of Ethnology and Comparative Sociology (LESC) including the research center of ethnomusicology (CREM) and the center of teaching and research in American Indian Ethnology (EREA) as well as the laboratory of anthropolgy of National Museum of Natural History (MNHN) are dealing with the need to index the audio archives they
Constitution, indexing and enrichment of an environmental sound corpus Corpora of environmental sounds are necessary for scientific studies of human perception and also for the creation of immersive environments (simulation, virtual reality, video games, …). This project aims to provide concrete solutions for the creation, analysis, use, and adaptation of a corpus of sounds. Main issues and objectives CIESS is
Context MediaEval is a benchmarking initiative focusing on the evaluation of new algorithms enabling multimedia access and retrieval. Since 2009, many tasks have been evaluated. MediaEval offers datasets to the research community related to the set of selected tasks, the list of which is updated each year. MediaEval also focuses on the ‘multi’ aspect of multimedia (speech, audio, visual content, tags, users,
Robots for perceptual Interactions Dedicated to Daily Life Environment Main issues and objectives In order to best meet his/her needs, a robotic platform designed to assist a person in a daily living context must be endowed with multiple functionalities enabling it to perceive the person and his own environment (living place, everyday objects and activities). Robust navigation in indoor environments,
Objectives The challenge REPERE is part of the objectives of the Content and Interaction Program of the Agence Nationale de la Recherche (ANR), in partnership with the Direction Générale de l’Armement (DGA). REPERE aims at evaluate people recognition within television programs. An evaluation is organized annually with a test in January. Three consortia are funded for a period of 36
Articulatory inversion from audio-visual speech for augmented speech presentation Collaborations CNRS DR6 (Project Coordinator) Grenoble INP CNRS DR1 People involved in SAMOVA team Régine André-Obrecht (scientific coordinator) Jérôme Farinas Support ANR DEFIS program (2008 call) : ANR-08-EMER-001 Scheduled Start time : 1st january 2009 End time : 1st september 2012
Indexing Multimedia Data from Wearable Sensors for diagnostics and treatment of Dementia Problem description With the ageing of population, dementia cases consequently increases in Europe. An early diagnosis prevent insecurity and health worsening in aged people living at home. Generally, dementia is diagnosed in gathering clues of pathological changes in people life. To assess those changes, physicians use neurological examination, neuropsychological
Objectives Quaero is a collaborative research and development program, centered at developing multimedia and multilingual indexing and management tools for professional and general public applications such as the automatic analysis, classification, extraction and exploitation of information. The research aims to facilitate the extraction of information in unlimited quantities of multimedia and multilingual documents, including written texts, speech and music audio
Open Source Platform for Biometric Authentification Problem description The biometric user authentication yields to verify the identity of a person based on some physical or behavioural characteristics, such as fingerprints, DNA, iris, face or voice. This topic has been the object of a significant increase in interest during the last decade, in the commercial field (secured access to sensible information,
Exploring large sets of audio documents for extraction and processing of concersational speech Problem description Very large collections of speech data are now available and have to be indexed to allow later retrieval of recorded information. The cost of manual transcription of audio recordings is high, especially when specific indexing is wanted such as the main topic, keywords or the