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M4: MultiModal Meeting Manager
M4 is a European Union IST project concerned with the construction of
a demonstration system to enable structuring, browsing and querying of
an archive of automatically analysed meetings. The archived meetings
will have taken place in a room equipped with multimodal sensors.
Subject to successful contract negotiations, research positions at the
postdoctoral and PhD student level will be available within the M4
project. If you are interested, send your CV (plain text, PDF or
postscript) and the names and addresses of two referees to Steve
Renals (s.renals@dcs.shef.ac.uk). Indicate
- which aspects of M4 interest you
- if one particular laboratory in the consortium interests you
- when you expect to be available.
The project is expected to start in March 2002, and will have a
duration of 3 years.
The M4 partners are:
University of Sheffield, Department of Computer Science,
Speech and Hearing Group, UK (http://www.dcs.shef.ac.uk/spandh)
Technical University of Munich, Institute for Human-Machine
Communication, Germany
IDIAP, Martigny, Switzerland
(http://www.idiap.ch/)
University of Geneva, Computer Vision and Multimedia Laboratory,
Switzerland (http://vision.unige.ch/)
EPFL, Signal Processing Laboratory, Lausanne, Switzerland
(http://ltswww.epfl.ch/)
TNO TPD, Department of Multimedia Technology and Statistics,
Delft, Netherlands (http://dis.tpd.tno.nl)
University of Twente, Department of Computer Science,
Language Technology Group, Enschede, Netherlands
(http://parlevink.cs.utwente.nl/parlevink.html)
M4 will include research in the following areas:
- Multimodal Recognition
+ Robust conversational speech recognition
+ Gesture/action recognition
+ Source localization and tracking
+ Multimodal person identification
+ Recognition of emotion and intent
- Multimodal Integration and Information Access
+ Intelligent information management framework
+ Models for the integration of multimodal streams
+ Summarization
+ Multimodal information extraction and cross-lingual retrieval/browsing
More details about the M4 project are available on the project website:
http://www.dcs.shef.ac.uk/spandh/projects/m4
Steve Renals
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