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Department of Cybernetics,
Faculty of Applied Sciences
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University of West Bohemia
Plzeň (Pilsen) / Czech Republic / 1. 8. - 26. 8. 2011
The list of invited speakers is not final, we have already some more invitations pending or in our minds. We will publish them as soon as they are accepted. Also, we will publish the exact names of all talks and dates of the lectures more closely to the eNTERCAE'11 workshop. Generally there should be at least one invited lectures per week.
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Nick CampbellTrinity College Dublin, Ireland![]() |
Nick Campbell is a SFI Stokes Professor of Speech & Communication Technology at the Centre for Language and Communication Studies, School of Linguistic, Speech and Communication Sciences, Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences. His background is in experimental psychology and linguistics, but most of his experience is in speech technology. He prefers corpus-based approaches and have pioneered advanced (and paradigm-shifting) methods of speech synthesis and natural conversational speech collection in a multimodal environment. His principal interest is in speech prosody, extending this research to social interaction to show how the voice is used in discourse to express personal relations as well as propositional content. Most of his previous work has used speech materials collected in Japan, and he is happy now to be in Ireland where he can confirm the universality of his previous findings - both for Irish and for Hiberno-English. Ultimately, he is working to produce a friendlier speech-based human-machine interface for web-based information, customer-services, games, and robotics, while trying to understand how humans perform such often perfect communication. |
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See program page. Talk: Multimodal processing of spoken interaction - managing contact
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Speaker | Brief Bio |
Václav HlaváčCzech Technical University, Prague, Czech Republic![]() |
Václav Hlaváč is a Professor of technical cybernetics, Head of the Center Machine Perception, Deputy Head of the Department of Cybernetics. His research interests are computer vision, reconstruction of 3D scenes from 2D images, omnidirectional vision, analysis of videosequences, cognitive systems, pattern recognition with emphasis to relation between statistical and structural methods, robotics, industrial and medical applications of machine vision. He graduated in 1981 as Ing. (similar to MSc.) in control engineering from the CTU Prague; obtained PhD in 1987 at the CTU (Analysis of the integrated circuits images); since 1990 he is a head of the Computer Vision Laboratory; become Associate Professor in 1992, head of the Center for Machine Perception of the CTU in 1996, and Professor in 1998. At present he is on a sabbatical leave as a visiting professor at the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Geometric Modeling and Scientific Visualization Center, Thuwal, Saudi Arabia. |
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Talk 1: Milestones of image analysis and computer vision
Talk 2: Structure in computer vision and pattern recognition: Why doesn't it really fly high?
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