[4eyes] FW: Professor Thiran's seminar on Monday at 11am

[Matthew Turk]

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Title: Multimodal signal analysis for audio-visual speech recognition
Jean-Philippe Thiran, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL),
Signal Processing Lab (LTS5), Lausanne, Switzerland.

Place: ECE Conference Room, 4164 HFH
Time: 11AM, Monday, March 16

After a short introduction presenting our group and our main research
topics, I will address the problem of audio-visual speech recognition,
i.e. a typical example of multimodal signal analysis, when we want to
extract and exploit information coming from two different but
complementary signals: an audio and a video channel. We will discuss
two important aspects of this analysis. We will first present a new
feature extraction algorithm based in information theoretical
principles, and show its performances, compared to other classical
approaches, in our multimodal context. Then we will discuss multimodal
information fusion, i.e. how to combine information from those two
channels for optimal classification.

Short bio:
Jean-Philippe Thiran was born in Namur, Belgium, in 1970. He received
the Elect. Eng. and Ph.D. degrees from the Universite catholique de
Louvain (UCL), Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium, in 1993 and 1997,
respectively. He joined the Signal Processing Laboratory (LTS) of the
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland,
in February 1998 as a Senior Lecturer. Since January 2004, he has been
an Assistant Professor, responsible for the Image Analysis Group. His
current scientific interests include image segmentation, prior
knowledge integration in image analysis, partial differential
equations and variational methods in image analysis, multimodal signal
processing, medical image analysis, including multimodal image
registration, segmentation, computer-assisted surgery, and diffusion
MRI. He is author or co-author of two 4 book chapters, 69 journal
papers, and some 130 peer-reviewed papers published in proceedings of
international conferences. He holds four international patents. Dr.
Thiran was Co-Editor-in-Chief of Signal Processing (published by
Elsevier Science) from 2001 to 2005. He is currently an Associate
Editor of the International Journal of Image and Video Processing
(published by Hindawi), and member of the Editorial Board of Signal,
Image and Video Processing (published by Springer). He was the General
Chairman of the 2008 European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO
2008). He is a senior member of the IEEE, and member of the MLSP and
IVMSP technical committees of the IEEE Signal Processing Society.



 





 

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