Partners

			Idiap Research Institute, CH AMI Scientific Coordinator Prof. Hervé Bourlard Areas of expertise: speech processing, computer vision, machine learning, multimodal interaction, smart meeting room, handwriting recognition, multimodal indexing. Idiap at a glance Idiap Research Themes
			German Research Centre for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI), D Prof.WolfgangWahlster and Dr. Tilman Becker Areas of expertise: Intelligent visualisation and simulation systems, language technology, intelligent user interfaces.
			International Computer Science Institute (ICSI), Berkeley/CA Prof. Nelson Morgan, USA Areas of expertise: language and dialogue modelling, spoken language processing, speaker modelling, smart meeting room.
			Netherlands Organisation for Applied Scientific Research (TNO), NL Dr. Wessel Kraaij, Dr. Wilfried Post, NL Areas of expertise: multimodal summarisation, information retrieval, natural language processing, computer vision, human factors, HCI, audio analysis, user-centred design, usability testing, group decision making, computer supported collaborative work.
			CSIRO ICT Centre, Australia, Australia Dr Iain McCowan Areas of expertise: content analysis of medical multimedia, technological support for clinical teams, sensor signal processing for patient monitoring.

			University of Edinburgh (UEDIN), UK AMI Administrative Coordinator Institute for Communicating and Collaborative Systems, www.iccs.informatics.ed.ac.uk) Prof. Johanna Moore, Prof. Steve Renals and Dr. Jean Carletta Areas of expertise: dialogue understanding, cognitive engineering, multimodal annotation
			Sheffield University (USFD), UK AMI Training Coordinator (1) Computer Science Department, Speech and Hearing Research Group, www.dcs.shef.ac.uk/spandh) Prof. Phil Green; (2) Department of Information Studies, Prof. Steve Whittaker Areas of expertise: speech processing, computational scene analysis, dialogue modelling, machine learning, noisy text indexing and summarisation; HCI
			Brno University of Technology (BUT), Czech Republic Institute of Computer Graphics and Multimedia, www.fit.vutbr.cz/research/groups/speech) Prof. Hynek Hermansky Areas of expertise: speech coding, speech recognition, speaker recognition, machine vision.
			Munich University of Technology (TUM), D Institute of man-machine communication, www.mmk.ei.tum.de Prof. Gerhard Rigoll Areas of expertise: multimodal man-machine communication, language engineering, computer vision, gesture recognition.
			University of Twente (UT), NL (Parlevink language engineering group, parlevink.cs.utwente.nl) Prof. Franciska de Jong and Prof. Anton Nijholt Areas of expertise: multimodal interaction, multimedia retrieval, virtual reality, agent technology.

			Philips Consumer Electronics BV, NL Mr. Kees Tuinenbreijer Area of expertise: interactive services and applications on the move.
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