Ten-Year Impact Award to AMI Corpus Paper "The AMI Meeting Corpus: A Pre-announcement"
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Sileye BA reveived a first M.S degree in applied mathematic and signal processing from dakar university in 2000 and a second degree in M.S. in mathematics, computer vision and machine learning from E.N.S. Cachan in Paris in 2002. In 2007 he received his Phd from Ecole polytechnique Federale de Lausanne while working at IDIAP as a research assistant. In his thesis he proposed probabilistic head pose tracking methods and methods to estimate visual focus of attention from head pose. Currently he is a postdoc at IDIAP and his main interest is about developping technologies for meeting analyis.
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P.O. Box 217 7500 AE ENSCHEDE the Netherlands E-mail: i.bante [at] utwente.nl Having an eye for business opportunities is a common theme throughout my career. Research performed during my M.Sc. studies resulted in a patent application by the multinational Unilever. As group leader agro-biotechnology research, and later as business development manager at the multinational DSM, one of my main activities was the evaluation of potential acquisition candidates. Concurrently with this last position, I started my first private company as I spotted a market opportunity in the service sector. As business director of the Institute for Biomedical Technology, I also served as coordinator at the Centre for Homecare and Rehabilitation and Innovative Entrepreneurship.
Now, as business director at CTIT (University of Twente), the largest academic IT research institute in the Netherlands with over 475 researchers, I’m responsible for the business development activities of the institute: being the natural link between scientists and CTIT’s extensive international network of industrial partners, scouting for business opportunities and potential spin-off companies, advising the more than 5 start-ups per year CTIT generates with respect to IPR, licensing, seed and VC funding. The Business Incubator and CTIT’s Smart Systems Business Accelerator appeared to be important instruments in the creation of the more than 630 spin-off companies surrounding the university. Since 2002, I’m also serving as board member of the Technology Circle Twente, a network of approx. 190 high-tech SMEs.
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Rod Bacon is the Founder and past CEO of Media Publisher and has been working with the MPI Video technology since 2000. With prior educational studies in Business Administration, (UC Berkeley), and Graduate work in Human Communications, (San Francisco State University), and more than 15 years in management positions Rod has emerged as a recognized as a leader and visionary in the video over IP industry. He has skillfully guided the Media Publisher technology through its development and refinement for more than seven years through three different companies. Prior to founding Media Publisher, Rod led the Media Solutions Group for Inktomi Corporation, where he was responsible for the success of the product from technical integrations to customer deployments. Previously, he was Vice President of Technology for eScene Networks, the original developer of Media Publisher software. He is an experienced executive of technology companies, including system integrators, ISP's and enterprise application companies.
I am interested in what looks to be a more holistic approach towards integrating communication technologies that appear to be going on at AMI and I am interested in learning more and exploring how these solutions can be successfully applied in the business environment.
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Tilman Becker is heading a group at DFKI's Intelligent User Interfaces department that is working on multimodal interaction. He has previously worked in a number of projects on multimodal dialog systems and machine translation at DFKI. His research interests include Natural Language Generation (NLG) and understanding, language understanding, discourse modeling and processing, and multimodal turn-planning.
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I am responsible for the valorization of a portfolio of Patents and Software in the Telecom domain and more specifically real time audio and video codecs.
I am also involved in promoting Speech Synthesis, Voice Recognition and Natural Languages technologies.
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Senior development engineer at IDIAP
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Frank is Director of IdeArk, an IDIAP subsidiary that fosters the exchange between academic partners and industry. Before, as program manager, he was responsible for the industrial relations of IDIAP Research Institute. The objectives of programs under Crittin's guidance include technology and know-how transfer, intellectual property management, identification of commercial opportunities as well as creation of alliances and partnerships. Prior to joining IDIAP in 2004, Frank completed his PhD in mathematics from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL) in collaboration with the Massachusetts Institute of Technologies (MIT). In parallel to his research work, he has launched and contributed to many industrial projects in the field of logistics and simulation of complex systems. He was a lecturer for the EPFL Executive Master Program organized by the international Institute for the Management of Logistics.
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Jodi is a founder and facilitator in The Value Web and an Independent Consultant based in Zurich, Switzerland. In addition to becoming conversant in several languages, she helps facilitate MGTaylor DesignShop™ events such as the World Economic Forum.
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engineer
Working in the collaboration area
Interests in WEB 2.0 new technologies and business models
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Mailing Address: Claude Florin, Multimedia Marketing Manager, OpenCall Business Unit, Hewlett-Packard: Claude Florin is marketing manager at Hewlett-Packard’s OpenCall Business Unit. He leads HP’s activities in video messaging and multimedia for convergent service providers. He joined HP’s OpenCall Business Unit to manage development of voice solutions. This contributed to successful delivery of Equant’s Voice over IP VPN, Fastweb’s triple play service and several operator’s Voice XML portals. In 1997, as marketing manager for HP’s he launched OpenView management and service provisioning to GSM operators worldwide. Previously, he served as HP’s corporate R&D manager for participation in European Commission communication research program, contributing to early development of the Web at CERN and html at W3C.
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E-mail: flynn [at] idiap.ch Mike is a Senior Scientist at IDAIP working in the area of User Interfaces and other enabling technologies. He is one of the people who established the JFerret Architecture for meeting archive browsing and searching based on the MMM database. Mike is currently working on enabling new services in mobile networks.
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Francois is program manager at IDIAP and one of the staff for the COI Workshop in Martigny. He provides administrative and management services to AMIDA and other important Swiss and EU projects in which IDIAP is leader or partner.
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E-mail: gerold.furler [at] novartis.com Gerold Furler is head Video Conferencing Services at Novartis. He designs programs which assist end users to avoid difficulties with remote communications, or to quickly resolve the problems end users may encounter in business communications. He is also monitoring industry developments to plan his company's future strategies in the area of collaboration and conferencing.
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I am a final year PhD student at the University of Edinburgh. My research interests bring together natural language processing and human computer interaction. The overarching theme is to apply statistical, machine learning, and empirical methods to understand spoken language in multimodal contexts and to create solutions to real-life problems for the users. In particular, I work on content-based access to multimedia meeting archives using multimodal information fusion, a framework which can be used to fuse information from various knowledge sources, e.g., transcripts, multiple speaker interactions and audio-visual inputs. Current projects include automatic topic segmentation and decision detection from meetings.
Prior to coming to Edinburgh, I have got my master's degree in information management & systems from University of California, Berkeley, and my bachelor degree in computer science from National Taiwan University.
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Alejandro Jaimes is Scientific Manager and Senior Researcher at IDIAP Research Institute in Martigny, Switzerland, where he is responsible for managing the research efforts of 12 partners within the EU-funded AMIDA integrated project (Augmented Multiparty Interaction), as well as leading the Human-Machine Interaction unit of IM2 (Interactive Multimodal Information Management) headed by IDIAP. Prior to joining IDIAP he worked at Fuji Xerox, IBM TJ Watson, IBM Tokyo Research Laboratory, Siemens Corporate Research, and AT&T Bell Laboratories.
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I have double master degree in electronics (Brno University of Technology) and in informatics (with focus on speech processing and computer graphics) (Masaryk University Brno).
I'm currently focused on remote access to meetings. This involves building an interface suitable for mobile devices that would provide maximum comfort for a participant "on the road". It should be highly intuitive while staying enough informative.
I'm interested in human computer interaction. Which way can we make computers correspond to user's needs?
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Innovation Manager
Working in the collaboration area
Interests in WEB 2.0 new technologies and business models
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Christine Perey An independent consultant since 1991, Christine Perey builds, joins and leads professional teams driving new business development, performing and applying market and technology research. She specializes in the development of businesses targeting multimedia networks for video on demand streaming, broadcasting, videoconferencing and visual collaboration services. Christine also supports the accelerated adoption of collaborative computing and desktop videoconferencing technologies in business and community development. She is a widely-read freelance writer. In the past fifteen years her features on networked multimedia technologies and their usage have appeared in computing-, telecommunications- and information-oriented magazines. Perey's perspectives and opinions are sought for inclusion in trade magazine articles and books. Christine moderates panels and is a featured speaker at a variety of industry events.
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Andrei Popescu-Belis is a senior researcher at the IDIAP Research Institute in Martigny, where he works on research projects involving language processing by computers, language and multimodal resources, and the evaluation of linguistic and interactive systems. He is the head of IM2.DMA, one of the seven individual projects of the IM2 NCCR. Andrei Popescu-Belis is a graduate of the French Ecole Polytechnique, and holds a Masters in AI from the University of Paris VI and a PhD in computer science from LIMSI, University of Paris XI. Before joining IDIAP, he has been a postdoc at UCSD and a senior research assistant at ISSCO, University of Geneva.
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Although classically trained as an Industrial Designer, I have been involved with technology development in the area of collaboration and interaction for the last 14 years. The focus has been in the areas of teaching, presenting and meeting. My current focus is to better understand meeting dynamics at all levels with a goal of creating technologies that allow for easier pre-meeting preparation, more seamless use of technologies during meetings and better dissemination and retrieval of information after the meeting.
I have been with SMART Technologies for 14 years and have been a part of the Product Development group contributing either in design roles, product architect, development director and most recently became a SMART Fellow. My capabilities are varied and span multiple engineering disciplines. I am most interested in using technology to facilitate better collaboration, all with a focus on the user, not the technology itself.
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Currently in charge of the IT Research and Innovation and Global IT Architecture and Strategy at one of the top 5 global pharmaceutical company for Collaboration and Communication Services. Prior to his current role, Christophe worked several years in various positions of increasing responsibility within the same company. He mainly has experience as Global Portfolio and Service Manager (consolidation and leveraging of existing services, establishment and implementation of globally managed services, outsourcing, organization setup, contract negotiation and management) and Global System Architect.
Prior to joining Novartis Pharmaceuticals, Christophe worked as Collaboration and Groupware Consultant.
More information available at http://www.linkedin.com/in/christopheritzler
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Vladimir (Vova) Soroka manages the Collaboration Technologies department of the IBM Haifa Research Lab. He holds a B.Sc. degree in Computer Sciences from the Technion, the Israeli Institute of Technology, and an M.A. degree in Social Sciences and Communication from Haifa University. His research interests include among others Internet applications, Web 2.0, collaboration in the enterprise, social networking, video communication and presence awareness, and Internet as a mass medium. Mr. Soroka is co-author of journal and conference papers in the area of Computer Supported Collaborative Work.
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I am a research associate on the AMI project. I am primarily interested in processing and presenting multimedia data for end users - so I'm looking into summarising multimedia data and looking for interface techniques to faciliate rapid browsing of meeting records
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Alessandro Vinciarelli holds a Laurea degree in Physics (University of Torino, Italy, 1994) and a PhD in Computer Science (University of Bern, Switzerland, 2003). After working in several companies and research laboratories in Italy and in the United States, Alessandro joined IDIAP in 1999 where he became research scientist in 2003. In 2001 and 2002 he has participated in the summer internship program of the IBM Watson Research Laboratory. His interests include Handwriting Recognition, Information Retrieval, Multimedia Indexing and Social Network Analysis. Alessandro is author and coauthor of one book, 13 journal papers and 17 conference papers. He currently supervises two PhD students and he teaches multimedia analysis at the University of La Spezia (Italy).
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E-mail: stephen.vonrump [at] behere.com Over 20 years experience in Internet and visual communications, including CEO and Director appointments at both public (NASDAQ) and private companies. Chartered six startups and advised many more, including extensive fund raising and merger/acquisition experience. Current interests include integrating visual communications into the converged IP enterprise, VoIP media applications (audio and visual) and telepresence.
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Pierre Wellner is currently Managing Director of Spiderphone, a web-enhanced telephone conference call service company that he co-founded in 1998. From 2002 until 2007 he was a researcher at the IDIAP Research Institute in Martigny, working in the areas of multimodal interaction and browsing of recorded meetings. Prior to joining IDIAP, Pierre worked for AT&T Bell Labs in New Jersey and Xerox PARC in Cambridge UK. His PhD in Computer Science is from the University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory.
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Faculty of Information Technology, Brno University of Technology Bozetechova 2, 612 66 Brno, Czech Republic E-mail: zemcik [at] fit.vutbr.cz Pavel Zemcik (Ing [M.Sc.] 1989 Brno University of Technology [BUT], Dr. [Ph.D.] 1995 BUT, Doc. 1998 BUT) worked at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, BUT since 1993, since 2002 he works at the Faculty of Information Technology, BUT as assistant professor and head of Department of Computer Graphics and Multimedia. Pavel Zemcik is a supervisor of several Ph.D. students and M.Sc. students. His interests include computer graphics, image processing, human-machine interfaces, computer vision, and signal processing. Pavel Zemcik has significant international and project experience. He stays include 1992 University of Bristol, UK, 4 months, 1994 ASCOM Radiocom, Camberley, UK, 2 months, 1996 Lappeenranta university of Technology, Finland, 2 months, 1996 University of Surrey, Guidford, UK, 6 weeks, 2000 PennState Erie, PA, USA visiting professor, 1 semester and several many stays. He participated on many locally funded projects and on EU-wide projects M4, (5th FP), AMI, (6th FP]). He also participated in industrial and traffic projects, such as quality control computer vision system for electronics components manufacturing (over 250 installations) or red-light and speed enforcement systems for city of Prague, Czech Republic (over 150 video cameras installed). Pavel Zemcik is also author or co-author of three patents, and over 35 conference and journal papers. Pavel Zemcik is member of several scientific/educational boards and conference programme committees, reviews conference and journal papers, and he is member of IEEE, ACM.
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Job Zwiers is a researcher in multimodal interaction, meeting technology, graphics for human animation and VR applications
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