The paper entitled Audio-visual Tracking by Density Approximation in a Sequential Bayesian Filtering Framework of Isreal Gebru, Christine Evers, Patrick Naylor and Radu Horaud received the Best Paper Award at the Workshop on on Hands-free Speech Communication and Microphone Arrays (HSCMA), which took place from March 1-3, 2017 in San Francisco, USA.
On Thursday, December 1st, 2016, some of the scientific achievements of the EARS project have been presented to the public at the Felix Klein Building (Conference room K3-128).
Program: Schedule_Public_Presentations_at_FAU
A presentation of the EARS project entitled “Signal Processing for Robot Audition” has been given by Imperial College on July 4, 2016 as part of a one-week Summer School. The two-hour presentation included also a demo and addressed students (aged 17) particularly from schools not normally sending students to engineering universities.
The EARS project was presented by a booth at the RoboCup in Leipzig. The following demos have been shown from July 1-4:
A tutorial on Embodied Audition for Robots was presented by Heinrich Löllmann (FAU Erlangen-Nuremberg), Christine Evers (Imperial College London) and Radu Horaud (INRIA, Grenoble) at Aldebaran Robotics in Paris on November 26, 2015:
A tutorial on variational Bayesian models and methods was given by Sileye Ba (INRIA, Grenoble) on November 27, 2015:
A presentation entitled A Variational EM Algorithm for the Separation of Moving Sound Sources was given by Laurent Girin (INRIA, Grenoble) on November 27, 2015:
The EARS@HOME team won the Functionality Benchmark FBM3 “Speech Understanding” of the ROCKIN@HOME Challenge, which took place in Lisbon from Nov.19-23, 2015.
Team members:
Team Description Paper: TDP_EARS@HOME_ROCKIN_Challenge_2015
The EARS project was presented by a booth at the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) in Hamburg from Sept. 29 until Oct. 2, 2015. Different demos have been shown:
Aldebaran demonstrated a new sound event recognition system developed within the EARS project at a poster session of the EuroPhython in Bilbao from July 20-26, 2015. A video demonstrating the performance of this system can be found here.
The exhibition Sound Interactions was presented by the Imperial College London at the Royal Society Summer Exhibition, which took place from June 30 – July 5, 2015 in London. The Summer Science Exhibition is an annual display of cutting-edge science and technology in the UK and featured 22 exhibits in 2015. A part of the exhibition Sound Interactions was a sound localization system implemented on the NAO robot. In addition, a speech recognition for variable room acoustics was shown.
A Tutorial on Embodied Audition for Robots was presented by Heinrich Löllmann (FAU Erlangen-Nuremberg), Christine Evers (Imperial College London) and Radu Horaud (INRIA, Grenoble) at the EUSIPCO 2015 in Nice on August 31, 2015.
Presentations:
– EUSIPCO_Tutorial_Robot_Audition_Introduction_HL
– EUSIPCO_Tutorial_Signal_Enhancement_HL
– EUSIPCO_Tutorial_Microphone_Array_Design_and_Beamforming_HL
– EUSIPCO_Tutorial_Audio-Visual-Analysis_RH
– EUSIPCO_Tutorial_Localisation_CE
– EUSIPCO_Tutorial_Tracking_CE
Demo:
In addition to the Tutorial, a demo on ego-noise suppression for the Nao robot was presented to the participants.
– EARS_Poster_demo_EUSIPCO15_20150903_AD
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