Preliminary List of Contributors and Participants

 

1.        Uwe Altman,
Institute of Phonetics and Speech Processing, Munich, Germany
title of the talk:
Analysis of Non-verbal Involvement in Dyadic Interactions;

 

2.       Nikos Avouris
Human-Computer Interaction Group, University of Patras, Greece,
title of the talk (co-author G. Kahrimanis):
Analysis of interaction in collaborative learning”;

 

3.       Ole Bernsen
Natural Interactive Systems Laboratory University of Southern Denmark, Odense  Denmark,
title of the talk (co-author Laila Dybkjær) :
“Coding Schemes for Verbal and Non-Verbal Communication

 

4.       Nick Campbell, ATR Science Labs, Kyoto, Japan;

 

5.       Aleksandra Cerekivic,
Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing, Zagreb, Croatia,
title of the talk (co-author Igor Pandzic) “:
” HUGE
: Universal Architecture for Statisticaly Based Human Gesturing”;

 

6.       Mohamed Chetouani,

     Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Institut des Systèmes Intelligents et Robotiques, CNRS FRE 2507, France ;

    title of the talk

     Interaction with autistic infants”

 

7.       Gerard Chollet,
CNRS-LTCI, GET-ENST, France;
title of the talk:

“My BLOG 3D: A Virtual Reality Platform for COST 2102 Experiments”;

 

8.       Laila Dybkjær,
Natural Interactive Systems Laboratory University of Southern Denmark, Odense  Denmark;

 

9.       Aly N. El-Bahrawy,
Irrigation and Hydraulics Dept, Faculty of Engineering, Ain Shams University, Egypt,
title of the talk:
Teaching Communication Skills for Engineers:  A Personal Experience”;

 

10.    Anna Esposito,
Second University of Naples, IIASS, Italy,

title of the talk:
”What Pauses can tell us About Speech and Gesture Partnership”;

 

11.     Marcos Faundez-Zanuy,
Escola Universitaria Politecnica de Mataro, Spain,

title of the talk:
“Low-Complexity Algorithms for Biometric Recognition”;

 

12.    Ferda Ofli,
Multimedia, Vision and Graphics Laboratory, College of Engineering, Koc University,  Istanbul, Turkey  

            title of the talk:
                      Research activity in Turkey”;

 

13.    Bjorn Granstrom,
Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden,

title of the talk (co-author David House) :
Analysis and synthesis of multimodal verbal and non-verbal interaction for animated interface agents”;

 

 

14.    Inmaculada HERNAEZ,
Universidad del País Vasco, Bilbao, Spain;

     title of the talk:

      Using prosody in the recognition of emotions

 

15.    Dirk Heylen,

    University of Twente,  The Netherlands;

 

16.    David House,
Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden;

 

17.    Amir Hussain,
Department  of Computing Science, University of Stirling, Stirling FK9 4LA, UK,
title of the talk:
“Novel psycho-acoustically motivated multi-channel speech enhancement”;

 

18.    Rüdiger Hoffmann,
Technische Universität Dresden, Institut für Akustik und Sprachkommunikation, Dresden, Germany:
title of the talk:
“Analysis of verbal and nonverbal acoustic signals with the Dresden UASR system”;

 

19.     George Kahrimanis,

        Human-Computer Interaction Group, University of Patras, Greece;

 

20.     Eric Keller,
Université de Lausanne, Switzerland,

title of the talk (co-author Wolfgang Tschacher):
Prosodic and gestural expression of interactional agreement”;

 

21.    Adam Kendon,
University of Pennsylvania;
title of the talk:
 
“Characteristics of gestural action”;

 

22.   Stefan Kopp,
A.I. Group, University of Bielefeld, Germany:
title of the talk:
"Someone to Talk To -  Multimodal Communication With Embodied Agents”;

 

23.   Jacques Koreman,

       Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Norway

    title of the talk:

    Multi-modal biometric verification for small and very small devices”;

 

24.   Borge LINDBERG,
Aalborg University, Aalborg, Denmark;

        title of the talk:

          “Activities within Multimedia Information and Signal Processing at Aalborg University

 

25.   Pantelis Makris,
Dpt. of the Cyprus Neuroscience and Technology Institute,  PanagiasTinou 21, 2020 Strovolos, Nicosia, Cyprus;

   title of the talk:

     Augmentative and Alternative Communication for special needs people

 

26.   Peter Murphy,
Department of Electronic and Computer Engineering, , University of Limerick, Limerick, Ireland.,:
title of the talk:
Voice Source Change During Pitch Variation”;

 

27.   Wojciech MAJEWSKI,
Institute of Telecommunications and Acoustics Wroclaw University of Technology, Wybrzeze Wyspianskiego 27, Poland,
title of the talk:
Research activity in Poland”;

 

28.   Anton Nijholt,
University of Twente Department of Computer Science PO Box 217 7500 AE Enschede, The Netherlands,
title of the talk:
Generating nonverbal and paraverbal signals for a Sensitive Artificial Listener”;

 

29.   Igor Pandzic,
Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing, Zagreb, Croatia;

 

30.   Harris Papageorgiou,
Institute for Language and Speech Processing (ILSP), Athens, Greece,
title of the talk:
Cross-modal analysis & summarization of audiovisual material”;

 

31.    Catherine Pelachaud,
Universite de Paris 8, France, 
title of the talk:
Studies on Gesture Expressivity for a Virtual Agent”;

 

32.     Matus Pleava,
Technical University of Kosice,Slovak Republic,
title of the talk (co-author Anton Cizmar):
”Research Activity in Kosice”;

 

33.   Matej ROJC,
University of Maribor, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Computer Sciences and Informatics, Maribor, Slovenia,
(co-author Tomaž Rotovnik, Zdravko Kačič):
Embodied Conversational Agents in Wizard-of-Oz and Multimodal Interaction Applications”;

 

34.   Zsofia Ruttkay,
Faculty of Information Technology, Pazmany Peter Catholic University, Budapest, Hungary,
title of the talk:

Presenting in Style by Virtual Humans”;

35.    Zdenek Smékal
Dep. of Telecommunications, Brno University of Technology, Purkynova 118, 612 00, Brno CZ,:
title of the talk:
Single-channel Speech Enhancement Using Modified Wavelet Transform”;

36.   Piotr Staroniewicz,
Institute of Telecommunications and Acoustics, Wroclaw University of Technology, Wybrzeze Wyspianskiego 27, Poland;

37.   Isabel TRANCOSO,
INESC ID, Lisbon, Portugal;

38.   Wolfgang TSCHACHER,
Universitätsklinik für Sozial- und Gemeindepsychiatrie, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland;

39.   Giovanni Tummariello,
Università Politecnica delle Marche, Italy
,
title of the talk:
“Multimedia Semantics and the Semantic Web Initiatives: Status, Use Cases and Challenges”;

40.   Robert Vich,
Institute of Photonics and Electronics,
Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Czech Republic, Prague,:
title of the talk:
Speech spectrum envelope modeling”;

41.    Vicsi Klára,
Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Dept. of Telecommunication and Mediainformatics, Lab. of Speech Acoustics, 111 Budapest, HUNGARY
title of the talk:
Research activity in Bupapest”;

42.   Jerneja ZGANEC GROS,
Alpineon, Development and Research, Ljubljana,Slovenia,
title of the talk:
“Proteus: a rapid segment selection algorithm for unit-selection TTS in embedded devices”;

43.   Yorick WILKS,
Department of Computer Sciences, University of Sheffield, Regent Court, Sheffield, United Kingdom;