Preliminary List of Contributors and Participants
1.
Uwe Altman,
title of the talk:
“Analysis of Non-verbal Involvement in
Dyadic Interactions;
2.
Nikos Avouris
Human-Computer Interaction Group,
title of the talk
(co-author G. Kahrimanis):
“Analysis of interaction in
collaborative learning”;
3.
Ole Bernsen
title of
the talk (co-author Laila Dybkjær) :
“Coding Schemes for Verbal
and Non-Verbal Communication”
4.
Nick Campbell, ATR Science Labs,
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”;
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,
title
of the talk:
“My BLOG 3D: A Virtual Reality Platform for COST 2102 Experiments”;
8.
Laila Dybkjær,
Natural
Interactive
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,
title of the talk:
“Low-Complexity
Algorithms for Biometric Recognition”;
12. Ferda Ofli,
Multimedia, Vision
and Graphics Laboratory,
title of the talk:
“Research activity in
13. Bjorn Granstrom,
Royal Institute of
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,
16. David House,
Royal Institute of
17. Amir Hussain,
Department of Computing Science,
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,
20. Eric
Keller,
title of the talk
(co-author Wolfgang
Tschacher):
“Prosodic and gestural expression of
interactional agreement”;
21. Adam Kendon,
title of the talk:
“Characteristics of gestural action”;
22. Stefan Kopp,
A.I.
Group,
title of the talk:
"Someone to Talk To - Multimodal
Communication With Embodied Agents”;
23.
Jacques Koreman,
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
25. Pantelis
Makris,
Dpt. of the
title
of the talk:
“Augmentative and Alternative Communication for
special needs people”
26. Peter Murphy,
Department of Electronic and Computer Engineering, ,
title of
the talk:
“Voice Source Change During
Pitch Variation”;
27. Wojciech MAJEWSKI,
title of the talk:
“Research activity in
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,
30. Harris Papageorgiou,
Institute for Language and Speech Processing (ILSP),
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,
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,
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,
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,
title of the talk:
“Proteus: a rapid segment
selection algorithm for unit-selection TTS in embedded devices”;
43. Yorick WILKS,
Department of Computer Sciences,