TENTATIVE PROGRAMME, TIMETABLE AND ORGANIZATION

1st day (MARCH 29 2007)

morning

9:00- 10:00 REGISTRATION

10:00 - 10:30 Welcome by the local authorities

The vice-rector of the Second University of Naples, Professor Raffaele Martone

10:30 – 11:00 Coffee break

11:00 – 11:45 Nick Campbell: Overlapping speech - requirements for conversational speech
synthesis;

11:45 - 12:15 Eric Keller and Wolfang Tschacher: Prosodic and gestural expression of interactional agreement;

12:15 - 12:45 Pantelis Makris: Augmentative and Alternative Communication for special needs people.

12:45 - 14:30 Lunch Break

afternoon

14:30 – 15:15 Stefan Kopp: Dialogue and conversation management;

15:15 – 15:45 Matej Rojc, Tomaž Rotovnik, Zdravko Kačič: Embodied Conversational Agents in Wizard-of-Oz and Multimodal Interaction Application

15:45: 16:15 Marcos Faundez-Zanuy: Low-Complexity Algorithms for Biometric Recognition;

16:15 – 16:45 Rüdiger Hoffmann: Analysis of verbal and nonverbal acoustic signals with the Dresden UASR system;

16:45 – 17:15 Coffee break

17:15 – 17:45 Robert Vich: Speech spectrum envelope modeling;

17:45 – 18:15 Harris Papageorgiou: Cross-modal analysis & summarization of audiovisual material;

18:15 – 18:45 Aleksandra Cerekivic & Igors Pandzic: HUGE: Universal Architecture for Statisticaly Based Human Gesturing;

18:45 – 19:15 Inma Hernaez: Using prosody in the recognition of emotions;

2nd day (March 30 2007)

morning

9:00 – 9:30 Anna Esposito & Maria Marinaro: What Pauses Can Tell Us About Speech and Gesture Partnership;

9:30 – 10:00 Jerneja ZGANEC GROS: Proteus: Speech Technologies Research at Alpineon;

10:00 - 10:30 Catherine Pelachaud: Studies on Gesture Expressivity for a Virtual Agent;

10:30 – 11:00 Coffee break

11:00 – 11:45 Adam Kendon: Characteristics of gestural action;

11:45 – 12:15 Peter Murphy: Voice Source Change during Pitch Variation

12:15 – 12:45 Amir Hussain: Novel psycho-acoustically motivated multi-channel speech enhancement

12:45-14:30 Lunch Break

afternoon

14:30 – 15:00 Bjorn Granstrom & David House: Analysis and synthesis of multimodal verbal and non-verbal interaction for animated interface agents;

15:00 - 15:30 Gerard Chollet: My BLOG 3D: A Virtual Reality Platform for COST 2102 Experiments;

15:30 - 16:00 Anton Nijholt et al.: Generating nonverbal and paraverbal signals for a Sensitive Artificial Listener;

16:00 – 16:30 Ole Bernsen & Laila Dybkjær: Coding Schemes for Verbal and Non-Verbal Communication;

16:30 – 17:00 Mohamed Chetouani: Interaction with autistic infants;

17:00 – 17:30 Coffee break

17:30 – 19:30 Management Committee Members Meeting

20:00 Social Dinner

3rd day (March 31 2007)

morning

9:00 – 9:30: Jacques Koreman: Multi-modal biometric verification for small and very small devices;

9:30 – 10:00 Giovanni Tummariello: Multimedia Semantics and the Semantic Web Initiatives: Status, Use Cases and Challenges;

10:00 - 10:30 Zsofia Ruttkay: Presenting in Style by Virtual Humans;

10:30 – 11:00 Coffee break

11:00 – 11:30 Isabel Trancoso: Papous Project;

11:30 – 12:00 Wojciech Majewski & Piotr Staroniewicz: Laboratory of Analysis and Processing of Acoustic Signals at Wroclaw University of Technology

12:00 – 12: 30 Engin Erzin & Ferda Ofti: Current Research Agenda and Recent Results at Multimedia Lab, Koc University;

12:30 - 14:00 Lunch Break

WG coordinators are invited to set up the WG meeting during lunch

afternoon

14:00 – 14:30 Zdenek Smékal & Petr Sysel: Single-channel Speech Enhancement Using Modified Wavelet Transform;

14:30 – 15:00 Nikos Avouris & G. Kahrimanis: Analysis of interaction in collaborative learning;

15:00 – 15:30 Uwe Altmann: Analysis of Non-verbal Involvement in Dyadic Interactions;

15:30 – 16:00 Aly N. El-Bahrawy: Teaching Communication Skills for Engineers: A Personal Experience;

16:00 – 16:30 Coffee break

16:30 – 17:00 Vicsi Klára: Activities of Speech Laboratories of BME TMIT;

17:00 – 17:30 Anton Cizmar & Matus Pleva: Multimodal Telecommunications Systems and Services at Kosice University;

17:30 – 18:00 Børge Lindberg: Activities within Multimedia Information and Signal Processing at Aalborg University

18:00 Conclusions and Discussions on Future Plans