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Signal and Image Processing seminar

Speaker: Maurizio Omologo, Fondazione Bruno Kessler-irst, Trento, Italy

Talk Title: A Prototype of a Distant-talking Interface for Control of Interactive TV

Abstract: This talk aims to describe the goals, challenges, and main achievements of the DICIT EC project, which was coordinated by FBK-irst during the last four years.

The project addressed the development of a multi-modal user-friendly interface for control of SetTopBox, TV, and related services. The interface includes a microphone array to support distant-talking voice input with multiple active speakers. The front-end processing component feeds a chain including speech recognition, natural language understanding, and spoken dialogue management components. The resulting prototype was replicated at several sites and evaluated by 170 users. The results of this campaign showed the effectiveness of the adopted solution as well as potential for future development of real smart-space applications.

During the talk, a brief overview will also be given on the other research activities being conducted under the SHINE group of FBK-irst.


Biography: Maurizio Omologo is the head of the SHINE (Speech-acoustic scene analysis and interpretation) research unit of Fondazione Bruno Kessler-irst, Trento, Italy. He has also been teaching "Audio Signal Processing" at the University of Trento since 2001. His current research interests include Audio and Speech Processing, Acoustic Scene Analysis, and Automatic Speech Recognition, in particular for distant-talking scenarios. Between 2006 and 2009, he acted as Project Manager of the DICIT (Distant-talking Interfaces for Control of Interactive TV) European Project.

Host: Professor Shrikanth Narayanan

Location: Ronald Tutor Hall of Engineering (RTH) - 320

Audiences: Everyone Is Invited

Contact: Mary Francis