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Conferences
 

Date Conference
23-25 May 2010 In Situ Microphone Array Calibration for Parameter Estimation in Directional Audio Coding
Oliver Thiergart, Fraunhofer
AES Convention 128, London, UK
26-27 April 2010 Web-Mediated Communication: in Search of Togetherness
Pablo Cesar, CWI, BT
Web Science Conference, Raleigh, USA
14-19 March 2010 Automatic Temporal Alignment of AV Data with Confidence Estimation
Danil Korchagin, Idiap Research Institute
IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Dallas, USA
http://www.icassp2010.com/
14-19 March 2010 Application of Out-of-Language Detection to Spoken Term Detection
Petr Motliced, Idiap Research Institute
IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Dallas, USA
http://www.icassp2010.com/
1-5 March 2010 CeBit 2010, Hannover, Germany
Manfred Lutzky, Fraunhofer
http://www.cebit.de/homepage_e
9-11 December 2009 Memories of Togetherness from Audio Logs
Daniel Korchagin, Idiap Research Institute
1st International ICST Conference on User Centric Media - Workshop on NSA Domesticity, Venice, Italy
http://www.usercentricmedia.org/UCMedia2009/
9-11 December 2009 From Photos to Memories: A User-Centric Authoring Tool for Telling Stories with your Photos
Fons Kuijk, CWI
1st International ICST Conference on User Centric Media, Venice, Italy
http://www.usercentricmedia.org/UCMedia2009/
9-11 December 2009 Workshop: Experience Design and Evaluation of Social UCM applications (ExpDes)
Peter Ljungstrand, II
1st International ICST Conference on User Centric Media Venice, Italy
http://www.usercentricmedia.org/UCMedia2009/
23-24 November 2009 Keynote Speech
Peter Ljungstrand, II
Future Internet Assembly - FIA 2009, Stockholm, Sweden
http://fi-stockholm.eu/
19-21 November 2009 "Out-of-Scene AV Data Detection"
Danil Korchagin, Idiap Research Institute
IADIS International Conference on Applied Computing 2009, Rome, Italy
http://www.computing-conf.org/2009/
7-11 November 2009 "Learning Large Margin Likelihoods For Realtime Head Pose Tracking"
Elisa Ricci, Idiap Research Institute
Conference on Image Processing (ICIP) 2009, Cairo, Egypt
http://www.icip2009.org/
18-21 October 2009 Nested Microphone Array Processing for Parameter Estimation in Directional Audio Coding
Giovanni Del Galdo, Fraunhofer
IEEE Workshop of Applications of Signal Processing to Audio and Acoustics, New Paltz, USA
9-12 October 2009 Localization of Sound Sources in Reverberant Environments Based on Directional Audio Coding Parameters
Oliver Thiergart, Fraunhofer
AES Convention 127, New York, USA
9-12 October 2009 Optimized Parameter Estimation in Directional Audio Coding Using Nested Microphone Arrays
Giovanni Del Galdo, Fraunhofer
AES Convention 127, New York, USA
5-7 October 2009 Keynote Speech
Dick Bulterman, CWI
WebMedia 2009, Fortaleza, Brazil
28-30 September 2009 "RTCP based Bit-Rate Adaption for AAC Audio Communication
Jochen Issing, Fraunhofer IIS
2009 NEM Summit, Saint-Malo, France
http://www.nem-summit.eu/
15-18 September 2009 "Adding Dynamic Visual Manipulations to Declarative Multimedia Documents"
Fons Kuijk, CWI
ACM Document Engineering 2009, Munich, Germany
http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?doid=1600193.1600227
7-10 September 2009 "Dynamic Partitioned Sampling For Tracking With Discriminative Features"
Stefan Duffner, Idiap Research Institute
British Machine Vision Conference (BMVC) 2009, London
http://web4.cs.ucl.ac.uk/research/vis/bmvc2009/
6-10 September 2009 "Automatic Out-of-Language Detection based on Confidence Measures derived from LVCSR Word and Phone Lattices"
Petr Motlicek, Idiap Research Institute
Interspeech 2009, Brighton, England
http://www.interspeech2009.org/
4-9 September 2009 Demo on low delay spatial audio applications by Fraunhofer ISS
IFA 2009, Berlin, Germany
3-5 June 2009 "The Next Generation of Multimedia Authoring Tools: Telling Stories and Commenting on Media"
Rodrigo Laiola Guimarães, CWI
EuroITV2009
http://www.euroitv2009.org/docs/adjunct_proceedings/doctoral/LAIOLA, RODRIGO - doctoral consortium.pdf
3 June 2009 TA2 organised a workshop dedicated to "Enhancing Social Communication and Belonging by Integrating TV Narrativity and Game-Play"
collocated with EuroITV2009, Leuven, Belgium
This was a successful example of collaborative concertation
Further information on the workshop
20 May 2009 Managing ICT projects in FP7 - Best practices from TA2
Training seminar, Heidelberg, Germany
7-10 May 2009 "A Spatial Filtering Approach for Directional Audio Coding"
AES Convention, Munich
Markus Kallinger, Fraunhofer
http://www.aes.org/events/126/
7-10 May 2009 "Efficient Methods for High Quality Merging of Spatial Audio Streams in Directional Audio Coding"
AES Convention, Munich
Giovanni Del Galdo, Fraunhofer
http://www.aes.org/events/126/
21 April 2009 "Interactive Television and the Web"
World Wide Web Conference 2009
Pablo Cesar, CWI
http://www2009.org/tutorials/T8-A.html
19-24 April 2009 "Spatial Filtering using Directional Audio Coding Parameters"
ICASSP 2009, Taipei/Taiwan
Markus Kallinger, Fraunhofer
http://www.icassp09.com/
19-24 April 2009 "Efficient merging of multiple audio streams for spatial sound reproduction in directional audio coding"
ICASSP 2009, Taipei/Taiwan
Giovanni Del Galdo, Fraunhofer
http://www.icassp09.com/
3-8 March 2009 Stand at Cebit 2009 by TA2 partner Fraunhofer IIS:
Audio Communication Engine installed in a home telepresence environment. This takes the form of two separate but connected living rooms, and illustrates the ease with which friends and family can take part in games and conversation.
14-20 February 2009 Stand at the Mobile World Congress by TA2 partner Fraunhofer IIS:
Two phone boxes connected via Fraunhofer Audio Communication Engine, handsfree communication, on the fly comparison to Skype.
25-27 November 2008 Networking Session on "Managing ICT projects in FP7 – exchange of best practices"
ICT 2008, 25-27 November in Lyon.
Organised by Eurescom GmbH, chair/speakers: Milon Gupta, Doug Williams, Anastasius Gavras, Peter Stollenmayer
http://ec.europa.eu/information_society/events/cf/item-display.cfm?id=580 
Agenda as pdf
Presentation slides:
Anastasius Gavras, Eurescom: Consortium Building
Peter Stollenmayer, Eurescom: Management and Reporting
Doug Williams, BT: Dissemination and Exploitation
Summary of the TA2 networking session
27 October - 1 November 2008 "Enhancing Social Sharing of Videos: Fragment, Annotate, Enrich, and Share"
ACM Multimedia Conference 2008, Vancouver, Canada, pp. 11-20
P. Cesar
http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?doid=1459359.1459362
- Best paper award -
22-24 October 2008 "Introduction to User Experience Design for Interactive TV"
UXTV08 Conference , Silicon Valley, California, USA
P. Cesar
http://uxtv2008.org/program/intro-to-itv.html
18-19 October 2008 DIY Pervasive Games Workshop
Fun and Games 2008, Eindhoven, Netherlands
P. Ljungstrand
http://www.fng2008.org/
11-15 October 2008 Participation in Panel "Visions and strategies for Future Media Internet"
NEM Summit, Saint Malo, France
D. Williams
7-9 October 2008 "Supporting Group Relationships in Mediated Domestic Environments"
P. Ljungstrand
"Games, Gaming and Gamers - Understanding Game Research"
S. Björk
Presentations at Mindtrek Conference, Tampere, Finland
http://www.mindtrek.org/conference
16-19 September 2008 "Enabling adaptive time-based web applications with SMIL state".
ACM symposium on Document engineering 2008, Sao Paulo, Brazil, pp. 18-27
J. Jansen, D.C.A. Bulterman
http://portal.acm.org/toc.cfm?id=1410140&idx=SERIES10668
- Best Paper Award -
10-12 September 2008 "Conferencing with Spatial Audio" 
 ITU-T workshop on "From Speech to Audio: bandwidth extension, binaural perception", Lannion, France
P. Hughes
http://www.itu.int/ITU-T/worksem/speechaudio/programme.html
2-4 July 2008 "Usages of the Secondary Screen in an Interactive Television Environment: Control, Enrich, Share, and Transfer Television Content" 
EurolTV 2008 Conference, Salzburg, Austria, pp.168-177
P. Cesar, D.C.A. Bulterman, and A.J. Jansen
http://www.springerlink.com/content/p30658353hgj2046/
- Best paper award -
14 June 2008 Paper on how we see technology integrating with real life.
2nd CHALLENGERS Workshop on Research Challenges and Visions
Barcelona, Spain
D. Williams
21 April 2008 Tutorial at the World Wide Web Conference 2008 on "Interactive Television and the Web"
P. Cesar, CWI
3-5 March 2008 "Temporal Manipulation and Sharing of Presentation State in Browser-Embedded Multimedia Documents"
Taiwanese-French Conference on Information Technology (TFIT2008), Taipei, Taiwan, pp. 256- 266
D.C.A. Bulterman, A.J. Jansen, and P. Cesar
http://www.csie.ntu.edu.tw/~tfit08/

 

 



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