Section: Partnerships and Cooperations

National Initiatives

OSEO: QUAERO CTC and Corpus Projects

Participants : Frédéric Bimbot, Laurence Catanese, Gabriel Sargent.

Main academic partners : IRCAM, IRIT, LIMSI, Telecom ParisTech

• Duration: 2008 -december 2013

• Research axis: 3.3

• Description: Quaero is a European research and development program with the goal of developing multimedia and multilingual indexing and management tools for professional and general public applications (such as search engines).

• Partners: Other companies involved in the consortium are: France Télécom, Exalead, Bertin Technologies, Jouve, Grass Valley GmbH, Vecsys, LTU Technologies, Siemens A.G. and Synapse Développement. Many public research institutes are also involved, including LIMSI-CNRS, Inria, IRCAM, RWTH Aachen, University of Karlsruhe, IRIT, Clips/Imag, Telecom ParisTech, INRA, as well as other public organisations such as INA, BNF, LIPN and DGA.

• Funding: This program is supported by OSEO.

• Coordinator: The consortium is led by Technicolor.

• Contribution of PANAMA:

  PANAMA is involved in two technological domains : audio processing and music information retrieval (WP6). The research activities (CTC project) are focused on improving audio and music analysis, segmentation and description algorithms in terms of efficiency, robustness and scalability. Some effort is also dedicated on corpus design, collection and annotation (Corpus Project).

  PANAMA also takes part to research and corpus activities in multimodal processing (WP10), in close collaboration with the Texmex project-team.

OSEO-FUI: S-POD: “Assistance à personnes en danger potentiel”

Participants : Frédéric Bimbot, Romain Lebarbenchon.

• Duration: August 2012-November 2016

• Research axis: 3.2

• Partners: ERYMA, CAPT/FOTON, CASSIDIAN, KAPTALIA, KERLINK, le LOUSTIC and Telecom Bretagne

• Coordinator: ERYMA

• Description: S-POD gathers research teams and industrial partners to that aim at setting up a framework to process and fuse audio, physiological and contextual data. The goal is to design an embedded autonomous system able to detect situations of potential danger arising in the immediate environment of a person (military, police, CIT, fire, etc.)

• Contribution of PANAMA: PANAMA is in charge of R&I activities related to the qualitative and quantitative analysis of information from the acoustic environment (intensity, direction of arrival, nature of noise sounds, properties of voices, etc.) as well as to the exploitation of these analyses. The need for real-time embedded processing induces specific constraints.

Action de Développement Technologique: FASST

Participants : Nancy Bertin, Frédéric Bimbot, Jules Espiau de Lamaestre, Nathan Souviraà-Labastie.

• Duration: 2 years (2012–2014).

• Research axis: 3.2.2

• Partners: Inria Teams Parole (Nancy) and Texmex (Rennes)

• Description: This Inria ADT aims to develop a new version of our FASST audio source separation toolbox in order to facilitate its large-scale dissemination in the source separation community and in the various application communities. A specific effort will be made towards the speech processing community by developing an interface with existing speech recognition software. A beta version was internally released and tested from July 2013. The first public release is planned for January 2014.