Section: Highlights of the Year

Highlights of the Year

Robotic Demonstration at ICMI'15. The PERCEPTION team was present at the ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction – ICMI'15 (November 2015,Seattle WA, USA) with the demonstration A Distributed Architecture for Interacting with NAO [27] . This software package enables robot programming using various languages, e.g. C, C++, Matlab, and Python. This distributed architecture is available under the NAOLab open-source software package. The development of NAOLab is part of PERCEPTION's participation in EU FP7 projects and is funded by STREP project Embodied Audition for RobotS (EARS) and ERC Advanced Grant Vision and Hearing in Action (VHIA).

The Xerox Foundation University Affairs Committee (UAC) awarded Radu Horaud and Florence Forbes (EPI MISTIS) with a three year grant Advanced and Scalable Graph Signal Processing Techniques (2015-2017). Collaboration with Arijit Biswas and Anirban Mondal, research scientists at Xerox Research Center India (XRCI), Bangalore. Information about these awards is available at page 9 of this document available online: http://www.xerox.com/downloads/usa/en/innovation/innovation_xig_brochure.pdf .

MOOC on Binaural Hearing for Robots. In May-June 2015 Radu Horaud taught a five hour MOOC dealing with the fundamental principles of robot hearing, from binaural signal processing to robotic implementations. MOOC content available at https://team.inria.fr/perception/mooc-bhr/ and at https://www.france-universite-numerique-mooc.fr/courses/inria/41004/session01/about .

Awards

• Vincent Drouard (PhD student) and his co-authors received the “Best Student Paper Award" (second place) at IEEE ICIP'15 for the paper Head Pose Estimation via High-Dimensional Regression . The conference took place in Quebec City, Canada, September 2015. There were five papers awarded, two “Best Paper" and three “Best Student Paper" out of a total of 1033 (oral and poster) papers presented at the conference. IEEE ICIP is the premier international image processing conference series held every year. The work is funded by the ERC Advanced Grant VHIA.

• Dionyssos Kounades-Bastian (PhD student) and his co-authors received the “Best Student Paper Award" at IEEE WASPAA'15 for the paper A Variational EM Algorithm for the Separation of Moving Sound Sources . The conference took place in New Paltz, NY, USA, October 2015. There were six papers nominated for the award, out of a total of 80 (oral and poster) papers presented at the workshop. The IEEE WASPAA workshop series is among the premier international forums in the field of audio and acoustic signal processing, held every other year. The work is funded by the EU STREP project EARS and the ERC Advanced Grant VHIA.

Best Papers Awards:

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