Section: Bilateral Contracts and Grants with Industry

Bilateral Grants with Industry

Orange

• Company: Orange SA (France)

• Duration: Nov 2016 – Oct 2019

• Participants: Lauréline Perotin, Romain Serizel, Emmanuel Vincent

• Abstract: This CIFRE contract funded the PhD thesis of Lauréline Perotin. Our goal was to develop deep learning based speaker localization and speech enhancement algorithms for robust hands-free voice command. We were especially targeting difficult scenarios involving several simultaneous speakers.

Invoxia

• Company: Invoxia SAS (France)

• Duration: Mar 2017 – Apr 2020

• Participants: Guillaume Carbajal, Romain Serizel, Emmanuel Vincent

• Abstract: This CIFRE contract funds the PhD thesis of Guillaume Carbajal. Our goal is to design a unified end-to-end deep learning based speech enhancement system that integrates all steps in the current speech enhancement chain (acoustic echo cancellation and suppression, dereverberation, and denoising) for improved hands-free voice communication.

Ministère des Armées

• Company: Ministère des Armées (France)

• Duration: Sep 2018 – Aug 2021

• Participants: Raphaël Duroselle, Denis Jouvet, Irène Illina

• Abstract: This contract corresponds to the PhD thesis of Raphaël Duroselle on the application of deep learning techniques for domain adaptation in speech processing.

Facebook

• Company: Facebook AI Research (France)

• Duration: Nov 2018 – Nov 2021

• Participants: Adrien Dufraux, Emmanuel Vincent

• Abstract: This CIFRE contract funds the PhD thesis of Adrien Dufraux. Our goal is to explore cost-effective weakly supervised learning approaches, as an alternative to fully supervised or fully unsupervised learning for automatic speech recognition.