Quaero Consortium for Multimodal Person Recognition – QCOMPERE

The QCOMPERE project aims at building a consortium of QUAERO partners for participating to the REPERE challenge. The QUAERO program, started in May 2008, is composed of French and German research organizations and the goal of the QUAERO CTC project is to improve the state-of-the-art in automatic multimedia document structuring and indexing. Several of its tasks are directly related to the REPERE challenge call, and each of the partners has demonstrated state of the art technologies in their respective areas, making the participation to the REPERE challenge a natural extension to the work already planned for QUAERO. The project will be organized in 6 task, with four tasks addressing a single modal questions: who is seen, who is speaking, whose name is written on screen, whose name is pronounced; a fifth task will address the multimodal fusion and the sixth task will provide technology coordination and annotated data resources for the project. The primary goal of the project is to participate to the REPERE challenge, thus the main deliverables will be submissions to the first and second official REPERE evaluations for each modalities. Other outcomes of the project will be scientific collaboration and publications. The collaboration with the German partner, not funded by the project, will be mainly covered through missions.