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Phonetic Articulatory Synthesis – ArtSpeech
The objective is to synthesize speech from text via the numerical simulation of the human speech production processes, i.e. the articulatory, aerodynamic and acoustic aspects. Corpus based approaches have taken a hegemonic place in text to speech synthesis. They exploit very good acoustic quality
Seconds that matter: Managing First Impressions for a more Engaging Virtual Agent – IMPRESSIONS
In any encounter the first moments are critical and the impressions that we form of others matter. The IMPRESSIONS project aims at creating computational models of communicative behavior for virtual Embodied Conversational Agents (ECAs) in order to manage first impressions when interacting with thei
Generating and Answering Ontological Queries over Semi-structured Medical Data – GoAsQ
More and more information on individuals (e.g., persons, events, biological objects) are available electronically in a structured or semi-structured form. However, selecting individuals satisfying certain constraints based on such data manually is a complex, error-prone, and time and personnel consu
Beyond compressive sensing: sparse approximation algorithms for ill-condioned inverse problems – BECOSE
The sparse reconstruction problem consists of minimizing the counting function (referred to as the L0-«norm«) subject to some constraints imposed by the observation model. This problem is NP-hard except for very specific situations, and various sub-optimal algorithms have been proposed, especial
Study, design and experimental implementation of a tangible space for pilot-system interactions in the cockpit of the future – AIRTIUS
Cockpits of commercial airliners are made up of various instrument panels incorporating screen displays that present information relating to various aircraft systems as well as physical controls (knobs, switches, etc.) to interact with these systems. These cockpits are evolving towards aggregate sys
Parallelisation methods for complex cinetics – CINE-PARA
The need for faster numerical simulations of complex phenomena, and the definition in this context of what a complex phenomenon is, is evolving in line with the improvement of the platforms that are available for High Performance Computing. Indeed, what used to require hours or days of numerical sim
Template acquisition pour open event extraction – ASRAEL
Information and communication society led to the production of huge volumes of content. This content is still generally non-structured (text, images, videos) and the promises of a "Web of Knowledge" are still long ahead. This situation evolves with the development of Open Data portals or resources s
Non-local domain decomposition methods in electromagnetics – NonLocalDD
This project is oriented toward numerical analysis and scientific computing for large scale simulations of electromagnetic wave propagation in harmonic regime on parallel architectures. It aims at developing new domain decomposition methods (DDM), or improving already existing approaches. Most of th
Wavelet graphs and their application to the direct detection of gravitational waves – wavegraph
Einstein's Theory of General Relativity predicts the existence of gravitational waves (GW). A worldwide network of next generation laser interferometers aims at making the first direct detection of GWs from astrophysical sources such as coalescing binaries of neutron-stars and/or black-holes. It
Learning highly complex visual problems with deep structured models – DEEPVISION
Video data are ubiquitous. With the explosion of embedded devices and sensors, footage is collected from a variety of sources ranging from surveillance cameras to cell-phone cameras to wearable devices. However, video’s usefulness is limited by our ability to interpret and make decisions from it. Fu
Practice-based evidences for actioning Knowledge in Pharmacogenomics – PractiKPharma
Pharmacogenomics (PGx) studies how individual gene variations cause variability in drug responses. A state of the art of PGx is available and constitutes a basis for implementing personalized medicine, i.e., a medicine tailored to each patient by considering in particular her/his genomic context. Ho
Representation Learning for Modeling Rich Dynamic Interaction Traces – LOCUST
Human interactions conducted either via the web and mobile services or with artifacts and intelligent sensors generate large flows of complex dynamic data. These user traces correspond to sequences of observations: events, measurements, semantic content, etc. They may have a space component (e.g. ge
Learning with interacting views – LIVES
Imagine you have to answer the following questions: how to build a computer-aided diagnosis tool for neurological disorders from images acquired from different medical imaging devices? that could identify which emotion is feeling a person from her face and her voice? How could these tools be still
Content Management Techniques Content Management Techniques for Fact-Checking: Models, Algorithms, and Tools – ContentCheck
Fact-checking is the task of assessing the factual accuracy of claims, typically prior to publication. Modern fact-checking is faced with a triple revolution in terms of scale, complexity, and visibility: many more claims are made and disseminated through Web and social media, they represent a compl
Physically Flexible Control for Human-Computer Interaction – PhyFlex
The PhyFlex project addresses the lack of flexibility in the control of Tangible User Interaction (TUI). On the contrary to previous work, this project addresses a new research question: universal and flexible physical control. PhyFlex opens new perspectives on TUI based on the flexibility provided
Long Term MappINg for Urban Mobility – pLaTINUM
Mapping and localization are both essential in the development of mobility applications for people or intelligent vehicles. These tasks that have been intensively studied in the past decade are considered among the most complex perception problems. They require a huge computation capability with str
Multiphysics image-based AnalysIs for premature brAin development understanding – MAIA
Every year in France, 55,000 children are born prematurely, before the 37th week of pregnancy. In this context, extreme prematurity (less than 32 weeks) affects 10,000 newborns per year. Long-term studies of the outcomes of prematurely born infants have clearly demonstrated that the majority of thes
Modeling And Control of Self-excited vibrations for DRILLing – MACS-DRILL
The proposed project is a collaborative research between two important and recognized French laboratories, GIPSA-lab and CAS-ARMINES, with the industrial cooperation of Kelda Drilling Controls. It will investigate modeling and control of drilling systems. Drilling processes represent a substanti
Finite Time Control and Estimation for System of Systems – Finite4SoS
Information technology revolution has become a reality together with its new challenges. Tomorrow we will need to manage Systems of Systems (SoS) with communication facilities, while requiring the best achievable performances: in particular robustness as well as severe time response constraints (for
Chess Expertise from Eye Gaze and Emotion – CEEGE
The aim of this project is to experimentally evaluate and compare current theories for mental modeling for problem solving and attention, as well as to refine and evaluate techniques for observing the physiological reactions of humans to situation that inspire pleasure, displeasure, arousal, dominan
Flexibility for expressive speech synthesis – SynPaFlex
Nowadays, Text-To-Speech synthesis achieves very good quality. The use of very large corpora largely contributes to this success. Despite that, emotion, intention and speaking style are missing from the synthetic speech generated. Currently, we are not able to synthesize a voice with all the express
Stability and control of infinite dimensional systems – SCIDIS
The SCIDiS project aims at the stability and stabilization analysis of infinite dimensional systems using Lyapunov-like methodology. The objective is to provide generic methods for building Lyapunov functionals to stability analysis or to control distributed parameter systems. More precisely, we foc
REdefining Brain-Computer Interfaces to Enable their users to achieve controL mastery – REBEL
Brain-Computer Interfaces (BCI) are communication systems that enable their users to send commands to computers through brain activity only, this activity being measured and processed by the BCI (usually using ElectroEncephaloGraphy – EEG). Making computer control possible without any physical activ
PARSIMONY, HUGE OBSERVATIONS OF EARTH NON-STATIONARITIES FROM IMAGES TIME SERIES – PHOENIX
Environment monitoring for local and global change detection requires different types of observations of the earth structures and features. Among the different earth observation methods, imaging systems provide both small scale and large scale information on the critical regions of interest (glacier
Complexity and bidirectional information-theory: complexity-feedback-performance limits and a new class of ecological information networks – ECOLOGICAL-BITS-AND-FLOPS
They also drive our technological vision: We will develop algorithms for a new class of mobile-user devices that can participate in properly gathering/disseminating feedback (at the right place and time) as well as in computing solutions to outsourced algorithmic tasks across the network, in an effo
Knowledge extraction from large corpora of human-human conversation data from WEB chat services – DATCHA
The goal of the DATCHA project is to perform knowledge extraction from very large databases of WEB chat conversations between operators and clients in customer contact centers. Extracting knowledge from chat corpus remains a challenging research issue. Simply applying traditional text mining tools i
Hybrid Visualization of Dynamic Multilayer Graphs – BLIZAAR
Digital cultural heritage preservation consists in the collection, preservation, analysis and provision of open access to digitized cultural heritage objects, which may be any man-made object throughout history. CVCE is working on thousands of digital documents and publications of different nature c
Around 2D plan – AP2
The project Around a 2D Map focuses on the design, development and evaluation of interaction techniques for collaboratively manipulating 2D and 3D data displayed on an horizontal or vertical surface. The project focuses on the most common usage situation: a 2D map displayed on an horizontal or verti
Fields: Finding Interesting Events in Large Dynamic Social Networks – FIELDS
A large amount of data is posted and shared incessantly by users of social media such as Twitter, Facebook, Google+. This presents unprecedented opportunities as it allows to study and understand complex systems, as well as, to be timely informed about recent events such as earthquakes, virus outbre