Multimodal Signal Processing: Human Interactions in Meetings

About

Steve Renals is Director of the Institute for Language Computation and Cognition (ILCC) and Professor of Speech Technology in the School of Informatics at the University of Edinburgh. He has over 150 publications in speech and language processing is the co-editor-in-chief of the ACM Transactions on Speech and Language Processing and has led several large projects in the field. With Hervé Bourlard he was the joint coordinator of the AMI and AMIDA European Integrated Projects which form the basis for the book. Hervé Bourlard is Director of the Idiap Research Institute in Switzerland Professor at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology at Lausanne (EPFL) and founding Director of the Swiss National Center of Competence in Research on Interactive Multimodal Information Management (NCCR IM2). He has over 250 publications has initiated and coordinated numerous international research projects and is the recipient of several scientific and entrepreneurship awards. Jean Carletta is a Senior Research Fellow at the Human Communication Research Centre University of Edinburgh. She was the scientific manager of the AMI and AMIDA Integrated Projects. A former Marshall Scholar she has been on the editorial boards of Computational Linguistics and Language Resources and Evaluation. Andrei Popescu-Belis is a senior researcher at the Idiap Research Institute a lecturer at EPFL and the head of Idiap's Natural Language Processing group. His research interests are in natural language processing information retrieval language resources and the evaluation of linguistic and interactive systems.