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The AMI Consortium is comprised of research
institutes, universities and businesses.
The consortium partners collaborate on research projects and
integrate their results into demonstrations and deliverables.
Partners contribute special areas of expertise. Learn more about
AMI Consortium members, by browsing this page and the associated
web sites.
Non-Profit Research Institutes
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IDIAP
Research Institute, CH
AMI Scientific Coordinator
Prof. Hervé Bourlard
Areas of expertise: speech processing, computer vision,
machine learning, multimodal interaction, smart meeting
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German Research Centre for
Artificial Intelligence (DFKI),
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Prof.WolfgangWahlster and Dr. Tilman Becker
Areas of expertise: Intelligent visualisation and simulation
systems, language technology, intelligent user interfaces. |
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International Computer Science
Institute (ICSI),
Berkeley/CA
Prof. Nelson Morgan and Dr. Barbara Peskin, USA
Areas of expertise: language and dialogue modelling,
spoken language processing, speaker modelling, smart
meeting room. |
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Netherlands Organisation for Applied
Scientific Research (TNO),
NL
Dr. Wessel Kraaij, Dr. Wilfried Post, NL
Areas of expertise:
multimodal summarisation, information retrieval, natural
language processing, computer vision, human factors,
HCI, audio analysis, user-centred design, usability testing,
group decision making, computer supported collaborative
work. |
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CSIRO
E-Health Research Center Brisbane, AU
Person responsible: Dr Iain McCowan
Areas of expertise: audio-visual sensor networks, speech
and activity recognition, document classification |
Academic Partners
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University of Edinburgh (UEDIN),
UK
AMI Administrative Coordinator
Institute for Communicating and Collaborative Systems, www.iccs.informatics.ed.ac.uk)
Prof. Johanna Moore, Prof. Steve Renals and Dr. Jean
Carletta
Areas of expertise: dialogue understanding, cognitive
engineering, multimodal annotation |
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Sheffield University (USFD),
UK
AMI Training Coordinator
(1) Computer Science Department, Speech and Hearing Research
Group, www.dcs.shef.ac.uk/spandh)
Prof. Phil Green;
(2) Department of Information Studies, Prof. Steve Whittaker
Areas of expertise:
(1) speech processing, computational scene analysis,
dialogue modelling, machine learning, noisy text indexing
and summarisation;
(2) HCI |
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Brno University of Technology
(BUT),
Czech Republic
Institute of Computer Graphics and Multimedia, www.fit.vutbr.cz/research/groups/speech)
Dr. Pavel Zemcik
Areas of expertise: speech coding, speech recognition,
speaker recognition, machine vision. |
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Munich University of Technology
(TUM),
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Institute of man-machine communication, www.mmk.ei.tum.de
Prof. Gerhard Rigoll
Areas of expertise: multimodal man-machine communication,
language engineering, computer vision, gesture recognition. |
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University of Twente (UT),
NL
(Parlevink language engineering group, parlevink.cs.utwente.nl)
Prof. Franciska de Jong and Prof. Anton Nijholt
Areas of expertise: multimodal interaction, multimedia
retrieval, virtual reality, agent technology. |
Industrial Partners
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Visual
Nexus Ltd.
Geoff Seabrook - Chief Executive Officer and Co-founder
Steve Davies - Chief Technology Officer and Co-founder
Andy Suzuki - Founder and Chairman
Visual Nexus completes the communications needs
of modern business by providing a cost effective,
easy to use and secure online meeting environment.
An integrated software based video, voice, and data
collaboration solution, that can be accessed through
a PC, a video conferencing end-point, or even a telephone,
where groups of 2 to 25,000 participants can communicate
and work collaboratively. |
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Philips
Consumer Electronics BV, NL
Mr. Kees Tuinenbreijer
Area of expertise: interactive services and applications
on the move. |
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GEIE
ERCIM |
Standard Representative
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WWW Consortium (W3C),
F
www.w3.org/2002/mmi
Areas of expertise: WWWstandards, HTML/XML, multimodal
interaction
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