Events

Cognitive Science Summerschool 2008   Volterra, Tuscany, 2008-09-15 00:00:00 - 2008-09-19 00:00:00

In the last decade, research on cognitive systems has received increased attention. Inspired by biological systems and their ability to manage complex tasks in an ever-changing environment, researchers have set out to model biological processes. To advance the science of cognitive systems a multi-disciplinary investigation of requirements, design options and trade-offs for human-like, autonomous, integrated, physical (eg. Robot) systems, including requirements, for architectures, for forms of representation, for perceptual mechanisms, for learning, planning and reasoning for action and communication are investigated. Information is gathered from different modalities such as vision, audio and speech. A very important aspect is how biological systems can filter out vital information from this vast amount of data through fusion and transfer of knowledge between modalities. To model these processes, researchers have developed architectures, representations, algorithms and sensors to acquire and process data coming from the various sensory modalities.

Annual Review Meeting   IDIAP, Martigny, Switzerland, 2008-04-08 08:00:00 - 2008-04-09 18:00:00

 

Advisory Board Meeting   IDIAP, Martigny, Switzerland, 2008-03-13 08:00:00 - 2008-03-14 18:00:00

Annual Advisory Board Meeting

Temporal Dynamics in Speech and Hearing Workshop   Antwerp, Belgium, 2007-08-26 00:00:00 - 2007-08-26 00:00:00

This one-day workshop will focus on those aspects of auditory and higher-cortical function germane to analysis, decoding and interpretation of biologically relevant information encoded in the signal’s temporal structure. Of particular interest is the role of modulatory processes for encoding and decoding information germane to communication and environmental navigation (e.g., spoken language, auditory scene analysis, acoustic spatialization, musical dynamics) as well as computational approaches for exploiting such information for technology applications. The structure of this workshop departs from tradition in that it will favor structured discussion, reflecting the collective knowledge and wisdom of its participants, instead of long-winded presentations by a few. Presentations will be short and will focus on one of the following themes: (1) Auditory Temporal Dynamics and Informational Masking (2) Speech Dynamics and Its Relation to Information Coding in Spoken Language (3) Temporal Dynamics in Speech Engineering Please see website: http://www.silicon-speech.com/workshop for more details

Summer Workshop on Multi-Sensory Modalities in Cognitive Science   Studienzentrum Gerzensee, Switzerland, 2007-08-25 00:00:00 - 2007-08-29 00:00:00

This year DIRAC will have its very first summer workshop. To organize this event Dirac has joined forces with IST-project CoSy (http://www.cognitivesystems.org) because of its similarity in goals: to investigate the cognitive processes of learning and understanding environments using data as retrieved by different sensor inputs. The summer workshop is sponsored by the PASCAL Network of Excellence (http://www.pascal-network.org/) and will carry the name "Summer Workshop on Multi-Sensory Modalities in Cognitive Science". It is scheduled to take place August 25-29 in Studienzentrum Gerzensee. The program of the summer workshop will be spread over five days during which the participants may follow tutorials on various topics such as: --- Neural mechanisms of recognition and categorization --- Visual Object Recognition Algorithms --- Image Matching and Camera Tracking --- Spatial Sound Processing --- Speech Communication by Humans and Machine --- Autonomous Robot Learning of Foundational Representations --- Developmental Algorithms --- Cognitive Architectures --- Markov Decision Processes These tutorials will be brought by well-known lecturers in the field: Ales Leonardis, Bastian Leibe, Benjamin Kuipers, Bernt Schiele, Craig Boutilier, Frederic Kaplan, Hynek Hermansky, Joern Anemueller, Matthias Scheutz, Rufin Vogels, Tinne Tuytelaars and Tomas Pajdla.

Johns Hopkins University Workshop 2007   Baltimore, 2007-07-16 00:00:00 - 2007-08-22 00:00:00

One of DIRAC fundamental problems, the detection and description of rare out-of-vocabulary words in automatic recognition of speech, has been elected by a panel of academic experts as the best research topic for the U.S. Government sponsored 2007 Summer Workshop on innovative speech and language technologies. A team of researchers from the Brno University of Technology in Czech Republic, the Microsoft Research in Washington, the Georgia Institute of Technology, and U.S. Government research organizations, lead by Prof. Hermansky from the IDIAP Research Institute, will be working on this topic in July and August 2007 at the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore.

Graduate Summer School: Probabilistic Models of Cognition: The Mathematics of Mind   UCLA, Los Angeles, USA, 2007-07-09 00:00:00 - 2007-07-27 00:00:00

This 3 weeks event will will involve leaders from Cognitive Science and experts from Computer Science, Mathematics and Statistics, who are interested in making bridges to Cognitive Science. The goal is to develop a common mathematical framework for all aspects of cognition, and review how it explains empirical phenomena in the major areas of cognitive science - including vision, memory, reasoning, learning, planning, and language. The summer school is motivated by recent advances which offer the promise of modeling human cognition mathematically. These advances have occurred largely because the mathematical and computational tools developed for designing artificial systems are beginning to make an impact on theoretical and empirical work in Cognitive Science. In turn, Cognitive Science offers an enormous range of complex problems which challenge and test these theories. The main theoretical theme of the summer school is to model cognitive abilities as sophisticated forms of probabilistic inference. The approach is "sophisticated" in at least three respects. First, the knowledge and beliefs of cognitive agents are modeled using sophisticated probability distributions defined over structured relational systems, such as graphs and generative grammars. Second, the learning and reasoning processes of cognitive agents are modeled using advanced mathematical techniques from statistical estimation, statistical physics, and stochastic differential equations. Third, the decision making processes of agents are modeled using techniques from decision theory and game theory. The summer school is intended for graduate students and postdocs, as well as more senior researchers interested in focusing their efforts on these mathematical challenges and crucial applications. Please see website for more information

INE Telluride Workshop 2007   Telluride USA, 2007-07-01 00:00:00 - 2007-07-21 00:00:00

This is a three-week workshop focused on neuromorphic engineering. The goal of the workshop is to bring together young investigators and more established researcher's from academia with their counterparts in industry and national laboratories, working on both neurobiological as well as engineering aspects of sensory systems and sensory-motor integration. The workshop is intense and active, with demonstration systems and hands-on-experience for all participants. These demonstrations are supplemented with lectures, but the focus is on the projects and interactions between participants rather than on passive exposure to knowledge.

BCI Meets HCI - a PASCAL Workshop   IDIAP Research Institute, Switzerland, 2007-04-16 00:00:00 - 2007-04-17 00:00:00

A Brain-Computer Interface (BCI) is a novel augmentative communication system that translates human intentions -- reflected by suitable brain signals -- into a control signal for an output device such as a computer application or a neuroprosthesis. Work in the field has tended to be dominated by the challenge of deriving useful input signals to the computer from the complex sensor data, and in training users how to use such devices, and progress has been made to the point at which some BCI systems can be used with relatively little training. The interaction aspects of such systems have, however, often played a secondary role to the technical challenges of sensor interpretation. This workshop is intended to bring researchers from the broader Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) community together with researchers in the BCI community, to discuss how lessons learned in modern HCI research can improve BCI interfaces, and also how the challenges faced in BCI (e.g., low-bit rates, inherently noisy sensing, no proprioceptive feedback, potentially dangerous control actions) can stimulate a rethink of some core elements of HCI.

WP-1 Meeting on Feature Detection in Images and Sound   Prague, 2006-10-04 00:00:00 - 2006-10-04 00:00:00

 

IDIAP 15th Anniversary Workshop: Call for Paper   Martigny, 2006-07-11 00:00:00 - 2006-07-11 00:00:00

The theme of the workshop is a celebration of four key areas: Machine Learning, Speech Processing, Computer Vision, Information Retrieval, The two days workshop will be held on September 12-13 2006. Deadline for abstract submission is 11:59pm (GMT) Tuesday July 11, 2006

DIRAC Melting the Ice Meeting   KUL, 2006-09-05 00:00:00 - 2006-09-06 00:00:00

DIRAC representatives will meet in Leuven on September 5-6. More details at http://homes.esat.kuleuven.be/~kcorneli/DIRAC/

INE Telluride Workshop 2006   Telluride, COLORADO, 2006-06-25 00:00:00 - 2006-07-15 00:00:00

This is a three-week workshop focused on neuromorphic engineering. The goal of the workshop is to bring together young investigators and more established researcher's from academia with their counterparts in industry and national laboratories, working on both neurobiological as well as engineering aspects of sensory systems and sensory-motor integration. The workshop is intense and active, with demonstration systems and hands-on-experience for all participants. These demonstrations are supplemented with lectures, but the focus is on the projects and interactions between participants rather than on passive exposure to knowledge.

CogSys II Conference   Nijmegen, The Netherlands, 2006-04-12 09:00:00 - 2006-04-13 18:00:00

DIRAC Members will participate to The CogSys II conference, which is organised to share the progress that is being made in the research community around the sponsored projects within the area of Cognitive Systems (area FP6-2003-IST-2, call IST-2002-2.3.2.4).

DIRAC's Ice Breaker workshop   Czech Technical University in Prague, 2006-03-25 08:00:00 - 2006-03-26 23:55:00

Internal meeting

euCognition Inaugural Meeting: The European Network for the Advancement of Artificial Cognitive System   Nice, 2006-02-16 00:00:00 - 2006-02-17 00:00:00

This meeting aims to be a seminal event, taking stock of where we are now in cognitive systems, looking forward in tackling the greatest challenges, and providing a forum for constructive debate.

KickOff meeting   Martigny, 2006-01-19 09:30:00 - 2006-01-19 18:30:00

DIRAC's Kick Off & Project Board meeting

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