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MikeLincoln - 30 Jan 2007
Schedule Autumn 2006
26 Sep 2006
Introductory meeting followed by report from Steve R. and or Maria W. on the recent 'Preparing for FP7' event (and - as requested by Gabriel - some informal reports back from Interspeech)
3 Oct 2006
Simon K. - Report on work done at Johns Hopkins, summer 2006
10 Oct 2006
Tom Griffiths (ANC)
External Speaker
Human Activity Recognition Using Objects
The computer vision endeavour of activity recognition from video has wide-ranging potential applications, from the monitoring of elderly people at home to shopping centre security systems. In this talk I'll describe the approach we're taking to this task: inferring a person's activity from the way they use objects in the environment. I'll introduce how we break the problem down in to three levels (object tracking, action primitive extraction, and high-level activity modelling), give an overview of our approach to each one (with demos in some cases), and explain some future directions.
17 Oct 2006
Korin R.
A Trajectory Mixture Density Network for the Acoustic-articulatory Inversion Mapping
This talk presents work which appeared at the recent Interspeech 2006 conference. A trajectory model is proposed which is based on a mixture density network trained with target features augmented with dynamic features. This is then combined with an algorithm for estimating maximum likelihood trajectories which respects constraints between the static and derived dynamic features. I evaluated this model on an inversion mapping task. The introduction of the trajectory model successfully reduced root mean square error by up to 7.5%, as well as increasing correlation scores.
24 Oct 2006
Giulia G.
31 Oct 2006
Brainstorming
Simon K., Partha L., Mirjam W. and Joe F.
7 Nov 2006
14 Nov 2006
Tim Hospedales (IPAB)
External Speaker
21 Nov 2006
Joe F.
Multichannel dialogue act decoding of multiparty meetings
A number of authors have considered the task of dialogue act (DA) decoding for multiparty meetings, suggesting that information about the structure of the interaction (i.e. the sequence of statements, questions, interuptions etc) should prove useful in subsequent processing steps.
Previous approaches have typically considered each channel (speaker) in isolation when performing inference.
In this talk I present a framework for performing full joint classification and segmentation of all channels together. I take a multi-stream modelling approach using dynamic Bayesian networks (DBNs), with a state stream for each channel, and observations in the form of virtual evidence (VE), which consists of posteriors from conditional random fields (CRFs).
This is work in progress, and arose from discussions with Matthias Zimmermann after this year's MLMI.
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slides.pdf: Talk slides
28 Nov 2006
Brainstorming
Leader required!
5 Dec 2006
Mike L
12 Dec 2006
Schedule Spring 2007
23 Jan 2007
Leonardo B. - Loquendo's TTS system
30 Jan 2007
Fiona
06 Feb 2007
No CSTR meeting due to :
INSTITUTE FOR ADAPTIVE & NEURAL COMPUTATION SEMINAR
Yee Whye Teh Department of Computer Science School of Computing National University of Singapore
Tuesday, 6th February, 11am D-Floor Lecture Theatre (Jim Howe Room) 5 Forrest Hill
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Stick-breaking Construction for the Indian Buffet Process
The Indian buffet Process (IBP) is a recently proposed latent feature model where each object is modelled using a potentially unbounded number of binary latent features. It has had a variety of applications, including matrix factorization, causal inference, and psychological choice modelling. However, due to the unbounded nature of the model, standard Markov chain Monte Carlo inference techniques like Gibbs sampling is cumbersome and inefficient in IBPs. In this talk, I will reformulate the IBP model using a stick-breaking construction, and show that this leads to straightforward and efficient MCMC inference for the IBP. Furthermore, we will see that there are interesting and strong connections between the stick-breaking construction for the IBP, and the standard stick-breaking construction for the more well-known Dirichlet process.
There is another talk by the same speaker at 3.30pm in the same venue: A Bayesian Interpretation of Interpolated Kneser-Ney
13 Feb. 2007
20 Feb. 2007
27 Feb. 2007
Brain Storming
06 Mar. 2007
13 Mar. 2007
No Meeting
20 Mar. 2007
Craig Nicol Using Timbre Spaces to explore audio
27 Mar. 2007
No Meeting
03 Apr. 2007
No Meeting
10 Apr. 2007
Mirjam
17 Apr. 2007
Brain Storming - Simon and Steve will talk about a project proposal they are writing called "EMIME: Efficient Multilingual Interaction in Mobile Environments" which involves ASR , HMM-based TTS, speaker- and language-adaptation, all glued together with machine translation.
24 Apr. 2007
No Meeting
01 May 2007
Maria Walters
08 May 2007
Songfang Huang - Where We Are Towards A Multimodal LM: A Progress Report
15 May 2007
Sebastian Moeller, Deutsche Telekom
22 May 2007
UNIVERSITY HOLIDAY
29 May 2007
Brain Storming
05 June 2007
Partha Lal
12 June 2007
No Meeting
19 June 2007
No Meeting
26 June 2007
No Meeting
Summer Break
04 Sept. 2007
Steve Renals
11 Sept. 2007
No Meeting
18 Sept. 2007
Sebastien Anderson
25 Sept. 2007
Brainstorming
02 Oct. 2007
No Talk
09 Oct. 2007
Hiroshi Shimodara
16 Oct. 2007
Vipperla Ravi Chander
23 Oct. 2007
Zhang Le
30 Oct. 2007
Junichi Yamagishi
06 Nov. 2007
Joao Cabral
13 Nov. 2007
Brain Storming
20 Nov. 2007
Giulia Garau
27 Nov. 2007
Chao Qin
04 Dec. 2007
Alfred Dielmann
11 Dec. 2007
Sebastien Anderson
18 Dec. 2007
Vipperla Ravi Chander
Schedule Spring 2008
22 Jan 2008
Korin Richmond
29 Jan 2008
Brain Storming
05 Feb 2008
Maria Wolters
12 Feb. 2008
Zhenhua Ling
19 Feb. 2008
Ivan Himawan
26 Feb. 2008
Brain Storming (Steve - CUES and SSPnet proposals)
05 Mar. 2008 [UNUSUAL DAY - Wednesday. UNUSUAL TIME - 4pm. VENUE - conference suite]
Simon King
11 Mar. 2008
Yi-Jian Wu (Nagoya Institute of Technology) - Minimum generation error training for HMM-based speech synthesis
18 Mar. 2008
Rob Clark
25 Mar. 2008
Ivan Himawan
01 Apr. 2008
Jochen Ehnes
08 Apr. 2008
no meeting
15 Apr. 2008
External ?
22 Apr. 2008
Mike Lincoln
29 April 2008
Brain Storming (Steve)
06 May 2008
Peter Bell - POSTPONED
13 May 2008
Michael Berger
20 May 2008
UNIVERSITY HOLIDAY
27 May 2008
no meeting
03 June 2008
Tanja Kocjancic
10 June 2008
Martin Tietze: thesis proposal - POSTPONED
17 June 2008 [UNUSUAL VENUE: Seminar room]
Volker Strom
24 June 2008
No meeting
Start of Summer Break
29 July 2008
Tomoki Toda (Nara Advanced Institute of Science and Technology - NAIST) - Trajectory HMMs
End of Summer Break
02 Sept. 2008
no meeting
09 Sept. 2008
SPARE SLOT [was: Partha Lal (NB MLMI is taking place this week)]
16 Sept. 2008
OPEN SLOT
23 Sept. 2008
No meeting: Interspeech is taking place this week
30 Sept. 2008
no meeting
07 0ct. 2008
'What to do in the meeting' meeting
13 Oct. 2008
No Meeting
20 Oct. 2008
Dong Wang
27 Oct. 2008
No meeting?
03 Nov. 2008
CSTR General Meeting
10 Nov. 2008
John Niekrasz
17 Nov. 2008
???
24 Nov. 2008
???
Friday 28 Nov. 2008 (13:30, 4.31/33)
Zhang Le - pre-viva talk
01 Dec. 2008
Steve Renals - Overview of AMIDA
08 Dec. 2008
No meeting
15 Dec. 2008
???
Friday 19 Dec. 2008
11:00 Gregor Hofer DDD
14:00 AMIDA demos in the IMR
Christmas Break
12 Jan. 2009
No meeting
19 Jan. 2009
Songfang Huang (DDD)
26 Jan. 2009
Joao Cabral (DDD)
2 Feb. 2009
Tim Mills
9 Feb. 2009
Michael Berger (Thesis Proposal)
16 Feb. 2009
Peter Bell (DDD)
(was Junichi Yamagashi - needs to be moved later)
23 Feb. 2009
Oliver Watts (Thesis Proposal)
UNUSUAL TIME: 11am
(was Matthew Aylett - needs to be moved later)
2 Mar. 2009
No Meeting (room in use)
9 Mar. 2009
Leonardo Badino
16 Mar 2009
Sebastian Andersson
23 Mar. 2009
30 Mar. 2009
Sharon Goldwater
6 Apr. 2009
Dong Wang (DDD)
**Unusual time (2:00 pm)
Easter break
13 Apr. 2009
Maria Wolters
20 Apr. 2009
CSTR general Meeting
27 Apr. 2009
Rob Clark
4 May. 2009
Korin Richmond
11 May 2009
Jochen Ehnees
18 May 2009
No Meeting (Victoria Day)
25 May 2009
No Meeting
1 June 2009
Graham Pullin (University of Dundee)
8 June 2009
Tanja Kocjancic
15 June 2009
No meeting
22 June 2009
Volker Strom
29 June 2009
Martin Tietze
Summer Break
19th October 2009
Erich Zwyssig
"Digital Microphone Array - Design, Implementation and Speech Recognition Experiments"
EZ - 23thOct2009 - Presentation can now be found under attachments, see bottom of page ...
26th October 2009
EMIME (Simon King / Junichi Yamagishi)
Voice Cloning
2nd November 2009
No Meeting
9th November 2009
Tim Mills
"Wave of the future? Assessing the promise of 'reassigned' spectrograms" (postponed to 23 November)
16th November 2009
Partha Lal
Adaptation of Decision Tree Acoustic Models for Speech Recognition
23rd November 2009
Tim Mills
"Wave of the future? Assessing the promise of 'reassigned' spectrograms"
(Papers attached below. Also see
here for Matlab scripts implementing the reassigned spectrogram.)
30th November 2009
No meeting
7th December 2009
Sharon Goldwater
14th December 2009
Mike Lincoln
Realtime ASR and Automatic Content Linking
Christmas Break
11th January 2010
(TBC) Matthew Aylett
18th January 2010
Mirjam Wester
25th January 2010
Keith Edwards
Commercialisation
1st February 2010
Adriana Stan
Romanian HTS
8th February 2010
No Meeting
15th February 2010
No Meeting
22nd February 2010
Theresa Wilson
1st March 2010
Sebastian Andersson - DDD
(speaker and topic subject to change)
8th March 2010
15th March 2010
22nd March 2010
Oliver Watts
29th March 2010
Liang Lu
5th April 2010
Optional Holiday (Easter Monday)
12th April 2010
Maria Wolters (
MultiMemoHome )
19th April 2010
Optional Holiday ('Spring')
26th April 2010
No meeting
3rd May 2010
Michael Berger
10th May 2010
Michael Akeroyd, MRC Institute of Hearing Research (
099_maa_edinburgh_may2010_draft1.pptx: slides)
17th May 2010
Holiday (Victoria Day #1)
24th May 2010
No Meeting
31st May 2010
No Meeting
7th June 2010
No Meeting
14th June 2010
No Meeting
21st June 2010
No Meeting (moved to 8th July)
28th June 2010
Jochen Ehnes
8th July 2010
Korin Richmond (
Note this talk is scheduled for 4-5pm on a Thursday!)
Summer Break
4th October 2010*
Junichi Yamagishi
22nd November 2010*
Matthew Aylett - Cereproc
6th December 2010
Erich Zwyssig
The aim of this one-week Autumn School (London, UK, 1-5 November 2010) is to train
PhD students and researchers in the software development skills required to build reliable research software quickly and with a minimum of effort, and so maximize the impact of their research.
The Autumn School is presented by Dr. Greg Wilson in collaboration with
SoundSoftware .ac.uk: Sustainable Software for Audio and Music Research.
Reading:
Code:
Notes & Handout:
21st February 2011
Partha Lal
28th February 2011
Liang Lu
7th March 2011 (* PLEASE NOTE TIME: 10.00am *)
Sebastian Andersson Pre-Viva Talk.
14th March 2011
No meeting
21th March 2011
Christophe Veaux
28th March 2011
Mirjam Wester
4th April 2011
No meeting
11th April 2011
David Braude
18th April 2011
No meeting
25th April 2011
No Meeting
2nd May 2011
Martin Tietze
9th May 2011
Mark Sinclair
16th May 2011
No Talk
23th May 2011
No Talk
30th May 2011
Hiroyuki Segi (NHK, Japan Broadcasting Corporation)
6th June 2011
Oliver Watts