Alessandro Vinciarelli, co-founder of Klewel and coordinator of a European Network of Excellence called Social Signal Processing Network (SSPNet). The network aims at establishing a European research community on modeling analysis and synthesis of social signals.
Last sunday in Amsterdam, a 1st workshop was organized in this topic. All the talks are available online:
Among all the talks, we would note that Prof Nick Campbell (at Trinity College, Dublin and ex Research Director, Expressive Speech Processing Project, ATR Information Sciences Division in Japan) gave a very good talk on Tracking the second channel of information in speech. Another interesting talk in the form of a dialog was given by Yiannis Aloimonos Professor at the Department of Computer Science and the Director of the Computer Vision Laboratory, at the University of Maryland.
