Section: Other Grants and Activities

Visits of foreign researchers, Invitations to foreign labs

Visit to the University of Reykjavík

Participants : Laurent Amsaleg, Ewa Kijak.

Laurent Amsaleg and Ewa Kijak were invited to visit the University of Reykjavík for a week. They gave classes on multidimensional indexing and clustering and on still images and video descriptions. They also met several students and discussed on-going projects. Future work on audio indexing and classification can be foreseen.

Visit of members of University of Reykjavík

Participants : Laurent Amsaleg, Ewa Kijak.

Björn Þór Jónsson, Haukur Palmason et Gylfi Þór Guðmundsson spent one week at Irisa. They came to push the work initiated in Iceland on audio indexing and classification of musical tunes. In addition, discussions on a new high-dimensional clustering algorithm took place. We also discussed its integration into our demo environment.

Visit from members of University of Nagoya and NII Tokyo

Participants : Camille Guinaudeau, Gwénolé Lecorvé, Pascale Sébillot, Julien Fayolle.

Partner: Ichiro Ide, Associate professor at the University of Nagoya, and Shin'ichi Satoh, Professor at NII (National institute of informatics) Tokyo, Japan.

In the framework of TexMex 's collaboration with the University of Nagoya and NII Tokyo, Ichiro Ide spent 5 days in the team in March-April 2009. These days were dedicated to discussions and common work about TV structuring, topic segmentation, and to the definition of the subject of J. Fayolle's internship.