Doors open @ 17h30 // Presentations, live demonstrations, cocktail & networking from 18h00 to 20h00.

Attention: Limited number of 80 Rezonance participants!

Business meetings need to be improved as a way of sharing information or collaborating. Scientists in the AMI Consortium bring expertise from many disciplines and apply it to the improvement of meetings. These disciplines include the fields of speech processing, video/vision processing and human-computer interfaces, as well as sociology, psychology and linguistics. The focus of the research about which you will hear, and which you will see in action, is on the human-human communication which occurs between people during product design meetings.

After the opening talk you will have the opportunity to see demonstrations of technologies that will:
• Automatically generate summaries of your meetings
• Automatically detect changes in topics during meetings
• Browsing and searching of past meeting archives
• Automatic recognition of faces, gestures, actions and emotions during meetings
• Automatically spot keywords during a meeting

This special event is opened exclusively for the members of the Rezonance network thanks to the Augmented Multiparty Interaction Consortium and IDIAP Research Institute, Martigny. The AMI Community of Interest includes CapGemini, Cisco, Hewlett Packard, IBM, Intel, LifeSize, Logitech, Media Publisher, Nokia, Oracle, Philips Consumer Electronics, Polycom, Quindi, RADVISION, SMART Technologies, Spiderphone, TANDBERG, Telecats and WebEx.
www.amiproject.org/vendors

IDIAP is a Swiss research institute of world acclaim which directs a number of research projects of national and international importance. One of these is the AMIDA Project.
www.amiproject.org

This is the opportunity to meet senior scientists and executives from large and small companies who will change how business will conduct meetings in the future :
• learn about the future of meetings, to see what meetings will be like in the year 2020
• hear from the Director of the Consortium Dr. Herve Bourlard, an overview of the AMI Consortium’s activities,
• meet and speak one-on-one with experts in the field of human-to-human communication and automated metadata annotation on business meetings
• to see and touch over 8 demonstrations of the powerful capabilities developing within the AMI Consortium.

Anyone with an interest in how meetings in the future will be different than they are today should attend. For example, in the future:
• People will reduce time spent preparing for/in unproductive meetings. This is measured by rising level of participant satisfaction with meetings.
• Meetings will only involve people at the time and in the manner they are needed.
• Technology will permit people in meetings - and those absent from meetings - to understand the context of participants and background for decisions.
• Technology will assist people to focus on agenda items known to be relevant to the business or project.

The participants in the IDIAP AMI workshop are chief technology officers, advanced technology scouts and directors of research at companies who are members of the AMI Community of Interest and partners of the AMI Consortium

The Non-Profit Research Institutes members and Academic Partners of the AMI Consortium are:

IDIAP Research Institute, CH
Prof. Hervé Bourlard, AMI Scientific Coordinator
Areas of expertise: speech processing, computer vision, machine learning, multimodal interaction, smart meeting room, handwriting recognition, multimodal indexing.

German Research Centre for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI), DE
Prof.WolfgangWahlster and Dr. Tilman Becker
Areas of expertise: Intelligent visualisation and simulation systems, language technology, intelligent user interfaces.

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.

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.

e-Health Research Centre, Australia
Dr Iain McCowan
Areas of expertise: content analysis of medical multimedia, technological support for clinical teams, sensor signal processing for patient monitoring.

University of Edinburgh (UEDIN), UK
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

Sheffield University (USFD), UK
(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: speech processing, computational scene analysis, dialogue modelling, machine learning, noisy text indexing and summarisation; HCI

Brno University of Technology (BUT), Czech Republic
Institute of Computer Graphics and Multimedia, www.fit.vutbr.cz/research/groups/speech)
Prof. Hynek Hermansky
Areas of expertise: speech coding, speech recognition, speaker recognition, machine vision.

Technische Universität München (TUM), DE
IInstitute for Human-Machine Communication, www.mmk.ei.tum.de
Prof. Gerhard Rigoll
Areas of expertise: multimodal man-machine communication, language engineering, computer vision, gesture recognition.

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.