Talk: Structure to activity modeling, Nicolas Bloyet
Demo: video annotation tool, Cédric Fayet
Talk: Semantic analysis using frames, Gabriel Marzinotto
Talk : Still words, always words : from event’s date detection to song lyrics, Rémi Kessler
Talk: incremental learning of domain-specific models through dialog interaction, Vincent Letard
Best paper award at TALN 2017
The paper of Raheel Qader, Gwénolé Lecorvé, Damien Lolive, and Pascale Sébillot on speech disfluencies got rewarded by the Best Paper Award at the conference TALN 2017, held in Orléans (France) in June. The paper can be accessed here: https://hal.inria.fr/hal-01532031/file/disfluency-generation.pdf.
Annual team meeting 8-9 June

Programme Keynote speaker : Laurent Amsaleg (IRISA/CNRS, team LinkMedia, “multidimensional indexing and search by similarity: large scale, speech, quality”. Speakers : Pamela Carreno, Antoine Perquin, Raheel Qader, Aghilas Sini, Cédric Fayet, Rémy Kessler, Ahmad Alaa Eddine, Stefania Pecòre. Demo : Claude Simon, Damien Lolive.
Dana Kulic Seminar, Motion analysis and segmentation, April the 28th.
PhD defense : Marc Dupont: Glove-based gesture recognition for real-time outdoors robot control, 28th March, 2017.
Although gesture recognition has been studied for several decades, much research stays in the realm of indoors laboratory experiments. In this thesis, we address the problem of designing a truly usable, real- world gesture recognition system, focusing mainly on the real-time control of an outdoors robot for use by military…