News and Events

Our teammate Javier has been nominated for the Bizintek 2018 Award “Premio Bizintek 2018 al Proyecto de Fin de Grado para Ingenieros”, with his work “Modelo basado en redes neuronales para la predicción de disponibilidad de un sistema urbano de préstamo de bicicletas”.

https://bizintek.es/articulos/aqui-estan-los-finalistas-de-premios-bizintek-2018

Congratulations!

Aholab took part on the workshop held in Cruces Hospital, with the talk  “Banco de voces. Procesamiento de la voz. Futuro de las ayudas a la comunicación” presented by Inma Hernáez.

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The 10th Summer Workshop on Multimodal Interfaces

Bilbao, Spain, June 9th – July 4th, 2014
http://aholab.ehu.es/eNTERFACE14/

eNTERFACE 2014 – Call for Participation

This is the list of projects that have been selected to be carried out
in this edition of eNTERFACE (more detailed information about all of
them can be found on the official website):

1. Auracle: how are the salient cues situated in audiovisual content?
2. A character animation authoring platform for the 99%
3. Exploring stylistics of expert gestures and singing voice with motion
capture and reactive statistical mapping
4. MILLA – Multimodal interactive language learning agent
5. Online platform for obtaining personalized synthetic voices
6. Quantification of the alteration in the resting state networks for
measuring brain pathologies and diseases
7. The smart attentive room – Can we measure in a noninvasive way, the
attention behavior that a user has in a room?

If you are a senior/junior researcher or a PhD/MS/undergraduate student
working on similar topics and you want to collaborate in (at least) one
of these projects, please prepare a short CV in electronic format along
with a list of skills you can offer to the team and fill in the
application form available on the official website. The project leaders
will select their team members among the applicants.

eNTERFACE’14 has no registration fee and lodging prices will be highly
competitive.

Important dates:
Deadline for application: March 14th 2014
Notification of acceptance to participants: April 11th 2014
Workshop: June 9th – July 4th 2014

Web: http://aholab.ehu.es/eNTERFACE14
Contact: enterface14@aholab.ehu.es

Presentación de Propuestas para Proyectos Fin de Carrera

Hoja de Solicitud / Eskaera orria

Jueves 17 de Noviembre

Aula P2A1

Hora: 14.00 – 14.30

Osteguna, Azaroaren 17a

Gela P2A1

Ordua: 14.00 -14.30

Today a brief course of LateX has been given by our grant holder David Tavárez. He teached how to use a given template, compile the tex format, insert images in diferent formats and use of references and tables. In a few weeks all submitted papers by Aholab will be written using this tool.

Basque Continuous Speech Recognition for Basque

When: January 30th, Thursday

Time: 11:30 – 12:30

Where: Faculty of Eng. Bilbao, P3B2S (B Building, 3th Floor)

Premio ACCENTURE al Mejor Proyecto Fin de Carrera en Nuevos Servicios, Aplicaciones y Modelos de Negocio Digitales

Se trata de la décimocuarta edición de un galardón patrocinado por la firma Accenture y dotado con un premio de 1.800 euros, que se enmarca en el Programa de Cooperación Educativa de la Escuela

La ceremonia de entrega del galardón se celebra el 9 de junio, a las 12:30 horas, en el Aula de Grados de la Escuela Técnica Superior de Ingeniería de Bilbao

ZORIONAK Jianpei!!!

Tanja Schultz was visiting our laboratory during 16th and 17th April, with the occassion of her visit to Bilbao invited by Ikerbasque. In addition to the lecture offered at the ‘Alhondiga’, she also offered us the Talk “Silent Speech Interfaces” at the Faculty and Engineering, and we had the opportunity of a very interesting and enjoyeble discussions.

The Postdoc Researcher Daniel Erro has been awarded with an Ikerbasque research fellowship

CONGRATULATIONS!

The celebration party will take place at the beach in the near future (beach and date to be set).

The next 19th of december Dr. Björn Schuller form Munich University of Technology will give a seminar supported by the TICRM Master called “Computational Paralinguistics: Emotion, Affect and Personality in Speech and Language Processing”. This course will take place in P3B2S lecture theatre of the school, from 9:00 to 13:00.

The objective of this course is to give a comprehensive introduction and broad overview on recent algorithms and methodologies of “real‐life” speech processing, focusing on paralinguistic aspects.

Since September the young researcher Richard Castro from the University of Cuzco has been with us to develop a TTS for the Quechua language. Next Thursday he will be presenting his work at the Faculty of Informatics, in Donostia. For more information follow this link.

2012 1st Bilera Tortillera Thursday 22th, March

Aholab is organising a  Workshop to present the current research being performed by some of the researchers.

(Room will be announced)

Preliminary Program:

11.00 “Simple Spectral Techniques to Enhance the Intelligibility of Speech using a Harmonic Model”  by Daniel Erro

11.30 “On the use of  dynamic frequency warping for text-independent voice conversion”  by Tudor-Catalin Zorila

12.00 “On the detection of the intelligibility advantage of clear speech vs casual speech” by Maria Koutsogianniki

12.30 Discussion

13.15 to 14.00 Tortillas at the Meeting Room (only registered members)

To register, please send an email to inma@aholab

The 1st meeting of the AVIVAVOZ Project will be held by Aholab on Februarty 14th.

XVII Bilera Filosofikoa

Uztailak 22, astelehena, XVII (gutxi gora behera) Bilera Filosofikoa ospatuko dugu. Aurten, leku berri bat aukeratu dugu bilera egiteko. Handik, bazkaltzera joango gara, eta gero … gerokoa!

Marine Mammal Acoustics with emphasis to Sperm Whales and related Signal Processing Algorithms

by

Prof. Yannis Stylianou

Thursday, 24th of November 10:00-12:00

1h, seminar, 15 min break, 45m seminar

Friday, 25st of Sept.10:00-13:00

1h45m, seminar., 30 min break, 1h45m

Topics and Timetable:

First day (24th of November):

1. Biology of Sperm Whales (~60 mins)

2. Sound production system and examples (~45 mins)

Second day (25th of November):

1. The Teager Kaiser Energy Operator in Sperm Whales Acoustics

2. The use of Phase Spectrum in Click detection

3. Marine Mammal tracking

4. Summary and perspectives

Place: Faculty of Engineering Room: P3B1S (Edificio B, Planta 3) Time: 10.00 – 13.00 For registration please contact iratxe.conde@ehu.es

Advances in Speech Signal Processing for Voice Quality Assesment

The Seminar Audio-Visual Speech Synthesis imparted by Dr. Michael Pucher will be held in July 5th-6th 2011 in Bilbao, Spain, in the Dep. of Electronics and Telecomunications.

This seminar will introduce the methods and problems in audio-visual speech synthesis. In audio-visual speech synthesis we aim at generating an acoustic (speech) and visual (facial motion) signal of a person speaking. We will first introduce visual speech synthesis and then discuss how visual and acoustic speech synthesis can be combined within the hidden Markov model (HMM) framework. Place: Faculty of Engineering Room: P2G2 Time: 10.00 – 13.00 For more information please contact ticrm@ehu.es

“La fase en los modelos armónicos de la señal de voz: estrategias de representación, tratamiento y aplicaciones”

The 12th Meeting of the ECESS Consortium will take place in Dresden on Juin 18th and 19th.

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