2008, ISBN: 9781156905630

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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: The Idiap Research Institute, based in Martigny (Valais, Switzerland), is an autonomous, independent, non-profit research foundation specialised in the management of multimedia information and man-machine multimodal interactions. The institute was founded in 1991 by the Municipality of Martigny, the Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: The Idiap Research Institute, based in Martigny (Valais, Switzerland), is an autonomous, independent, non-profit research foundation specialised in the management of multimedia information and man-machine multimodal interactions. The institute was founded in 1991 by the Municipality of Martigny, the State of Valais, EPFL (Ecole polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne), the University of Geneva and Swisscom. The Idiap Research Institute is accredited by the State and Federal Governments, and is connected to EPFL by a joint development plan (LIDIAP is the EPFL laboratory of the Idiap Research Institute). The Idiap Research Institute's budget, which amounts to more than 9 million Swiss francs, is 75% financed by research projects awarded following competitive processes, and 25% by public funds. Whereas it only employed around thirty people in 2001, in 2008 Idiap had around one hundred employees, including 80 researchers (senior researchers, researchers, postdoctoral students and PhD students). All the personnel work at Centre du Parc in Martigny, in the west wing. The institute moved there in August 2007. It now occupies 2,300 m2 of premises over three floors. The Idiap Research Institute is also the Leading House of the National Centre of Competence in Research (NCCR) on Interactive Multimodal Information Management (IM)2. Idiap's mains research areas are the following: Perceptual and cognitive systemsspeech processing; natural language understanding and translation; document and text processing; vision and scene analysis; multimodal processing; cognitive sciences Social and human behaviourweb social media, mobile social media; social interaction sensing; social signal processing; verbal and non-verbal communication analysis Information interfaces. More: Books, , Martigny~~Books-LLC, , , , , , , , , , General Books LLC<