International Research Institute MICA Multimedia, Information, Communication & Applications Eric Castelli - French director Nguyen Viet Son – Vietnamese director International Research Institute MICA Multimedia, Information, Communication & Applications UMI 2954 Hanoi University of Science and Technology 1 Dai Co Viet - Hanoi - Vietnam MICA Institute – UMI2954 Context Created in 2002 as joint laboratory UMI 2954 since 1 st January 2006 Đạ i h ọ c Bách khoa Hà n ộ i Located in H anoi U niversity of S cience and T echnology Institut Polytechnique de Hanoi The biggest and the best university in S&T in Vietnam Grouping of 17 Engineering Schools ~ 42,000 students • 25,000 engineers, 12,000 technicians & over 5,000 Masters and PhDs 2,000 staff, including 1,500 teachers/researchers MICA is one of eight research institutes of HUST French “tutelles” CNRS: InS2I , InSIS, InSHS MICA 2016 1
MICA Institute – UMI2954 Fields of research Using Information Technology tools to meet the needs, expectations and Computer vision wishes of users as closely as Image & video possible processing Natural “User-centered” approach language “user- adapted” computing MULTIMEDIA processing Multimodalities & vocal Extraction and use of technos Multimedia and ambient computing semantic information Multimedia speech, images/videos, multimodalities H-M Interfaces Ambient computing (pervasive, ubiquitous) and pervasive advanced instrumentation; human- environments system interfaces; embedded systems Goal: to define and promote new services and new practices MICA 2016 MICA structure CNRS – HUST – Grenoble INP Unifying framework MICA direction Scientific & H-M Interaction training Administrative team Committee Computer Vision Speech Pervasive Spaces & Center of Departments & Center Technological Transfer Communications Interaction H‐M Interaction & Multilingual studies Resources Managt Images & Videos Multimodal H‐M Computer vision H‐M Interaction Product design Project managt Understanding Vietnamese Information Client service with Speech Interaction Languages Modeling service service Platforms Showroom Applications Specific Research Platforms Multimedia Lab Development MICA 2016 2
Department Speech 1.5 1.4 Communications 1.3 1.2 Speech Communications F0 Normalized 1.1 H‐M Interaction 1 0.9 Vietnamese Multilingual with Speech Languages 0.8 <150[ms] 0.7 150-220[ms] studies >220[ms] 0.6 0.5 1 2 3 4 5 6 Fundamental Research Linguistics, phonetics, phonology Prosody and tones Development of vocal technologies Analysis & Parameter Speech synthesis, characterisation extraction automatic recognition, phonology prosody automatic translation Acoustic Corpus & D.B. modeling (freq) phonetics tonology Articulatory modeling (time) morphosyntaxe pragmatics Probabilistic models Perception tests syntaxe (HMM, neurons net.) semantics Classifiers (decision trees, SVM, etc.) MICA is the only lab in Vietnam studying both aspects simultaneously Minorities ¶ languages (under-resourced H-Mong and endangered languages) Mo Piu Khmer, Lao Minority dialects of Vietnam MICA 2016 Department Speech Communication Studied languages Na Naxi Vietnamese Lao (Viet, Kinh) Hmong Tai translation Khmu Mường Khmer French English Tai Yo Japanese MICA 2016 3
Department Computer Vision Computer vision Images & Videos H‐M Interaction & Understanding Computer vision Objectives Allow the machine: “ see ” and “ perceive ” what is present in the pictures and what is happening in the videos. Object detection/recognition in fix images • Chinese characters, Nôms characters in granit stela, Defaults in woven textiles, Plants, ... Tracking moving objects in video. Recognition of activities in video “ interact ” with users Analysis of behavior of the user during interaction with the machine Recognition of gestures, postures, facial expressions, etc. Two main research axes: Interpretation of the content of images and videos Human-machine interaction based on vision MICA 2016 A focus on Vietnamese applications Department Computer Vision – one example Navigational aids for visually impaired using mobile robot Vision based localization and Client/ Server mapping using mobile Robot Server: PCBOT 914 Client: SmartPhone MICA 2016 4
Department Pervasive Spaces & Pervasive Spaces & Interaction Interaction Resources Managt Multimodal H‐M Information Interaction Modeling Information technologies and multimedia are powerful enough to allow a new approach in the managements of environments Study of perceptive and pervasive Simulation environments Room building area district city, etc. Study of multimodal interaction Human-machine human-complexe systems MICA building MICA 2016 Departement Pervasive Spaces & Interaction - applications • Aids for Visually Impaired People • Smart Remote Control & Adaptive Home in Navigation and Finding Objects Appliances • Multimodal Interaction and Navigation Guidance for Autonomous • devices or devices Abnormal event detection for monitoring systems • Efficient management of Energy building consumption MICA 2016 5
Center of Technological Transfer & Applications Center of Technological Transfer Main objectives Product design Project managt Client service Prototypes development service service For MICA researchers research prototypes For Vietnamese industrials industrial prototypes Create new industrial partnerships Dissemination MICA research results Center of TT a bridge between MICA researchers and companies MICA 2016 11 MICA Institute – UMI2954 Some figures 89 persons in May 2016 51 persons = researchers (perman ents , postdoc, PhD and masters) + admin staff 38 engineer student internships 14 nationalities PhD Vietnam, France, Cambodia, 27 completed PhD Laos, China, Malaysia, 15 PhD in progress Cameroon, U.S., Switzerland, Madagascar, Over 1,250 scientific publications Romania, Canada, Algeria 55 % = books, journal articles, and conferences 73 research projects MICA leader of 54 projects 60 completed projects and 13 projects in progress International cooperation with over 100 international partners from 24 countries MICA received over 50 invited researchers 23 R&D projects with industrials http://www.mica.edu.vn MICA = H-Q research spot Nguyen Viet Son, Vietnamese co-director In Vietnam but also in South-East Asia MICA Eric Castelli, French co-director, UMI director 2016 6
INTERNATIONAL MASTER PROGRAM Ambient Computing, Multimedia & Interaction http://acmi.mica.edu.vn After this master, you will be able to un understand the main ideas and key issues in ambient computing, multimedia information processing, speech and image/video processing context-aware, sensors and sensor network, human-machine interaction to prop propose solutions to handle these issues, , to imag agine an e and co conceive new applications in this field; and to par participate in i n inno nnovation in Vietnam and Asia. INTERNATIONAL MASTER Ambient Computing, Multimedia & Interaction International Research Institute MICA - Hanoi University of Science and Technology 1 Dai Co Viet - Hanoi - Vietnam 2016 : completed projects DoReMiFa “Données des Recherches linguistiques de Michel Ferlus en Asie du sud-est” Funded by the MESR/BSN Partners : LACITO (France), MICA (Vietnam) Digitalization/collection of linguistic data from 40 ethnic languages of the area VOVA “ R&D project with SAMSUNG Vietnam High quality Vietnamese TTS engine for Android Some advanced statistical learning techniques for computer vision Funded by NAFOSTED (Vietnamese agency) Abnormal situation detection with Kinect device Funded by MOST (Vietnamese Ministry of Science and Technology) Development of an optimal path-finding system with application in aiding blind people navigation Funded by MOET (Vietnamese Ministry of Education and Training) MICA 2016 7
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