We went on 20th May 2014 to see our running system at the Monestir of Poblet. See how the STATE system is being used!
The new Erasmus Intensive Program NUIT2B (Natural User Interface Technology to Business) will finish today, on 16th May, in Lahti, Finland. 25 students and 6 teachers from 5 universities have participated: Lahti University of Applied Sciences in Lahti (Finland), University of Zaragoza (Spain), University of Applied Sciences in Dresden (Germany), Universitat Politècnica de València (Spain), and University Roma TRE in Italy. The Erasmus IP NUIT2B focuses on the area of design and development of Natural User Interface (NUI) technology and its transformation into business opportunities. The project puts especial emphasis in presenting the emerging NUI technologies and tools, like Kinect sensor from the point of view of the software business development innovations. You can access to the multimedia material of the final projects demostrations here. More information, http://www.nuit2b.eu/. You can see some special moments at this site.
We were at the University of Fribourg to show our work: affiche_colloque Castro-Bleda.
Joan Pastor is doing a research stay at the University of Fribourg with the DIVA research group (Document, Image and Voice Analysis), leaded by Rolf Ingold and Marcus Liwicki. He’s doing a great job!
We were invited to present STATE at Europe’s biggest congress for medieval studies. The special thematic strand of this year’s International Medieval Congress is “Pleasure”. Our session was “Digital Pleasures, V: Automated Text Recognition, Text Annotation, and Scholarly Edition in the 21st Century”.
The organizer, Dominique Stutzmann, comments the sessions here.
During the conference, we agreed to start a collaboration by visiting the LIRIS institution at Lyon from 21 to 25 July.
The third edition of the Erasmus Intensive Program TrabHCI (Technologies to Reduce the Access Barrier in Human Computer Interaction) has just finished on 18th May, in Rome. 24 students and 8 teachers from 6 universities have participated: Lahti University of Applied Sciences in Finland, University of Zaragoza, University of Applied Sciences Dresden in Germany, Universitat Politècnica de València and University Roma TRE in Italy. The Erasmus IP TrabHCI worked on user interfaces for ambient intelligence in order to remove barriers, providing more accessible technology to people with disabilities. More information, http://www.trabhci.eu/
We were invited to give the seminar
Artificial Neural Networks for Preprocessing and Recognizing Handwritten Text.
A new PhD in our team! Renato de Mori, president of the tribunal of the doctoral thesis defense, is congratulating the new PhD.
Francisco Zamora Martínez has developed his research in the application of artificial neural networks for language modeling. His research work has been applied to three areas in information technology: speech understanding, handwriting recognition and machine translation. Multiple applications for personal computers, tablets, smartphones and video games use these systems. The use of artificial neural networks can improve the effectiveness of these applications, increasingly used.
But these connectionist language models still pose some problems, mainly computational issues, and his research has been focused on proposing techniques that can drastically reduce the computational cost of these models, without degrading the quality of the solution found. It also examines the effect of the integration of connectionist models of language in the search process of the proposed tasks, as well as modifications of the original model to improve its quality.
The thesis of Francisco Zamora is available for download in RIUNET. His presentation material can be found in this blog.
Joan was one of the 15 finalists. Good job!
