Deliverables 2.3, 3.3 and 4.3 are now publicly available, including updates on long-term user adaptation, the dialogue toolbox, as well as the audiovisual Agent behaviour generation. D2.3 Implementation of long-term adaptation for audio-visual communication analysis D3.3 Release of the multilingual, […]
Early june there were an Aria-Valuspa meeting held in Paris. It started with a 2 working days for the developers. They actively worked on finalizing a new version of the Aria-Valuspa demo. They resolve bugs, speed up the connection between […]
The application “Vahl Detect” uses ARIA-VALUSPA to build an access controll system with face recognition and liveness detection. The work, which is presented in the video below, was done by a student group of the University of Nottingham. More Use […]
Elisabeth André received an ACM SIGCHI award for her innovative contributions to the field of human-computer interaction at the ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, which took place in Denver/Colorado USA on May 2017 and was attended […]
A team from CereProc supported by Dr Eduardo Manuel De Brito Lima Ferreira Coutinho from the Imperial College demonstrated various aspects of speech synthesis at the Science Museum in London, as part of the Royal Society’s the Next Big Thing […]
The race to develop the best chatbot technology It is no understatement to say that chatbots are generating a lot of interest from companies. All the big names in the IT industry (e.g. Google, Microsoft, Slack, IBM, Facebook, etc.) are […]
An important contribution of the ARIA-VALUSPA project is the NOXI database of mediated Novice-Expert interactions. It consists of 84 dyads recorded in 3 locations (Paris, Nottingham, and Augsburg) spoken in 7 languages (English, French, German, Spanish, Indonesian, Arabic and Italian). […]
As part of the visual part of ARIA-VALUSPA, a new facial point localisation system has been developed, which builds on a novel theoretical framework, and attains state-of-the-art results in annotated benchmarks. The facial point localisation system is the very first […]
At the joint seminar at the Leibniz – Centre of Computer Sciences, Dagstuhl Castle, Wadern, the ARIA VALUSPA project met up with the EU project KRISTINA to exchange their insights, progress, promising approaches, and create new (research) friendships. The Leibniz […]
2017 started off well for the ARIA-VALUSPA project with the release of ARIA-VALUSPA Platform 2.0 (AVP 2.0), the second public release of the integrated behaviour analysis, dialogue management, and behaviour generation components developed as part of this EU Horizon 2020 […]