PERCEPTIONNewsOutstanding paper award at ICMI’11
Wednesday November 16Outstanding paper award at ICMI’11
Our article "Finding Audio-Visual Events in Informal Social Gatherings" received the "Outstanding Paper Award" (best paper) at the IEEE/ACM 13th International Conference on Multimodal Interfaces (ICMI’11), Alicante, Spain, November 2011. The paper is authored by Xavi Alameda-Pineda, Vasil Khalidov, Radu Horaud and Florence Forbes.
The paper addresses the problem of detecting and localizing audio-visual events (such as people) in a complex/cluttered scenario such as a cocktail party. The work is carried out within the collaborative European project HUMAVIPS .

