The IM2 Summer Institute will be held in Chavannes-de-Bogis (Best Western Hôtel) from 31th August to 2nd September 2009.

Planification - programme

• Participant list
• Full program
• Scientific Presentations, abstract list
• Workshops: abstract list
• Posters session: abstract list

Content of sessions

Welcome + overview of Phase II

By Prof. Hervé Bourlard, Slides

Presentations of the IM2 Phase II key achievements

• IM2.DMA, presented by Andrei Popescu-Belis, Slides
• IM2.AP, presented by Phil Garner, Slides
• IM2.VP, presented by Jean-Philippe Thiran, Slides
• IM2.MPR, presented by Aude Billard, Slides
• IM2.MCA, presented by Stephane Marchand-Maillet, Slides
• IM2.HMI, presented by Denis Lalanne, Slides

Scientific Presentations

Session 1 – Chairman: Jean-Marc Odobez

1. Quality Measures and Stacking Classifiers in Multimodal Biometric Recognition, by Andrzej Drygajlo, Slides
2. Parts-based face verification using local frequency bands, By Chris McCool, Slides
3. Dealing with asynchrony in audio-visual speech recognition, by Virginia Estellers, Slides
4. Nonverbal small-group characterization: classification and mining, by Dinesh Babu Jayagopi, Slides

Session 2 – Chairman: François Fleuret

1. Semi-supervised learning for handwriting recognition, by Volkmar Frinken, Slides
2. The Hub and ezHub API, Mike Flynn, Slides
3. Mining query logs with topic models, Donn Morrison, Slides
4. Hough Transform-based Mouth Localization for Audio-Visual Speech Recognition, Gabriele Fanelli, Slides

Presentation of people & objectives of new IPs

- IP1: Integrated Multimodal Processing, by Stephane Marchand-Maillet, Slides
- IP2: Human Centered Design and Evaluation, by Denis Lalanne, Slides
- IP3: Social Signal Processing, by Alessandro Vinciarelli, Slides

Presentation of new partners and contribution in IM2 Phase III

- Prof. Pierre Dillenbourg, Slides
- Prof. Juergen Sauer, Slides

Conclusions of Workshops

Workshop 1 – Chairman: Pierre Dillenbourg

Brainstorm on new IM2 applications: Enhancing teamwork with unobstructive devices, Results of the Team of Andrei Popescu-Belis, Results of the Team of Jean-Marc Odobez, Results of the Team of Mike Flynn, Results of the Team of Flavio Tarsetti, Results of the Team of Daniel Gatica-Perez, Global results

Workshop 2 – Chairman: Juergen Sauer

Brainstorm on new IM2 applications: Document-based retrieval of multimedia content and user evaluations, Slides of results

Workshop 3 – Chairman: Touradj Ebrahimi

Brainstorm on building and consolidating a long-lasting IM2 community, Slides of results

Survey results

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Gallery of images

• Valerie's Gallery
• Hervé's Gallery
• Mike's Gallery

If you took some pictures during this Summer Institute, please make them available on this website by sending the link to valerie(.)devanthery(@)idiap.ch