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[hts-users:04023] eNTERFACE14 Summer Workshop on Multimodal Interfaces - Call for participation - 10 days left!!


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10th Summer Workshop on Multimodal Interfaces
Bilbao, Spain, June 9th – July 5th, 2014
http://aholab.ehu.es/eNTERFACE14/

eNTERFACE 2014 – Call for Participation

Aholab Signal Processing research group, from the Faculty of Engineering of the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU), Bilbao, Spain, invites researchers from all over the world to join eNTERFACE’14, the 10th Summer Workshop on Multimodal Interfaces, to be held in Bilbao, Spain, from June 9th to July 9th, 2014. eNTERFACE workshops gather in a single place a team of senior project leaders, researchers, and students, to work on a pre-specified list of challenges for 4 weeks. Participants are organized in teams, each team being attached to a specific project.

This is the list of projects that have been selected to be carried out in this edition of eNTERFACE (more detailed information about all of them can be found on the official website):

1. Auracle: how are the salient cues situated in audiovisual content?
2. A character animation authoring platform for the 99%
3. Exploring stylistics of expert gestures and singing voice with motion capture and reactive statistical mapping
4. MILLA - Multimodal interactive language learning agent
5. Online platform for obtaining personalized synthetic voices
6. Quantification of the alteration in the resting state networks for measuring brain pathologies and diseases

If you are a senior/junior researcher or a PhD/MS/undergraduate student working on similar topics and you want to collaborate in (at least) one of these projects, please prepare a short CV in electronic format along with a list of skills you can offer to the team and fill in the application form available on the official website. The project leaders will select their team members among the applicants.

The program will include several keynote lectures given by renowned experts. Nick Campbell (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland) and Anton Nijholt (University of Twente, Netherlands) have already accepted our invitation.

eNTERFACE’14 has no registration fee and lodging prices will be highly competitive. We will also offer about 5 grants covering accomodation expenses (more information will be given through the official website in due course).

Important dates:
Deadline for application: March 14th 2014
Notification of acceptance to participants: April 11th 2014
Workshop: June 9th – July 4th 2014

Web: http://aholab.ehu.es/eNTERFACE14
Contact: enterface14@xxxxxxxxxxxxx