Research themes at ISIA Lab: Speech and Language

 

Expressive speech synthesis

Experts:

Prof. T. Dutoit, Prof. S. Dupont, Dr. K. El Haddad

Research challenges
  • Expressivity modeling (latent spaces)
  • Laughter analysis and synthesis
  • Non-verbal expressions for context understanding
PhD Theses
Non verbal expressions
  • Dr. Thomas Drugman
  • Dr. Huseyin Cakmak
  • Dr. Maria Astrinaki
  • Dr. Sandrine Brogneaux
  • Dr. Jerome Urban
  • Dr. Noah Tits
  • Kevin El Haddad
Projects
  • RW/WIST/SPORTIC
  • EU-FP7/ILHAIRE
  • EU-CHISTERA/Joker
  • Win4Doc/DeepCall
  • FirstEnterprise/RedCall

 

 

Speech recognition

Experts:

Prof. T. Dutoit, Prof. S. Dupont, , Dr. K. El Haddad

Research challenges
Deep learning-based speech recognition using a multitask approach
  • Transfer learning
  • Multitask speech recognition
  • Emotion recognition
PhD Theses
  • Dr. Georgy Pironkov
  • Dr Noe Tits
  • Kevin El Haddad
  • Hugo Bohy
Projects
  • EU/IGLU (Interactive Grounded Language Understanding)

 

Language Processing

Experts:

Prof. T. Dutoit, Prof. S. Dupont, Dr. O. Sedatti, K. El Haddad

Research challenges
Visual question answering
  • Automatic Language Modeling
  • Visual question answering
  • Sentiment analysis
  • Chatbots
PhD Theses
  • Dr. Jean-Benoît Delbrouck
  • Vincent Stragier
Projects
  • POC/DeepNEWS