Widespread of Internet of Things (IoT) devices including sensors, cameras and smartphones allows us to sense and analyze everything. Among various things, humans, homes and cities are important sensing targets. In this talk, I will introduce our challenges for human’s physiological state sensing/prediction, indoor positioning and in-home activities recognition, and participatory sensing to know situations in cities.
Bio:
Keiichi Yasumoto received the B.E., M.E., and Ph.D. degrees in information and computer sciences from Osaka University, Osaka, Japan, in 1991, 1993 and 1996, respectively. He is currently Director of Ubiquitous Computing Systems Laboratory and Professor of Graduate School of Information Science at Nara Institute of Science and Technology. His research interests include distributed systems, mobile computing, and ubiquitous computing. 

Es laden ein die Projektleiter des Sonderforschungsbereich / Transregio 62.

Speech-to-speech translation technology has been one of the human dreams, which breaks language barrier between different language speaking people. In my talk I would like to introduce our speech-to-speech translation research histories and new challenges toward a multi-modal simultaneous incremental speech-to-speech translation. In addition, I would also like to introduce our spoken dialog research, which bridges languages between human-beings and computers.
Bio:
Satoshi Nakamura is Professor of Graduate School of Information Science, Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Japan, Honorarprofessor of Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany, and ATR Fellow. He received his B.S. from Kyoto Institute of Technology in 1981 and Ph.D. from Kyoto University in 1992. He was Associate Professor of Graduate School of Information Science at Nara Institute of Science and Technology in 1994-2000. He was Director of ATR Spoken Language Communication Research Laboratories in 2000-2008, Director General of Keihanna Research Laboratories, National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, NICT, Japan in 2009-2010. He is currently Director of Augmented Human Communication Laboratory and Professor of Graduate School of Information Science at Nara Institute of Science and Technology. He is interested in modeling and systems of speech-to-speech translation and spoken dialog system. He is one of the leaders of speech-to-speech translation research and has been serving for various speech-to-speech translation research projects in the world including C-STAR, IWSLT and A-STAR. He received more than ten international and domestic academic awards including LREC Antonio Zampoli Award 2012. He is an Elected Board Member of International Speech Communication Association, ISCA, since June 2011, IEEE SPS Speech and Language Technical Committee Member since 2013, and IEEE Fellow since 2016.

Es laden ein die Projektleiter des Sonderforschungsbereich / Transregio 62.