[Lisa_teatalk] Fwd: Colloque du DIRO ce *vendredi* : Louis-Philippe Morency

Kyung Hyun Cho cho.k.hyun at gmail.com
Tue May 19 07:22:38 EDT 2015


FYI: The tea talk this week by L-P has also been announced as a part of the
Department's Colloquia.

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From: Gilles Brassard <brassard at iro.umontreal.ca>
Date: Tue, May 19, 2015 at 5:26 AM
Subject: Colloque du DIRO ce *vendredi* : Louis-Philippe Morency
To: seminaires at iro.umontreal.ca
Cc: Kyung Hyun Cho <cho.k.hyun at gmail.com>


Bonjour à tous

Le Colloque du DIRO reprend du service ce vendredi 22 mai à 14h00 au AA3195.
Veuillez noter le jour et l'heure inhabituels.

Conférencier : Louis-Philippe Morency
Affiliation  : Carnegie Mellon University
Invité de    : Yoshua Bengio

Titre : Multimodal Machine Learning: Modeling Human Communication Dynamics

Résumé :
Human face-to-face communication is a little like a dance, in that
participants continuously adjust their behaviors based on verbal and
nonverbal cues from the social context. Today's computers and interactive
devices are still lacking many of these human-like abilities to hold fluid
and natural interactions. Leveraging recent advances in machine learning,
audio-visual signal processing and computational linguistic, my research
focuses on creating human-computer interaction (HCI) technologies able to
analyze, recognize and predict human subtle communicative behaviors in
social context. I formalize this new research endeavor with a Human
Communication Dynamics framework, addressing four key computational
challenges: behavioral dynamic, multimodal dynamic, interpersonal dynamic
and societal dynamic. Central to this research effort is the introduction
of new probabilistic models able to learn the temporal and fine-grained
latent dependencies across behaviors, modalities and interlocutors. In this
talk, I will present some of our recent achievements modeling multiple
aspects of human communication dynamics, motivated by applications in
healthcare (depression, PTSD, suicide, autism), education (learning
analytics), business (negotiation, interpersonal skills) and social
multimedia (opinion mining, social influence).

Biographie:
Louis-Philippe Morency is Assistant Professor in the Language Technology
Institute at the Carnegie Mellon University where he leads the Multimodal
Communication and Machine Learning Laboratory (MultiComp Lab). He received
his Ph.D. and Master degrees from MIT Computer Science and Artificial
Intelligence Laboratory. In 2008, Dr. Morency was selected as one of "AI's
10 to Watch" by IEEE Intelligent Systems. He has received 7 best paper
awards in multiple ACM- and IEEE-sponsored conferences for his work on
context-based gesture recognition, multimodal probabilistic fusion and
computational models of human communication dynamics. For the past three
years, Dr. Morency has been leading a DARPA-funded multi-institution effort
called SimSensei which was recently named one of the year’s top ten most
promising digital initiatives by the NetExplo Forum, in partnership with
UNESCO.


Venez nombreux... quant à moi, je suis/serai à Vienne !

          - Gilles Brassard
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