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Projects:
The group already participates in the following funded projects:
The group will also commence industrial funded research based on an IBM T.J Watson research contract on speech enabled set-top boxes, which will start in Fall 2004. Also, the group endeavours to commence a Sun COE programme with SUN Microsystems and INTRACOM S.A, which is under discussion/negotiation
Moreover, the group has research results in the following areas as part of other(non- funded) research activities:
Several of these activities are connected to the funded projects, whereas the group endeavours to pursue funding opportunities for the rest.
CHIL (Computers in the Human Interaction Loop)
CHIL was ranked 2nd best Integrated Project , in the strategic objective 'Multimodal Interfaces', in the scope of the 1st IST first call, and was among the 6 first projects to be negotiated, among many hundreds of proposals.
Project Information
Project Duration: 36 months
Start Date: 01/01/2004
Funding Source: European Commission, FP6 programme
Project Summary: CHIL will develop and explore a fundamental shift in the way we use computers. In contrast to building machines that have to be operated directly and explicitly (by keying in commands), CHIL will realize computer services that are delivered to humans in an implicit, indirect and unobtrusive way. Thus, CHIL aims at introducing Computers into a loop of Humans interacting with Humans, rather than condemning a human to operate in a loop of computers, forcing him/her to attend to and interact with an artifact on its artificial terms. Realizing the CHIL vision requires a great deal of research work in several areas, targeting:
- Substantial advances in perceptual user interfaces, which translate to improvements in technology components such as speech recognition, speaker ID, emotion detection, face ID, people tracking, emotion detection etc.. CHIL will employ the most advanced techniques (e.g., ASR based on MultiMirophone Arrays)
- Communication and software technologies, as well as the appropriate middeware coupling the various components in a way that real time decisions and interactions are supported.
- Modelling, understanding and appreciation of the context and activities of humans, including their perceptual and cognitive abilities, and the social roles in a given environment.
- Unobtrusive Services taking advantage of the above capabilities relating to robust multimodal perception, reliable cognition and social responsiveness of machines in human contexts. In the scope of CHIL, particular services will be considered as instantiations of the overall vision. These services will be speculative and will serve as case studies to exploring the cognitive and social dimensions of the problem.
Project Participants
[1] Fraunhofer Institut fur Informations- und Datenverabeitung, Karlsruhe
[2] Universitat Karlsruhe (TH), Interactive Systems Laboratories
[3] Daimler Chrysler AG, Stuttgart
[4] ELDA, Paris
[5] IBM Czech Republic, Prague,
[6] Resit - Research and Education Society in Information Systems, Athens
[7] Insitut National Polytechnique de Grenoble
[8] Insituto Trentino di Cultura, Trento
[9] Kungl Tekniska Hogskolan (KTH), Stockholm
[10] Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Orsay
[11] Technische Universiteit Eindhoven, Eindhoven
[12] Universitat Karlsruhe (TH), IPD, Karlsruhe,
[13] Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Barcelona
[14] Stanford University, Stanford, CA
[15] Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
RESIT-AIT Participation & Role
RESIT/AIT is a core member of the CHIL consortium (Computers in the Human Interaction Loop). Allocating 234 person months for the project duration the Autonomic Groups focuses on the following activities:
Technology Development in the areas of FaceID, FaceDetection, Source Localization / Beamforming
Design and Implementation of the required mddleware supporting information fusion integration and context awareness of the Grid components
Setting up a smart room supporting the development and demonstration of real- time non-obstrusive services, and serve as one of the major CHIL demonstration sites
Implement the Memory Jog service providing one, two, or more individuals background information and memory assistance, in the course of human encounters. The memory jog will maintain names, organizations of people attending a meeting, provide records related those conversations, all in an effort to provide real-time on-demand information depending on the state of the user, the activity at hand, and the individuals with whom he is interacting.
- Conduction of Observations and Simulation Studie towards extracting realistic user requirements for the Memory Jog service, as part of a User Centerred Design process
AIT participates in Workpackages WP2, WP3, WP4, WP5, WP7 and WP8 and has already actively participated in the following project deliverables (delivered to EC during the first semester of the project):
- D2.1: Functional requirements & CHIL Cooperative Information System
software design
- D2.4: CHIL Architecture Version 2
- D2.5: Non-functional features of CHIL Architecture.
- D3.1 User requirements and scenarios evaluation for the various services
- D3.2: Basic implementation of Socially Supportive Workspaces, Memory
Jog, the Connector and the Relational Cockpit.
- D3.4 Assessment of the preliminary version of the services (=D7.2, joint
work with WP7)
- D4.1: Multicamera/multimicrophone system design for continuous room
monitoring
- D4.2: Initial multi-sensor selection strategy to get the best
camera/microphone at any time
- D4.3: Robust Tracking of Hands and Faces
- D4.4: Multi-sensor input management to generate 3D images/sound maps
- D4.5: Basic System for Audio Activity Detection
- D4.6: Audio-Visual Person Identification and Identity Verification
- D5.1 Baseline System for Far-field Speech Recognition using Microphone
Networks
- D5.2 Baseline System for Far-Field Audio-Visual Automatic Speech
Recognition
- D6.4 Interaction Scripts for Context Modeling
- D7.5: Data Collection and Evaluation Plan
- D7.6: Exploitation material for CHIL evaluation campaign 1
- D7.1: Report on observation studies with requirements for CHIL services
- D8.2: Report on Information Dissemination Activities for Period Month 1-6
PERLA IST-2000-30132
Project Information
Project Duration: 36 months
Funding Source: European Commission, IST programme.
Partners:Partners: Intracom S.A, ST Microelectronics, University of Catania, Swindon Silicon Systems, Theta Microelectronics, AIT as subcontractor to INTRACOM S.A for 5 months
RESIT-AIT Participation & Role
AIT (Autonomic Computing Group - Aistodemos Pnevmatikakis) worked in WP4, towards producing deliverable: 'D11 ? 802.16a transceiver architecture and circuits specifications'
Dioskouroi
Ranked best project relating to IT and Networking teaching & training, in the scope of the respective GSRT call's evaluation.
Project Information
Project Duration: 24 months
Funding Source: (National) General Secretariat for Research and Technology, 'ΑΝΤΑΓΩΝΙΣΤΙΚΟΤΗΤΑ' Programme.
Greek Title: Δίκτυο Κατάρτισης και Εκπαίδευσης σε Προηγμένες Υπηρεσίες Δικτύων και Πληροφορικής (ΔΙΟΣΚΟΥΡΟΙ)
Project Partners
[1] University of the Aegean
[2] National Techical University of Athens
[3] University of Piraeus
[4] Technical Unoverity of Larissa
[5] Technical Universty of Crete
[6] Athens Information Technology
[7] EXODUS S.A
Project Summary: The project focuses on teaching appropriately selected target groups on technology topics related to multiservice networking, wireless networking, e-health and e-government. Moreover, several postgraduate students, and professionals of the target groups will be trained in the premises of the organizations of the consortium.
RESIT-AIT Participation & Role
AIT (Autonomic Computing Group) prepares training and educational material relating to telecoms / networking, e-health, and e-government. Members of the group are among the instructors of the courses, and have given lectures in the scope of the first three seminars series (each comprising 64 hours of lectures) organized by the project in:
- Mitilini, January 2004, emphasizing on IT & networking for e-health
- Larisa, March 2004, emphasizing on IT & networking for e-health
- Athens, May-June 2004, emphasizing on IT & networking for military applications
The last seminar was organized by the group at the AIT premises, and involved teaching of Hellenic Air Force Personnel on IT & telecom topics pertaining to military applications and organizations.
PROSTO
Project Duration: 24 months
Funding Source: (National) General Secretariat for Research and Technology, 'ΑΝΤΑΓΩΝΙΣΤΙΚΟΤΗΤΑ' Programme
Project Partners
[1] Εθνικό Κέντρο Έρευνας και Τεχνολογικής Κατάρτισης - Ινστιτούτο Πληροφορικής & Τηλεματικής
[2]Πανεπ. Πατρών - Τμ. Ηλεκτρολόγων Μηχανικών & Τεχνολογίας Υπολογιστών - Εργαστήριο Ασύρματης Επικοινωνίας
[3] ΕΘΕΛ Α.Ε. (Εταιρεία Θερμικών Λεωφορείων)
[4] ΗΛΠΑΠ Α.Ε. (Ηλεκτροκίνητα Λεωφορεία Πειραιώς Αθηνών Περιχώρων)
[5] Athens Information Technology
Greek Title: Προηγμένα Συστήματα Τηλεματικής Οχημάτων
Project Summary: The project focuses on teaching appropriately selected target groups on technology topics relating to managing transport traffic and vehicles. Moreover, several postgraduate students, and professionals of the target groups will be trained in the premises of the organizations of the consortium.
RESIT-AIT Participation & Role
AIT (Autonomic Computing Group) will prepare training and educational material relating to wireless applications in transport traffic management, as well as to advanced dynamic programming techniques for traffic, transport and vehicle management optimization. One seminar series will be held in AIT during 2005.
Other Research Activities
Network Management based on XML and Web Services
Description of Research Activity:Produce a system capable of executing whole network management applications, that are structured as XML documents. Facilitate development of network management applications and boost the programmability of network management operations. For an early prototype (called XMLNET system) designed and implemented with NTUA point at: http://www.telecom.ntua.gr/xmlnet
Resource Management for Grid Computing
Description of Research Activity: Devise and implement advanced resource management architectures for Grid computing. Emphasis is currently on Grid scheduling for computational Grids. Models predicting host load and physical memory resources are investigated and will be integrated with Globus GRAM.
Computer Vision
Description of Research Activity: Face detection and recognition.
Autonomic, Context-Aware Architectures
Description of Research Activity: Autonomic, Context Aware & Self-Healing Systems (production of appropriate middleware infrastructures, and design of the system structure depending on the application).
Signal Processing for the Physical Layer
Description of Research Activity: Digital modems data converters and RF transceiver system design.
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