EU research initiatives in multimodal interaction.pptVIP

EU research initiatives in multimodal interaction Mats Ljungqvist European Commission Information Society DG,Interfaces (Unit E1) Outline of Presentation Introduction Who can participate? “The story so far….” FP5 activities Overview FP6 call 1, 2 and 3 Call 1: Multimodal Interfaces Call 2: Cognitive Systems Call 3: FET - Future and Emerging Technologies The IST workprogramme for 2005-2006 Calls 4 and 5 Preparation of the 7th EU Framework Programme 2007-2011 IST in FP6 (~4 Billion Euro, 2003-2006) Who can participate? All member states States associated to FP6: same conditions as member states Bulgaria, Romania, Turkey, Iceland, Israel, Liechtenstein, Norway, Switzerland INCO countries“: specific earmarked funding?budget Russia, New Independent States, Mediterranean Countries, Western Balkans, Developing countries Countries with co-operation agreement participate without EU funding (exceptionally with funding) Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, Chile, India, Japan, Kazakhstan, Russia South-Africa, Ukraine, USA Other countries participate without funding (exceptionally with funding). Who can participate? Another possibility Join a project as unfunded “external member” sometimes possible according to modalities set up by the consortium. Examples in some language resources projects (China, Canada, USA, …). Examples of funded and unfunded participation (from 1st FP6 MMI call) Russia, USA, Senegal, Romania, Turkey, …. Cognition and Interfaces Building on activities in earlier framework programmes (…,ESPRIT, Telematics, FP5) Human Language Technologies speech, multilinguality, translation Multimodal, multisensorial dialogue Signal processing and coding Machine vision Affective computing Robotics Disappearing computer Neuroinformatics, presence research Focus in FP6: Multimodal Interfaces (MMI) Cognitive Systems (CS) Beyond robotics, life-like perception systems, Bio-inspired Intelligent Information Systems (in FET) Interface related work also in FP6 appli