Review of Research on Speech Technology: Main Contributions From Spanish Research Groups

In the last two decades, there has been an important increase in research on speech technology in Spain, mainly due to a higher level of funding from European, Spanish and local institutions and also due to a growing interest in these technologies for developing new services and applications. This paper provides a review of the main areas of speech technology addressed by research groups in Spain, their main contributions in the recent years and the main focus of interest these days. This description is classified in five main areas: audio processing including speech, speaker characterization, speech and language processing, text to speech conversion and spoken language applications. This paper also introduces the Spanish Network of Speech Technologies (RTTH. Red Temática en Tecnologías del Habla) as the research network that includes almost all the researchers working in this area, presenting some figures, its objectives and its main activities developed in the last years.

Active Visual Features Based on Events to Guide Robot Manipulators in Tracking Tasks

Traditional visual servoing systems do not deal with the topic of moving objects tracking. When these systems are employed to track a moving object, depending on the object velocity, visual features can go out of the image, causing the fail of the tracking task. This occurs specially when the object and the robot are both stopped and then the object starts the movement. In this work, we have employed a retina camera based on Address Event Representation (AER) in order to use events as input in the visual servoing system. The events launched by the camera indicate a pixel movement. Event visual information is processed only at the moment it occurs, reducing the response time of visual servoing systems when they are used to track moving objects.

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Labeling large scale social media data using budget-driven One-class SVM classification

The social media classification problems draw more and more attention in the past few years. With the rapid development of Internet and the popularity of computers, there is astronomical amount of information in the social network (social media platforms). The datasets are generally large scale and are often corrupted by noise. The presence of noise in training set has strong impact on the performance of supervised learning (classification) techniques. A budget-driven One-class SVM approach is presented in this thesis that is suitable for large scale social media data classification. Our approach is based on an existing online One-class SVM learning algorithm, referred as STOCS (Self-Tuning One-Class SVM) algorithm. To justify our choice, we first analyze the noise-resilient ability of STOCS using synthetic data. The experiments suggest that STOCS is more robust against label noise than several other existing approaches. Next, to handle big data classification problem for social media data, we introduce several budget driven features, which allow the algorithm to be trained within limited time and under limited memory requirement. Besides, the resulting algorithm can be easily adapted to changes in dynamic data with minimal computational cost. Compared with two state-of-the-art approaches, Lib-Linear and kNN, our approach is shown to be competitive with lower requirements of memory and time.

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El guión en las nuevas narrativas audiovisuales

Las webseries son series de ficción creadas para ser emitidas por Internet. Se trata de una nueva forma de producción de ficción, dirigida a un nuevo público y emitida en un nuevo medio, que presenta características propias diferentes a las ofrecidas por las ficciones de los medios tradicionales. Por este motivo resulta fundamental conocer las características específicas de esta clase de formatos a la hora de afrontar la elaboración de proyectos de webseries y la creación de guiones de ficción para internet. España es uno de los países en los que ha crecido de forma más exponencial la producción de las series para Internet. En la conferencia impartida hicimos un recorrido por la historia de las webseries de nuestro país, sus características, festivales y eventos dedicados a ellas en todo el mundo y formas de negocio, haciendo especial hincapié en los aspectos narrativos que condicionan la elaboración del guión. También exploramos varios casos de creadores de webseries que han dado el salto a los medios tradicionales: televisión, cine y hasta a las nuevas plataformas audiovisuales que han desembarcado en España como Netflix. Todo ello como ejemplo de los nuevos emprendedores en los ámbitos del guión y la producción que surgen del medio digital.

Metabolism modelling of the Urban Water System of Oslo using the package UWOT

Oslo, capitale della Norvegia, sta sperimentando un’improvvisa crescita della popolazione e secondo le stime fornite da Statistics Norway si prevede un aumento di 200 000 abitanti entro il 2040. La crescita della popolazione comporterà un rilevante aumento di domanda di acqua e, insieme ad altri fattori quali l’età delle infrastrutture e i cambiamenti climatici, sarà responsabile di una notevole pressione sulle infrastrutture idriche presenti. In risposta alla necessità di tempestivi cambiamenti, il gestore del servizio idrico della città (Oslo VAV) ha deciso di finanziare progetti per migliorare la robustezza delle infrastrutture idriche. Il lavoro di tesi si inserisce all’interno del progetto E3WDM, istituito nel 2005 con lo scopo di definire una gestione più efficiente della risorsa idrica di Oslo. L’obiettivo generale della tesi è la creazione di un modello metabolico attraverso il software UWOT (Makropoulos et al., 2008) con lo scopo di rappresentare i consumi idrici di due tipiche tipologie abitative nella città di Oslo. L’innovazione di questo studio consiste nella definizione e nella modellazione della domanda idrica all’interno delle abitazioni ad un livello di dettaglio molto elevato. Il nuovo approccio fornito da UWOT consente la simulazione di differenti strategie di intervento e la successiva gestione ottimale della risorsa idrica in grado di minimizzare i consumi di acqua, di energia e i costi, compatibilmente con la domanda idrica richiesta. Il lavoro di tesi comprende: -La descrizione del software UWOT, in particolare lo scopo del modello, l’innovativo approccio adottato, la struttura e il procedimento per creare un modello del sistema idrico urbano. -La definizione dei dati richiesti per la simulazione dei consumi idrici all’interno delle abitazioni nella città di Oslo e i metodi utilizzati per raccoglierli -L’applicazione del modello UWOT per la definizione dei trend di consumi idrici e la successiva analisi dei risultati

PROBLEMATIZATION OF REZEPTION STUDIES ON THE SEMIOLINGUISTIK THEORIE

Over the past decades the Discourse Analysis (DA) has attempted to solve articulation problems between the psycho-sociological dimensions of the subjects involved in the language act and the linguistic dimensions that characterize this act. Likewise, it has been a systematic challenge for Humanities to establish a conceptual link between the plans of actor and the psychosocial framework that encompasses it. The results of this endeavour have revealed, however, that the psycho-sociological dimension had been underexploited in DA, since the individuals involved in this instance (Communicating Subject and Interpreting Subject) are abstract and imagined constructs based on their recovered identities, purposes in the act of communication and socially consolidated practices.