Actualities

November 5, 2011
A gallery from the workshop was added to link.

November 4, 2011
Some of the presentations were uploaded to link.

November 3, 2011
2nd SPLab workshop will be held in Brno from October 24 to October 26.

Objectives

to introduce research activities of the participating groups,
to share knowledge,
to discuss possible areas of further cooperation,
to strengthen links between the participants

When

27-28 October 2011 (Thursday and Friday)

Where

Brno University of Technology
Faculty of Electrical engineering and Communication
Department of Telecommunications
Purkyňova 118
612 00 BRNO
Czech Republic

Phone: +420 54114 9190
Fax: +420 54114 9192
Email: utko@feec.vutbr.cz

The workshop will be held in room M-66.

See a short presentation about Brno.

How to get there

Transfer from Prague airport to Brno

Using train – first, take the bus called Airport Express (link) from the airport to the Prague main railway station. From this station it is possible to travel directly to Brno using many connections. To check the exact departures you can use link.
Using bus – it is possible to book a yellow bus (link) which goes from Prague airport to Brno with one change at the Prague bus-station “Florenc”. It is necessary to book the ticket in advance, because it is not possible to buy the ticket in the bus. In case of interest, book the ticket from “Praha, RUZYNĚ, letiště – terminál 1” to “Brno, AN u hotelu Grand”.

Transfer from the Brno railwaystation to the Department of Telecommunications (BUT)

Using tram – take tram no. 12 or 13 to the station “Technologický park” (a terminal station). It is possible to buy the ticket inside the tram from a driver (which is more expensive) or in the yellow machines close to the station. In both cases, buy a ticket for 60 minutes for zones 100+101, which should cost 22 CZK (30 from a driver).
Using taxi – taxis depart from near the bus and train stations. It is about 7 km to the department, which should not exceed 300 CZK.

Accommodation

We selected four hotels, the first two hotels are very recommended.

Hotel	Transportation		Price for one night (in EUR)
	To the department	To the city center	Single room	Double room
Comsa Brno Palace Hotel	25 minutes by public transportation, 10-15 minutes by taxi	In the city center	135	135
Hotel Vista Brno	about 10 minutes by walk	About 15 minutes by public transportation, 5 minutes by taxi	54	61
Grand Hotel Brno	25 minutes by public transportation, 10-15 minutes by taxi	In the city center	89	106
Hotel International Brno	20 minutes by public transportation, 10-15 minutes by taxi	In the city center	124	124

List of speakers (in alphabetical order)

Dr. Hicham Atassi, Dept. of Telecommunications, Brno University of Technology, Czech Republic
Dr. Peter Balazs, Acoustics Research Institute, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Austria
Dr. Radim Burget, Dept. of Telecommunications, Brno University of Technology, Czech Republic
Dr. Vincenzo Capuano, Second University of Naples, Caserta and IIASS, Italy
Dr. Monika Dörfler, NuHAG, University of Vienna, Austria
Dr. Virginia Espinosa-Duró, EUP Mataró, TecnoCampus Mataró-Maresme, Spain
Prof. Anna Esposito, Second University of Naples, Caserta and IIASS, Italy
Prof. Marcos Faundez-Zanuy, EUP Mataró, TecnoCampus Mataró-Maresme, Spain
Prof. Hans G. Feichtinger, NuHAG, University of Vienna, Austria
Dr. Amir Hussain, COSIPRA LAB, University of Stirling, UK
Dr. Jaromír Mačák, Dept. of Telecommunications, Brno University of Technology, Czech Republic
Dr. Jiri Mekyska, Dept. of Telecommunications, Brno University of Technology, Czech Republic
Dr. Ingo Mierswa, CEO, Rapid-I, Germany
Dr. Thomas Mazzocoo, COSIPRA LAB, University of Stirling, UK
Dr. Enric Sesa Nogueras, EUP Mataró, TecnoCampus Mataró-Maresme, Spain
Dr. Pavel Rajmic, Dept. of Telecommunications, Brno University of Technology, Czech Republic
Dr. Kamil Říha, Dept. of Telecommunications, Brno University of Technology, Czech Republic
Dr. Jiří Schimmel, Dept. of Telecommunications, Brno University of Technology, Czech Republic
Prof. Zdeněk Smékal, Dept. of Telecommunications, Brno University of Technology, Czech Republic
Prof. Vítězslav Veselý, Dept. of Computer Graphics and Geometry, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering Brno University of Technology, Czech Republic
Dr. Klára Vicsi, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Department of Telecommunications and Media Informatics, Laboratory of Speech Acoustics, Hungary
Dr. Erfu Yang, COSIPRA LAB, University of Stirling, UK

Program

Program commitee

Dr. Hicham Atassi, Dept. of Telecommunications, Brno University of Technology, Czech Republic
Dr. Radim Burget, Dept. of Telecommunications, Brno University of Technology, Czech Republic
Dr. Jan Karasek, Dept. of Telecommunications, Brno University of Technology, Czech Republic
Dr. Jiri Mekyska, Dept. of Telecommunications, Brno University of Technology, Czech Republic
Dr. Pavel Rajmic, Dept. of Telecommunications, Brno University of Technology, Czech Republic
Dr. Kamil Říha, Dept. of Telecommunications, Brno University of Technology, Czech Republic
Dr. Jiří Schimmel, Dept. of Telecommunications, Brno University of Technology, Czech Republic
Prof. Zdeněk Smékal, Dept. of Telecommunications, Brno University of Technology, Czech Republic

Thursday, 27th October 2011

(08:30 – 09:00) Registration

(09:00 – 10:05) Session 1, Chair: Dr. Pavel Rajmic

(09:00 – 09:20) Introduction of the Signal Processing Laboratory (Dr. Jiří Schimmel)
(09:20 – 09:35) Numerical Harmonic Analysis Group – Introduction (Prof. Hans G. Feichtinger)
(09:35 – 10:05) How abstract mathematics can be useful for engineers (Prof. Hans G. Feichtinger)

(10:05 – 10:25) Coffee break

(10:25 – 11:40) Session 2, Chair: Dr. Jiří Mekyska

(10:25 – 10:55) Evolutionary Evolved Object Detection (Dr. Radim Burget)
(10:55 – 11:10) SUN/IIASS Presentation (Prof. Anna Esposito)
(11:10 – 11:40) Induced emotional facial expressions: An Introduction (Prof. Anna Esposito)

(11:40 – 13:15) Lunch break

(13:15 – 14:30) Session 3, Chair: Dr. Hicham Atassi

(13:15 – 13:45) Medical Ultrasound Video Sequence Processing (Dr. Kamil Riha)
(13:45 – 14:00) Introduction to the Cognitive Signal Image Processing and Control Research (COSIPRA) Laboratory at the University of Stirling in Scotland (Dr. Amir Hussain)
(14:00 – 14:30) Towards intelligent heathcare information processing systems: Two case studies in dementia diagnosis and chemotherapy side-effects modeling (Dr. Thomas Mazzocco)

(14:30 – 14:45) Coffee break

(14:45 – 16:00) Session 4, Chair: Dr. Radim Burget

(14:45 – 15:00) An Introduction to Tecnocampus Mataro-Maresme (Prof. Marcos Faundez-Zanuy)
(15:00 – 15:30) Introduction to Biometrics (Prof. Marcos Faundez-Zanuy)
(15:30 – 15:45) The Future of Predictive Analytics (Dr. Ingo Mierswa)

(15:45 – 16:00) Coffee break

(16:00 – 17:15) Session 5, Chair: Prof. Zdeněk Smékal

(16:00 – 16:30) Controlling Overfitting with Multi-Objective Support Vector Machines (Dr. Ingo Mierswa)
(16:30 – 16:45) Introduction of the Laboratory of Speech Acoustics at the Budapest University of Technology and Economics Department of Telecommunications and Media Informatics (Dr. Klára Vicsi)
(16:45 – 17:15) Non-verbal sound events in speech Communication (Dr. Klára Vicsi)

Short walk through the city center and dinner in restaurant Baroko (link).

Friday, 28th October 2011

(08:30 – 10:15) Session 6, Chair: Dr. Jiří Schimmel

(08:30 – 08:45) Mathematics and Signal Processing in Acoustics – From Theory to Applications (Dr. Peter Balazs)
(08:45 – 09:15) HRTF Measurements and their improvements with Time-Frequency Methods (Dr. Peter Balazs)
(09:15 – 09:45) Induced emotional facial expressions: An attempt for a naturalistic database (Dr. Vincenzo Capuano)
(09:45 – 10:15) Recognition of speaker’s characteristics and dialog analysis for call center applications (Dr.Hicham Atassi)

(10:15 – 10:30) Coffee break

(10:30 – 11:45) Session 7, Chair: Dr. Pavel Rajmic

(10:30 – 10:45) Music processing at NuHAG (Dr. Monika Dörfler)
(10:45 – 11:15) Nonstationary Gabor frames in audio signal processing (Dr. Monika Dörfler)
(11:15 – 11:45) Real-time digital simulation of analog audio effects (Dr. Jaromír Mačák)

(11:45 – 13:15) Lunch break

(13:15 – 14:45) Session 8, Chair: Prof. Zdeněk Smékal

(13:15 – 13:45) Thermal imaging (Dr. Virginia Espinosa-Duró)
(13:45 – 14:15) Neurobiologically inspired cognitive control of autonomous vehicles (Dr. Erfu Yang)
(14:15 – 14:45) Algorithms for segmentwise computation of discrete-time wavelet transform (Dr. Pavel Rajmic)

(14:45 – 15:00) Coffee break

(15:00 – 16:30) Session 9, Chair: Dr. Kamil Říha

(15:00 – 15:30) Sparse ARMA modelling via basis pursuit (Prof. Vítězslav Veselý)
(15:30 – 16:00) Biometric writer recognition by means of handwritten text other than signature (Dr. Enric Sesa Nogueras)
(16:00 – 16:30) Hypokinetic dysarthria in Parkinsonian speech: from theory to feature selection (Dr. Jiří Mekyska)

(16:30 – 16:45) Closing session (Prof. Zdeněk Smékal)