ICMI 2007 Keynote
Keynote 1 : Noh theater (Nov. 12 10:00 - 11:00)
Interfacing Life: A year in the life of a research lab
Dr. Yuri A. Ivanov
Mitsubishi Electric Research Labs,
Principal Member of Technical Staff
Dr. Yuri Ivanov has been working in the area of computer vision and machine learning for over a decade. He holds a BS and MS degrees in Computer Science from Russian State Academy of Air and Space, and an MS and PhD degreed from MIT. For the past three years Dr. Ivanov has been working at Mitsubishi Electric Research Labs on problems of combining Computer Vision and Sensor Networks. He is interested in problems of classifier combination, multimodal classification and clustering in video and audio domains. Prior to joining MERL Dr. Ivanov worked as a research scientist for Honda Research Institute, US on the multi-modal human classification system for ASIMO, Honda humanoid robot. For the past six years he taught a course on computer vision and pattern recognition at MIT.
Keynote 2 : Noh theater (Nov. 13 9:30 - 10:30)
The Great Challenge of Multimodal Interfaces towards Symbiosis of Human and Robots
Dr. Norihiro Hagita
Advanced Telecommunications Research Institute
International, Japan
He received B.S., M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical enginnering from Keio University(Japan)in 1976, 1978 and 1986 respectively. His major interests are communication robot, network robot system, interaction media. He engaged in specially in developing handwritten character recognition. And also regards to the part of visual perception, he stayed as a visiting researcher in University of California, Barkeley(Dep. of Psychology) during 1989-1990. He moved to ATR right after he delved into the spoken language system, image retrieval and communication science at NTT (Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Public Corporation) as part of research management. He launched MIS(Media Information Science Laboratory)in 2001 and following year, IRC(Intelligent Robotics Communication Laboratory) was born in 2002. At MIS, he put his forth towards the research of experience sharing communication with the mixture of ubiquitous technique together with robots. At the same time, in IRC, he promoted the research area of especially communication robots which collaborate the ubiquitous and robot technique and along with the start up of the project of network robots. Recently, he is a core member to be in charge of the research area of structuring environmental information of which is national emphasized research project on next-generation robots He is currently serving a chair of technical committee in Network Robot Forum in Japan, and a co-chair of technical committee on Networked Robots in IEEE Robotics and Automation Society.
Keynote 3 : Noh theater (Nov. 14 9:30 - 10:30)
Just in Time Learning: Implementing Principles of Multimodal Processing and Learning for Education
Prof. Dominic Massaro
University of California, Santa Cruz,
Professor of Psychology, USA
Dominic W. Massaro is Professor of Psychology and Computer Engineering, director of the Perceptual Science Laboratory, and Chair of Digital Arts and New Media M.F. A. program at the University of California, Santa Cruz. He received a BA in Psychology (1965) from UCLA and an MA (1966) and a Ph.D. (1968) in Psychology from the University of Massachusetts-Amherst. After a two-year postdoctoral fellow at the University of California, San Diego, he was a professor at the University of Wisconsin until 1979 before moving to Santa Cruz. He has been a Guggenheim Fellow, a University of Wisconsin Romnes Fellow, a James McKeen Cattell Fellow, and an NIMH Fellow. He is a past president of the Society for Computers in Psychology, and is currently the book review editor of the American Journal of Psychology and founding co-editor of the journal Interpreting. He has published numerous academic journal articles, written and edited several books (including Perceiving talking faces: from speech perception to a behavioral principle, Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press; The Science of the Mind: 2001 and Beyond, New York: Oxford University Press; and Experimental Psychology: An information processing approach, Orlando, FL: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich.). His research uses a formal experimental and theoretical approach to the study of speech perception, reading, psycholinguistics, memory, cognition, learning, and decision-making. One focus of his current research is on the development and theoretical and applied use of a completely synthetic and animated head for speech synthesis, language tutoring, and edutainment.