Project summary

The PASCAL Network of Excellence has created a distributed institute pioneering principled methods of pattern analysis, statistical modeling, and computational learning as core enabling technologies for multimodal interfaces that are capable of natural and seamless interaction with and among individual human users. The resulting expertise has been applied to problems relevant to both multi-modal interfaces and cognitive systems. PASCAL2 will enable a refocusing of the Institute towards the emerging challenges created by the ever expanding applications of adaptive systems technology and their central role in the development of large scale cognitive systems. Furthermore, the funding will enable the Institute to engage in technology transfer through an Industrial Club to effect rapid deployment of the developed technologies into a wide variety of applications, while undertaking a brokerage of expertise and public outreach programme to communicate the value and relevance of the achieved results.

Upcoming Events

CVPR 2012 Gesture Recognition [Workshop]: Providence, Rhode Island, USA, 16 - 17 June 2012.
9th World Meeting of the International Society of Bayesian Analysis [Conference]: Kyoto, Japan, 25 - 29 June 2012.
29th International Conference on Machine Learning [Conference]: Edinburgh, Scotland, 26 June - 1 July 2012.
Object, functional, structured data : towards next generation kernel-based methods [Workshop]: Edinburgh, UK, 30 June 2012.
Machine Learning and Its Applications stream at EURO [Workshop]: Vilnius, Lithuania, 8 - 11 July 2012.
Extra-propositional aspects of meaning in computational linguistics (ExProM 2012) [Workshop]: Jeju Island, South Korea, 13 July 2012.
Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence 2012 [Conference]: Catalina Island, California, USA, 14 - 18 August 2012.
BMVC 2012 - British Machine Vision Conference [Conference]: University of Surrey, UK, 3 - 7 September 2012.
Workshop on The Statistical Physics of Inference and Control Theory [Workshop]: La Herradura, Andalucia, Spain, 12 - 16 September 2012.
11th International Conference on Grammatical Inference [Conference]: Washington, D.C., USA, 12 - 15 September 2012.
IEEE Intl. Workshop on Machine Learning for Signal Processing [Workshop]: Royal Palace of Magdalena, Santander, Spain, 23 - 26 September 2012.
ECML/PKDD 2012 [Conference]: Bristol, UK, 24 - 28 September 2012.
ICPR 2012 Gesture Recognition [Workshop]: Tsukuba Science City, JAPAN, 11 - 15 November 2012.

Latest Publications

	A Hierarchical Pitman-Yor Process HMM for Unsupervised Part of Speech Induction Phil Blunsom and Trevor Cohn Conference or Workshop Item (19 June 2011)
	A Statistical Spoken Dialogue System using Complex User Goals and Value Directed Compression Paul A. Crook, Zhuoran Wang, Xingkun Liu and Oliver Lemon Conference or Workshop Item Item not available online. (April 2012)
	Go With The Flow: Hand Trajectories in 3D via Clustered Scene Flow Simon Hadfield and Richard Bowden Conference or Workshop Item (25 June 2012)
	An Information Geometrical View of Stationary Subspace Analysis Motoaki Kawanabe, Wojciech Samek, Paul Buenau and Frank Meinecke Book Section Item not available online. (2011)
	Direct Importance Estimation with Model Selection and Its Application to Covariate Shift Adaptation Masashi Suigyama, Shinichi Nakajima, Hisashi Kashima, Paul Buenau and Motoaki Kawanabe Conference or Workshop Item Item not available online. (December 2007)
	A regularized discriminative framework for EEG based communication Ryota Tomioka and Klaus-Robert Müller Article Item not available online. (2010)