Exchanges/Placement

| Senior Research Personnel Exchanges | PhD Student Exchanges |

| Industrial Placement of Research Personnel |

Senior Research Personnel Exchanges
Start Date	Duration	Visitor	Host	Objective
*Year 2012*
26 Apr	1 day	Prof. Gaël Richard (TPT)	Dr. P. Eisert (HHI) and Prof. Sikora (TUB)	Discuss collaborations in the Erasmus Mundus Program within 3DLife, give a talk on Audio signal processing and 3Dlife Grand Challenge, Assist as an opponent to the PhD Defence of F. Kaiser.
*Year 2011*
16 Jun	3 days	Dr. Tamy Boubekeur (IT)	Dr. P. Eisert (HHI)	To discuss collaborations within the scope of the 3DLife project and give a talk on ManyLoDs: Parallel Many-View Level-of-Detail Selection for Real-Time Global Illumination
08 Jun	1 day	Dr. Bertrand David (IT)	Dr. Xinyu Lin (QMUL); Dr. Anil Aksay (QMUL); Dr. Qianni (QMUL)	2^nd Capture Session for the 2011 3DLife ACM MM Grand Challenge Dataset
06 Jun	4 days	Dr. Slim Essid (IT)	Dr. Xinyu Lin (QMUL); Dr. Anil Aksay (QMUL); Dr. Qianni (QMUL)	2^nd Capture Session for the 2011 3DLife ACM MM Grand Challenge Dataset
28 Mar	3 days	Dr. Xinyu Lin (QMUL)	Dr. Slim Essid (IT)	1^st Capture Session for the 2011 3DLife ACM MM Grand Challenge Dataset
*Year 2010*
14 Dec	4 days	Dr. Alfred Dielmann (IT)	Prof. Nadia Magnenat-Thalmann (UNIGE); Mr. Maher Ben Moussa (UNIGE)	This visit, focusing on the Autonomous Virtual Human integrated project, aimed at integrating the online Speaker Identification module developed at Institut Telecom ParisTech into the Autonomous Virtual Human demonstrator framework developed at Miralab University of Geneva.
19 May	3 days	Dr. Iordanis Biperis (ITI)	Prof. Nadia Magnenat-Thalmann (UNIGE); Mr. Maher Ben Moussa (UNIGE)	The goal of the visit was the integration of ITI’s face recognition software to the Autonomous Virtual Human (AVH) framework; ITI’s face recognition software was modified so that it may run on a remote workstation and communicate with the AVH server through a network connection.
26 Apr	4 days	Dr. Philip Kelly (DCU)	Anna Hillsmann (HHI)	The aim of the visit is to investigate the possible use of DCU inertial measurement units (IMUs) and pose estimation techniques to increase the robustness of HHI’s parameter estimation during tracking at times when fast and rapid movements occur.
12 Apr	11 days	Dr. David Monaghan (DCU)	Dimitris Protopsaltou (UNIGE)	The aim of the visit is to investigate the possible use of DCU inertial measurement units (IMUs) and pose estimation techniques to increase the robustness of HHI’s parameter estimation during tracking at times when fast and rapid movements occur.
04 Mar	2 days	Prof. Gael Richard (IT)	Prof. Ebroul Izquierdo (QMUL)	Acting as an examiner for the PhD thesis of Matthias Mauch (QMUL); Discussion on research projects and future collaboration with several members of the MultiMedia and Vision Research Group (MMV) and Center of Digital Music (CDM) at QMUL; Giving a scientific seminar (with a video recorded) on the topic of “Leading melody estimation and extraction from polyphonic music”.
03 Mar	1 day	Dr. Petros Daras (ITI); Dr. Iordanis Biperis (ITI)	Prof. Ebroul Izquierdo (QMUL)	A seminar on “Algorithms and methods for 3D content-based search” given by Dr. Daras to QMUL postgraduate students; Discussions regarding PhD research to be undertaken by Mr Efstathios Onasoglou (ITI) under the joint supervision of Prof. Izquierdo and Dr. Daras.

PhD Student Exchanges
Start Date	Duration	Visitor	Host	Objective
*Year 2011*
15 Nov	6 months	Bruno Gardlo (University of Zilina)	Pr. E. Izquierdo (QMUL); Dr. Q. Zhang (QMUL)	Provisioning digital video services
01 Nov	6 months	Martin Hric (University of Zilina)	Pr. G. Richard (TPT); Dr. S. Essid (TPT)	Audiovisual emotion recognition
19 Oct	3 days	Karthikeyan Vaiapury (QMUL)	Noel O’Connor (DCU); Kevin McGuinness (DCU)	Interactive segmentation Toolbox
06 Jun	4 days	Marc Gowing (DCU)	Dr. Xinyu Lin (QMUL); Dr. Anil Aksay (QMUL)	2^nd Capture Session for the 2011 3DLife ACM MM Grand Challenge Dataset
23 May	2 days	Georgios Kordelas (ITI)	Dr. Anil Aksay(QMUL)	Preparation of the 2^nd Capture Session for the 2011 3DLife ACM MM Grand Challenge Dataset
02 Apr	7 days	Ling Zou (DCU)	Prof. Ken Yang (University of Rhode Island)	Work on Ms Zou’s fellowship research
28 Mar	3 days	Georgios Kordelas (ITI)	Dr. Slim Essid (TPT)	1^st Capture Session for the 2011 3DLife ACM MM Grand Challenge Dataset
*Year 2010*
02 Jun	7 days	Mustafa Kasap (UNIGE)	IT	Athlete Body and Motion Simulation integrated project
06 May	2 days	Mustafa Kasap (UNIGE)	IT	Athlete Body and Motion Simulation integrated project
03 May	1 day	Mustafa Kasap (UNIGE)	QMUL	Athlete Body and Motion Simulation integrated project
29 Apr	6 days	Elena Tsomko (KU)	QMUL	Joint research on image segmentation
26 Apr	10 days	Maher Ben Moussa (UNIGE)	QMUL	Autonomous Virtual Human integrated project
26 Apr	3 days	Marc Gowing (DCU)	HHI	Virtual Mirror integrated project
15 Apr	5 days	Mr Matthias Holländer (IT)	Prof. Nadia Thalmann (UNIGE)	3D rendering and body capture modules
12 Apr	10 days	Mr Juan Diego Pérez-Moneo Agapito (ITI)	Prof. Noel O’Connor (DCU); Dr. Philip Kelly (DCU)	Audio visual analysis integrated project and VCE grand challenge
01 Apr	1 year	Vlado Kitanovski (Ss. Cyril and Methodius University in Skopje)	QMUL	Joint research on Computational Mirror for Augmented Reality Applications
10 Jan	11 days	Elena Tsomko (KU)	QMUL	Joint research on image segmentation

Industrial Placement of Research Personnel
Start Date	Duration	Visitor	Host	Objective
*Year 2012*
18 Apr	3 years	Virginia Fernandez Arguedas (QMUL)	ISDEFE (Spain)	Privacy issues of video surveillance within the public sector
*Year 2011*
01 Oct	3 years	X. Jaureguiberry (TPT)	Audionamix (France)	Joint PhD on automatic source separation for 3D rendering
01 May	3 years	Nicolas Lopez (TPT)	Arkamys (France)	Joint PhD on audio scene enhancement
*Year 2010*
13 Sep	90 days	Sihwan Jang (KU)	ETRI	MPEG-V reference software
18 Aug	90 days	Soomin Lim (KU)	ETRI	MPEG-V contribution
01 Jul	54 days	Yulia Murasova (KU)	ETRI	To contribute to ISO/IEC MPEG-V standardization about virtual life