Projects

New thesis proposals:

In collaboration with the Animal Biology Department

Investigadores do Departamento de Biologia Animal (DBA) da Faculdade de Ciências a trabalhar em comunicação acústica em peixes, monitorizam sinais acústicos destes animais e o ruído antropogénico em locais seleccionados em ambiente estuarino e no mar.
Para tal está a ser posicionada uma rede de sensores submarinos que permitirá capturar esta informação.

Automatic Call Recognition and Individual Identification of Fish Vocalizations

Improvement of work developed in "Desenvolvimento de métodos para detecção e classificação automáticas de sons do xarroco (Halobatrachus didactylus)", in the scope of project PTDC/MAR/118767/2010.

Transmissão e processamento de dados subaquáticos

O objectivo é a encriptação e transferência destes dados até aos laboratórios na FCUL utilizando redes públicas, a respectiva desencriptação. Adicionalmente pretende-se integrar alguns algoritmos simples de detecção de automática da ocorrência de alguns eventos nos sinais recolhidos.

Data logger subaquático - em plataforma Arduino

Alguns dos estudos previstos exigem uma definição de períodos temporais em que os registos devam ser efectuados. O objectivo do presente trabalho é desenvolver um dispositivo com base na plataforma Arduino que registe esta informação e uma interface que permita aos biólogos uma calendarização das suas experiências em função dos sinais acústicos subaquáticos que são objecto do seu estudo e a escolha de formatos para a sua exportação. Adicionalmente pretende-se integrar alguns algoritmos simples de detecção de automática da ocorrência de alguns eventos nos sinais recolhidos.

Thesis

Integration in a biology team (FCT project PTDC/MAR/118767/2010 - Role Of Acoustic Signals In Mate Choice And Male-Male Assessment In A Strongly-Vocal Fish, Halobatrachus Didactylus).
eMail for scheduling a first meeting.

In collaboration with the National Programme for Oncological Diseases (Direcção Geral de Saúde)

NEW: Ask me for a MSc scholarship for any of the following thesis proposal in the scope of language processing area -- supported by an European project!

Ontology-Based Information Search

Improving demos developed by the team:
- Health and Local public administration ;
- Oncological search (service down - activated upon request).
Further refinements are required for
- HCI: Graphical User Interface (GUI)
- HCI: Natural Language Processing (NLP)
- Ontologies, Information retrieval
probably for separated thesis.

The Sims HealthTown: play&live better

Implementation of a social game connected with several information services from the Portuguese health public system.

Join collaboration:

PNDO - Programa Nacional para as Doenças Oncológicas (Direcção Geral de Saúde).
LabMAg - Laboratório de Modelação de Agentes DI/FCUL.
ErgoVR - Ergonomics Laboratory of the Faculdade de Motricidade Humana, da Universidade de Lisboa.

Thesis

Requires good programming skills. Possible programming languages: Unity, C#, JAVA, Python, Lua.
The topic may be adapted to the candidate profile - topic must keep in the scope of speech or language processing area.
Integration in team participating in an European Union funded project.
Location: NLX-Group Labs ( the Natural Language and Speech Group of the Department of Informatics of the University of Lisbon, Faculty of Sciences).
Salary: Bolsa de Investigação (BI) para licenciado (last page from annex I na última página)
Duration: 9 months.
eMail for scheduling a first meeting.

FCUL team:

3 Professors from DI/FCUL, 1 Professor from DEI/FCUL and 2 MSc students - doing researcher at the Portuguese Institute of Oncology of Lisbon (IPO-Lisboa, Instituto Português de Oncologia de Lisboa).
Adviser for the National Oncology Registry Database fusion for the national programme for oncological diseases (PND - Programa Nacional para as Doenças Oncológicas) from the General Directorate of Health (DGS - Direcção Geral de Saúde).
FCT project proposal recently submitted by DI/DEI/FCUL together with IPO-Lisboa.

In the Movies

NEW: Ask me for a MSc scholarship for any of the following thesis proposal in the scope of speech or language processing area -- supported by an European project!

New Movie Player

The project has already a new film player that enriches cinematographic experience and boost film-viewer interaction. A multilingual subtitle time alignment algorithm provides natural browsing links between film and the corresponding making-of. Results are presented for a set of known English spoken films, also using the corresponding Portuguese and Spanish subtitles.

Web reference sites:

Visão geral protótipos já desenvolvidos no grupo de trabalho;
Demonstração de Making-of (email me for credentials);
"Playing Sub-stories from Complex Movies", Respicio, A. and Teixeira, C., in Iurgel, I. Zagalo, N. and Petta, P. (Eds.) Second International Conference on Interactive Digital Storytelling, ICIDS 2009, Guimarães, Portugal, December 09 - 11, 2009 Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Volume 5915/2009, pp. 197-208, Springer. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-10643-9_25 ISBN: 978-3-642-10642-2 . Full paper acceptance ratio: 20%. 2009;
"Design e Produção de filmes enriquecidos", Ribeiro, Catarina Santiago; Tese de Mestrado em Informática, DI-FCUL, Orientador: Teixeira, Carlos Palavras-chave: Filmes enriquecidos, Hipervideo, Making-of, Alinhamento de legendas, 2010
"Browsing Multilingual Making-Ofs", Carlos Teixeira, Ana Respício and Catarina Ribeiro, Proc. of the I Joint SIG-IL/Microsoft Workshop on Speech and Language Technologies for Iberian Languages, pp 21-24,ISBN : 978-989-96278-1-9, PNLN: 298538/09, Porto Salvo, Portugal 3-4 September 2009;
"Representing and playing user selected video narrative domains", Carlos Teixeira and Ana Respício, ACM International Conference on Multimedia proceedings, 2nd ACM Workshop on Story Representation, Mechanism and Context - SRMC08, Vancouver, Canada, October, 2008. DBLP indexed.
“Multimedia Enriched Digital Books”, Carlos Teixeira, ACM 17th Conference on Information and Knowledge Management proceedings, ACM, BooksOnline'08 Workshop on "Setting the Roadmap for Research Advances in Large Digital Book Repositories", Napa Valley, CA, USA, October 2008.
“Integrating Multimedia Information Retrieval, Signal Processing and Human Computer Interaction”, Carlos Teixeira(HCIM/LaSIGE), INTERAC Research Network 1st Plenary Workshop, apresentação nº 16, 10 slides, 3 páginas de resumo. Departamento de Informática, Universidade do Minho, Braga, Julho, 2008.

Further refinements are required for the
- Graphical User Interface (GUI) and the
- Algorithms, Natural Language Processing (NLP), etc.
probably for two separated thesis.

Detecting emotions in the speech signal

This can be developed for improvements in the scope of the

Accessibility for the "Movie Player" described above or for
HCI improvements for social networks.

Thesis

Requires good programming skills.
The topic may be adapted to the candidate profile - topic must keep in the scope of speech or language processing area.
Integration in team participating in an European Union funded project.
Location: NLX-Group Labs ( the Natural Language and Speech Group of the Department of Informatics of the University of Lisbon, Faculty of Sciences).
Salary: Bolsa de Investigação (BI) para licenciado (last page from annex I na última página)
Alternative possibility for scholarship at MLDC/Microsoft Portugal.
Duration: 9 months.
eMail for scheduling a first meeting.