Giampiero Salvi

Director of the Master Programme in Machine Learning

Research Interests:

• Pattern recognition and discovery
• Bayesian methods
• Automatic Speech Recognition
• Computational Models of Language Acquisition

Current Projects (NTNU):

• SCRIBE: machine transcription of Norwegian conversational speech
• Teflon: Technology-enhanced foreign and second-language learning of Nordic languages
• NordTrans: Technology for automatic speech transcription in selected Nordic languages
• Center for Geophysical Forecasting

Past Projects:

• IGLU: Interactive Grounded Language Understanding (EU CHIST-ERA 2016-2018)
• BioASU: Biologically Inspired Automatic Speech Understanding (VR 2009-2013)
• Poeticon++: Robots need language (STREP Project ICT-288382)
• Contact: Learning and development of Contextual Action (NEST Project 5010)
• Hearing at Home: exploitation of the SynFace technology (EU FP6-IST STREP)
• SynFace: lip reading support for hearing impaired (EU IST-2001-33327)

Organized conferences:

• GLU 2017: International workshop on Grounding Language Understanding
• Interspeech 2017: area chair
• AVSP 2011: International Conference on Auditory-Visual Speech Processing

Doctoral Students:

• Niklas Vanhainen
• Giovanni Saponaro (co-supervisor, Vislab, Institute for Systems and Robotics, Instituto Superior Técnico, Lisbon, Portugal, defended in 2019)
• Alessandro Pieropan (co-supervisor, CVAP, KTH, defended in 2015)
• Daniel Neiberg (co-supervisor, defended in 2012)
• Chris Koniaris (co-supervisor, defended in 2012)
• Gopal Ananthakrishnan (co-supervisor, defended in 2011)

Short background:

• MSc Electronic Engineering, Sapienza University, Rome, Italy, 1998
• PhD Computer Science (Speech Communication), KTH, 2006
• Post-doc Vislab, Institute for Systems and Robotics, Instituto Superior Técnico, Lisbon, Portugal (2007-2009)

More information at http://www.speech.kth.se/~giampi/