| Current projects
Some of the most
outstanding projects in which the research group is currently working are
shown next. For more information about this projects and another ones you
can visit the "projects" section of the different
research areas.
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European project SALERO |
As a member of the consortium of the european project SALERO, the
Signal Processing section of the Communications and Signal Theory Department of
Enginyeria i Arquitectura La Salle developes, in the speech technologies area,
high realistic multilingual speech synthesis.
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CICYT TIC97-0787-C02 - Ionospheric
Communications radio link using Spread Spectrum between INTA (El
Arenosillo) - La Salle (Ramon Llull University) |
The
project of ionospheric communication contains a high compression of voice for
very low rate transmission adapted to channel the conditions. In collaboration
with the Communications research group, channel estimation algorithms,
equalization and synchronization algorithms for the receiver system are being
studied, considering that the communications system works with spread spectrum.
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Project funded by Televisió de
Catalunya entitled "Development of a high quality Catalan speech
synthesis system and its integration into Microsoft SAPI" |
The
project contained the design and implantation of a Catalan text-to-speech
converter system with recording, segmenting and labeling a voice data base and
the optimization of the synthesis method. The current phase consists of the
integration of this system to Microsoft SAPI (Speech API) for its use from any
Windows application.
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Financed project by The M. E.
Müller Foundation and entitled "Automatic classification tool for the
Müller's Comprehensive Classification of Fractures (CCF) of Long Bones" |
The goal
of this project is the automatic classification of long bones fractures using
X-rays. Active models image processing techniques are applied in order to
identify the fracture. This allows fracture characteristics extraction (i.e.
bone orientation, monofragmentary and multifragmentary) and its classification,
which is carried out in collaboration with Intelligent Systems research group.
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CICYT DPI2000-1352-C02-01 research
project entitled "Autonomous robot navigation guided by visual
objectives" leadership for PhD. Enric Celaya from Institute for
Robotics and Industrial Computer Science (IRI:
http://www-iri.upc.es). Duration:
1/1/01 a 1/1/04 |
The part
implemented by our group focuses on the extraction of 3D information from the
analysis of the active contour deformation in a sequence of monocular
images. The development is based on a guidance robot application working in non
structured environments in order to reach a visual goal. The obtained 3D
information corresponds to the robot movement with respect to the objective, the
time to the contact with the objective, and the environment structure.
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ALGTEC: Algebra applied to the technological
world |
ALGTEC (ALGebra and TEChnology) is a multimedia
application that tries to approach the student to algebra world and to some of
its applications in the technological world. It is an application that helps the
student understanding the way in which some algebraic concepts are the basis of
technical applications. ALGTEC allows the student to experiment with this
concept carrying out simulations that help them to validate his/her reasoning.
Other projects are:
| Facial expression recognition to improve man-machine
interfaces |
| Sign-to-voice conversion for deaf and dumb people,
collaborating with Speech Processing research group |
| Research project entitled "Emotion speech study by
high quality speech synthesis", in collaboration with the Audiovisual
Communication Department of the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona |
| Automatic diagnosis
of cancer of breast, collaborating with Bellvitge Hospital and with
Intelligent Systems research group
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