Audio-Visual Media Research Platform

这一平台赠款的战略目标是支持视觉、语音和信号处理中心(CVSSP)内的视听媒体研究，以开展基础研究，结合理解真实世界视听数据方面的国际领先专业知识，并将这一能力转化为影响新的应用领域。我们的目标是开创直接影响医疗保健、体育、零售、通信、娱乐和培训行业实践的新技术。这建立在CVSSP在音频和视觉机器感知方面世界领先研究的独特记录基础上，这使得英国工业利用的突破性技术成为可能。该中心在视听媒体研究方面的战略贡献和国际地位已得到EPSRC通过前两次平台赠款奖(2003-14年度)和2013年和2015年的两次方案赠款奖的认可。要求平台赠款提供资金，以加强所需的大量专门知识和专门设施的知识，以促进对新技术的基本了解和开拓。特别是，这一平台赠款将在该中心在音频和视觉方面的独特优势的基础上，促进多感官机器感知方面的进步。主要有经验的博士后研究人员拥有专业知识和实用技术，这是培训新研究人员和使用最先进的设施保持尖端研究的重要资源。从战略上讲，Grant平台将建立在视听场景分析的最新独立进展的基础上，以领导对真实世界场景的多感官理解和建模。研究进展将为英国工业引领从医疗保健和辅助生活的智能传感到身临其境的娱乐生产等技术的发展奠定基础。Platform Grant Funding还将通过延长研究借调范围，加强CVSSP与世界各地领先团体的国际合作，包括美国(华盛顿、南加州大学)、亚洲(清华、天津、京都、东京、KAUST)和欧洲(INRIA、MPI、Fraunhofer、ETH、EPFL、KTH、CTU、UPF)。

The strategic objective of this platform grant is to underpin Audio-Visual Media Research within the Centre for Vision, Speech and Signal Processing (CVSSP) to pursue fundamental research combining internationally leading expertise in understanding of real-world audio and visual data, and to transfer this capability to impact new application domains. Our goal is to pioneer new technologies which impact directly on industry practice in healthcare, sports, retail, communication, entertainment and training. This builds on CVSSP's unique track-record of world-leading research in both audio and visual machine perception which has enabled ground-breaking technology exploited by UK industry. The strategic contribution and international standing of the centres research in audio and visual media has been recognised by EPSRC through two previous platform grant awards (2003-14) and two programme grant awards in 2013 and 2015. Platform Grant funding is requested to reinforce the critical mass of expertise and knowledge of specialist facilities required to contribute advance in both fundamental understanding and pioneering new technology. In particular this Platform Grant will catalyse advances in multi-sensory machine perception building on the Centre's unique strengths in audio and vision. Key experienced post-doctoral researchers have specialist knowledge and practical know-how, which is an important resource for training new researchers and for maintaining cutting edge research using state-of-the-art facilities. Strategically the Platform Grant will build on recent independent advances in audio and visual scene analysis to lead multi-sensory understanding and modelling of real-world scenes. Research advances will provide the foundation for UK industry to lead the development of technologies ranging from intelligent sensing for healthcare and assisted living to immersive entertainment production. Platform Grant funding will also strengthen CVSSP's international collaboration with leading groups world-wide through extended research secondments US (Washington, USC), Asia (Tsinghua, Tianjin, Kyoto, Tokyo, KAUST) and Europe (INRIA, MPI, Fraunhofer, ETH, EPFL, KTH, CTU, UPF).