Audio-Visual Media Research Platform

该平台赠款的战略目标是支持视觉，语音和信号处理中心（CVSSP）的视听媒体研究，以追求结合国际领先的专业知识来理解现实世界的视听数据的基础研究，并将这种能力转移到影响新的应用领域。我们的目标是开拓新技术，直接影响医疗、体育、零售、通信、娱乐和培训等行业的实践。这建立在CVSSP在音频和视觉机器感知方面的世界领先研究的独特记录之上，该记录使英国工业开发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获得了EPSRC的认可，分别获得了2003-14年度的两次平台资助奖，以及2013年和2015年的两次项目资助奖。要求提供平台赠款资金，以加强所需的专业知识和专业设施知识的临界质量，以促进基本理解和开拓新技术。特别是，该平台赠款将促进多感官机器感知方面的进步，建立在该中心在音频和视觉方面的独特优势之上。重要的博士后研究人员具有专业知识和实践技能，这是培训新研究人员和使用最先进的设施保持前沿研究的重要资源。战略上，平台赠款将建立在音频和视觉场景分析的最新独立进展上，以引导对现实世界场景的多感官理解和建模。研究进展将为英国工业提供基础，引领从医疗保健和辅助生活的智能传感到沉浸式娱乐生产等技术的发展。平台资助还将通过扩展研究借调，加强CVSSP与全球领先团队的国际合作，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).