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Biography

Xavier Anguera Miró is apermanent research scientist in the Multimedia Research group at Telefonica I+D in Barcelona. Prior to joining the research group he worked in the Speech Technologies group at Telefonica. In the past he has been part of the speech research groups at Panasonic, UPC (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya) and ICSI (International Computer Science Institute).

Appart from research I also enjoy public speaking. I am the president of Barcelona Prestigious Speakers club. From time to time I also enjoy ballroom dancing and argentine tango.

What's new:

We are looking for interns for next summer! check out the flier in here

Research Interests:

Multimedia information retrieval, also called multimedia indexing. I focus my research on automatic algorithms to extract information from audio, images, video and how to combine the systems outputs in a serial or parallel architechture to enhance results.

Recent Publications:

• Anguera and N. Oliver, "MAMI: Multimodal Annotations on a Camera Phone", in proc. MobileHCI, Amsterdam, September 2008
• U.Urdapilleta, D. Conejero, X. Anguera, D. Cacenabes and F.J. Caminero, "Sistema de Indexación Automática de Contenidos Multimedia", in Proc. XVIII Jornadas Telecom I+D, Bilbao, Spain
• Anguera, N. Oliver and M. Cherubini, "Multimodal and Mobile Personal Image Retrieval: A User Study", in Proc. Workshop on Mobile  Information Retrieval, MOBIR'08, Singapore
• Anguera, J. Xu, N. Oliver, "Multimodal Photo Annotation and Retrieval on a Mobile Phone", in Proc. ACM Intl. Conference on Multimedia Information Retrieval, Vancouver, Canada
David Conejero and Xavier Anguera "TV advertisements detection and clustering based on acoustic information", to appear in International Conference on Computational Intelligence for Modelling, Control and Automation - CIMCA08

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