{"id":308,"date":"2016-10-27T09:49:01","date_gmt":"2016-10-27T07:49:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/members.loria.fr\/SOuni\/?page_id=308"},"modified":"2025-03-19T12:04:51","modified_gmt":"2025-03-19T10:04:51","slug":"projects","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/members.loria.fr\/SOuni\/accueil\/projects\/","title":{"rendered":"Projects"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 style=\"font-weight: 400\"><strong>Research Projects<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Coordinator, ANR Syncogest (2025-2029) <\/strong>&#8211; Speech and Gesture synchronization \u2013 Collaboration with Praxiling et EuroMov DHM.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Participant, ANR <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ihu-infiny.fr\/recherche\/rhu-i-deal-prevention-et-suivi-a-domicile-des-patients\/\"><strong>RHU I-DEAL<\/strong><\/a><strong> (2024-2028) &#8211; <\/strong>Innovative remote tools and precision imaging for early management of Crohn&rsquo;s disease.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Co-Principal Investigator, D\u00e9fi Inria COLaF<\/strong> (<strong>2023-2028<\/strong>) &#8211; Corpus and Tools for the Languages of France. Collaboration with ALMANACH team (Inria Paris)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Participant, MSCA Doctoral Networks<\/strong> <strong>\u2013 Joint Doctorates (2025\u20132030) &#8211;<\/strong> Privacy for Smart Speech Technology (PSST): Research on privacy-preserving speech technology.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Participant, EU Project LLMs4EU (2025-2028) &#8211;\u00a0<\/strong>Large Language Models for the European Union.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Co-Principal Investigator, HumaneAI-NET (H2020 ICT-48-2020, 2020\u20132023) &#8211; <\/strong>European network for human-centered AI research. Responsible for networking and communication at CNRS (LORIA).<\/li>\n<li><strong>Co-Principal Investigator, CNRS PRIME 80 \u2013 GEPACI (2021\u20132024)<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Interdisciplinary research on speech-gesture interaction. Collaboration with Praxiling.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Lead Partner, ANR BENEPHIDIRE (2019\u20132022) &#8211; <\/strong>AI-based detection of speech disfluencies for stuttering diagnosis and therapy. Collaboration with LORIA, Praxiling, and Montpellier Neuroscience Institute.<\/li>\n<li><strong>WP Leader, PIA-2 e-Fran METAL (2017\u20132021)<\/strong> &#8211; Pronunciation learning for second-language acquisition. Supervised PhD\/postdoc researchers and engineers.<\/li>\n<li><strong>WP Leader, ANR Full3DTalkinghead (2021\u20132024)<\/strong> &#8211; AI-driven 3D talking head with aeroacoustic simulation. Focus on facial control modeling.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Contributor, ANR LOR-AI (2021\u20132024)<\/strong> &#8211; AI-driven sign language generation from speech.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Contributor, AI4EU (H2020, 2019\u20132021)<\/strong> &#8211; European AI-on-demand platform &#8211; Collaboration with Technicolor\/Interdigital.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Coordinator, ANR ViSAC (2009\u20132013)<\/strong> &#8211; Bimodal speech synthesis. Led a research team of PhD\/postdoc researchers and engineers.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Scientific Lead, STIC-AmSud MCC (2015\u20132016) &#8211; <\/strong>South American collaboration on multimodal communication corpus.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Scientific Lead, CORExp (2014\u20132016)<\/strong> &#8211; Expressive audiovisual speech synthesis corpus.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Scientific Lead, ExpLoria (2015\u20132016) &#8211; <\/strong>Multimodal communication corpus acquisition.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Participant, Various National and International Research Projects<\/strong>: <em>MODALISA (2017), SYNABE (2016), ORTOLANG (2012\u20132015), ANR ARTIS (2009\u20132013) <\/em>&#8211; Speech articulation modeling, corpus development, and AI-based audiovisual speech processing.<\/li>\n<li><strong>France-Tunisia CMCU Projects (2007\u20132013), France-Berkeley Fund (2004\u20132006) &#8211;<\/strong>Articulatory-acoustic speech analysis and lip-coarticulation studies.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\"><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<h3 style=\"font-weight: 400\"><strong>Development &amp; Technology Transfer Projects<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Project Lead, EPIC Games MegaGrants (2022\u20132023)<\/strong> -Ultra-realistic speech animation system with MetaHuman and Unreal Engine.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Project Lead, INS2I MULTIMOD (2022\u20132023)<\/strong> &#8211; Enhancement of a multimodal platform for social interaction analysis.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Project Lead, INRIA PuppetFace (2018\u20132020)<\/strong> &#8211; AI-driven speech animation system development.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Project Lead, Dynalips Maturation Project (2017\u20132018)<\/strong> &#8211; Intelligent lipsync for animated 3D characters.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Project Lead, INRIA ADT VisArtico (2013\u20132015)<\/strong> &#8211; Development of articulatory data processing and visualization software.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Economic Valorization &amp; Startup Incubation (2018\u20132020)<\/strong> &#8211; Explored commercialization opportunities for lipsync and talking head technologies in collaboration with Incubateur Lorrain and Sayens (SATT-Grand Est).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Research Projects<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Coordinator, ANR Syncogest (2025-2029) &#8211; Speech and Gesture synchronization \u2013 Collaboration with Praxiling et EuroMov DHM.<\/li>\n<li>Participant, ANR <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ihu-infiny.fr\/recherche\/rhu-i-deal-prevention-et-suivi-a-domicile-des-patients\/\">RHU I-DEAL<\/a> (2024-2028) &#8211; Innovative remote tools and precision imaging for early management of Crohn&rsquo;s disease.<\/li>\n<li>Co-Principal Investigator, D\u00e9fi Inria COLaF (2023-2028) &#8211; Corpus and Tools for the Languages of France. 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