Bérénice Lemoine

Guided design and generation of adaptable playful learning activitiesStarting: 01/10/2021PhD Student: Bérénice LemoineAdvisor(s): Sébastien GEORGECo-advisor(s): Pierre LAFORCADEFunding: RégionOur work takes place in the context of the adaptation of playful learning activities. The learning and gaming profiles of the learner-player must be taken into account during the adaptation. Therefore, the main focus on this research, in […]

Thibault Gaudier

Active learning, interpretation and control for neural synthesis of expressive speechStarting: 01/10/2021PhD Student: Thibault GaudierAdvisor(s): Anthony LarcherCo-advisor(s): Marie Tahon, Yannick Estève (LIA)Funding: Allocation de recherche du Ministère de la RechercheThe main objective of the project is to propose, develop and validate methods that allow to: generate expressive speech from a user-given instruction using either text-to-speech […]

Albane Gril

Proposal of an approach for capitalizing on indicators dedicated to a study of the impact of the system for improving the French language, écri+.Starting: 04/01/2021PhD Student: Albane GrilAdvisor(s): Sébastien George Co-advisor(s): Madeth May (LIUM), Valérie Renault (CREN)Funding: PIA Ecri+Contexte de la thèse : Le projet national PIA écri+ est dédié à l’accompagnement des étudiants dans […]

Théo Mariotte

automatic speech processing in meetings using microphone arrayStarting: 01/10/2020PhD Student: Théo MariotteAdvisor(s): Jean-Hugh Thomas (LAUM), Anthony Larcher (LIUM)Co-advisor(s): Silvio Montresor (LAUM)Funding: RFI Le Mans acoustiqueThe subject is supported by two laboratories of Le Mans – Université: the acoustics lab (LAUM) and the computer science lab (LIUM). The aim is to enhance automatic speech processing in […]

Thibault Prouteau

Temporal word embeddings: neologisms, gender bias, corpus of French newsStarting: 01/10/2020PhD Student: Thibault ProuteauAdvisor(s): Sylvain MeignierCo-advisor(s): Nicolas Dugué Funding: Allocation de recherche du ministère de l’enseignement supérieurContexte de la thèse : La télévision, la production littéraire et internet fournissent des traces de notre utilisation de la langue [6]. Grâce à l’Ina, la mémoire de la […]

Valentin Pelloin

Artificial Intelligence for a semantically controlled speech understandingStarting: 01/10/2020PhD Student: Valentin PelloinAdvisor(s): Sylvain MeignierCo-advisor(s): Nathalie Camelin et Antoine LaurentFunding: ANR AISSPERDescritpion Le projet ANR AISSPER (Artificial Intelligence for Semantically controlled SPEech UndeRstanding) a pour objectif de proposer des nouveaux algorithmes afin de résoudre le difficile problème de la compréhension de la parole. En effet, malgré […]

Martin Lebourdais

Extraction of end-to-end semantic information from audio signalStarting: 01/10/2020PhD Student: Martin LebourdaisAdvisor(s): Sylvain MeignierCo-advisor(s): Antoine Laurent, Marie TahonFunding: ANR GEMThe GEM project aims to describe the differences in representation and treatment between women and men in the media, based on the automatic analysis of large volumes of French-language data contained in the INA and Deezer […]

Ibtissem Bennacer

Teaching Analytics: support for assessment and pedagogical design assistance using artificial intelligence.Starting: 01/10/2019PhD Student: Ibtissem BennacerAdvisor(s): Sébastien IksalCo-advisor(s): Rémi VenantFunding: Bourse MinistérielleThis thesis is about the use of Teaching Analytics to analyze teachers’ behaviors and assist them in the use of Learning Management Systems (LMS). Teaching Analytics (TA) refers to methods and tools to help […]

Pierre Champion

Privacy preserving and personalized transformations for speech recognitionStarting: 01/10/2019PhD Student: Pierre ChampionAdvisor(s): Denis Jouvet (Loria), Anthony Larcher (LIUM – LST)Co-advisor(s): Funding: ANR Deep-PrivacyThe objective of the proposed thesis is twofold. First, it aims at finding a privacy preserving transform of the speech data, and, second, it will investigate the use of additional personalized transforms, that […]

Thomas Thebaud

Analysis and countermeasures of identity theft fraud in behavioural biometric systemsStarting: 01/10/2019PhD Student: Thomas ThebaudAdvisor(s): Anthony Larcher (LIUM – LST)Co-advisor(s): Gaël Le Lan (Orange)Funding: Orange Labs