The research of ALICE is conducted within the following projects:
Active Vision in Reading Systems
A basic difference between human reading and machine reading is that the human reader uses selective attention to drive the physical scanning process whereas algorithms for machine reading usually store complete scanned images and start subsequent segmentation and further processing. This is why the human reading is an rather efficient system. The goal of this project is to develop a perceptual/cognitive architecture for reading.
NWO/ToKeN -
Administrative Normative Information Transaction Agents (Anita)
In the public discussion on the fight against terrorism versus the protection of privacy, it is commonly assumed that these two interests are inherently opposite and that a (political) compromise between them should be found. The goal of this research is to investigate to what extent this assumption is justified.
NWO/ToKeN -
Intelligent Information Retrieval and Presentation (I2RP)
The Optima project is part of the I2RP project. Research within the Optima project concentrates on adaptive user interfaces. Applications are searching texts and images with the help of advanced search engines. Goal is to design a method for developing adaptive user interfaces.
Wanda (forensic writer identification)
The identification of the writer on the basis of a piece of handwriting is a challenging task for pattern recognition. This project aims at improving handwriting recognition to such a degree that it can be used for forensic research.
NWO/Catch -
Scratch: SCript-Recognition Access to the Cultural Heritage
Research concentrates on the recognition of cursive handwriting. Methods and techniques are developed for digitalizing handwritten historical documents in the National Archive.
NWO/ToKeN -
Cassandra: multimodal aggression detection
This project This project focuses on the detection of human activities, particularly aggression, in dynamic social environments. Since the onset to public aggression in many cases is difficult to detect with a single sensor modality (e.g. screaming versus beating) a combination of image and sound analysis is proposed.
NWO/ToKeN -
TriGraph: forensic writer identification
This research is focused on the improvement of writer identification based on handwriting for forensic purposes.Dit onderzoek richt zich op het verbeteren van schrijveridentificatie op basis van handschrift. A prototype will be delivered to NFI to support forensic research.
Senter -
Dutch Boon Companion: pet-like robots for cognitive support
If intelligent robots will be used as personal assistant in the home environments it is desirable that they are aware of their environment to such a degree that they can react in an appropriate way. This project focuses on the recognition of varying sounds.
GMW - Action recognition, social learning and imitation in robots
Telematica - AIMS
: cognitive architectures for intelligent applications
Moving Thoughts - a project in Brain-Computer Interaction
Recent findings in cognitive neuroscience indicate that imagined movement or targeted imagination may result in detectable EEG patterns. This project explores the fundamentals of brain state and EEG as well as the new possibilities which exist in "mind" control of devices.
NWO/EW -
Morph: Learning to learn
Within this project a new method for handwriting recognition is developed that can be used for analysing massive collections of historical documents. Current computing power, notably the availability of the Blue Gene supercomputer, allows for new technologies.
Involvement in external PhD projects:
Making sense of Evidence: Software support for crime investigationse (with UU, TNO, RuG/R&I e.a.)
Heterogeneous information integration: Theory and application of the multiple-agent paradigm in pattern recognition problems (with RUN/NICI)
Requirements engineerin for real time medical support systems (with RuG/IWI en RuG/ExpPsy)
