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Publications

Book Chapters

2013

• P. Sidiropoulos, V. Mezaris, I. Kompatsiaris, Hugo Meinedo, Miguel Bugalho, Isabel Trancoso, Analysis, Retrieval and Delivery of Multimedia Contents, chapter On the use of audio events for improving video scene segmentation, N. Adami, A. Cavallaro, R. Leo, January 2013

International Journals

2011

• Hugo Meinedo, Isabel Trancoso, Age and Gender Detection in the I-DASH Project, ACM Transactions on Speech and Language Processing, ACM, vol. 7, n. 4, pages 16, doi: 10.1145/1998384.1998387, August 2011

• Panagiotis Sidiropoulos, Vasileios Mezaris, Ioannis Kompatsiaris, Hugo Meinedo, Miguel Bugalho, Isabel Trancoso, Temporal Video Segmentation to Scenes Using High-Level Audiovisual Features, IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, IEEE, vol. 21, n. 8, pages 1163 - 1177 , doi: 10.1109/TCSVT.2011.2138830, August 2011

2007

• Rui Pedro Batoreo Amaral, Hugo Meinedo, Diamantino António Caseiro, Isabel Trancoso, João Paulo da Silva Neto, A Prototype System for Selective Dissemination of Broadcast News in European Portuguese, EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing, Hindawi Publishing Corporation, vol. 2007, n. 37507, pages , May 2007

International Conferences

2014

• Alberto Abad, José Matos, Hugo Meinedo, Ramon Fernandez Astudillo, Isabel Trancoso, The L2F system for the EVALITA-2014 speech activity detection challenge in domestic environments, In International Workshop EVALITA 2014, Pisa, Italy, December 2014

• Annika Hamalainen, Hugo Meinedo, Michael Tjalve, Thomas Pellegrini, Isabel Trancoso, Miguel Sales Dias, Improving Speech Recognition through Automatic Selection of Age Group –Specific Acoustic Models, In 11th International Conference on Computational Processing of the Portuguese Language, PROPOR 2014, Springer, series Lecture Notes on Artificial Intelligence, doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-09761-9_2, São Carlos, SP, Brazil, October 2014

• Annika Hämäläinen, Sara Candeias, Hyongsil Cho, Hugo Meinedo, Alberto Abad, Thomas Pellegrini, Michael Tjalve, Isabel Trancoso, Miguel Sales Dias, Correlating ASR Errors with Developmental Changes in Speech Production: A Study of 3-10-Year-Old European Portuguese Children’s Speech, In WOCCI 2014 – Workshop on Child Computer Interaction, Singapore, September 2014

• Vera Cabarrão, Helena Moniz, Fernando Batista, Ricardo Ribeiro, Nuno J. Mamede, Hugo Meinedo, Isabel Trancoso, Ana Isabel Mata, David Martins de Matos, Revising the Annotation of a Broadcast News Corpus: a Linguistic Approach, In Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'14), European Language Resources Association (ELRA), pages 3908-3913, Reykjavik, Iceland, May 2014

2013

• Marco Bertini, Alberto Del Bimbo, George Ioannidis, Emile Bijk, Isabel Trancoso, Hugo Meinedo, EUTV: A system for media monitoring and publishing, In 21st ACM international conference on Multimedia, doi: 10.1145/2502081.2502265, Barcelona, Spain, October 2013

• Ana Aguiar, Mariana Kaiseler, Hugo Meinedo, Traian Abrudan, Pedro Almeida, Methodology for Speech Stress Assessment based on Physiological and Psychological Measures, In 2nd ACM Workshop on Mobile Systems for Computational Social Sciences, Zurich, Switzerland, September 2013

• Pedro Fialho, Luísa Coheur, Sérgio dos Santos Lopes Curto, Pedro Miguel Abrunhosa Cláúdio, Angela Costa, Alberto Abad, Hugo Meinedo, Isabel Trancoso, MEET EDGAR, A TUTORING AGENT AT MONSERRATE, In ACL, series Proceedings of the 51st Annual Meeting of the Association f, Sofia, Bulgaria, August 2013

2012

• Gopala Anumanchipalli, Hugo Meinedo, Miguel Bugalho, Isabel Trancoso, Luís C. Oliveira, Alan Black, Text-dependent pathological voice detection, In Interspeech 2012, ISCA, Portland, Oregon, U.S.A., September 2012

• Alberto Abad, Hugo Meinedo, Isabel Trancoso, João Paulo da Silva Neto, Transcription of Multi-Variety Portuguese Media Contents, In Propor 2012, April 2012

2010

• José Lopes, Isabel Trancoso, Rui Correia, Thomas Pellegrini, Hugo Meinedo, Nuno J. Mamede, Maxine Eskenazi, Multimedia Learning Materials, In IEEE Spoken Language Technology Workshop, IEEE, Berkeley, USA, December 2010

• Hugo Meinedo, Alberto Abad, Thomas Pellegrini, Isabel Trancoso, João Paulo da Silva Neto, The L2F Broadcast News Speech Recognition System, In Fala2010, Vigo, Spain, November 2010

• Hugo Meinedo, Isabel Trancoso, Age and Gender Classification using Fusion of Acoustic and Prosodic Features, In Interspeech 2010, ISCA, Mukari, Japan, September 2010

• Fernando Batista, Helena Moniz, Isabel Trancoso, Hugo Meinedo, Ana Isabel Mata da Silva, Nuno J. Mamede, Extending the punctuation module for European Portuguese, In Proc. of Interspeech 2010, Mukari, Japan, September 2010

• Helena Moniz, Fernando Batista, Hugo Meinedo, Alberto Abad, Isabel Trancoso, Ana Isabel Mata da Silva, Nuno J. Mamede, Prosodically-based automatic segmentation and punctuation, In Speech Prosody 2010, ISCA, Chicago, USA, May 2010

• Panagiotis Sidiropoulos, Vasileios Mezaris, Ioannis Kompatsiaris, Hugo Meinedo, Miguel Bugalho, Isabel Trancoso, On the use of audio events for improving video scene segmentation, In International Workshop on Image Analysis for Multimedia Interactive Services (WIAMIS 2010), Delft, The Netherlands, April 2010

2009

• Panagiotis Sidiropoulos, Vasileios Mezaris, Ioannis Kompatsiaris, Hugo Meinedo, Isabel Trancoso, Multi-Modal Scene Segmentation Using Scene Transition Graphs, In ACM International Conference on Multimedia, ACM, Beijing, China, October 2009

• Rui Martins, Isabel Trancoso, Alberto Abad, Hugo Meinedo, Detection of Childrens Voices, In I Iberian SL Tech 2009, pages 77-80, September 2009

• Isabel Trancoso, Thomas Pellegrini, José Portêlo, Hugo Meinedo, Miguel Bugalho, Alberto Abad, João Paulo da Silva Neto, Audio contributions to semantic video search, In 2009 IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME 2009), IEEE, New York, USA, June 2009

2008

• Luís Miguel Leitão Neves, Ciro Alexandre Domingues Martins, Hugo Meinedo, João Paulo da Silva Neto, Domain adaptation of a Broadcast News Transcription System for the Portuguese Parliament, In PROPOR 2008 - 8th International Conference on Computational Processing of the Portuguese Language, Springer, Aveiro, Portugal, September 2008

• Hugo Meinedo, Márcio Viveiros, João Paulo da Silva Neto, Evaluation of a Live Broadcast News Subtitling System for Portuguese, In Interspeech 2008, ISCA, Brisbane, Australia, September 2008

• João Paulo da Silva Neto, Hugo Meinedo, Márcio Viveiros, Renato Márcio de França Cassaca, Ciro Alexandre Domingues Martins, Diamantino António Caseiro, Broadcast News Subtitling System in Portuguese, In ICASSP 2008 - Int. Conf. on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, IEEE, Las Vegas, USA, April 2008

2006

• Rui Pedro Batoreo Amaral, Hugo Meinedo, Diamantino António Caseiro, Isabel Trancoso, João Paulo da Silva Neto, Automatic vs. Manual Topic Segmentation and Indexation in Broadcast News, In IV Jornadas en Tecnologia del Habla, pages 123--128, Zaragoza, Spain, November 2006

2005

• Hugo Meinedo, João Paulo da Silva Neto, A Stream-based Audio Segmentation, Classification and Clustering Pre-processing System for Broadcast News using ANN Models, In Interspeech 2005, September 2005

• João Paulo da Silva Neto, Hugo Meinedo, Janez Zibert, et al., The COST278 Broadcast News Segmentation and Speaker Clustering Evaluation - Overview, Methodology, Systems, Results, In Interspeech 2005, September 2005

2004

• Isabel Trancoso, João Paulo da Silva Neto, Hugo Meinedo, Rui Pedro Batoreo Amaral, Diamantino António Caseiro, An Acoustic Driven Media Watch System, In Acustica'2004 - Acoustics European Symposium, Guimarães, Portugal, September 2004

• Hugo Meinedo, João Paulo da Silva Neto, Detection of Acoustic Patterns in Broadcast News using Neural Networks, In Acustica'2004 - Acoustics European Symposium, Guimarães, Portugal, September 2004

• A. Vandecatseye, J. Martens, João Paulo da Silva Neto, Hugo Meinedo, C. Mateo, J. Dieguez, F. Mihelic, J. Zibert, J. Nouza, P. David, M. Pleva, A. Cizmar, H. Papageorgiou, C. Alexandris, The COST278 pan-European Broadcast News Database, In LREC 04, Lisboa, Portugal, April 2004

2003

• Isabel Trancoso, João Paulo da Silva Neto, Hugo Meinedo, Rui Pedro Batoreo Amaral, Evaluation of an alert system for selective dissemination of broadcast news, In EUROSPEECH'2003 - 8th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology (Interspeech'2003), Geneve, switzerland, September 2003

• João Paulo da Silva Neto, Hugo Meinedo, Rui Pedro Batoreo Amaral, Isabel Trancoso, The development of an automatic system for selective dissemination of multimedia information, In CBMI'03 - Third International Workshop on Content-Based Multimedia Indexing, Rennes, France, September 2003

• Hugo Meinedo, Diamantino António Caseiro, João Paulo da Silva Neto, Isabel Trancoso, AUDIMUS.media: a Broadcast News speech recognition system for the European Portuguese language, In PROPOR'2003 - 6th International Workshop on Computational Processing of the Portuguese Language, Springer, series Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, Faro, Portugal, June 2003

• João Paulo da Silva Neto, Hugo Meinedo, Rui Pedro Batoreo Amaral, Isabel Trancoso, A System for Selective Dissemination of Multimedia Information, In MSDR'2003 - ISCA Workshop on Multilingual Spoken Document Retrieval, Hong Kong, China, April 2003

• Hugo Meinedo, João Paulo da Silva Neto, Audio Segmentation, Classification and Clustering in a Broadcast News Task, In International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP) 2003, Hong Kong, China, April 2003

• Hugo Meinedo, João Paulo da Silva Neto, Automatic Speech Annotation and Transcription in a Broadcast News Task, In MSDR'2003 - ISCA Workshop on Multilingual Spoken Document Retrieval, Hong Kong, China, April 2003

2002

• António Joaquim Serralheiro, Diamantino António Caseiro, Hugo Meinedo, Isabel Trancoso, Word Alignment in Digital Talking Books Using WFSTs, In ECDL'2002 - 6th European Conference on Digital Libraries, Roma, Italy, September 2002

• N. Souto, Hugo Meinedo, João Paulo da Silva Neto, Building Language Models for Continuous Speech Recognition Systems, In Portugal for Natural Language Processing (PorTAL) 2002, Faro, Portugal, June 2002

• António Joaquim Serralheiro, Diamantino António Caseiro, Hugo Meinedo, Isabel Trancoso, João Paulo da Silva Neto, Spoken Book Alignment Using WFSTS, In HLT 2002, Human Language Technology Conference, San Diego, California, March 2002

2001

• Hugo Meinedo, N. Souto, João Paulo da Silva Neto, Speech Recognition of Broadcast News for the European Portuguese language, In Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding (ASRU) 2001, Madonna di Campiglio, Italy, December 2001

• Rui Manuel Marques dos Santos Amaral, Thibault Langlois, Hugo Meinedo, João Paulo da Silva Neto, N. Souto, Isabel Trancoso, The development of a Portuguese version of a media watch system, In 7th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology (EUROSPEECH) 2001, Aalborg, Denmark, September 2001

2000

• Hugo Meinedo, João Paulo da Silva Neto, Combination of acoustic models in continuous speech recognition hybrid systems, In ICSLP'2000 - 6th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, Beijing, China, October 2000

• Hugo Meinedo, João Paulo da Silva Neto, The use of syllable segmentation information in continuous speech recognition hybrid systems applied to the Portuguese l, In ICSLP'2000 - 6th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, Beijing, China, October 2000

National Conferences

2013

• Henrique Rodrigues Barbosa de Medeiros, Helena Moniz, Fernando Batista, Isabel Trancoso, Hugo Meinedo, Experiments on automatic detection of filled pauses using prosodic features, In 5th INForum - Simpósio de Informática (INForum 2013), Évora, Portugal, September 2013

2001

• António Joaquim Serralheiro, Hugo Meinedo, Diamantino António Caseiro, Isabel Trancoso, Alinhamento de Livros Falados, In XVII Encontro Nacional da Associação Portuguesa de Linguística, Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de Lisboa, October 2001

1998

• Ciro Alexandre Domingues Martins, Maria Isabel de Vilhena Mascarenhas, Hugo Meinedo, João Paulo da Silva Neto, Luís C. Oliveira, Carlos Eduardo Meneses Ribeiro, Isabel Trancoso, Maria do Céu Guerreiro Viana Ribeiro, Spoken Language Corpora for Speech Recognition and Synthesis in European Portuguese, In RECPAD'98 - 10th Portuguese Conference on Pattern Recognition, Lisbon, Portugal, March 1998

Doctoral Theses

2008

• Hugo Meinedo, Audio Pre-processing and Speech Recognition for Broadcast News, PhD thesis, IST, Lisboa, February 2008

Masters Theses

2000

• Hugo Meinedo, Utilização de Informação Silábica no Reconhecimento de fala contínua, MSc thesis, Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade Técnica de Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal, November 2000

Other Publications

2003

• João Paulo da Silva Neto, Hugo Meinedo, Isabel Trancoso, Fórum 2003 (Competitividade, Inovação e Qualificação: Estratégias, Políticas e Desafios), AIP, October 2003

MSc theses

Finished

• Vozes de Celebridades, Paulo Eduardo dos Santos Veloso Braga. Instituto Superior Técnico (2010-2011). Isabel Trancoso, advisor. Hugo Meinedo, co-advisor.

Research Interests

• Spoken Language Systems: Acoustic modeling in Continuous Speech Recognition
• Neural Networks

Ongoing Projects

• ALERT - Alert System for Selective Dissemination of Multimedia Information (European project)
• FALA2 - Large vocabulary continuous speech recognition system for the European Portuguese language (National project)