Odyssey 2012 conference - The speaker and language recognition workshop

Singapore view from the top of Singapore Flyers, the giant Ferris wheel. 

This is my first time attending Odyssey conference, the IEEE conference that is designated especially for speaker and language recognition papers. I attended this conference to learn more about the latest technology in speaker recognition field. I do not have any paper with me as the first author, but I am the  second author in the paper with tittle "Source Normalization for Language-Independent Speaker Recognition using i-Vectors". This is a paper where I collaborated with my previous daily supervisor. I was doing the calibration experiments for the paper.

BBfor2 Summer School in Forensic Evidence Evaluation and Validation

Tapas tour with the whole colleagues from BBfor2 network. The fried shark was awesomely fishy. 

On 18-22 June 2012 I participated on the BBfor2 summer school. The summer school was about the evaluation and validation of forensic evidence reporting, especially for biometrics evidence. There are a lot of interesting sessions including poster session from the summer school student and practical session about calibration. On the last day we (I and all other BBfor2 fellows) had our semester project meeting. 

Biometrics summer school 2012, Alghero

One of too many amazing photo spots in Alghero. Sunny day with beach and blue sky,  it couldn't be better than this. 

On 11-15 June 2012, I participated as a student in the Biometrics summer school in Alghero, Italy. There were various interesting classes held in the summer school. The lectures vary from the definition of biometrics technology in general until the ethical code in dealing with biometrics system. There were also interesting class besides speaker, face and/or fingerprints recognitions such as iris, gait and ear recognitions. 

Internship at Idiap Research Institute

Finally I officially ended my 5 weeks secondment at Idiap Research Institute on 06 June 2012.  My secondment research topic is about calibration for scores from automatic face recognition systems. Hopefully there will be a nice publication for my work here.

Martigny view with the mountains as its background.