Le Quoc Anh

LE QUOC ANH

Family Name: Le

First Name: Quoc Anh

Email: quoc-anh.le at telecom-paristech.fr

Telephone: +33 (0) 1 45 81 79 27

Address: DB302, TSI, Télécom-ParisTech, 37 rue Dareau 75014 Paris, France

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As a PhD student at the TSI, TELECOM ParisTech – CNRS LTCI , I am engaged in the GV-LEX project on the topic of 3D expressive gesture model. The research focuses on expressive behaviors, especially on expressive gestures for storytelling humanoid agents (i.e. Greta and Nao).

The diagram below presents an overview of the proposed system. A bit more detail can be found in the article “Expressive Gesture for Storytelling Humanoid Agent”.

The first demo can be watched here.

The project includes also animation transfer methods for 3D virtual agent that I will work in the Computer Graphics (CG) group.

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Education

2009 – 2012 Telecom ParisTech ENST, Paris, France

PhD Student (The study has been funded by GVLEX project)

The research on expressive gestures aims at creating an agent (be virtual or physical) able to read a story expressively. My supervisors are Prof. Catherine Pelachaud and Ass. Prof Tamy Boubekeur.

2007 – 2009 University of Namur, Belgium

Master 1 & 2 in Computer Science (The study was financed by the Belgian government as scholarship)

The programme lasted two years, in which I had a six-month internship as the third term at the Idiap Research Institute, Switzerland thanks to the AMIDA scholarship.

I completed a thesis on Automatic Question Answering on Meetings under the direction of Dr. Andrei Popescu-Belis and Prof. Jean-Paul Leclercq. The goal is to design a system that discriminates true vs. false parallel statements as questions about facts in meetings (thesis download ).

1998 – 2003 University of Le Quy Don, Hanoi, Vietnam

Engineer in Computer Science

My studies included Artificial Intelligence and Information System modules. I completed my thesis on intelligent hospital management software under the direction of Prof. Nguyen Duc Hieu.

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Awards

Awards in the Vietnamese Intellectual Contest 2005 (TTVN2005): “Vietnam Reality” award and Prospects award for the solution of applying computer vision in traffic surveillance in Vietnam. Participated in the International Information Technology and Communication Contest of Asia-Pacific, APICTA 2005, Chiangmai, Thailand.

Second Prize in the National Informatics Olympiad for Students, Vietnam 2002.

Diploma of merit from the Vietnamese Minister of Education and Training, 2002.

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Publications

[*] M. Ochs, E. Bevacqua, K. Prépin, Q. A. Le, Y. Ding, J.-F. Huang, R. Niewiadomski et C. Pelachaud, La compréhension de la machine à travers l'expression non-verbale , III : Intercompréhension - de l'intraspécifique à l'interspécifique, Nantes, France, Novembre 2011.

[*] Le, Q.A., Hanoune, S. and Pelachaud, C. (Design and implementation of an expressive gesture model for a humanoid robot). 11th IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots (Humanoids 2011), Bled, Slovenia on October 26th to 28th, 2011.

[*] Le, Q.A. and Pelachaud, C. (Expressive Gesture Model for Humanoid Robot). International Conference of the HUMAINE Association on Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction (ACII2011), Memphis, Tennessee, USA on October 9th to 12th, 2011.

[*] Niewiadomski, R. and Bevacqua, E. and Le, Q.A. and Obaid, M. and Looser, J. and Pelachaud, C. Cross-media agent platform. 16th International Conference on 3D Web Technology, 2011, Paris, France.

[*] Le Quoc Anh, Catherine Pelachaud. (Generating co-speech gestures for the humanoid robot NAO through BML). GW 2011: The 9th International Gesture Workshop. Gesture in Embodied Communication and Human-Computer Interaction, May 25-27, 2011, Athens, Greece.

[*] Le Quoc Anh, Catherine Pelachaud. Expressive Gesture Model for Storytelling Humanoid Agent. The fourth workshop on Embodied Conversational Agents, WACA 2010, 25-26 November 2010, Lilles, France.

[*] R. Gelin, C. d’Alessandro, O. Derroo, Q. Anh Le, D. Doukhan, J.C. Martin, C. Pelachaud, A. Rilliard, S. Rosset. Tales Nao : Towards a storytelling humanoid robot. Dialog with Robots – 2010 AAAI Fall Symposium, November 11-13, 2010 Arlington, VA, USA.

[*] Catherine Pelachaud, Rodolphe Gelin, Jean-Claude Martin and Quoc Anh Le. Expressive Gestures Displayed by a Humanoid Robot during a Storytelling Application. Second International Symposium on New Frontiers in Human-Robot Interaction, AISB 2010, 31 March – 1 April 2010, De Montfort University, Leicester, United Kingdom.

[*] Quoc Anh Le, Andrei Popescu-Belis. (Automatic vs. human question answering over multimedia meeting recordings). The 10^th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association (InterSpeech2009), 6-10 September 2009, Brighton, United Kingdom .

[*] Quoc Anh Le, Andrei Popescu-Belis. AutoBET : towards automatic answering of BET questions for meeting browser evaluation. The 7^th Annual Site Visit of the IM2 (Interactive Multimodal Information Management) Review Panel. November, 12-13, 2008, Martigny, Switzerland.

[*] Quoc Anh Le, Ngoc Anh Nguyen. Some problems in extracting moving objects from video sequences. Young Vietnamese Scientists Meeting (YVSM’05), June 12-16, 2005, Nha Trang, Vietnam.

[*] Quoc Anh Le, Phan Tuong Lai, Le Hung Lan, Nguyen Van Tiem. Applying Computer Vision to Traffic Surveillance in Vietnam. The sixth Vietnam Conference on Automation (VICA6), April 12-14, 2005, Hanoi, Vietnam (demo).

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Languages

· English: working knowledge

· French: good

· Vietnamese: native

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