Prof. J. Hancq heads TCTS Lab since Jan. 2002. He teaches Logic Systems, Computer Architectures, Industrial Automata, and Filter Theory.
His research interests are in sofware and harware applications of signal processing. He heads the Hardware for Signal Processing research group.

Prof. T. Dutoit teaches Circuit Theory, Signal Processing, Applied Signal Processing, and Biomedical Signal processing. His research interests are in speech and audio processing, biomedical signal processing, as well as in real-time signal processing.
He heads the numediart Institute for New Media Art Technology.

Bernard Gosselin is professor of Image and Information Processing at the Faculty of Engineering, Mons. He is also Research Consultant at Multitel Research Center, where his responsibilities cover image processing and video activities. Since 2001, he has been heading the Image Processing Research Group at the Faculty of Engineering, Mons.

He is a member of program committees of several international journals and conferences on image processing, artificial intelligence, and pattern recognition. He is author or co-author of more than 50 international publications in journals and conference proceedings. He has been invited speaker in several conferences, and visiting professor at the University of Orléans, France.

Maria Astrinaki graduated from the Computer Science Department, University Of Crete, Greece, in 2007. She performed her Master's Thesis in the same department in the field of Voice Pathology Detection (July 2010). Her research interests focus on signal processing theory and its applications to speech processing. Especially speech synthesis and analysis of vocal pathologies by speech processing.

Onur Babacan holds an Electronics and Telecommunications Engineering degree from Izmir Institute of Technology, Turkey. He did his master's thesis in Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zürich (ETH Zürich) on speech coding strategies for cochlear implants, in cooperation with University Hospital Zürich. His research interests are speech processing and audio processing.

Radhwan Ben Madhkour holds an Electrical Engineering degree from the FPMs since June 2008. He did his master's thesis in the field of Image Coders. He joined the Numediart program in May 2009.

Frédéric Bettens holds a PhD Degree in Applied Sciences (Université Libre de Bruxelles, 2003). His main research interests are in audio and speech signal processing.

He is currently working on the audio aspects of the SERKET project.

Jean-Marc Boite was part of the TCTS Lab ASRGroup from 1996 to 2000. He worked on the SPRACH and STRUT Projects. He is currently the head of the ASR group at MULTITEL ASBL .

Nicolas d'Alessandro holds an Electrical Engineering degree from the FPMs since 2004. He did his master's thesis in the Faculy of Music of the University of Montreal (supervisor: Caroline Traube). That work gathered the development of an application based on perceptual analogies between guitar sounds and voice sounds, and a study of mapping possibilities between gestures and speech production models. He obained is PhD thesis in the TCTS Lab of the FPMs (supervisor: Thierry Dutoit) on Real-time and Accurate Musical Control of Expressivity in Sound Synthesis. He was in charge of the MaxMBROLA project. Nicolas is also member of the SIMILAR european network, and member of the LIAM laboratory. You can find details here. As a Postdoc he worked on the project DIVA in the MAGIC Lab. of the University of British Columbia (UBC)

Justine Decuypere holds an Architectural Engineering degree from Faculté Polytechnique de Mons (2008). She obtained a F.R.S.-FNRS grant for pursuing a PhD thesis about mesopic lighting conditions in urban environments. She works on a computational model of the retina that simulates vision in mesopic lighting conditions.

Thomas Drugman holds an Electrical Engineering degree from the FPMs (2007). His master thesis was performed at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technologies (EPFL) in Lausanne and dealt with audio-visual speech recognition and feature selection. He obtained an FNRS grant for pursuing a PhD thesis about the incorporation of hidden Markov models in voice conversion for speech synthesis.

Dr. Stéphane Dupont received the PhD degree in Electrical Engineering at FPMs (Belgium) in 2000. He has been a visiting researcher at IDIAP (Switzerland) in 1997. Dr Dupont has also been a post-doctoral associate at the ICSI (California) in 2001-2002. There, he participated to the ETSI standardization activity on robust distributed speech recognition over wireless networks (Aurora). In 2002, he joined Multitel (Belgium), a research and innovation center, to be in charge of speech recognition research. There, he coordinated several projects, including the EU FP6 DIVINES project. He joined TCTS Lab in 2008, and is involved in the Numediart programme. Dr. Dupont interests are in multimodal and speech interaction technologies, computer music, neural networks, pattern recognition and signal processing.

As a TIME student, Matthieu Duvinage holds an Electrical Engineering degree from the Faculté Polytechnique of Mons (UMons, Belgium, 2009) and one degree from SUPELEC (France, 2009). He also holds a degree of fundamental and applied physics from Paris Sud XI Orsay (France, 2009) and a degree of management science from the School of Management at the University of Louvain (UCLouvain, 2011). His master thesis was performed at the Multitel research center (Mons, Belgium) and dealt with robust low complexity speech recognition using frame dropping based on voicing information and clustering techniques. He obtained an F.R.S-FNRS grant for pursuing a PhD thesis about the development of a lower limb prosthesis driven by a neural command in close partnership with the Free University of Brussels (ULB).

Christian Frisson graduated a MSc. in "Art, Science, Technology (AST)" from Institut National Polytechnique de Grenoble (INPG) and the Association for the Creation and Research on Expression Tools (ACROE), France, in 2006. From September 2010 on, he is a PhD candidate with Professors Thierry Dutoit (UMons/TCTS) and Jean Vanderdonckt (UCLouvain-ISYS). He has been a fulltime contributor to the numediart Reseach Program on Digital Art Technologies since 2008.

Matei MANCAS holds an ESIGETEL Audiovisual Systems and Networks engineering degree (Ir.), and a Orsay Univ. D.E.A. degree (MSc.) in Information Processing. He also holds a PhD in applied sciences from the FPMs on computational attention since 2007.

His research deals with signal saliency and understanding.

More details on Computational Attention can be found on this dedicated page. Part of this research is done for artisitic purposes within the numediart institute.

Makiese Mibulumukini holds an engineer degree on Microelectronics systems for Telecommunications and Industrial Computing from FST Fès (Morocco) since July 2011. The subject of his Master thesis was the development of a robust facial recognition system. His researches are based on biologically inspired algorithms and neuropsychological models.

Since November 2011, He is pursuing a PhD thesis at UMons in the field of visual attention, especially on Top-down axis.

More details on Computational Attention can be found on this dedicated page. Part of this research is done for artisitic purposes within the numediart institute.

Benjamin Picart graduated as an electrical engineer (Telecoms & Multimedia) from the Faculté Polytechnique de Mons (FPMs), Belgium, in 2009. He performed his Master's Thesis within Idiap (Switzerland) in the field of Automatic Speech Recognition (February - June 2009). His research interests focus on signal processing theory and its applications to speech processing.

Nicolas Riche holds an Electrical Engineering degree from the University of Mons, Engineering Faculty (since June 2010). His master thesis was performed at the University of Montreal (UdM) and dealt with automatic analysis of the articulatory parameters for the production of piano timbre. He obtained a FRIA grant for pursuing a PhD thesis about the implementation of a multimodal model of attention for real time applications.

More details on Computational Attention can be found on this dedicated page. Part of this research is done for artisitic purposes within the numediart institute.

François Rocca holds an Electrical Engineering degree from the FPMs since June 2011. He did his master's thesis in the field of emotional speech analysis, and more especially on laughter frequencies estimation. He is currently pursuing a PhD thesis on facial animation by motion capture using audio-visual fusion.

Joëlle Tilmanne holds an Electrical Engineering degree from the FPMs since June 2006. She did her master thesis in the field of sleep signals analysis, at Lehigh University (USA).

She obtained her PhD thesis in January 2013, in the field of HMM based motion synthesis.

Jerome Urbain holds an electrical Engineering degree from FPMs (2006). He did his master's thesis at Lehigh University (USA) in the field of sleep study.

He is currently pursuing a PhD thesis on emotional speech recognition, and more especially on the acoustics of laughter (modeling, production, recognition), in the framework of the CALLAS project.

François Zajéga is a visual artist mainly interested in video analysis, visualisation and interfaces. He has studied infography in Saint-Luc, Bruxelles.