Stéphane Dupont
Faculté Polytechnique de Mons, TCTS Lab
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 UMONS in 2008.
Dr. Dupont interests are in multimodal and speech interaction technologies, computer music, neural networks, pattern recognition and signal processing. He has authored/co-authored over 40 papers on these topics and
holds 3 international patents. Dr. Dupont is involveed in research and research
administration. He has been contributing to proposal writing of the EC FP6
ALLADIN project (e-health) and of the Eureka MAJORCALL project. He has been
organizing the preparation of the EC FP6 DIVINES project (multimodal
interfaces) and has been in charge of the project coordination. The project
addressed robustness to variations in the voice signal and robustness to
different user groups. He chaired the special session "Dealing with Intrinsic
Variation in ASR" at the IEEE ICASSP conference (Toulouse, May 2006), as well as the
International Workshop on Speech Recognition and Intrinsic Variation (Toulouse, May 2006).
He has also been guest editor of the special issue "Intrinsic Speech Variation and Speech
Recognition" of the Speech Communication journal (2006).
Stéphane Dupont is currently deputy coordinator of the Research Center in Information Technologies at UMONS, and is involved in the Numediart Institute for New Media Art.
A CV is available here.