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Directors: Francisco Casacuberta and Enrique Vidal.
The Pattern Recognition and Human Language Technology (PRHLT) research group is composed by researchers from the Departamento de Sistemas Informáticos y Computación(DSIC) of the Universidad Politécnica de Valencia (UPV), from the Instituto Tecnológico de Informática (ITI), and from the Departament d'Informàtica de Sistemes i Computadors (DISCA).
Some of the researches that are working on the field of image analysis and computer vision are organized as the research subgroup RIVA.
The main research areas of interest of the PRHLT are:- Multimodal Interaction
- A Pattern Recognition framework aiming at assistive, rather than full automation technologies.
- Machine Translation.
- Speech-to-speech, text-to-text and computer assisted language translation.
- Handwritten Text Recognition (HTR) and Document Analysis.
- Technologies for the recognition of unsegmented (off-line) text images and (on-line) electronic pen signals.
- Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding.
- Technologies for applications such as: telephone exchange services, device control by voice, spoken information queries, etc.
- Image Analysis and Computer Vision.
- Technologies for applications such as: medical diagnosis, biometric identification, image and video retrieval, etc.
A detailed description of our research activities can be found in the PRHLT presentation slides.
The PRHLT is collaborating with important research groups of Spain and the European Community in speech recognition and translation. The PRHLT is a non beneficiary member of the PASCAL2 network.
The PRHLT is involved in a number of projects with public and private budgets. In particular with EU through ESPRIT and FP projects and with the Spanish government through CICYT projects. PRHLT is the leader of the Consolider-Ingenio 2010 project MIPRCV founded by the Spanish Government and the Prometeo project ALMPR founded by the Valencian Government. The PRHLT has developed different prototypes and products for speech recognition and translation, fingerprint identification and quality control of industrial manufacturing.
