Branislav Popović, Ph.D.
Events
2024

ELOQUENCE Project Started

Started realization of the project "Multilingual and Cross-Cultural Interactions for Context-Aware, and Bias-Controlled Dialogue Systems for Safety-Critical Applications", Grant agreement ID 101135916, HORIZON-CL4-2023-HUMAN-01-CNECT (2024-2026)

Monday, January 01, 2024

AI-SPEAK Project Started

Started realization of the project "Multimodal Multilingual Human-Machine Speech Communication", Grant No. 7449, Science Fund of the Republic of Serbia (2024-2026)

Monday, January 01, 2024

2023

Axioms, An Open Access Journal from MDPI

A special issue entitled "Recent Advances of Computational and Mathematical Applications in Deep Learning" is open for submissions

Monday, July 03, 2023

Serbian AI Society

"Flexible Robots in Smart Automation of Operations in Precision Agriculture", lecturers Željana Grbović and Dimitrije Stefanović, moderator and panel discussion Dr Branislav Popović, innovation working group lead (online)

Tuesday, June 27, 2023

Sinteza Conference 2023 (Keynote Speaker)

"Style Adaptation Based on Image Processing Methods Using CycleGAN", keyonote lecture, Belgrade, Serbia

Saturday, May 27, 2023

Serbian AI Society

"Progress in the Development of Text-to-Speech in Serbian Based on AI/DNN and Its Implementation Potential", lecturer Dr Siniša Suzič, moderator and panel discussion Dr Branislav Popović, innovation working group lead (online)

Tuesday, May 09, 2023

YU INFO Conference 2023

"Implementations of Systems for Automatic Speech Recognition in Serbian", oral presentation, "Progress in the Development of Text-to-Speech in Serbian Based on AI/DNN and Its Implementation Potential", oral presentation, Kopaonik, Serbia

Monday, March 13, 2023

2022

EUSIPCO Conference 2022

"Speech Enhancement Using Augmented SSL CycleGAN", poster presentation, "Overcoming Data Sparsity in Automatic Transcription of Dictated Medical Findings", poster presentation, Belgrade, Serbia

Thursday, September 01, 2022

Serbian Broadcasting Corporation (RTS 2, RTS Planeta)

Science in Motion :: Development of Artificial Intelligence Through Projects :: Presentation of the project S-ADAPT: Speaker/Style Adaptation for Digital Voice Assistants Based on Image Processing Methods", Grant No. 6524560, Science Fund of the Republic of Serbia

Friday, May 27, 2022

SICAAI Conference 2022

"Development of Speech Technology for Serbian and Its Applications", First Serbian International Conference on Applied Artificial Intelligence, Kragujevac, Serbia

Thursday, May 19, 2022

2021

DEET Award

Award for an associate or a researcher elected in research or scientific title with the largest number of papers on the SCI list in 2021, Department for Power, Electronic and Telecommunication Engineering, Faculty of Technical Sciences, Novi Sad, Serbia, 2021

Thursday, December 23, 2021

TELFOR Conference 2021

"Recurrent Neural Networks and Morphological Features in Language Modeling for Serbian", oral presentation, "Emotion Recognition from Speech Based on ML Algorithms Applied on Two Serbian Datasets", oral presentation, Belgrade, Serbia

Tuesday, November 23, 2021

SPECOM Conference 2021

"Methods for Using Class Based N-gram Language Models in the Kaldi Toolkit", oral presentation, St. Petersburg, Russia

Tuesday, September 28, 2021

National Geographic :: News

S-ADAPT: The Best Projects of Serbian Scientists in the Field of Artificial Intelligence (Serbian)

Thursday, March 04, 2021

2020

International Day of Persons with Disabilities 2020

Lecture entitled "Speech Technologies for Persons with Disabilities" on the occasion of the International Day of Persons with Disabilities, under the slogan "For a Life Without Barriers", as part of a seminar on "Inclusion of Persons with Disabilities in Digital Dociety", organized by Handy Center "Koloseum", Belgrade, Serbia

Thursday, December 03, 2020

ASTEK Conference 2020

"Assistive Speech Technologies in Serbian", oral presentation, Belgrade, Serbia

Thursday, November 05, 2020

Serbian Broadcasting Corporation :: rts.rs

Texts From the RTS Portal Automatically Read in the Voice of Dragan Vučelić :: Article :: rts.rs / Contemorary

Thursday, October 15, 2020

Serbian Broadcasting Corporation :: rts.rs

Opened Exhibition Dedicated to Scientific Projects for the Development of Artificial Intelligence :: Article :: rts.rs / Science

Saturday, October 10, 2020

IcETRAN Conference 2020

"Automatic Speech Recognition System for Dictating Medical Findings", oral presentation, Belgrade, Serbia

Tuesday, September 29, 2020

S-ADAPT Project Started

Started realization of the project "Speaker/Style Adaptation for Digital Voice Assistants Based on Image Processing Methods", Grant No. 6524560, Science Fund of the Republic of Serbia (2020-2022)

Tuesday, September 01, 2020

InfostudHub Webinar

"Speech Technologies in Serbian", invited talk.

Wednesday, June 03, 2020

Automatic Speech Recognition System for Dictating Medical Findings

Automatic Speech Recognition System for Dictating Medical Findings, developed by Alfanum - Speech Technologies Ltd (Novi Sad, Serbia) for the Pension and Disability Insurance Fund of the Republic of Serbia (client) successfully implemented.

Monday, May 18, 2020

2019

SENVIBE Meeting and Training

SENVIBE meeting and training hosted at the University of Southampton, Institute of Sound and Vibration Research, Southampton, UK

Wednesday, December 01, 2019

TELFOR Conference 2019

"Transfer Learning in Automatic Speech Recognition for Serbian", oral presentation, Belgrade, Serbia

Wednesday, November 26, 2019

TAKTONS Conference 2019

"Focus of Attention Determination in Automatic Speech Recognition", oral presentation, Novi Sad, Serbia

Tuesday, November 06, 2019

SPEECH AND LANGUAGE Conference 2019

"How the Advent of Machine Learning Transforms Speech Technologies", oral presentation, Belgrade, Serbia

Friday, November 01, 2019

IDC IHMI Conference 2019

"Central Audio-Library of the University of Novi Sad", oral presentation, Saint-Petersburg, Russia

Monday, October 07, 2019

SENVIBE Meeting and Training

SENVIBE meeting and training hosted at the KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden

Sunday, June 09, 2019

TREND Conference 2019

"Central Audio Library of the University of Novi Sad", oral presentation, Kopaonik, Serbia

Monday, February 11, 2019

2018

SENVIBE Project Kick-Off Meeting

International project "SENVIBE: Strengthening Educational Capacities by Building Competences and Cooperation in the Field of Noise and Vibration Engineering", no. 598241-EPP-1-2018-1-RS-EPPKA2-CBHE-JP, kick-off meeting, Novi Sad, Serbia

Thursday, November 15, 2018

Al Jazeera Balkans :: Context

Guest appearance in the informative talk-show program Context of the regional Al Jazeera Balkans television, on the topic "Young Innovators in the Region Need Support", Belgrade, Serbia

Tuesday, November 13, 2018

Coffee with Scientists 2018

Coffee with Scientists, Big Shopping Center, a program organized as part of "The European Researchers' Night" manifestation in Novi Sad, Serbia

Friday, September 28, 2018

SPECOM Conference 2018

"A Comparison of Language Model Training Techniques in a Continuous Speech Recognition System for Serbian", poster presentation, Leipzig, Germany

Wednesday, September 19, 2018

Internet Portal "Moj Novi Sad" :: mojnovisad.com :: Interview

"Thanks to the Axon application, human-machine communication is enabled", an interview published as part of "The European Researchers' Night" manifestation in Novi Sad, Serbia (Serbian)

Thursday, September 06, 2018

Novosadski reporter :: Newspaper Interview

"Permanent financing of scientists - a necessity", an interview published as part of "The European Researchers' Night" manifestation in Novi Sad, Serbia (Serbian)

Thursday, August 23, 2018

ERASMUS+ Project Approved

International project "SENVIBE: Strengthening Educational Capacities by Building Competences and Cooperation in the Field of Noise and Vibration Engineering", no. 598241-EPP-1-2018-1-RS-EPPKA2-CBHE-JP, approved (2018-2021)

Tuesday, August 07, 2018

The Science that Connects

"The Science that Connects" competition, one of nine multidisciplinary teams chosen to be presented as part of "The European Researchers' Night" manifestation in Novi Sad, Serbia

Friday, June 01, 2018

62nd International Fair of Technics and Technical Achievements

Presentation of "Axon Voice Assistant" application at the 62nd International Fair of Technics and Technical Achievements in Belgrade, Serbia, 21-26 May 2018

Monday, May 21, 2018

RTS WORLD :: Serbia Online

Studio interview for the satelite television channel of the Serbian Broadcasting Corporation (RTS SVET), program Serbia Online (Srbija na vezi) - A presentation of the award-winning application Axon Voice Assistant (Serbian)

Thursday, April 19, 2018

Blic :: Newspaper Reportage

Blic Online :: Serbian Edition :: "Nikola Tesla Would Have Been Proud of These Three Young People From Serbia" (Serbian)

Sunday, March 03, 2018

Blic :: Newspaper Reportage

Blic :: Printed edition :: "Even Tesla Would Have Been Proud of Them" (Serbian)

Sunday, March 03, 2018

On the Trails of Nikola Tesla

"On the Trails of Nikola Tesla", a contest for the best innovative idea for a new product or service - "Voice Assistant - An Application for Serbian and Other South Slavic Languages", Union of Engineers and Technicians of Serbia, second place, Belgrade, Serbia

Friday, February 02, 2018

2017

DOGS Conference 2017

"Fast Sequence-Trained Deep Neural Network Models for Serbian Speech Recognition", oral presentation, Novi Sad, Serbia

Thursday, November 23, 2017

SPECOM Conference 2017

"End-to-End Large Vocabulary Speech Recognition for the Serbian Language" and "Language Model Optimization for a Deep Neural Network Based Speech Recognition System for Serbian", oral presentations, Hatfield, Hertfordshire, UK

Thursday, September 14, 2017

ERASMUS+ Staff Mobility Programme

Staff exchange between University of Novi Sad and University of West Bohemia. Research and teaching activities organized at the Faculty of Applied Sciences, Pilsen, Czech Republic, May 22 - June 04, 2017.

Monday, May 22, 2017

Spring School on Optimization and Data Science

COST Action TD1207 on "Mathematical Optimization in Decision Support Systems for Efficient and Robust Energy Networks", 13-17 March 2017, Novi Sad, Serbia

Monday, March 13, 2017

2016

JT-DH Conference 2016

"The Use of Semantic Word Classes in Document Classification", oral presentation, Ljubljana, Slovenia

Thursday, September 29, 2016

SISY Conference 2016

"Advanced Voice Activity Detection on Mobile Phones by Using Microphone Array and Phoneme-Specific Gaussian Mixture Models", oral presentation, Subotica, Serbia

Monday, August 29, 2016

SPECOM Conference 2016

"A Phonetic Segmentation Procedure Based on Hidden Markov Models", poster presentation, "A Linguistic Interpretation of the Atom Decomposition of Fundamental Frequency Contour for American English", poster presentation, Budapest, Hungary

Tuesday, August 23, 2016

Voice Assistant

Beta version of Voice Assistant application for the Serbian language released :: AlfaNum Speech Technologies

Thursday, August 18, 2016

EUREKA Project Approved

International project "DANSPLAT: A Platform for the Applications of Speech Technologies on Smartphones for the Languages of the Danube Region", id Е! 9944, approved (2014-2016)

Monday, June 27, 2016

CABUNS Project Approved

Project "Central Audio-Library of the University of Novi Sad (CABUNS)", PSNTR No. 114-451-2570/2016-02, approved (2016-2019)

Friday, May 27, 2016

2015

TELFOR Conference 2015

"Voice Assistant Application for the Serbian Language", oral presentation, Belgrade, Serbia

Wednesday, September 25, 2015

TAKTONS Conference 2015

"A Robust Voice Activity Detection in Voice Assistant Application", oral presentation, "Automatic Word Clustering Based on Semantics – an Approach for Serbian", oral presentation, Novi Sad, Serbia

Thursday, November 19, 2015

ETAI Conference 2015

"Serbian Mobile Speech Database Collection and Evaluation", oral presentation, "The Use of Statistical Language Models for Grammar and Semantic Error Handling in Spell Checking Applications for Serbian", oral presentation, Ohrid, Macedonia

Friday, September 25, 2015

SPECOM Conference 2015

"Deep Neural Network Based Continuous Speech Recognition for Serbian Using the Kaldi Toolkit", oral presentation, Athens, Greece

Monday, September 21, 2015

CEVAS :: Centre of Excellence

Centre for Vibro-Acoustic Systems and Signal Processing (CEVAS) accredited as the Centre of Excellence by the National Council for Scientific and Technological Development of the Republic of Serbia.

Monday, May 18, 2015

2014

SPECOM Conference 2014

"Influence of Agent Behaviour on Human-Virtual Agent Body Interaction", poster presentation, "Speaker Detection Using Phoneme Specific Hidden Markov Models", oral presentation, Novi Sad, Serbia

Wednesday, October 08, 2014

DOGS Conference 2014

"Large Vocabulary Continuous Speech Recognition for Serbian using the Kaldi Toolkit", oral presentation, "Experiments with Regression Trees for Speaker Adaptation in Continuous Speech Recognition", oral presentation, Kopaonik, Serbia

Monday, October 06, 2014

ICIST Conference 2014

"Enhanced Gaussian Selection in Medium Vocabulary Continuous Speech Recognition", oral presentation, "An Educational Application Comprising Speech Technologies for Serbian Adapted to Visually Impaired Children - anMasterMind", poster presentation, Kopaonik, Serbia

Tuesday, March 11, 2014

2013

CogInfoCom Conference 2013

"Temporal Discrete Cosine Transform for Speech Emotion Recognition", oral presentation, Budapest, Hungary

Monday, December 02, 2013

TAKTONS Conference 2013

"A System for Glottal Excitation Extraction from Speech Signal Comprising an Improved SEDREAMS Algorithm", Novi Sad, Serbia

Saturday, November 16, 2013

AlfaNum Speech Tech Event 2013

Innovations in Speech Technologies: "Serbian Siri" – Talking With Your Smartphone

Monday, November 4, 2013

Researchers' Night 2013

Voice Assistant presentation, SPENS, Novi Sad, Serbia

Friday, September 27, 2013

SPECOM Conference 2013

"Automatic Morphological Annotation in a Text-to-Speech System for Hebrew", oral presentation, "Speech and Language Resources within Speech Recognition and Synthesis Systems for Serbian and Kindred South Slavic Languages", poster presentation, Pilsen, Czech Republic

Monday, September 2, 2013

EUREKA Project Approved

International project "S-VERIFY: Advanced Speaker Verification", id Е! 8719, approved (2014-2016)

Friday, July 12, 2013

Infoteh Conference 2013

"Deep Architectures for Automatic Emotion Recognition Based on Lip Shape" and "Language Model Reduction for Practical Implementation in LVCSR Systems", Jahorina, Republic of Srpska, Bosnia and Herzegovina

Friday, March 22, 2013

2012

TELFOR Conference 2012

"Gaussian Selection Algorithm in Continuous Speech Recognition", Invited speaker, Belgrade, Serbia

Wednesday, November 21, 2012

DOGS Conference 2012

"A Novel S&M HGMMC Algorithm in a Handwritten Digits Clustering Task", Kovačica, Serbia

Friday, October 5, 2012

"Dobre vesti"

dobrevesti.rs :: Speech Technologies - A Journey Towards a Better Life (Serbian)

Thursday, September 20, 2012

Aharon TTS

Beta version of "Moses" released :: Aharon Speech Technologies

Saturday, March 10, 2012

2011

SPECOM Conference 2011

"Improving the Performance of Gaussian Selection Algorithm", Kazan, Russia

Monday, September 26, 2011

Science Festival in Novi Sad 2011

Science Festival in Novi Sad, 7th & 8th May 2011 :: Alfanum Speech Technologies - Presentation of ASR and TTS technologies

Friday, May 6, 2011

New Project Cycle 2011 - 2014

Project "Development of Dialogue Systems for Serbian and Other South Slavic Languages", id TR32035 approved and started. Project "Human-Machine Speech Communication", id TR11001 ended.

Monday, February 21, 2011

2010

DOGS Conference 2010

"Histogram Based and Cluster Based Methods for Automatic Emotion Recognition Based on Lip Shape", Iriški Venac, Serbia

Friday, December 17, 2010

TELFOR Conference 2010

"An Adaptive Recovery Strategy for Handling Miscommunication in Human-Machine Interaction", conference paper (coauthor)

Tuesday, November 23, 2010

3rd COST International Training School

Toward Autonomous, Adaptive and Context Avare Multimodal Interfaces: Theoretical and Practical Issuses

Monday, March 15, 2010

Vip Mobile

Vip Student Project - Vip Photo Gallery

Sunday, January 31, 2010

Vip Mobile

Vip Student Project - Vip Video Gallery

Sunday, January 31, 2010

2009

Vip Mobile Internship

Vip students internship impressions (Serbian)

Thursday, December 31, 2009

Blic :: Newspaper Reportage

Blic Online :: Serbian Edition :: "A Journey Into The Future" (Serbian)

Sunday, December 13, 2009

Mobilkom Austria :: Telekom Austria Group

Vip students in Vienna :: Video Reportage

Tuesday, November 17, 2009

e-tv :: Minister Jasna Matić Visiting Vip Mobile

New Generation of Vip Students (2009/2010) :: Video Reportage

Thursday, August 27, 2009

Blic :: Newspaper Interview

Blic Online :: Vojvodina Edition :: "Introducing the Best Students of Vojvodina" (Serbian)

Tuesday, March 17, 2009

RTS Journal :: National News Interview

Scholarship od the Fund for Young Talents of the Republic of Serbia (2008/2009), Palace of Serbia (Palata Srbije), Belgrade :: Video reportage for the Serbian Broadcasting Corporation

Monday, December 8, 2008

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