The CHIL audiovisual corpus for lecture and meeting analysis inside smart rooms

The analysis of lectures and meetings inside smart rooms has recently attracted much interest in the literature, being the focus of international projects and technology evaluations. A key enabler for progress in this area is the availability of Ambrish Tyagi has contributed to this work during two summer internships with the IBM T.J. Watson Research Center. D. Mostefa (&) N. Moreau K. Choukri Evaluations and Language Resources Distribution Agency (ELDA), 55–57 rue Brillat Savarin, 75013 Paris, France e-mail: [email protected] URL: http://www.elda.org N. Moreau e-mail: [email protected] K. Choukri e-mail: [email protected] G. Potamianos S. M. Chu A. Tyagi IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, NY 10598, USA URL: http://www.ait.gr G. Potamianos e-mail: [email protected] S. M. Chu e-mail: [email protected] Present Address: A. Tyagi Department of Computer Science and Engineering, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA J. R. Casas J. Turmo Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain J. R. Casas e-mail: [email protected] 123 Lang Resources & Evaluation (2007) 41:389–407 DOI 10.1007/s10579-007-9054-4