Christian Munier

Christian Munier received the master's degree in Computer Science in the Natural Sciences from Bielefeld University, Germany in 2011. The subject of his master thesis was investigating acoustic distance measures that allow for measurement of syllable similarity. Subsequently he joined the Applied Informatics Group at Bielefeld University, Germany and the Center of Excellence Cognitive Interaction Technology (CITEC). Currently he is pursuing a PhD in computer science, striving to augment the performance of automatic speech recognition through integration of various context. He is connected to the Center for Cognition and Robotics (CoR-Lab) through the SoziRob project, which is funded by the German Aerospace Center DLR ("Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt e.V").

His research interests currently include distant speech recognition, noise-robustness, robot audition, speaker diarization, emotion recognition from acoustic signals and both automatic speech recognition and speech signal processing in general.

Christian Munier is a member of the International Speech Communication Association (ISCA), a member of the IEEE Signal Processing Society and an IEEE student member.

[4] Florian Eyben, Emer Gilmartin, Cyril Joder, Erik Marchi, Christian Munier, Kalin Stefanov, Felix Weninger, Björn Schuller (alphabetically), "Socially Aware Many-to-Machine Communication", in: Proc. eNTERFACE'12, pp. 39-46. The 8th International Summer Workshop on Multimodal Interfaces, Metz, France, July 2012.

[3] Lars Schillingmann, Petra Wagner, Christian Munier, Britta Wrede, Katharina Rohlfing, "Using Prominence Detection to Generate Acoustic Feedback in Tutoring Scenarios", in: Proc. Interspeech 2011, pp. 3105-3108. Interspeech 2011 (12th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association), Florence, Italy, August 2011.

[2] Lars Schillingmann, Petra Wagner, Christian Munier, Britta Wrede, Katharina Rohlfing, "Acoustic Packaging and the Learning of Words", Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience, July 2011 (online).

[1] Christian Munier, "Implementation and Evaluation of Acoustic Distance Measures for Syllables", Faculty of Technology, Bielefeld University, Germany, May 2011.

[3] Ingmar Berger, Frank Hegel, Gernot Horstmann, Andreas Kipp, Franz Kummert, Ingo Lütkebohle, Christian Munier, Julia Peltason, Karola Pitsch, Nina Riether, Sebastian Schneider, Luise Süssenbach, Torben Töniges, Britta Wrede, Sebastian Wrede (alphabetically), "SoziRob: Soziale Mensch-Roboter-Interaktion", Poster, Automatica 2012, Munich, Germany, May 2012.

[2] Ingmar Berger, Frank Hegel, Gernot Horstmann, Andreas Kipp, Franz Kummert, Ingo Lütkebohle, Christian Munier, Julia Peltason, Karola Pitsch, Nina Riether, Sebastian Schneider, Luise Süssenbach, Torben Töniges, Britta Wrede, Sebastian Wrede (alphabetically), "SoziRob: Soziale Mensch-Roboter-Interaktion", Poster, Hannover Messe 2012, Hannover, Germany, April 2012.

[1] Lars Schillingmann, Petra Wagner, Christian Munier, Britta Wrede, Katharina Rohlfing, "Acoustic Packaging and the Learning of Words", Poster, IEEE ICDL-EPIROB 2011 (1st Joint IEEE International Conference on Development and Learning and on Epigenetic Robotics), Frankfurt, Germany, August 2011.

[1] Hendrik ter Horst, "Eclipse-Plugin zur optimierten Erstellung und Wartung von Grammatiken für das Spracherkennungssystem ESMERALDA", Bachelor Thesis, Faculty of Technology, Bielefeld University, Germany, November 2012.