SWARA

Team

Technical University of Cluj-Napoca

Prof. Mircea Giurgiu

Project director, head of the "Speech Processing Research Group".
Speech signal processing, acoustic modeling, speaker adaptation models applied in speech synthesis, machine learning for text prediction.

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Prof. Aurel Vlaicu

Head of image processing research group.
Image and video processing, multimedia tehnologies, pattern recognition, algorithms for processing the features from the video sequences.

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Prof. Rodica Potolea

Head of the research group on knowledge discovery in data.
Front end text processing: normalization, syllabification, accent prediction. Language models for text prediction.

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Assoc. Prof. Mihaela Dînșoreanu

Member of the research group on knowledge discovery in data. Ellaboration of the models for text processing, context-dependent language models.

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Assoc. Prof. Mihaela Gordan

Multi-modal image processing and analysis, artificial intelligence applications to signal/image processing, machine learning for pattern recognition, visual speech recognition.

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Assoc. Prof. Bogdan Orza

Audio and video data management, database management, organization of multimedia repository, algorithms for data classification.

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Assist. Prof. Camelia Florea

Compressed domain image and video processing and analysis (skin detection; eyes localization), lip-reading from video sequences.

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Assist. Prof. Camelia Lemnaru

Computational models for handling incomplete text or speech data, data mining algorithms, machine learning for classification problems.

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Dr. Adriana Stan

Text to speech synthesis systems, automatic alignment of speech and text, speaker adaptation for speech synthesis.

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Victor Răchită

Text processing: normalization, syllabification, accent prediction. Context-dependent models for text prediction at the user interface. Testing and evaluation of the tools.

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FORTECH

Dr. Călin Văduva

CEO

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Alexandra Tomită

Assistant Manager

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Dr. Réka Hints

Product Manager

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Dan Petric

Business Unit Manager

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Remus Pop

Senior Software Developer

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Alexandra Geogea

Junior Front-end Developer

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Mnerie Ionuț

Software Tester

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Radu Pălăcean

Software Tester

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"Iuliu Haţieganu" University of Medicine and Pharmacy

Assist. Prof. Magdalena Chirilă, MD

Senior Otorhinolaryngology Head & Neck Surgery specialist.
Research on the application of assistive technologies for post-operative rehabilitation of the patients with voice disabilities, speech assistance for patients with head and neck squamous cell carcinoma, focus groups with the users, pre- and post-surgery medical assessments, test and evaluation of the speech synthesis technology with the users.

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Dr. Rodica Mureșan, MD

Senior Otorhinolaryngology Head & Neck Surgery specialist at the Emergency Clinical County Hospital of Cluj-Napoca. Research on phoniatry, speech and language therapy, and ENT endoscopic surgery, rehabilitation of the patientsí voice, acoustic voice analysis, train the laryngectomized patients in use the SWARA technology, audio recordings for the speech data bank.

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Florina Veronica Dinescu, MD

PhD Student
Voice recordings, organizing focus groups, investigation of quality of life for the laryngectomized patients

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Cristina tiple, MD

PhD student
Voice recordings, organizing focus groups, investigation of quality of life for the laryngectomized patients

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Babeş-Bolyai University

Prof. Daniel David

Director of research at the Albert Ellis Institute, Aaron T. Beck Professor at Babeş-Bolyai University, director of the International Institute for the Advanced Studies of Psychotherapy and Applied Mental Health.
Research on the role of cognitive mechanisms, both explicit and implicit in generating subjective/emotional, behavioral, and psycho-physiological human responses.

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Lect. Silviu Matu

Certified clinical psychologist by the Psychologists' College of Romania. He will be involved in conducting the focus groups, surveys and tests with the end users. Developing new mental health services by integrating speech synthesis technology.

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Radu Șoflău

Ph.D. candidate in the doctoral school "Evidence-based assessment and psychological interventions", at Babeş-Bolyai University, in Cluj-Napoca.
Developing instruments for psychological data collection, as well as data analysis,

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