Dr.CHAI
WUTIWIWATCHAI
RU DIRECTOR
Human Computer Communication Research Unit
In the age of smart-phones and web 3.0, people can access and share their data and information easily on the Internet. The intelligent information technology has been investigated to improve the efficiency and to facilitate activities for people in general and people with less opportunities. Human Computer Communication Research Unit (HCCRU) conducts research and development on technologies related to human-computer interaction, including natural language and speech processing, image and video signal processing, as well as technologies for social text analysis. These technologies are expected to become an important infrastructure for today and future services.
Vision
An intelligent informatics innovation leader for societies
Mission
1) Maintain the R&D excellence
2) Develop national R&D resources
3) Extend R&D and user communities
4) Produce authentic social and economic impact
Core Technology
1) Speech and audio processing
- Automatic speech/speaker recognition
- Text-to-speech synthesis
- Pronunciation assessment
2) Image and video processing
- 3D model analysis
- Image object detection and recognition
- Optical character recognition
- Image enhancement
3) Natural language processing
- Dictionary and language corpora
- Thai text processing
- Machine translation
- Cognitive/knowledge processing
4) Information retrieval and text mining
- Search engine
- Text/social media mining
- Sentimental analysis
- Question answering
- Plagiarism checking
5) Ontology-based data integration
- Ontology and semantic web
- Digital archiving
6) Other technologies
- e-Learning and Massive open Online Courses
- Software and service engineering
Expertise
- Digital signal processing
- Human-machine interaction
- Natural language processing
- Information retrieval and text mining
- Artificial intelligence
Members
76 persons
Organization
Project Plan
Contact
Patcharika Chootrakool
patcharika.chootrakool@nectec.or.th
Supaporn Lamnoi
supaporn.lamnoi@nectec.or.th
Tel. 02-564-6900 ext. 2218
Fax. 02-564-6768
http://www.nectec.or.th/hccru
