Spectacular progress in the information processing sciences (machine learning, wearable
sensors) promises to revolutionize the study of cognitive development. Here, we analyse the …

In recent years, considerable amount of research has been dedicated to the integration of
artificial cognitive functionalities into informatics. With the immense growth in volume of …

The developmental origin of language communication seems to involve vocal interactions
between an infant and a caregiver, and one of the big mysteries related to this is how an …

Imagine being able to show a system a visual depiction of a keyword and finding spoken
utterances that contain this keyword from a zero-resource speech corpus. We formalise this …

This article presents diana, a new, process-oriented model of human auditory word
recognition, which takes as its input the acoustic signal and can produce as its output word …

Visually grounded speech models learn from images paired with spoken captions. By
tagging images with soft text labels using a trained visual classifier with a fixed vocabulary …

Keyword localisation is the task of finding where in a speech utterance a given query
keyword occurs. We investigate to what extent keyword localisation is possible using a …

In this paper we introduce MCA-NMF, a computational model of the acquisition of
multimodal concepts by an agent grounded in its environment. More precisely our model …

An efficient method for weakly supervised pattern discovery and recognition from discrete
categorical sequences is introduced. The method utilizes two parallel sources of data …

During the early stages of language acquisition, young infants face the task of learning a
basic vocabulary without the aid of prior linguistic knowledge. Attempts have been made to …