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Name LANGMANN Detlev
Official Title Professor
Affiliation Tokyo City University, Faculty of Design and Data Science
E-mail langmann@tcu.ac.jp
Profile In my research work, I am interested in human-machine interaction and consequentially, the interrelationship between disruptive AI technologies and society. How can a dynamic equilibrium continuously be optimised between disruptive innovations& entrepreneurship, regulatory containments, and guiding ethics for unchartered territories of human experience towards the betterment of society?

My following experiences and competences allow for versatile investigation perspectives:

(I) the global experience in multi-cultural research & innovation (R&I) teams of international consumer electronics companies in Europe and East-Asia including Japan

(ii) track record from university to industry innovation & research on all levels up to programme management, research programming and technology & standardisation strategy, and business modelling

(iii) my business experience in the fields of information technology, artificial intelligence, semiconductors and medical technology in various organisations of academia, R&I labs, a small enterprise and in my own management consultancy

(iv) my specific knowledge in automatic speech recognition and understanding, including processing of data spaces and time series, psycho-acoustics, machine learning and pattern recognition, stochastic and fuzzy modelling, and user-interface and speech-database design
Research Field(Keyword & Summary)
  1. (1) Artificial Intelligence and Society

    Exploratory research on national strategies, regulation &　standardisation, impact assessment, and ethics
Representative Papers
  1. Shdaifat, I.; Grigat, R.; Langmann, D. “Active Shape Lip Modeling”, International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), September 14 -17, Barcelona, Spain, pp. 875-878, 2003.
  2. Langmann, D. “PICO – The Personal Interface Communicator”, Philips User-Inter­face Conference 2002, November 5–6, 2002, Eindhoven, The Netherlands, 9 pages, 2002.
  3. Hase, T.; Langmann, D. “The SBF1005T IC – A Versatile Platform for Embedded Speech Technology and Pattern Recognition Solutions”, 13th Conference on Elec­tro­nic Speech Signal Processing, September 25 – 27, 2002, Dresden, Germany, pp. 161–168, 2002.
  4. Langmann, D. “Japanese Speech Recognition”, 13th Conference on Electronic Speech Signal Processing, September 25–27, 2002, Dresden, Germany, pp. 26–37, 2002.
  5. Langmann, D.; Pfitzinger, H.R.; Schneider, T.; Grudszus, R.; Fischer, A.; Westphal, M.; Crull, T.; Jekosch, U. “CSDC – The MoTiV Car-Speech Data Collection”, Proc. of the First International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, May 28–30, Granada, Spain, pp. 1107–1113, 1998.
  6. Gamm, S.; Haeb-Umbach, R.; Langmann, D. “The development of a command-based speech interface for a telephone answering machine”, Speech Communication, 23 (1–2) , pp. 161–171, 1997.
  7. Langmann, D.; Fischer, A.; Wuppermann, F.; Haeb-Umbach, R.; Eisele, T. “Acoustic Front-Ends for Speaker-Independent Digit Recognition in Car Environments”, EUROSPEECH '97, September 22–25, 1997, Rhodes, Greece, pp. 2571–2574, 1997.
  8. Eisele, T.; Haeb-Umbach, R.; Langmann, D. “A Comparative Study of Linear Feature Trans­formation Techniques for Automatic Speech Recognition”, Intern. Conf. on Spoken Language Processing, Oct. 3–6, 1996, Philadelphia, PA, USA, pp. 252–255, 1996.
  9. Langmann, D.; Haeb-Umbach, R.; Boves, L.; den Os, E. “FRESCO: The French Tele­phone Speech Data Collection—Part of the European Speechdat (M) Project”, Intern. Conf. on Spoken Language Processing, Oct. 3–6, 1996, Philadelphia, PA, USA, pp. 1918–1921, 1996.
  10. Gamm, S.; Haeb-Umbach, R.; Langmann, D. “Findings with the Design of a Command-Based Speech Interface for a Voice Mail System”, IEEE 3rd Workshop, Interactive Voice Technology for Tele­commu­n­ications Applications (IVTTA), March 6–10, 1996, Bashing Ridge, New Jersey, pp. 93–96, 1996.
Patent
  1. De Ruyter, B.; Langmann, D.; Tu, J.; Buil, V.; Lashina, T.; Van Leonen, E.; Egner, S. Advanced control device for home entertainment utilizing three dimensional motion technology. Priority Date 20 Apr. 2004. Registered by Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V./ NXP B.V. in the EU, USA, Japan, China, India, South Korea, and as world patent (WO2005071636A1).
Award Honourable personal reception at Fukushima Government Office by the Vice-Governor Mr Masao Uchibori
内堀 雅雄 福島県副知事 in recognition for the establishment of co-operation between the Prefecture of Fukushima
and the State of North-Rhine Westphalia in the field of medical technology on October 29, 2013.

Appointment as Senior Advisor “NRW - Fukushima Pref. Medical & Welfare Device Promotion Program”
ＮＲＷ州－福島県　医療機器販売・交流ア ドバイザー (2013)

Appointment as Principal for Human Interface Technology by Philips Semiconductors Lab Hamburg (2002)
Research Grants/Projects including subsidies, donations, grants, etc. Received the grant of the JETRO Regional Industry Tie-up Program (RIT) to promoting industrial exchange and co-operation between the Fukushima Prefecture in Japan and the State of North-Rhine Westphalia (NRW) in Germany in the field of health technologies (2013~14)

Founded and established the North-Rhine Westphalia Federal State Cluster for Medical Research and Technology MedizinTechnik.NRW (budget of € 3 Mio, 2011~12)

Managed the federal research cluster “innovating medical technology in.nrw” comprising a total budget of € 16 Mio and 40 partners from clinics, R&D and industry funded by the NRW Ministry of Innovation (2010~12)

Initiated and conceived the EU project PICO – Personal Interface Communicator with 13 industrial and aca­demic part­ners (comprising ~50 person years) within the European RP6 framework (2001~03).

Led and organised the French speech data collection in the European SPEECHDAT II project (1995~96).

Research Scholarship (Dresden University of Technology, 1985~88)
Recruitment of research assistant(s) none
Affiliated academic society (Membership type) Member of IEEE Society (IEEE Senior Member)
IEEE Technology and Engineering Management Society
Education Field (Undergraduate level) Persuasiveness in Debate & Discussion.
Global Studies (3): Artificial Intelligence & Society.
Global Studies (4): Ideation, Innovation and Global Entrepreneurship.
Education Field (Graduate level) Fundamentals of International Standardisation

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