Image understanding and image semantics processing have recently become an issue of critical importance in computer vision R&D. Biological vision has always considered them as an enigmatic mixture of perceptual and cognitive processing faculties. In its impetuous and rash development, computer vision without any hesitations has adopted this stance. I will argue that such a segregation of image ...

Technologies for speech recognition and synthesis are becoming increasingly sophisticated and provide support for information processing via multi-modal interfaces. The benefit of delivering information across different sensory modalities is often backed by the independent nature of multi-modal information processing, which assumes that there will be no interference of modality between tasks an...