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FP7-ICT-2011-9 STREP proposal 18/01/12 v1 [Dynact] make decisions and commit staff and other resources in order to meet the needs of the project. In particular, the steering committee will be responsible for: monitoring and reviewing the project progress and results with regard to deliverables and milestones; monitoring the activities of the work packages versus time and budget allocations; managing the integration of the software prototypes developed within the individual work packages and the consistency of the different project components; analysing Commission’s reviewers’ comments at a strategic level and initiating, in response, the necessary actions; making decisions concerning the update/revision of the scientific work and the implementation plan (mostly in correspondence of the milestones listed in Section 1.3.4), the scientific and administrative roadmaps, the allocation of funding and the acceptance of new parties (if deemed necessary); supporting the Coordinator in drawing up the reports and compiling the deliverables; drawing up very specific actions plans aimed at maximising the expected impacts, including in particular the organisation of special issues and workshops, contacting companies active in the fields involved, setting up press conferences, etcetera; the overall surveillance of dissemination activities. The steering committee will meet at the beginning of the project and every six months thereafter, organised and chaired by the Coordinator. Extraordinary meetings can be conducted at the request of any consortium member. The Coordinator will check whether such additional meetings can take place in the form of a telephone conference call. Coordinator. The Coordinator (OBU) will be responsible for the overall management and will act as an intermediary between the Commission and the rest of the consortium (see Figure 12). He will be in charge of all legal, contractual, financial, and administrative aspects of consortium management and will supervise the project's administration. In particular, the Coordinator will be responsible for: responding to important changes during the project lifetime and coordinating necessary adaptations to meet external requirements; transmitting the proposals of the work package leaders to the steering committee and managing the follow-up of their decisions; controlling manpower resources and expenditures; timely delivery of reports, deliverables, cost statements, financial audit certificates etc. to the European Commission; financial administration (including transfer of payments from the European Commission to the partners); distribution of any documents/information among the parties concerned, ensuring a constant, smooth communication flow; external affairs and presentation of the project (including public relations, press conferences, news articles, interviews); and overall follow-up, day to day management and conflict mediation between partners involved in the same work package. The management office will be located in Oxford, UK. It will be led by the Coordinator Dr Fabio Cuzzolin. He will be assisted by a part-time administrative manager for the whole lifespan of the project. Dr Fabio Cuzzolin has a considerable experience in grant applications, and he is already managing a small research group of two Ph.D. students, a PostDoc and a visiting student. Dr Cuzzolin's recent internal proposal for a Ph.D. studentship in ``Multi Sensor Fusion for Simultaneous Localization and Mapping on Autonomous Vehicles" has been funded under the ``Intelligent Transport Systems" School doctoral training programme. A Ph.D. student has just started working on novel feature extraction techniques for action recognition, and the use of latent SVM classification. He has just been awarded a 122K GBP EPSRC First Grant, for a project entitled ``Tensorial modeling of Proposal Part B: page [38] of [67]
FP7-ICT-2011-9 STREP proposal 18/01/12 v1 [Dynact] dynamical systems for gait and activity recognition". The project, which involves hiring a PostDoc for the second year, has received maximum marks by all four reviewers, and has started in August 2011. His recent outline application for a Project Grant on ``The total probability theorem for finite random sets" with the Leverhulme Trust has passed the first stage, and the Trust has invited the submission of a full proposal on the topic. Invited full proposals have an acceptance rate around 50\%-60\%. This would involve an additional PostDoc for the three years of the project. At European level, besides the present STREP, he is currently finalising as the Coordinator a Short Proposal for a Future and Emerging Technology FET-Open FP7 grant on “Large scale hybrid manifold learning", with INRIA, Pompeu Fabra and Technion as partners. The project explicitly targets the use of compressed sensing for classification of large scale data (see WP2). At national level he is setting up an EPSRC network on “Inference and decision making under uncertainty” together with J. Lawry (U. Bristol), J-B. Yang (Manchester Metropolitan), Frank Coolen (Durham), Jim Hall (Oxford University), W. Liu (U. Belfast) and others. He is involved as a partner in another EPSRC network proposal on Compressed Sensing, led by Mark Plumbley, Queen Mary University of London. Most relevant to the current project, he is working on a Google Research Award on video retrieval under uncertainty with Professor T. Lukasiewicz (Oxford University). Finally, he is in the process of submitting two separate EPSRC Project Grant proposals, one entitled “The total probability theorem for belief functions", on the development of the imprecise-probabilistic approach for inference on time series; the other entitled ``Locating and recognizing complex activities via dynamic generative/discriminative modelling", in collaboration with Professor Philip H.S. Torr. Oxford Brookes Vision Group. Dr Fabio Cuzzolin is a member of the wider OBU's Computer Vision Group (http://cms.brookes.ac.uk/research/visiongroup/). The group comprises some twelve staff, students and PostDocs, and has a long and very successful history of grant management and collaborations with both academic and industrial partners. In recent years it managed a number of EPSRC and KTP projects worth around 2 million pounds. The group was mentioned four times in the UKCRC Submission to the EPSRC International Review Sep. 20064. It enjoys ongoing collaborations with companies such as 2d3, Vicon Life, Yotta, Microsoft Research Europe, Sharp Laboratories Europe, Sony Entertainments Europe. The group’s work with the Oxford Metrics Group in a Knowledge Transfer Partnership 2005-9 won the National Best Knowledge Transfer Partnership of the year at the 2009 awards, sponsored by the Technology Strategy Board, selected out of several hundred projects. Research and Business Development Office. The Coordinator will be assisted throughout the project by OBU's Research and Business Development Office (RBDO), with its long expertise in facilitating industrial collaborations and knowledge transfer. Administrative manager. The proposed project is articulated enough to require a part-time administrative manager, who will assist the Coordinator in all administrative tasks. The administrative manager will also assist with the material organisation of the dissemination activities envisaged by the current project (while decision making will obviously reside with the Steering Committee). Work package leaders (WPL). Each work package will be supervised by a Work Package Leader (WPL) to ensure the performance and progress of the work package with respect to the overall work plan. The WPL will summarise the progress reports delivered by the partners in the work package, and forward these to the Coordinator every three months for close monitoring. These reports will be discussed at the subsequent Steering Committee meetings. The progress reports will summarise the state of the work completed or planned. In the case of unforeseen events which require action, the reports will also describe what part of the work is behind schedule, and for what reasons. The work package leaders will be appointed by the partners according to their management skills and the scientific expertise required in the individual work packages. The responsibilities of the work package leaders are, in summary: monitoring the progress of the work package against time and budget allocations, ensuring that the work package fulfils the objectives defined by milestones and deliverables; alerting the Coordinator in case of delay or default in the performance of the work package; providing explanation for eventual delays/difficulties, and proposing appropriate actions in response; delivering quarterly management reports to the Coordinator; preparing proposals for an update of the work plan in case of unexpected developments; and Proposal Part B: page [39] of [67]
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