Prof. Dr. Hans-Peter Hutter

Work at ZHAW

Position

• Prof. in Computer Science with specialization in DL-based Automatic Speech Recognition, Conversational User Interfaces, Human-Computer Interaction, and UX-Design
• Head of Research Group Human-Centered Computing

Focus

• Automatic Speech Recognition, Spoken Dialog Systems, Language Modelling
• Mobile Usability, User Centered Design
• Speaker Verification
• Software Engineering
• Service Engineering

Teaching

Prof. in Computer Science with specialization in DL-based Automatic Speech Recognition, Conversational User Interfaces, Human-Computer Interaction, and UX-Design

Experience

• Head of the Human-Centered Computing research group at InIT/ZHAW
  ZHAW
  04 / 2005 - today
• Prof. in Computer Science
  ZHAW
  08 / 2002 - today
• Founder and Head of the Institute of applied Information Technology InIT/ZHAW
  ZHAW
  04 / 2005 - 02 / 2010
• Lecturer in Computer Science
  Technikum Winterthur / ZHW
  07 / 1998 - 07 / 2002

Education and Continuing education

Education

• Dr. sc. techn. ETH / Computer Engineering
  ETH Zurich
  04 / 1988 - 03 / 1996
• Dipl. El.-Ing. ETH / Electrical Engineering
  ETH Zurich
  10 / 1980 - 07 / 1986

Network

Membership of networks

• ACM
• IEEE
• Winlink
• SwissICT UX

ORCID digital identifier

ORCID ID: 0000-0002-1709-546X

Social media

LinkedIn

Projects

• Accessible Graphics: Semantic graphic description in PDFs for visually impaired people / Team member / completed
• Monitoring of AV-Media / Project leader / completed
• Accessible Scientific PDFs for All / Team member / completed
• Accessible walking routes / Team member / completed
• Voice Swap / Project leader / completed
• WACS - a service platform for avalanche services / Team member / completed
• Deep-Learning-basierter Spracherkenner mit beschränkten Trainingsdaten / Project leader / completed
• FRIMI App / Project leader / completed
• Age-appropriate design of mobile apps / Team member / completed
• Electronic Crew Flight Pad / Team member / completed
• Platform for the Exchange of Services with developing Countries / Project leader / completed
• Talkalyzer / Team member / completed
• System for an Integral Data-based strategic Asset Controlling of Real Estates / Project leader / completed
• Challenge Earth Activity Plattform / Project leader / completed
• Pipeline for 3D Animation File and Visual Effects Studios / Team member / completed
• WLAN Fingerprinting / Project leader / completed

Publications before appointment at the ZHAW

• F. Bimbot, M. Blomberg, L. Boves, D. Genoud, H.-P. Hutter, C. Jaboulet, J. Koolwaaij, J. Lindberg, and J.-B. Pierrot, “An overview of the CAVE project research activities in speaker verification”, Speech Communication, vol. 31, no. 2-3, pp. 158–180, 2000.
• F. Bimbot, H.-P. Hutter, C. Jaboulet, J. Koolwaaij, J. Lindberg, and J.-B. Pierrot, “An overview of the CAVE project research activities in speaker verification”, in RLA2C, pp. 215–220, April 1998.
• J. Lindberg, J. Koolwaaij, H.-P. Hutter, D. Genoud, M. Blomberg, J.-B. Pierrot, and F. Bimbot, “Techniques for a priori decision threshold estimation in speaker verification”, in RLA2C, pp. 89–92, April 1998.
• J.-B. Pierrot, J. Lindberg, J. Koolwaaij, H.-P. Hutter, D. Genoud, M. Blomberg, and F. Bimbot, “A comparison of a priori threshold setting procedures for speaker verification in the CAVE project”, in IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, vol. 1, pp. 125–128, 1998.
• F. Bimbot, H.-P. Hutter, C. Jaboulet, J. Koolwaaij, J. Lindberg, and J.-B. Pierrot, “Speaker verification in the telephone network: research activities in the CAVE project” in Proceedings EUROSPEECH ’97, vol. 2, pp. 971–974, 1997.
• D. James, H.-P. Hutter, and F. Bimbot, “CAVE speaker verification project – experiments on the YOHO and SESP corpora”, in Proceedings 1st Intl. Conference on Audio- and Video-based Biometric Person Authentication (J. Bigu ̈n, G. Chollet, and B. Borgefors, eds.), pp. 385–394, Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer Verlag, 1997.
• D. James, H.-P. Hutter, and F. Bimbot, “Cave - speaker verification in banking and telecom- munications”, in Proceedings of the Ubilab Conference ’96, Zurich, pp. 153–162, 1
• H.-P. Hutter, Comparison of Classic and Hybrid HMM Approaches to Speech Recognition over Telephone Lines. TIK-Schriftenreihe No. 15, Diss. ETH Zurich No. 11662, ETH Zurich, 1996.
• H.-P. Hutter, “Comparison of a new hybrid connectionist-SCHMM approach with other hybrid approaches for speech recognition,” in IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, vol. 5, pp. 3311–3314, May 1995.
• H.-P. Hutter, “Comparison of a new hybrid connectionist-SCHMM approach with other hybrid approaches for speech recognition,” in IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, vol. 5, pp. 3311–3314, May 1995.
• H.-P. Hutter and B. Pfister, “Neuartiger hybrider SKHMM/KNN-Ansatz für die Spracherkennung,” in Elektronische Sprachsignalverarbeitung (K. Fellbaum, ed.), Studien- texte zur Sprachkommunikation, Heft 11, pp. 90–97, Technische Universit ̈at Berlin, October 1994.

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