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“Visual Speech Recognition” (VSR) has the catchy ring of a game-changing oxymoron, like “Virtual Reality” or “Artificial Intelligence.” All three are self-contradicting concepts that promise to prove invaluable as individuals, enterprises and government agencies try to take charge of unprecedented computer power and data access designed to make their lives better and everyday tasks easier. …

LIOPA LAUNCHES VISUAL SPEECH RECOGNITION WHITE PAPER WITH OPUS RESEARCH Read More »

I’ve recently joined Liopa as Senior Research and Development Engineer. My background is in lip reading and understanding visual speech signals. I’ve spent the last year at Queen Mary University of London conducting research into “Integrating sound and context recognition for acoustic scene analysis”.  I looked at how to make lip reading more robust and …

MEET THE TEAM: DR HELEN BEAR, SENIOR RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT ENGINEER Read More »

Membership will help maximise skills and identify new ideas, products and insights   Belfast based Artificial Intelligence startup Liopa is delighted to announce it has become a member of Northern Ireland’s Connected Health Innovation Centre (CHIC). CHIC seeks to develop companies operating in Northern Ireland through targeted research and development.  CHIC is funded though Invest NI’s Competence Centre Programme and aims to transform healthcare through …

LIOPA EMBRACES COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH APPROACH & JOINS CONNECTED HEALTH INNOVATION CENTRE Read More »

Will be working with the Defence and Security Accelerator (DASA) which funds innovative, exploitable ideas that could lead to a cost-effective advantage for UK armed forces and national security. DASA has selected Liopa to take part in a new initiative. It will be investigating how behavioural analytics can improve understanding and measurement, help make confident and …

LIOPA CONTRACTED TO BE PART OF UK GOVERNMENT’S NEW BEHAVIOURAL ANALYTICS INITIATIVE Read More »

Since I remember, philosophy of life and science, curiosity about the inner workings of things, and how to make this world a better place, were my main concerns. Some background At the moment, I am an undergraduate student at the Technological Educational Institute of Peloponnese, Dept. of Computer Engineering, based in Peloponnese, Greece. During my …

MEET THE TEAM: CHRIS GKIKAS, INTERN Read More »

LIOPA secures Innovate UK Funding, along with partners Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and Queen’s University Belfast. They will deploy a communications aid for tracheostomy patients, aimed at improving patient engagement… LIOPA secures Innovate UK Funding, along with partners Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and Queen’s University Belfast. They will deploy a communications …

A MOBILE APP, HARNESSING AI, TO PROVIDE COMMUNICATION TOOL FOR VOICE-IMPAIRED PATIENTS Read More »

I was intrigued by an internship vacancy from Liopa, a company that, at its core, uses machine learning to effectively read peoples’ lips from videos. So I made an application for the role – and, after a successful interview, I happily accepted the post. I have now been working at Liopa for a little over …

MEET THE TEAM – CONOR MCCLEERY, INTERN Read More »

A spin-out from Queen’s University Belfast and the Centre for Secure IT, Liopa is developing lipreading technology to enable visual speech recognition.  AI-based technology startup Liopa has completed a very successful fund-raising campaign on the SyndicateRoom crowdfunding website. The company raised 2.5 times the target amount in a 4 week period. It received strong backing from a number of angel investors …

AI STARTUP LIOPA RAISES SEED FUNDING ON THE SYNDICATE ROOM CROWDFUNDING PLATFORM Read More »