CFP: Special Issue on Objective Quality Assessment of Speech and Audio

["Kim, Doh-Suk (DS)" <dsk@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Dear List,

Attached is the call for papers for a special issue of IEEE Tr. Speech & Audio
that I'm co-editing.

Doh-Suk Kim

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                         * Call for Papers *

         The IEEE Transactions on Speech and Audio Processing
                          Special Issue on
             Objective Quality Assessment of Speech and Audio


Objective Quality Assessment of Speech and Audio is an interdisciplinary
research area to build computational models that aim to achieve human
performance in quality estimation of speech and audio. The estimation
of quality is becoming more important especially in telecommunication
applications, where Quality of Service is one of the key considerations.

The goal of this special issue is to present recent progress and
advances in this area as well as remaining challenges. We invite
original, previously unpublished research works in all areas relevant
to the field. In particular, paper submissions are encouraged on the
following topics:

* Subjective basis for objective quality assessment
* Waveform models - based on waveforms of speech and audio
* Parametric models - based on telecommunication or broadcast network
   parameters
* Intrusive models
* Non-intrusive (single-ended or output-based) models
* Objective diagnosis of quality impairment
* Objective and subjective assessment of conversational quality
* Issues and applications relevant to real-world problems


SUBMISSION PROCEDURE

Prospective authors should follow the regular guidelines of the IEEE
Transactions on Speech and Audio Processing

        http://www.ieee.org/organizations/society/sp/infotsa.html

for electronic submission via Manuscript Central at

        http://sps-ieee.manuscriptcentral.com.

Authors must select "Special Issue on Objective Quality Assessment of
Speech and Audio" as a manuscript type (will appear soon).
In addition, the title of the special issue (Special Issue on
Objective Quality Assessment of Speech and Audio) should be referenced
again in the field marked "Comments to Editor-in-Chief" along with any
other pertinent information. You are required to provide a properly
executed copyright form to be faxed to the IEEE Signal Processing
Society Publications Office (+1 732-562-8905) at the time of submission.
Please indicate the manuscript number on the top of the page.


SCHEDULE

Submission deadline:            February 1, 2006
Notification of acceptance:     July 31, 2006
Final manuscript due:           September 30, 2006
Tentative publication date:     January 2007


GUEST EDITORS

Dr. Doh-Suk Kim     <dsk@xxxxxxxxxx>
                         Lucent Technologies, Whippany, NJ, USA
Dr. John Beerends   <j.g.beerends@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
                         TNO Telecom, Delft, The Netherlands
Dr. Oded Ghitza     <oded@xxxxxxxx>
                         Sensimetrics Corporation, Somerville, MA, USA
Dr. Peter Kroon     <kroon@xxxxxxxxx>
                         Agere Systems, Allentown, PA, USA

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