CFP: Special Issue on Processing Reverberant Speech: Methodologies and Applications

[Tomohiro Nakatani <nak@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Dear Colleagues,

I would like to announce a special issue for the IEEE Transactions
on Audio, Speech and Language Processing:

"Processing Reverberant Speech: Methodologies and Applications"

Submission deadline: 15 October 2009
Publication date: September 2010
Guest Editors:
 Tomohiro Nakatani (NTT Corporation, Japan)
 Walter Kellermann (University of Erlangen-Nuremberg)
 Patrick Naylor (Imperial College London, UK)
 Masato Miyoshi (Kanazawa University, Japan)
 Biing-Hwang Juang (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA)

You can get further information from the following web site:
http://www.signalprocessingsociety.org/uploads/special_issues_deadlines/taslp_cfp_reverberant.pdf

Best wishes,

Tomohiro Nakatani

NTT Communication Science Labs.,
NTT Corporation, Japan
Tel. +81 774 93 5134
Fax. +81 774 93 5158

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Call-for-papers:

Special Issue on "Processing Reverberant Speech: Methodologies and 
Applications" for the IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language
Processing

This is a call for papers for a special issue on “Processing
Reverberant Speech: Methodologies and Applications” to be published in
mid 2010 in the IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language
Processing.

This special issue will focus on the recent trends in techniques
designed to handle reverberant speech directed at both humans and
computers, including speech dereverberation and automatic speech
recognition (ASR) in reverberant environments. When a speech signal is
captured by a distant microphone in a room, reverberation components are
detrimental to the quality of the observed speech and often cause
serious degradation in various speech processing applications, including
speech recognition, teleconferencing, hearing aids, human-computer
dialogue systems, and meeting recordings. To extend the applicability of
such systems in real acoustical environments, researchers have been
tackling the reverberation problem, and useful techniques have recently
been reported in a variety of technological areas.

We invite papers describing various aspects of signal processing
techniques for processing reverberant speech. Submissions must not have
been previously published, with the exception that substantial
extensions of conference papers will be considered. Specific topics of
interest include:

* Microphone array signal processing-based speech dereverberation, and
  monaural speech enhancement techniques for reducing reverberation
  effects
* Robust ASR techniques in the presence of reverberation
* Applications of reverberant speech processing techniques to voice
  recording, teleconferencing, hearing aids, human-computer dialogue
  systems, meeting recognition, and others
* Methods for evaluating reverberant and dereverberated speech quality
* Integration of reverberant speech processing techniques with other
  signal processing techniques
* Computational auditory scene analysis in reverberant environments
* Techniques for the modeling and analysis of reverberant speech

The call for paper is also available at:
http://www.signalprocessingsociety.org/uploads/special_issues_deadlines/taslp_cfp_reverberant.pdf

Schedule:
First announcement: 23 April 2009 (during ICASSP 2009)
Submission deadline: 15 October 2009
Notification of acceptance: 22 April 2010
Final manuscript due: 22 June 2010
Tentative publication date: September 2010

Guest Editors:
Tomohiro Nakatani (NTT Corporation, Japan), nak@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Walter Kellermann (University of Erlangen-Nuremberg), wk@xxxxxx
Patrick Naylor (Imperial College London, UK), p.naylor@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Masato Miyoshi (Kanazawa University, Japan), mmiyoshi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Biing-Hwang Juang (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA),
Juang@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx