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CFP: 2nd CHiME Challenge and Workshop - deadline extension to 29th Jan
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2nd CHiME Speech Separation and Recognition Challenge
Supported by the IEEE AASP, MLSP and SLTC Technical Committees
2nd International Workshop on
Machine Listening in Multisource Environments (CHiME 2013)
Extended Deadline: January 29, 2013
Workshop: June 1, 2013, Vancouver, Canada
http://spandh.dcs.shef.ac.uk/chime_challenge/
http://spandh.dcs.shef.ac.uk/chime_workshop/
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NEWS
The final deadline for the Challenge and the Workshop will be January 29, 2013.
CHALLENGE OVERVIEW
The challenge consists of recognising distant-microphone speech mixed in
two-channel nonstationary noise recorded over a period of several weeks
in a real family house. Entrants may address either one or both of the
following tracks:
* medium vocabulary track: WSJ 5k sentences uttered by a static speaker
* small vocabulary track: simpler commands but small head movements
You will find everything you need to get started (and even more) on the
challenge website:
- a full description of the challenge,
- clean, reverberated and multi-condition training, development and test data,
- baseline training, decoding and scoring software tools based on HTK.
Any approach is welcome, whether emerging or established.
Submission consists of a 2- to 8-page paper describing your system and
reporting its performance on the development and test datasets.
If you are interested in participating, please email us so we can
monitor interest and send you further updates about the challenge.
The best challenge papers will distinguished by an award from the
Industrial Board.
WORKSHOP OVERVIEW
Following the success of the 1st CHiME Workshop in 2011, we are
organizing a second edition that will be held in conjunction with ICASSP
2013. CHiME 2013 will consider the challenge of developing machine
listening applications for operation in multisource environments, i.e.
real-world conditions with acoustic clutter, where the number and nature
of the sound sources is unknown and changing over time. CHiME will bring
together researchers from a broad range of disciplines (computational
hearing, blind source separation, speech recognition, machine learning)
to discuss novel and established approaches to this problem. The
cross-fertilisation of ideas will foster fresh approaches that
efficiently combine the complementary strengths of each research field.
The workshop will feature two keynote speakers:
* Daniel P.W. Ellis, Columbia University
* Steven J. Rennie, IBM
CALL FOR PAPERS
We invite original submissions in the form of either extended abstracts
or full papers. Relevant research topics include (but are not limited to):
* automatic speech recognition in multisource environments,
* acoustic event detection in multisource environments,
* sound source detection and tracking in multisource environments,
* music information retrieval in multisource environments,
* sound source separation or enhancement in multisource environments,
* robust feature extraction and classification in multisource environments,
* scene analysis and understanding for multisource environments.
IMPORTANT DATES
July 2012 Launch
October 2012 Test set release
January 29, 2013 Challenge & workshop submission deadline
February 18, 2013 Paper notification & release of the challenge results
June 1, 2013 Post-ICASSP workshop
INDUSTRIAL BOARD
Masami Akamine, Toshiba
Carlos Avendano, Audience
Li Deng, Microsoft
Erik McDermott, Google
Gautham Mysore, Adobe
Atsushi Nakamura, NTT
Peder A. Olsen, IBM
Trausti Thormundsson, Conexant
Daniel Willett, Nuance
WORKSHOP SPONSORS
Conexant Systems Inc.
Audience Inc.
Adobe Systems Inc.
Google Inc.
Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories
ORGANISERS
Emmanuel Vincent, INRIA
Jon Barker, University of Sheffield
Shinji Watanabe & Jonathan Le Roux, MERL
Francesco Nesta & Marco Matassoni, FBK-IRST