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[AUDITORY] 2nd Cfp: HSCMA 2014 (4th Joint Workshop on Hands-Free Speech Communication and Microphone Arrays)
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4th Joint Workshop on Hands-Free Speech Communication
and Microphone Arrays (HSCMA 2014)
May 12-14, 2014, Nancy, France
http://hscma2014.inria.fr/
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*News*
We are proud to announce our three keynotes:
- Marc Moonen (KU Leuven, Belgium): Distributed adaptive node-specific
signal estimation in wireless acoustic sensor networks
- Steve Renals (University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom): Neural
networks for distant speech recognition
- Volker Hohmann (University of Oldenburg, Germany): Modeling auditory
processing of complex sounds
The workshop will feature a special event on multichannel speech
processing in domestic environments proposed by the DIRHA consortium
(http://dirha.fbk.eu/). More to be announced soon.
The best student paper will be offered a 500$ award.
The deadline for special session proposals is November 8, 2013. We are
looking forward to your proposals!
*Call for Papers*
HSCMA 2014 will bring together researchers and practitioners from
academia and industry in an intimate and collegial setting to discuss
problems of interest in the capture, enhancement, and recognition of
far-field speech signals. Relevant topics include, but are not limited
to, speech or speaker recognition in noisy or reverberant environments,
single or multi-channel speech enhancement, dereverberation, microphone
array processing, source separation, and multiple input/multiple-output
(MIMO) acoustic signal processing. Interdisciplinary work that crosses
multiple technical areas is especially encouraged. Demonstrations of
experimental systems and prototypes are also welcome.
HSCMA 2014 is being held in conjunction with ICASSP 2014
(http://icassp2014.org/) and the REVERB challenge
(http://reverb2014.dereverberation.org/).
*Workshop Topics*
Papers in all areas of distant-talking human/human and human/machine
interaction are encouraged, including:
- Multi-channel and single-channel approaches for speech acquisition,
noise suppression, source localization and separation, dereverberation,
echo cancellation, and acoustic event detection
- Speech and speaker recognition technology for hands-free scenarios,
including robust features, feature-domain enhancement and
dereverberation, and model adaptation
- Microphone array technology and architectures, especially for
distant-talking speech recognition and acoustic scene analysis
- Speech corpora for training and evaluation of distant-talking speech
systems
- Applications based on microphone arrays and hands-free speech systems.
*Paper & Demo Submission*
The workshop technical program will consist of oral presentations,
poster sessions, and demonstrations. Prospective authors are invited to
submit full-length papers up to four pages, with a fifth page permitted
for references only. Submissions for proposed demonstrations may be up
to two pages in length.
*Special Sessions*
The program will also feature special sessions on new or emerging topics
of interest. Proposals for special sessions must include the session
title, rationale, outline, and a list of four invited papers.
*Important Dates*
Submission of special session proposals: November 8, 2013
Special session decisions announced: December 6, 2013
Submission of papers & demos: January 24, 2014
Paper & demo decisions announced: March 12, 2014
Submission of camera-ready papers & demos: April 4, 2014
Workshop: May 12-14, 2014
*Organizing Committee*
Emmanuel Vincent (Inria, France)
Dietrich Klakow (Saarland University, Germany)
Hiroshi Saruwatari (Nara Institute of Technology, Japan)
Mike Seltzer (Microsoft Research, USA)
Bhiksha Raj (Carnegie Mellon University, USA)
*Supported by*
Microsoft Research
ISCA
Honda Research Institute - Japan
Google
Audience
Central Research Laboratory, Hitachi
Phonak
MH Acoustics
IBM