Special Session at Interspeech 2015: Active Perception in Human and Machine Speech Communication

[Martin Heckmann <Martin.Heckmann@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

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      Call for participation
in the Special Session
Active Perception in Human and Machine
Speech Communication

     at Interspeech,
September 6-10, 2015 in Dresden

           
     **Deadline: March 20, 2015**
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We are pleased to announce the special
session
*Active Perception in Human and Machine
Speech Communication*
to be held at Interspeech 2015.

In this special session, we want to
look at how listeners adapt to 
better understand the talker in a communication
and how they actively 
perceive the message. A main target
of the session is to explore how 
behavioral research can enrich the development
of active machine listening.

Active auditory perception has received
relatively little research 
attention despite the facts that (1)
auditory perception is still a 
bottleneck on current robotic systems,
(2) human listening appears to 
rely substantially on feedback (e.g.
outer hair cells) and (3) that 
speech communication, i.e. intention-driven
goal-oriented communication, 
provides the possibility to jointly
create an optimal situation for 
mutual understanding.

We plan to address this exciting topic
at Interspeech 2015 and therefore 
solicit contributions on active speech
perception in humans and machines 
and on the adaptation of human or machine
interaction behavior to guide 
the communication. Topics of particular
interest for the special session 
are:

-  active speech perception in
humans
-  adaptive interaction behavior
in humans (e.g. entrainment as an 
implicit method to guide the interaction
partner's communicative behavior)
-  adaptation of human or machine
listening to the environment (e.g. 
adaptation of volume to noise, adaptation
to situation)
-  systems changing their orientation,
position in the room or 
appearance to actively shape their perception
-  systems which control their
attention in the communication actively
-  systems which change their interaction
with the communication partner 
to seek the information they want
-  systems that encourage their
interaction partner to change their 
interaction such that the system's needs
are better fulfilled (e.g. 
"please speak more slowly")
-  research on entrainment in communications
with the focus to derive 
the desired information

You can find further details at:

http://www.honda-ri.de/tiki-index.php?page=IS2015_Active_Perception

Please do not hesitate to contact us
if you have any questions.

Martin Heckmann (martin.heckmann@xxxxxxxxxxx)
Britta Wrede (bwrede@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx)
Dorothea Kolossa (dorothea.kolossa@xxxxxx)
Alexander Raake (alexander.raake@xxxxxxxxxx)