Subject: CFP: Special Issue on Processing Reverberant Speech: Methodologies and Applications From: Tomohiro Nakatani <nak@xxxxxxxx> Date: Tue, 7 Jul 2009 14:17:25 +0900 List-Archive:<http://lists.mcgill.ca/scripts/wa.exe?LIST=AUDITORY>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 -- 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@xxxxxxxx Walter Kellermann (University of Erlangen-Nuremberg), wk@xxxxxxxx Patrick Naylor (Imperial College London, UK), p.naylor@xxxxxxxx Masato Miyoshi (Kanazawa University, Japan), mmiyoshi@xxxxxxxx Biing-Hwang Juang (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA), Juang@xxxxxxxx