Subject: Submission & registration open: CHiME 2016 - 4th International Workshop on Speech Processing in Everyday Environments From: Emmanuel Vincent <emmanuel.vincent@xxxxxxxx> Date: Sun, 26 Jun 2016 20:24:45 +0200 List-Archive:<http://lists.mcgill.ca/scripts/wa.exe?LIST=AUDITORY>--------------------------------------------- CHiME 2016 4th International Workshop on Speech Processing in Everyday Environments Google, San Francisco, Sep 13, 2016 Extended abstract submission: Aug 19, 2016 Registration deadline: Sept 8, 2016 http://spandh.dcs.shef.ac.uk/chime_workshop/ ---------------------------------------------- NEWS Registration has opened on June 13. Seats are filling up fast. If you plan to attend we recommend registering as early as possible! Thanks to the generosity of our sponsor Google, we will provide 7 travel grants of US$ 200 each. Grants will be provided on a first come first served basis. To register, see http://spandh.dcs.shef.ac.uk/chime_workshop/registration.html. ABOUT THE WORKSHOP CHiME 2016 will bring together researchers from the fields of computational hearing, speech enhancement, acoustic modelling and machine learning to discuss the robustness of speech processing in everyday environments. As a focus for discussion, the workshop will host the CHiME-4 Speech Separation and Recognition Challenge. To find out more about the challenge, see http://spandh.dcs.shef.ac.uk/chime_challenge/. PAPER SUBMISSION Relevant research topics include (but are not limited to): - training schemes: data augmentation, semi-supervised training, - speaker localization and beamforming, - single- or multi-microphone enhancement and separation, - robust features and feature transforms, - robust acoustic and language modeling, - robust speech recognition, - robust speaker and language recognition, - robust paralinguistics, - cross-environment or cross-dataset performance analysis, - environmental background noise modelling. Papers reporting evaluation results on the CHiME-4 dataset or on other datasets are both welcome. IMPORTANT DATES 19th Aug, 2016 — Extended abstract submission (2 pages) 24th Aug, 2016 — Paper notification 13th Sept, 2016 — CHiME-4 Workshop 14th Oct, 2016 — Final paper (2 to 6 pages) ORGANISERS Emmanuel Vincent, Inria Shinji Watanabe, MERL Jon Barker & Ricard Marxer, University of Sheffield LOCAL ORGANISER Kean Chin, Google SPONSORS Google Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories (MERL) SUPPORTED BY International Speech Communication Association (ISCA) ISCA Robust Speech Processing SIG