[AUDITORY] Call for Participation: The Interspeech 2018 Computational Paralinguistics Challenge (Bjoern Schuller )


Subject: [AUDITORY] Call for Participation: The Interspeech 2018 Computational Paralinguistics Challenge
From:    Bjoern Schuller  <schuller@xxxxxxxx>
Date:    Tue, 13 Feb 2018 14:32:08 +0000
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--_000_5d813f892f2f4ec2806b0db9598e79c2tumde_ Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Dear Colleagues, we hope you may find interest in this year's 10th anniversary Interspeech C= omputational Paralinguistics Challenge (ComParE): Call for Participation INTERSPEECH 2018 ComParE Computational Paralinguistics challengE Atypical & Self-Assessed Affect, Crying & Heart Beats http://emotion-research.net/sigs/speech-sig/is18-compare Organisers: Bj=F6rn Schuller (University of Augsburg, Germany & Imperial College, UK) Stefan Steidl (FAU Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany) Anton Batliner (University of Augsburg, Germany) Peter B. Marschik (MU Graz, Austria / UMC G=F6ttingen, Germany / KI, Sweden= ) Harald Baumeister (University of Ulm, Germany) Fengquan Dong (Shenzhen University General Hospital, PR China) Dates: 16 March 2018 Paper abstract registration 23 March 2018 Final paper submission 11 June 2018 Final result upload 17 June 2018 Camera-ready paper The Challenge: The Interspeech 2018 Computational Paralinguistics ChallengE (ComParE) is a= n open Challenge dealing with states and traits of speakers as manifested i= n their speech signal's acoustic properties. There have so far been nine co= nsecutive Challenges at INTERSPEECH since 2009 (cf. the Challenge series' r= epository at http://www.compare.openaudio.eu), but there still exists a mul= tiplicity of not yet covered, but highly relevant paralinguistic phenomena.= Thus, in this year's 10th anniversary edition, we introduce four new tasks= . The following Sub-Challenges are addressed: * In the Atypical Affect Sub-Challenge, emotion of disabled sp= eakers is to be recognised. * In the Self-Assessed Affect Sub-Challenge, self-assessed aff= ect shall be determined. * In the Crying Sub-Challenge, mood-related types of infant vo= calisation have to be classified. * In the Heart Beats Sub-Challenge, types of Heart Beat Sounds= need to be distinguished. All Sub-Challenges allow contributors to find their own features with their= own machine learning algorithm. However, a standard feature set and tools = will be provided that may be used. Participants will have to stick to the d= efinition of training, development, and test sets as given. They may report= results obtained on the development sets, but have only five trials to upl= oad their results on the test set per Sub-Challenge, whose labels are unkno= wn to them. Each participation has to be accompanied by a paper presenting = the results that undergoes the normal Interspeech peer-review and has to be= accepted for the conference in order to participate in the Challenge. The = organisers preserve the right to re-evaluate the findings, but will not par= ticipate themselves in the Challenge. In these respects, the INTERSPEECH 2017 Computational Paralinguistics chall= engE (ComParE) shall help bridging the gap between excellent research on pa= ralinguistic information in spoken language and low compatibility of result= s. We encourage both - contributions aiming at highest performance w.r.t. t= he baselines provided by the organisers, and contributions aiming at findin= g new and interesting insights w.r.t. these data. Overall, contributions us= ing the provided or equivalent data are sought for (but not limited to): =B7 Participation in a Sub-Challenge =B7 Contributions focussing on Computational Paralinguistics centred= around the Challenge topics The results of the Challenge will be presented at Interspeech 2018 in Hyder= abad, India. Prizes will be awarded to the Sub-Challenge winners. If you are interested = and planning to participate in INTERSPEECH 2018 ComParE, or if you want to = be kept informed about the Challenge, please send the organisers an e-mail = (steidl@xxxxxxxx<mailto:steidl@xxxxxxxx>) to indicate your interest and v= isit the homepage: http://emotion-research.net/sigs/speech-sig/is18-compare With best wishes, Bj=F6rn Schuller On behalf of the organisers ___________________________________________ Professor Dr habil. Bj=F6rn W. Schuller FIEEE Chair of Embedded Intelligence for Health Care and Wellbeing University of Augsburg / Germany Head GLAM - Group on Audio, Language & Music Imperial College London / UK CEO audEERING GmbH Gilching / Germany Visiting Professor Harbin Institute of Technology / China Editor in Chief IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing schuller@xxxxxxxx<mailto:schuller@xxxxxxxx> http://www.schuller.one<http://www.schuller.one/> ___________________________________________ --_000_5d813f892f2f4ec2806b0db9598e79c2tumde_ Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable <html xmlns:v=3D"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml" xmlns:o=3D"urn:schemas-micr= osoft-com:office:office" xmlns:w=3D"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:word" = xmlns:m=3D"http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/2004/12/omml" xmlns=3D"http:= //www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40"> <head> <meta http-equiv=3D"Content-Type" content=3D"text/html; charset=3Diso-8859-= 1"> <meta name=3D"Generator" content=3D"Microsoft Word 15 (filtered medium)"> <style><!-- /* Font Definitions */ @xxxxxxxx {font-family:Wingdings; 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mso-level-text:o; mso-level-tab-stop:none; mso-level-number-position:left; text-indent:-18.0pt; font-family:"Courier New";} @xxxxxxxx l1:level9 {mso-level-number-format:bullet; mso-level-text:\F0A7; mso-level-tab-stop:none; mso-level-number-position:left; text-indent:-18.0pt; font-family:Wingdings;} ol {margin-bottom:0cm;} ul {margin-bottom:0cm;} --></style><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <o:shapedefaults v:ext=3D"edit" spidmax=3D"1026" /> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <o:shapelayout v:ext=3D"edit"> <o:idmap v:ext=3D"edit" data=3D"1" /> </o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--> </head> <body lang=3D"DE" link=3D"#0563C1" vlink=3D"#954F72"> <div class=3D"WordSection1"> <p class=3D"MsoNormal">Dear Colleagues,<o:p></o:p></p> <p class=3D"MsoNormal"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p> <p class=3D"MsoNormal"><span lang=3D"EN-GB">we hope you may find interest i= n this year&#8217;s 10<sup>th</sup> anniversary Interspeech Computational P= aralinguistics Challenge (ComParE):<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=3D"MsoNormal"><span lang=3D"EN-GB"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=3D"MsoNormal"><span lang=3D"EN-GB"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <table class=3D"MsoNormalTable" border=3D"0" cellspacing=3D"0" cellpadding= =3D"0" width=3D"1379" style=3D"width:517.3pt;border-collapse:collapse"> <tbody> <tr style=3D"height:82.3pt"> <td width=3D"1035" valign=3D"top" style=3D"width:388.15pt;padding:0cm 5.4pt= 0cm 5.4pt;height:82.3pt"> <p class=3D"MsoPlainText" style=3D"text-align:justify"><b><span lang=3D"EN-= GB" style=3D"font-size:14.0pt;font-family:&quot;Tahoma&quot;,sans-serif;col= or:red">Call for Participation<o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class=3D"NurText1" style=3D"text-align:justify;page-break-before:always"= ><b><span lang=3D"EN-GB" style=3D"font-size:18.0pt;font-family:&quot;Tahoma= &quot;,sans-serif;color:#806000">INTERSPEECH 2018 </span></b><b><span lang=3D"EN-GB" style=3D"font-size:18.0pt;font-family:&q= uot;Tahoma&quot;,sans-serif;font-variant:small-caps;color:red">ComParE</spa= n></b><b><span lang=3D"EN-GB" style=3D"font-size:18.0pt;font-family:&quot;T= ahoma&quot;,sans-serif;color:#0070C0"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class=3D"MsoPlainText" style=3D"text-align:justify"><b><span lang=3D"EN-= GB" style=3D"font-size:18.0pt;font-family:&quot;Tahoma&quot;,sans-serif;fon= t-variant:small-caps;color:red">Computational Paralinguistics challengE <o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class=3D"MsoPlainText" style=3D"text-align:justify"><b><span lang=3D"EN-= GB" style=3D"font-size:11.0pt;font-family:&quot;Tahoma&quot;,sans-serif;col= or:#A50021"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></b></p> <p class=3D"MsoPlainText" style=3D"text-align:justify"><b><i><span lang=3D"= EN-GB" style=3D"font-size:11.0pt;font-family:&quot;Tahoma&quot;,sans-serif;= color:#806000">Atypical &amp; Self-Assessed Affect, Crying &amp; Heart Beat= s</span></i></b><b><i><span lang=3D"EN-US" style=3D"font-size:11.0pt;font-f= amily:&quot;Tahoma&quot;,sans-serif;color:#806000"><o:p></o:p></span></i></= b></p> <p class=3D"MsoPlainText" style=3D"text-align:justify"><b><span lang=3D"EN-= GB" style=3D"font-size:11.0pt;font-family:&quot;Tahoma&quot;,sans-serif;col= or:#806000"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></b></p> <p class=3D"MsoNormal"><a href=3D"http://emotion-research.net/sigs/speech-s= ig/is18-compare"><span lang=3D"EN-GB">http://emotion-research.net/sigs/spee= ch-sig/is18-compare</span></a><span lang=3D"EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=3D"MsoPlainText" style=3D"text-align:justify"><b><span lang=3D"EN-= GB" style=3D"font-size:11.0pt;font-family:&quot;Tahoma&quot;,sans-serif;col= or:#806000"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></b></p> <p class=3D"MsoPlainText" style=3D"text-align:justify"><b><span lang=3D"EN-= GB" style=3D"font-size:11.0pt;font-family:&quot;Tahoma&quot;,sans-serif;col= or:red">Organisers:<o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class=3D"MsoPlainText" style=3D"text-align:justify"><span lang=3D"EN-GB"= style=3D"font-family:&quot;Tahoma&quot;,sans-serif;color:black">Bj=F6rn Sc= huller<b> </b></span><span lang=3D"EN-GB" style=3D"font-family:&quot;Tahoma&quot;,san= s-serif;color:#806000">(</span><span lang=3D"X-NONE" style=3D"font-family:&= quot;Tahoma&quot;,sans-serif;color:#806000;background:white">University of </span><span lang=3D"EN-GB" style=3D"font-family:&quot;Tahoma&quot;,sans-se= rif;color:#806000;background:white">Augsburg</span><span lang=3D"X-NONE" st= yle=3D"font-family:&quot;Tahoma&quot;,sans-serif;color:#806000;background:w= hite">, Germany</span><span lang=3D"EN-US" style=3D"font-family:&quot;Tahom= a&quot;,sans-serif;color:#806000;background:white"> &amp; </span><span lang=3D"EN-GB" style=3D"font-family:&quot;Tahoma&quot;,= sans-serif;color:#806000">Imperial College, UK)</span><b><span lang=3D"EN-G= B" style=3D"font-family:&quot;Tahoma&quot;,sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o= :p></span></b></p> <p class=3D"MsoPlainText" style=3D"text-align:justify"><span style=3D"font-= family:&quot;Tahoma&quot;,sans-serif;color:black">Stefan Steidl </span><span style=3D"font-family:&quot;Tahoma&quot;,sans-serif;color:#8060= 00">(FAU Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany)<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=3D"MsoPlainText" style=3D"text-align:justify"><span lang=3D"EN-GB"= style=3D"font-family:&quot;Tahoma&quot;,sans-serif;color:black">Anton Batl= iner<b> </b></span><span lang=3D"EN-GB" style=3D"font-family:&quot;Tahoma&quot;,san= s-serif;color:#806000">(</span><span lang=3D"X-NONE" style=3D"font-family:&= quot;Tahoma&quot;,sans-serif;color:#806000;background:white">University of </span><span lang=3D"EN-GB" style=3D"font-family:&quot;Tahoma&quot;,sans-se= rif;color:#806000;background:white">Augsburg</span><span lang=3D"EN-GB" sty= le=3D"font-family:&quot;Tahoma&quot;,sans-serif;color:#806000">, Germany)</= span><span lang=3D"EN-GB" style=3D"font-family:&quot;Tahoma&quot;,sans-seri= f;color:gray"><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=3D"MsoPlainText" style=3D"text-align:justify"><span style=3D"font-= family:&quot;Tahoma&quot;,sans-serif;color:black">Peter B. Marschik </span><span style=3D"font-family:&quot;Tahoma&quot;,sans-serif;color:#8060= 00">(MU Graz, Austria / UMC G=F6ttingen, Germany / KI, Sweden)<o:p></o:p></= span></p> <p class=3D"MsoPlainText" style=3D"text-align:justify"><span lang=3D"EN-GB"= style=3D"font-family:&quot;Tahoma&quot;,sans-serif;color:black">Harald Bau= meister </span><span lang=3D"EN-GB" style=3D"font-family:&quot;Tahoma&quot;,sans-se= rif;color:#806000">(University of Ulm, Germany)</span><span lang=3D"EN-GB" = style=3D"font-family:&quot;Tahoma&quot;,sans-serif;color:gray"><o:p></o:p><= /span></p> <p class=3D"MsoPlainText" style=3D"text-align:justify"><span lang=3D"EN-GB"= style=3D"font-family:&quot;Tahoma&quot;,sans-serif;color:black">Fengquan D= ong </span><span lang=3D"EN-GB" style=3D"font-family:&quot;Tahoma&quot;,sans-se= rif;color:#806000">(Shenzhen University General Hospital, PR China)</span><= span lang=3D"EN-GB" style=3D"font-family:&quot;Tahoma&quot;,sans-serif;colo= r:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=3D"MsoPlainText" style=3D"text-align:justify"><b><span lang=3D"EN-= GB" style=3D"font-size:11.0pt;font-family:&quot;Tahoma&quot;,sans-serif;col= or:#A50021"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></b></p> <p class=3D"MsoPlainText" style=3D"text-align:justify"><b><span lang=3D"EN-= GB" style=3D"font-size:11.0pt;font-family:&quot;Tahoma&quot;,sans-serif;col= or:red">Dates:<o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class=3D"MsoPlainText" style=3D"text-align:justify"><span lang=3D"EN-GB"= style=3D"font-family:&quot;Tahoma&quot;,sans-serif;color:black">16 March 2= 018 </span><span lang=3D"EN-GB" style=3D"font-family:&quot;Tahoma&quot;,sans-se= rif;color:#806000">Paper abstract registration </span><span lang=3D"EN-GB" style=3D"font-family:&quot;Tahoma&quot;,sans-se= rif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=3D"MsoPlainText" style=3D"text-align:justify"><span lang=3D"EN-GB"= style=3D"font-family:&quot;Tahoma&quot;,sans-serif;color:black">23 March 2= 018 </span><span lang=3D"EN-GB" style=3D"font-family:&quot;Tahoma&quot;,sans-se= rif;color:#806000">Final paper submission</span><span lang=3D"EN-GB" style= =3D"font-family:&quot;Tahoma&quot;,sans-serif;color:black"> <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=3D"MsoPlainText" style=3D"text-align:justify"><span lang=3D"EN-GB"= style=3D"font-family:&quot;Tahoma&quot;,sans-serif;color:black">11 June&nb= sp;&nbsp; 2018 </span><span lang=3D"EN-GB" style=3D"font-family:&quot;Tahoma&quot;,sans-se= rif;color:#806000">Final result upload</span><span lang=3D"EN-GB" style=3D"= font-family:&quot;Tahoma&quot;,sans-serif;color:black"> <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=3D"MsoPlainText" style=3D"text-align:justify"><span lang=3D"EN-GB"= style=3D"font-family:&quot;Tahoma&quot;,sans-serif;color:black">17 June&nb= sp;&nbsp; 2018 </span><span lang=3D"EN-GB" style=3D"font-family:&quot;Tahoma&quot;,sans-se= rif;color:#806000">Camera-ready paper<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=3D"MsoPlainText" style=3D"text-align:justify"><b><span lang=3D"EN-= GB" style=3D"font-size:11.0pt;font-family:&quot;Tahoma&quot;,sans-serif;col= or:#7030A0"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></b></p> <p class=3D"MsoPlainText" style=3D"text-align:justify"><b><span lang=3D"EN-= GB" style=3D"font-size:11.0pt;font-family:&quot;Tahoma&quot;,sans-serif;col= or:red">The Challenge:<o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class=3D"MsoPlainText" style=3D"text-align:justify"><b><span lang=3D"EN-= GB" style=3D"font-size:11.0pt;font-family:&quot;Tahoma&quot;,sans-serif;col= or:red"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></b></p> </td> <td width=3D"344" valign=3D"top" style=3D"width:129.15pt;padding:0cm 5.4pt = 0cm 5.4pt;height:82.3pt"> <p class=3D"MsoNormal" align=3D"center" style=3D"text-align:center"><span l= ang=3D"EN-GB" style=3D"font-size:9.0pt;font-family:&quot;Tahoma&quot;,sans-= serif;color:#244061"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=3D"MsoPlainText" align=3D"right" style=3D"text-align:right"><b><sp= an lang=3D"EN-GB" style=3D"font-size:6.0pt;font-family:&quot;Tahoma&quot;,s= ans-serif"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></b></p> <p class=3D"MsoPlainText" align=3D"center" style=3D"text-align:center"><b><= span lang=3D"EN-GB" style=3D"font-size:11.0pt;font-family:&quot;Tahoma&quot= ;,sans-serif"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></b></p> <p class=3D"MsoPlainText" align=3D"right" style=3D"text-align:right"><b><sp= an lang=3D"EN-GB" style=3D"font-size:7.0pt;font-family:&quot;Tahoma&quot;,s= ans-serif"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></b></p> <p class=3D"MsoPlainText" align=3D"center" style=3D"text-align:center"><spa= n lang=3D"X-NONE" style=3D"font-size:11.0pt;font-family:&quot;Tahoma&quot;,= sans-serif"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=3D"MsoPlainText" align=3D"center" style=3D"text-align:center"><spa= n lang=3D"EN-GB" style=3D"font-size:11.0pt;font-family:&quot;Tahoma&quot;,s= ans-serif"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=3D"MsoPlainText" align=3D"center" style=3D"text-align:center"><b><= span style=3D"font-size:14.0pt;font-family:&quot;Tahoma&quot;,sans-serif;co= lor:#008E40;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></b></p> <p class=3D"MsoPlainText" align=3D"center" style=3D"text-align:center"><b><= span lang=3D"EN-GB" style=3D"font-size:14.0pt;font-family:&quot;Tahoma&quot= ;,sans-serif;color:#008E40"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></b></p> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <p class=3D"MsoPlainText" style=3D"text-align:justify"><span lang=3D"EN-GB"= style=3D"font-family:&quot;Tahoma&quot;,sans-serif">The Interspeech 2018 C= omputational Paralinguistics ChallengE (ComParE) is an open Challenge deali= ng with states and traits of speakers as manifested in their speech signal&#8217;s acoustic properties. There have so far been= nine consecutive Challenges at INTERSPEECH since 2009 (cf. the&nbsp;Challe= nge series&#8216; repository at <span class=3D"MsoHyperlink"><span style=3D"color:#806000"><a href=3D"http:= //www.compare.openaudio.eu"><span style=3D"color:#806000">http://www.compar= e.openaudio.eu</span></a></span></span>), but there still exists a multipli= city of not yet covered, but highly relevant paralinguistic phenomena. Thus, in this year&#8217;s <span style=3D"color:= #806000">10<sup>th</sup> anniversary edition</span>, we introduce four new = tasks.&nbsp;The following Sub-Challenges are addressed:<o:p></o:p></span></= p> <p class=3D"MsoPlainText" style=3D"text-align:justify"><span lang=3D"EN-GB"= style=3D"font-size:6.0pt;font-family:&quot;Tahoma&quot;,sans-serif"><o:p>&= nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=3D"MsoListParagraph" style=3D"margin-left:70.5pt;text-indent:-34.5= pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"> <![if !supportLists]><span lang=3D"EN-GB" style=3D"font-size:10.0pt;font-fa= mily:&quot;Tahoma&quot;,sans-serif"><span style=3D"mso-list:Ignore">&#8226;= <span style=3D"font:7.0pt &quot;Times New Roman&quot;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&n= bsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span></span></span><![endif]><span lang=3D"EN-GB" style=3D"font-size:10.0= pt;font-family:&quot;Tahoma&quot;,sans-serif">In the&nbsp;<i><span style=3D= "color:#806000">Atypical Affect Sub-Challenge</span></i>, emotion of disabl= ed speakers is to be recognised.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=3D"MsoListParagraph" style=3D"margin-left:70.5pt;text-indent:-34.5= pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"> <![if !supportLists]><span lang=3D"EN-GB" style=3D"font-size:10.0pt;font-fa= mily:&quot;Tahoma&quot;,sans-serif"><span style=3D"mso-list:Ignore">&#8226;= <span style=3D"font:7.0pt &quot;Times New Roman&quot;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&n= bsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span></span></span><![endif]><span lang=3D"EN-GB" style=3D"font-size:10.0= pt;font-family:&quot;Tahoma&quot;,sans-serif">In the <i><span style=3D"color:#806000">Self-Assessed Affect Sub-Challenge</span><= /i>, self-assessed affect shall be determined.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=3D"MsoListParagraph" style=3D"margin-left:70.5pt;text-indent:-34.5= pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"> <![if !supportLists]><span lang=3D"EN-GB" style=3D"font-size:10.0pt;font-fa= mily:&quot;Tahoma&quot;,sans-serif"><span style=3D"mso-list:Ignore">&#8226;= <span style=3D"font:7.0pt &quot;Times New Roman&quot;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&n= bsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span></span></span><![endif]><span lang=3D"EN-GB" style=3D"font-size:10.0= pt;font-family:&quot;Tahoma&quot;,sans-serif">In the <i><span style=3D"color:#806000">Crying Sub-Challenge</span></i>, mood-rela= ted types of infant vocalisation have to be classified.<o:p></o:p></span></= p> <p class=3D"MsoListParagraph" style=3D"margin-left:70.5pt;text-indent:-34.5= pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"> <![if !supportLists]><span lang=3D"EN-GB" style=3D"font-size:10.0pt;font-fa= mily:&quot;Tahoma&quot;,sans-serif"><span style=3D"mso-list:Ignore">&#8226;= <span style=3D"font:7.0pt &quot;Times New Roman&quot;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&n= bsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span></span></span><![endif]><span lang=3D"EN-GB" style=3D"font-size:10.0= pt;font-family:&quot;Tahoma&quot;,sans-serif">In the <i><span style=3D"color:#806000">Heart Beats Sub-Challenge</span></i>, type= s of Heart Beat Sounds need to be distinguished.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=3D"MsoListParagraph" style=3D"margin-left:0cm"><span lang=3D"EN-GB= " style=3D"font-size:10.0pt;font-family:&quot;Tahoma&quot;,sans-serif"><o:p= >&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=3D"MsoPlainText" style=3D"text-align:justify"><span lang=3D"EN-GB"= style=3D"font-family:&quot;Tahoma&quot;,sans-serif">All Sub-Challenges all= ow contributors to find their own features with their own machine learning = algorithm. However, a standard feature set and tools will be provided that may be used. Participants will have to stick to the = definition of training, development, and test sets as given. They may repor= t results obtained on the development sets, but have only five trials to up= load their results on the test set per Sub-Challenge, whose labels are unknown to them. Each participation ha= s to be accompanied by a paper presenting the results that undergoes the no= rmal Interspeech peer-review and has to be accepted for the conference in o= rder to participate in the Challenge. The organisers preserve the right to re-evaluate the findings, but will no= t participate themselves in the Challenge. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=3D"MsoPlainText" style=3D"text-align:justify"><span lang=3D"EN-GB"= style=3D"font-family:&quot;Tahoma&quot;,sans-serif">In these respects, the <i><span style=3D"color:#806000">INTERSPEECH 2017 <span style=3D"font-varia= nt:small-caps"> Computational Paralinguistics challengE</span> (<span style=3D"font-variant= :small-caps">ComParE</span>)</span></i><span style=3D"color:#7F7F7F"> </span>shall help bridging the gap between excellent research on paralingui= stic information in spoken language and low compatibility of results. We en= courage both &#8211; contributions aiming at highest performance w.r.t. the= baselines provided by the organisers, and contributions aiming at finding new and interesting insights w.r.t. th= ese data. Overall, contributions using the provided or equivalent data are = sought for (but not limited to):<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=3D"MsoPlainText" style=3D"text-align:justify"><span lang=3D"EN-GB"= style=3D"font-family:&quot;Tahoma&quot;,sans-serif"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></spa= n></p> <p class=3D"MsoPlainText" style=3D"margin-left:36.0pt;text-align:justify;te= xt-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2"> <![if !supportLists]><span lang=3D"EN-GB" style=3D"font-family:Symbol"><spa= n style=3D"mso-list:Ignore">=B7<span style=3D"font:7.0pt &quot;Times New Ro= man&quot;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span></span></span><![endif]><span lang=3D"EN-GB" style=3D"font-family:&q= uot;Tahoma&quot;,sans-serif">Participation in a Sub-Challenge<o:p></o:p></s= pan></p> <p class=3D"MsoPlainText" style=3D"margin-left:36.0pt;text-align:justify;te= xt-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2"> <![if !supportLists]><span lang=3D"EN-GB" style=3D"font-family:Symbol"><spa= n style=3D"mso-list:Ignore">=B7<span style=3D"font:7.0pt &quot;Times New Ro= man&quot;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span></span></span><![endif]><span lang=3D"EN-GB" style=3D"font-family:&q= uot;Tahoma&quot;,sans-serif">Contributions focussing on Computational Paral= inguistics centred around the Challenge topics<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=3D"MsoPlainText" style=3D"margin-left:36.0pt;text-align:justify"><= span lang=3D"EN-GB" style=3D"font-family:&quot;Tahoma&quot;,sans-serif"><o:= p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=3D"MsoPlainText" style=3D"text-align:justify"><span lang=3D"EN-GB"= style=3D"font-family:&quot;Tahoma&quot;,sans-serif">The results of the Cha= llenge will be presented at Interspeech 2018 in Hyderabad, India. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=3D"MsoPlainText" style=3D"text-align:justify"><span lang=3D"EN-GB"= style=3D"font-family:&quot;Tahoma&quot;,sans-serif">Prizes will be awarded= to the Sub-Challenge winners. If you are interested and planning to partic= ipate in INTERSPEECH 2018 <span style=3D"font-variant:small-caps">ComParE</span>, or if you want to b= e kept informed about the Challenge, please send the organisers an e-mail (= <span style=3D"color:#806000"><a href=3D"mailto:steidl@xxxxxxxx"><span sty= le=3D"color:#806000">steidl@xxxxxxxx</span></a></span>) to indicate your interest and visit the homepage:<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=3D"MsoPlainText" style=3D"text-align:justify"><span lang=3D"EN-GB"= style=3D"font-family:&quot;Tahoma&quot;,sans-serif"><br> <span style=3D"color:#806000"><a href=3D"http://emotion-research.net/sigs/s= peech-sig/is18-compare"><span style=3D"color:#806000">http://emotion-resear= ch.net/sigs/speech-sig/is18-compare</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class=3D"MsoPlainText" style=3D"text-align:justify"><span lang=3D"EN-GB"= style=3D"font-family:&quot;Tahoma&quot;,sans-serif"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></spa= n></p> <p class=3D"MsoPlainText" style=3D"text-align:justify"><span lang=3D"EN-GB"= style=3D"font-family:&quot;Tahoma&quot;,sans-serif"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></spa= n></p> <p class=3D"MsoPlainText" style=3D"text-align:justify"><span lang=3D"EN-GB"= style=3D"font-family:&quot;Tahoma&quot;,sans-serif"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></spa= n></p> <p class=3D"MsoNormal"><span lang=3D"EN-GB">With best wishes,<o:p></o:p></s= pan></p> <p class=3D"MsoNormal"><span lang=3D"EN-GB"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=3D"MsoNormal"><span lang=3D"EN-GB">Bj=F6rn Schuller<o:p></o:p></sp= an></p> <p class=3D"MsoNormal"><span lang=3D"EN-GB">On behalf of the organisers<o:p= ></o:p></span></p> <p class=3D"MsoNormal"><span lang=3D"EN-GB"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=3D"MsoNormal"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p> <p class=3D"MsoNormal">___________________________________________<o:p></o:= p></p> <p class=3D"MsoNormal"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p> <p class=3D"MsoNormal">Professor Dr habil.<o:p></o:p></p> <p class=3D"MsoNormal">Bj=F6rn W. Schuller<o:p></o:p></p> <p class=3D"MsoNormal"><span lang=3D"EN-GB">FIEEE<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=3D"MsoNormal"><span lang=3D"EN-GB"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=3D"MsoNormal"><span lang=3D"EN-GB">Chair of Embedded Intelligence = for Health Care and Wellbeing <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=3D"MsoNormal"><span lang=3D"EN-GB">University of Augsburg / German= y<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=3D"MsoNormal"><span lang=3D"EN-GB"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=3D"MsoNormal"><span lang=3D"EN-GB">Head GLAM &#8211; Group on Audi= o, Language &amp; Music<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=3D"MsoNormal"><span lang=3D"EN-GB">Imperial College London / UK<o:= p></o:p></span></p> <p class=3D"MsoNormal"><span lang=3D"EN-GB"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=3D"MsoNormal"><span lang=3D"EN-GB">CEO audEERING GmbH<o:p></o:p></= span></p> <p class=3D"MsoNormal"><span lang=3D"EN-GB">Gilching / Germany<o:p></o:p></= span></p> <p class=3D"MsoNormal"><span lang=3D"EN-GB"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=3D"MsoNormal"><span lang=3D"EN-GB">Visiting Professor<o:p></o:p></= span></p> <p class=3D"MsoNormal"><span lang=3D"EN-GB">Harbin Institute of Technology = / China<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=3D"MsoNormal"><span lang=3D"EN-GB"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=3D"MsoNormal"><span lang=3D"EN-GB">Editor in Chief<o:p></o:p></spa= n></p> <p class=3D"MsoNormal"><span lang=3D"EN-GB">IEEE Transactions on Affective = Computing<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=3D"MsoNormal"><span lang=3D"EN-GB"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=3D"MsoNormal"><a href=3D"mailto:schuller@xxxxxxxx"><span lang=3D"E= N-GB" style=3D"color:#0563C1">schuller@xxxxxxxx</span></a><span lang=3D"EN-= GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=3D"MsoNormal"><a href=3D"http://www.schuller.one/"><span lang=3D"E= N-GB" style=3D"color:#0563C1">http://www.schuller.one</span></a><span lang= =3D"EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=3D"MsoNormal"><span lang=3D"EN-GB">_______________________________= ____________<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=3D"MsoNormal"><span lang=3D"EN-GB"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=3D"MsoNormal"><span lang=3D"EN-GB"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> </div> </body> </html> --_000_5d813f892f2f4ec2806b0db9598e79c2tumde_--


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