IEEE Signal Processing Society Winter School on 'Speech and Audio
Processing for Immersive Environments and Future Interfaces'

Foundation for Research and Technology-Hellas (FORTH), Institute of
Computer Science (ICS)

January 16-20, 2012

WEB: http://www.s3p-saie.eu
Email: mouchtar@ics.forth.gr


APPLICATION DEADLINE: January 1, 2012

MOTIVATION AND DESCRIPTION
The vision of immersive environments is to enable natural interactions
among people who are geographically distributed. Future interfaces are
envisioned to provide some degree of immersion among the user and a
device, so as to enable a natural means of interaction. The
proliferation of multichannel audio systems (e.g. home-cinema) and of
tele-presence systems, which enhance the realism in entertainment and
collaborative environments respectively, clearly demonstrate the
current technology trend towards immersive environments and
interfaces. The winter school aims to cover multiple research
directions in audio and speech signal processing for immersive
environments and interfaces, including 3D rendering, enhancement in
ubiquitous speech communications, speech capture/synthesis/recognition
for such applications, audio watermarking in interactive broadcast
applications, and so forth.

Among the objectives of this IEEE Signal Processing Winter School are:
* Fruitful interaction between teachers/instructors and participants
* Building communities of Ph.D. students and educators in important
Signal Processing research areas
* Providing hands-on tutorial sessions, where students can experiment
with concepts and methods
* Evolution of high quality tutorial materials that can be
disseminated online to the larger signal processing community.

LIST OF SPEAKERS

KEYNOTE:
Rainer Martin, Universitat Bochum, DE

INSTRUCTORS:
Gernot Kubin, TU Graz, AT
Simon King, CSTR, Edinburgh, UK
Vassilios Digalakis, Technical University of Crete, GR
Yannis Stylianou, FORTH & University of Crete, GR
Athanasios Mouchtaris, FORTH & University of Crete, GR
Jeroen Breebart, Civolution, NL
Sriram Srinivasan, Philips Research, NL
Soren Holdt Jensen, Aalborg University, DK
Ville Pulkki, Aalto University, FI

APPLICATION
The school will be open to graduate students, Ph.D. students,
post-docs, young researchers, senior researchers and practitioners.
Both academic and industrial professionals are encouraged to apply
online:

http://www.s3p-saie.eu

The school fees will be:

* Student, IEEE-SPS member: 100€
* Student, IEEE (non-SPS) member: 150€
* Student, non-IEEE member: 200€
* Non-Student, IEEE-SPS member: 400€ (or 200€ per day)
* Non-student, IEEE (non-SPS) member: 500€ (or 250€ per day)
* Non-student, non-IEEE-SPS member: 600€ (or 300€ per day)

-The fee includes attendance at the courses, handling material, coffee
breaks, and social events.
-The application should be done before January 1, 2012.