CREST Symposium on Human-Harmonized Information Technology
        --- Behavior, Interaction, Music, and UGC ---

        http://www.ar.media.kyoto-u.ac.jp/crest/sympo12/


Date: April 1-2, 2012

Venue: Kyoto University Clock Tower Centennial Hall, Kyoto, Japan
(http://www.kyoto-u.ac.jp/en/clocktower)

Sponsored by JST CREST 'Human-Harmonized Information Technology'
Co-sponsored by IEEE SPS Japan Chapter, Kansai Chapter and IEEE Kansai Section

The symposium features invited talks on frontier topics in speech,
music, and signal processing.  Sessions are organized by principal
investigators of four different CREST projects together with IEEE SPS
DL program.

The symposium is free of charge and prior registration is not required.


Program:

April 1 (Sunday) DAY1: Music and User-Generated Content

13:00-15:00 Session 1 organized by Tokuda's project

	Steve Renals (University of Edinburgh)
		Natural Speech Technology

	Alan Black (Carnegie Mellon University)
		Making Computers Really Talk like People

	Keiichi Tokuda (Nagoya Institute of Technology)
		Spoken dialogue system framework based on user-generated content

15:30-17:30 Session 2 organized by Goto's project

	Mark D. Plumbley (Queen Mary University of London)
		Making Sense of Sound and Music

	Meinard Mueller (Saarland University and MPI Informatik)
		Informed Feature Representations for Music and Motion

	Masataka Goto (AIST)
		Music Technologies for Enhancing Music Appreciation and Creation


April 2 (Monday) DAY2: Human Behavior and Interaction

 9:30-11:30 Session 3 organized by Takeda's project

	Juan-Carlos De Martin (Politecnico di Torin)
		Towards an Internet Science

	John Hansen (University of Texas at Dallas)
		Speech Communications - Driving Behavior and Safety: Can they co-exist?

	Kazuya Takeda (Nagoya University)
		Signal Modeling of Human Behavior


13:00-15:00 Session 4 organized by Kawahara's project

	Shri Narayanan (University of Southern California)
		Multimodal Human Behavioral Informatics
	
	Ivan Tashev (Microsoft)
		Audio for Kinect: pushing it to the limit

	Tatsuya Kawahara (Kyoto University)
		Multimodal Sensing and Recognition for Smart Posterboard


15:30-16:30 Session 5 IEEE SPS Distinguished Lecturer Program
	Tulay Adali (University of Maryland, Baltimore County)
		ICA and IVA: Theory, Connections, and Applications

16:30-17:15 Session 6 organized by IEEE Kansai Section
	Mike Schuster (Google)
		Voice Search at Google