FIRST WORKSHOP ON SPEECH, LANGUAGE AND AUDIO IN MULTIMEDIA

Organized by
ISCA SIG on Speech and Language in Multimedia
IEEE SIG on Audio and Speech Processing for Multimedia

as a satellite event of Interspeech 2013

Aug. 22—23, 2013, Marseille, France

http://slam2013.lif.univ-mrs.fr

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The first Workshop on Speech, Language and Audio in Multimedia (SLAM) aims at bringing together researchers working in speech, language and audio processing to analyze, index and access multimedia data. Multimedia data are now available in very large amounts with a wide variety of formats and qualities, from professional content to user-generated ones: Lectures, meetings, interviews, debates, conversational broadcast, podcasts, social videos on the Web, etc. Such data, along with the associated use scenarios, raise specific challenges: Robustness facing the high variability in quality; Efficiency to handle very large amount of data; Semantics shared across modalities; Potentially high error rates in transcription; etc. Worldwide, several national and international research projects are focusing on audio analysis of multimedia data. Similarly, various benchmark initiatives have been initiated such as TRECVID MED, MediaEval, or ETAPE and REPERE in France.

The SLAM workshop intends to bring together players from the field to share recent research results, discuss ongoing and future projects, benchmarking initiatives and applications. We expect communications on research work, project description, evaluation initiative, demonstrations and applications dealing with speech and/or language and/or audio on any type of multimedia material.

The workshop is organized in conjunction with Interspeech 2013 over 1.5 days, starting Thu. 22, 2013 at mid-day and ending Fri. 23, 2013 afternoon, right before the main conference. Marseille is conveniently connected by high-speed train to Lyon where the Interspeech conference will take place. The format of the workshop will include an invited talk and oral presentations of scientific work.


*Important dates*
registration deadline : July 10th, 2013
workshop: August 22-23, 2013
Interspeech conference: August 25-30, 2013

The first SLAM workshop is jointly organized by the newly created ISCA SIG on Speech and Language in Multimedia and by the IEEE SIG on Audio and Speech Processing in Multimedia. This first edition is intended as the first of a series of workshop.

General Chairs:
Frédéric Bechet (LIF-CNRS, Aix Marseille Université)
Guillaume Gravier (IRISA, CNRS)

Scientific committee:
Xavier Anguera (Telefónica)
Frédéric Bechet (Aix Marseille Université)
Delphine Charlet (Orange Labs)
Gerald Friedland (ICSI)
Sadaoki Furui (Tokyo Institute of Technology)
Guillaume Gravier (CNRS)
Gareth Jones (Dublin City University)
Martha Larson (TU Delft)
Lin-Shan Lee (National Taiwan University)
Georges Linarès (Université d'Avignon)
Florian Metze (CMU)

Organizing committee:
Patrice Bellot (LSIS-CNRS, Aix Marseille Université)
Hervé Bredin (LIMSI, CNRS)
Benoît Favre (LIF-CNRS, Aix Marseille Université)
Sylvain Meigner (LIUM, Université du Maine)
Christian Raymond (IRISA, INSA Rennes)