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SPECOM 2016 – FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS

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18th International Conference on Speech and Computer (SPECOM-2016)

Venue: Budapest, Hungary, August 23-27, 2016

Web: www.hte.hu/specom2016

THE CONFERENCE

The International Conference on Speech and Computer - SPECOM is a regular event organized since 1996 and attracts researchers in the area of computer speech processing, multimodal interfaces and applied systems for telecommunication, robotics, intelligent and cyberphysical environments.

ORGANIZERS

The conference is organized by Budapest University of Technology and Economics (Budapest, Hungary) and Scientific Association for Infocommunications (HTE, Hungary), in cooperation with Moscow State Linguistic University (MSLU, Moscow, Russia), St. Petersburg Institute for Informatics and Automation of the Russian Academy of Science (SPIIRAS, St. Petersburg, Russia) and St. Petersburg National Research University of Information Technologies, Mechanics and Optics (ITMO University, St. Petersburg, Russia)

TOPICS

The SPECOM conference is devoted to issues of human-machine interaction, particularly:

Applications for human-computer interaction

Audio-visual speech processing

Automatic language identification

Corpus linguistics and linguistic processing

Forensic speech investigations and security systems

Multichannel signal processing

Multimedia processing

Multimodal analysis and synthesis

Signal processing and feature extraction

Speaker identification and diarization

Speaker verification systems

Speech and language resources

Speech analytics and audio mining

Speech dereverberation

Speech driving systems in robotics

Speech enhancement

Speech perception and speech disorders

Speech recognition and understanding

Speech translation automatic systems

Spoken dialogue systems

Spoken language processing

Text-to-speech and Speech-to-text systems

Virtual and augmented reality

OFFICIAL LANGUAGE

The official language of the event is English. However, papers on processing of languages other than English are strongly encouraged.

PROGRAMME COMMITTEE

Rodmonga Potapova, Moscow State Linguistic University, Russia (General Conference Co-Chair)

Andrey Ronzhin, SPIIRAS, St. Petersburg, Russia (General Conference Co-Chair)

Geza Nemeth, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary (Organising Committee Chairman)

Etienne Barnard, North-West University, South Africa
Laurent Besacier, Laboratory of Informatics of Grenoble, France
Vlado Delic, University of Novi Sad, Serbia
Olivier Deroo, Acapela Group, Belgium
Christoph Draxler, Institute of Phonetics and Speech Communication, Germany
Thierry Dutoit, University of Mons, Belgium
Nikos Fakotakis, University of Patras, Greece
Peter French, University of York, UK
Hiroya Fujisaki, University of Tokyo, Japan
Todor Ganchev, Technical University of Varna, Bulgaria
Ruediger Hoffmann, Dresden University of Technology, Germany
Oliver Jokisch, Leipzig University of Telecommunication, Germany
Slobodan Jovicic, University of Belgrade, Serbia
Dimitri Kanevsky, IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, USA
Alexey Karpov, SPIIRAS, Saint-Petersburg, Russia
Heysem Kaya, Bogazici University, Turkey
Irina Kipyatkova, SPIIRAS, Russia
Daniil Kocharov, St. Petersburg State University, Russia
George Kokkinakis, University of Patras, Greece
Steven Krauwer, Utrecht University, The Netherlands
Lin-shan Lee, National Taiwan University, Taiwan
Boris Lobanov, United Institute of Informatics Problems, Belarus
Elena Lyakso, St. Petersburg State University, Russia
Konstantin Markov, The University of Aizu, Japan

Yuri Matveev, ITMO University, Russia
Péter Mihajlik, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary
Konstantinos Moustakas, University of Patras, Greece
Iosif Mporas, University of Patras, Greece
Heinrich Niemann, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany
Alexander Petrovsky, Belarusian State University of Informatics and Radioelectronics, Belarus
Dimitar Popov, Bologna University, Italy
Elias Potamitis, University of Patras, Greece
Lawrence Rabiner, Rutgers University, USA
Gerhard Rigoll, Munich University of Technology, Germany
Murat Saraclar, Bogazici University, Turkey
Jesus Savage, University of Mexico, Mexico
Tanja Schultz, University of Karlsruhe, Germany
Milan Secujski, University of Novi Sad, Serbia
Pavel Skrelin, St. Petersburg State University, Russia
Viktor Sorokin, Institute for Information Transmission Problems, Russia
Yannis Stylianou, University of Crete, Greece
György Szaszák, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary
Klára Vicsi, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary
Christian Wellekens, EURECOM, France
Csaba Zainkó, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary
Milos Zelezny, University of West Bohemia, Czech Republic

FORMAT OF THE CONFERENCE

The conference program will include presentation of invited papers, oral presentations, and poster/demonstration sessions. Papers will be presented in plenary or topic oriented sessions.

Details about the social events will be available on the web page.

SUBMISSION OF PAPERS

Authors are invited to submit a full paper not exceeding 8 pages formatted in the LNCS style (see below). Those accepted will be presented either orally or as posters. The decision on the presentation format will be based upon the recommendation of three independent reviewers. The authors are asked to submit their papers using the on-line submission form accessible from the conference web site.

Papers submitted to SPECOM 2016 must not be under review by any other conference or publication during the SPECOM review cycle, and must not be previously published or accepted for publication elsewhere.

The paper format for the review has to be the PDF file with all required fonts included. Upon notification of acceptance, speakers will receive further information on submitting their camera-ready and electronic sources (for detailed instructions on the final paper format see http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0).

PROCEEDINGS

SPECOM Proceedings will be published by Springer as a book in the Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI) series listed in all major citation databases such as DBLP, SCOPUS, EI, INSPEC, COMPENDEX. SPECOM Proceedings are included in the list of forthcoming proceedings for August 2016.

IMPORTANT DATES

April 15, 2016 ............ Submission of full papers

May 15, 2016 ............ Notification of acceptance

June 01, 2016 ............ Final papers (camera ready) and registration

August 23-27, 2016 ........ Conference date

The contributions to the conference will be published in proceedings that will be made available to participants at the time of the conference.

CONFERENCE FEES

The conference fee depends on the date of payment and on your status. It includes one copy of the conference proceedings, refreshments/coffee breaks, opening dinner, welcome party, mid-conference social event admissions, and organizing costs. In order to lower the fee as much as possible, meals during the conference, the accommodation, and the conference trip are not included.

Full participant:

early registration by June 01, 2016 – 380 EUR

late registration by July 01, 2016 – 420 EUR

on-site registration – 470 EUR

Student (reduced):

early registration by June 01, 2016– 300 EUR

late registration by July 01, 2016 – 330 EUR

on-site registration – 370 EUR

The payment may be refunded up until July 01, at the cost of 60 EUR. No refund is possible after this date.

At least one of the authors has to register and pay the registration fee by June 01, 2016 for their paper to be included in the conference proceedings. Only one paper of up to 8 pages is included in the regular registration fee. An author with more than one paper pays the additional paper rates unless a co-author has also registered and paid the full registration fee. In the case of uncertainty, feel free to contact the organising committee for clarification.

VENUE

The conference will be organized in at the campus of Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Budapest, Hungary (http://www.bme.hu).

Budapest, 'the pearl of the Danube' is one of the truly historic European capitals with its past stretching back over one thousand years. The picturesque bridges spanning the river Danube, the Castle Hill, the churches and architecture, the sculptures, the wooded hills, the Hungarian cuisine and wine, and the warm hospitality of Hungarian people all ensure that no guest can leave here without longing to return.

ACCOMMODATION

The organising committee has arranged accommodation for reasonable prices in hotels, which are situated near the city center. The rooms with sufficient discount are reserved for the conference days.

ADDRESS

All correspondence regarding the conference should be addressed to:

SPECOM 2016 Secretariat:

Scientific Association for Infocommunications, HTE, Hungary

E-mail: specom@hte.hu; specom@iias.spb.su

Phone: +36 1 353 1027

SPECOM 2016 web site: http://www.hte.hu/specom2016