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*ODYSSEY 2016:*
*THE SPEAKER AND LANGUAGE RECOGNITION WORKSHOP*
* June 21-24, 2016, Bilbao, Spain*
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*SPECIAL ISSUE of COMPUTER SPEECH AND LANGUAGE**APPROVED !!!*
Recent advances in speaker and language recognition and characterization
< http://www.journals.elsevier.com/computer-speech-and-language/call-for-papers/recent-advances-in-speaker-and-language-recognition-and-char/>
The goal of this special issue is to highlight the current state of
research efforts
on speaker and language recognition andcharacterization. New ideas
about features,
models, tasks, datasetsorbenchmarks are growing, making this a
particularly
exciting time.Topics of interest include, but are not limited to,
those of Odyssey 2016
(follow the link above for more details).
Guest Editors:
Eduardo LleidaUniversity of Zaragoza, Spain
Luis J. RodrÃguez-FuentesUniversity of the Basque Country, Spain
Important dates (tentative):
Submission open:April 11, 2016
Submission deadline:July 22, 2016
Notifications of final decision:February 23, 2017
Scheduled publication:March, 2017
Though the call for papers to this special issue is open, authors with
best reviews
at Odyssey 2016 will be invited to submit extended versions of their papers
(at least 30% of the material must be new). Note that CSL papers have no
page limit.
All papers will go through the same rigorous review process as regular
CSL papers,
with a minimum of two reviewers per paper.
For any questions, please contact us at info@odyssey2016.org
< mailto:info@odyssey2016.org>
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*LAST CALL FOR PAPERS*
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http://www.odyssey2016.org
(follow us on Facebook <https://www.facebook.com/Odyssey2016> and
Twitter <https://twitter.com/odyssey2016>)
*_IMPORTANT DATES_*
*DEADLINES EXTENDED !!! (no further extensions will be done)*
Regular paper submissions February 5, 2016
Show & Tell / Industry & Forensics February 22, 2016
Notifications March 22, 2016
Camera ready papers April 8, 2016
*NEW !!!*
*A _Special Issue_of _Computer Speech and Language_is under*
*consideration (see details below). If approved, there will be*
*an open call, and authors with best reviews at Odyssey 2016*
*will be invited to submit extended versions of their papers.*
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*TOPICS*
The general themes of the workshop include speaker and language recognition
and characterization. The specific topics include, but are not limited to,
the following:
o Speaker and language recognition, verification, identification
o Speaker and language characterization
o Features for speaker and language recognition
o Speaker and language clustering
o Multispeaker segmentation, detection, and diarization
o Language, dialect, and accent recognition
o Robustness in channels and environment
o System calibration and fusion
o Speaker recognition with speech recognition
o Multimodal speaker recognition
o Speaker recognition in multimedia content
o Machine learning for speaker and language recognition
o Confidence estimation for speaker and language recognition
o Corpora and tools for system development and evaluation
o Low-resource (lightly supervised) speaker and language recognition
o Speaker synthesis and transformation
o Human and human-assisted recognition of speaker and language
o Spoofing and tampering attacks: analysis and countermeasures
o Forensic and investigative speaker recognition
o Systems and applications
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*WORKSHOP FORMAT AND PAPER SUBMISSION*
As in previous editions <http://www.speakerodyssey.com>, Odyssey 2016
will consist of plenary
oral and poster sessions, with special sessions on topics of interest,
Show & Tell (demo) sessions and panel discussions with industry partners.
Regular papers (including those for special sessions) and Show & Tell papers
must be uploaded in PDF format to the Odyssey 2016 Submission System:
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=odyssey2016
Guidelines for paper preparation and Word/LaTeX templates are available
on the website:
http://odyssey2016.org//?p=Submission#shorthead
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*REGULAR PAPERS*
Regular papers (including those for special sessions) must be
at most 8 pages long and are expected to include scientific or
methodological novelty, which must be stated clearly in the
Introduction, along with a review of the relevant prior work.
Each paper will be reviewed by at least three members of the
scientific committee. Accepted papers will appear in electronic
proceedings, and will be accessible through the ISCA Archive
< http://www.isca-speech.org/iscaweb/index.php/archive/online-archive>.
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*SHOW & TELL PAPERS*
For the Show & Tell (demo) sessions, authors must submit short papers
(at most, 4 pages long) describing a system or prototype, a target
application, a product, a demonstrator or any combination of them.
These contributions do not have to present scientific or methodological
novelty; therefore, they will not undergo full peer review and will not be
included in the proceedings (though will be available for download
on the website). One or more poster sessions will be allocated for
Show & Tell submissions, with auxiliary equipment (tables, plugs, etc.)
available if requested. The organizing committee may select the most
interesting submissions for oral presentation.
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*INDUSTRY AND FORENSICS TRACK*
To foster a closer collaboration across industry and academia,
an industry track was introduced in Odyssey 2014. The initiative is
continued in Odyssey 2016 under the name 'Industry and Forensics track',
in order to include forensic and investigative speaker recognition,
an application which involves diverse areas of expertise. Companies,
R&D labs, government agencies and other interested parties (e.g. forensic
experts and labs) are called to participate in the following sessions:
*- Forensic and investigative speaker recognition*
*- Commercial applications of speaker and language recognition*
These sessions are expected to be highly interactive, with a series
of pitch talks (3-5 minutes long each), followed by a panel discussion
open to the audience, addressing practical issues or unsolved problems
'out-in-the-wild' that deserve attention.
To participate, just send an email to info@odyssey2016.org
< mailto:info@odyssey2016.org> with
'Industry and Forensics track' as Subject, providing details of
your company profile (in particular, your involvement with or
your need for speaker and language recognition technology),
your interests (forensics, commercial or other) and contact info.
Besides voice biometrics providers and companies that develop
and exploit speaker/language recognition solutions, we encourage
companies who are IN NEED for speaker or language recognition
technology to participatre in these sessions.
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*SPECIAL SESSION 1: Speaker Recognition in Multimedia Content (SS-SRMC)*
Speaker information is instrumental in better exploiting spoken
multimedia content, as evidenced by recent work on large-scale
speaker indexing and linking, or on speaker naming in broadcast
archives.
The special session 'Speaker recognition in multimedia content',
organized in collaboration with the ISCA SIG on Speech and Language
in Multimedia (SIG-SLIM, http://slim-sig.irisa.fr/), pursues
two main goals: (1) to share recent advances in the field and
to identify synergies between the various multimedia applications
where speaker recognition, indexing and segmentation is considered;
and (2) to raise awareness on speaker-related research in multimedia
so as to strengthen the link between the multimedia and the speaker
recognition communities.
The session targets researchers working on any topic related to
speaker characterization for multimedia content processing, including
(but not limited to) speaker segmentation, speaker indexing, speaker
clustering, speaker naming or discovery, or speaking face detection.
Multimodal (e.g. speech + face recognition) approaches are particularly
welcome. We expect submissions presenting original research results,
ongoing research and development projects, tools and resources that
are being made available, or benchmarking initiatives.
Submissions to this Special Session must be done under the topic:
'Speaker recognition in multimedia content'
Chairs of SS-SRMC at Odyssey 2016
Hervé BredinCNRS/LIMSI, France
Claude BarrasLIMSI, France
Guillaume GravierCNRS/IRISA, France
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*SPECIAL SESSION 2: NIST 2015 Language Recognition*
*i-Vector Machine Learning Challenge (SS-LRiMLC)*
In 2015 NIST launched a Language Recognition i-Vector Machine Learning
Challenge as an alternative evaluation methodology to attract newcomers
to the field by reducing the effort required to preprocess the data
through the use of i-vectors.
This special session focuses on the recent advances in language
recognition in the context of the NIST Challenge as well as on the
Challenge results. As such, we invite participants of the Challenge
as well as researchers who work on the language recognition task
using i-vectors to submit papers about their systems or techniques.
Novel uses of i-vectors for language recognition as well as data
resources and benchmark results are of special interest.
Submissions to this Special Session are expected to present original
ideas or results, and must be done under the topic:
'Machine learning for speaker and language recognition'
Chairs of SS-LRiMLC at Odyssey 2016
Craig GreenbergNIST, USA
Audrey TongNIST, USA
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*AWARDS*
Odyssey 2016 will feature two awards:
*- A best paper award*
*- A best student paper award*
All regular papers (including special session papers) are candidates
for the awards. The awards are given based on the review reports AND
the presentation at the conference. For the best student paper award,
the first author must be a student (meaning that she/he does not yet
hold a PhD degree) at the time of paper submission.
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*STEERING COMMITTEE*
Luis J. RodrÃguez-Fuentes, chair University of the Basque Country, Spain
Eduardo Lleida, co-chair University of Zaragoza, Spain
Jean-François Bonastre University of Avignon, France
Niko Brümmer Agnitio, South Africa
Lukáš Burget Brno University of Technology, Czech
Republic
Joseph Campbell MIT Lincoln Laboratory, USA
Jan 'Honza' Černocký Brno University of Technology, Czech
Republic
Tomi Kinnunen University of Eastern Finland, Finland
Haizhou Li Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore
Alvin Martin NIST, USA
Douglas Reynolds MIT Lincoln Laboratory, USA
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*COMPUTER SPEECH AND LANGUAGE -- Special Issue (AWAITING APPROVAL)*
'Recent advances in speaker and language recognition and characterization'
The goal of this special issue is to highlight the current state
of research efforts on speaker and language recognition and
characterization. New ideas about features, models, tasks, datasets
or benchmarks are growing, making this a particularly exciting time.
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, those of
Odyssey 2016 (as listed above).
Guest Editors:
Eduardo Lleida University of Zaragoza, Spain
Luis J. RodrÃguez-Fuentes University of the Basque Country, Spain
Important dates (tentative):
Submission deadline July 22, 2016
Notifications December 23, 2016
Scheduled publication March, 2017
Though the call for papers to this special issue is open, authors
with best reviews at Odyssey 2016 will be invited to submit extended
versions of their papers (at least 30% of the material must be new).
Note that CSL papers have no page limit. All papers will go through
the same rigorous review process as regular CSL papers, with a minimum
of two reviewers per paper.
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*VENUE AND TRAVEL*
Odyssey 2016 will be hosted by two Spanish groups: GTTS
(http://gtts.ehu.es),
from the Faculty of Science and Technology of the University of the
Basque Country,
and ViVoLab (http://vivolab.unizar.es/), from the School of Engineering and
Architecture of the University of Zaragoza.
The workshop will be held in Bilbao
< http://www.bilbaoturismo.net/BilbaoTurismo/en/tourists>, a medium-size
city in the north of Spain,
with about 350,000 inhabitants. The venue, Bizkaia Aretoa
< http://www.ehu.eus/en/web/bizkaia-aretoa/home>, is located in the heart
of the city. The building, designed by the Portuguese architect Alvaro Siza,
hosts all kind of social, cultural, academic and scientific events, most
of them
organized by the University of the Basque Country.
Bilbao is the commercial and administrative head of a large area of about
one million people living by the Ibaizabal-Nervion estuary. After
centuries of
trading and iron industry, in the last decades Bilbao has become a
service town,
supported by a huge investment in infrastructure and urban renewal, that
started
with the construction of an underground network (Metro Bilbao) in 1995 and
the opening of the Bilbao Guggenheim Museum in 1997.
The Bilbao airport
< http://www.aena.es/csee/Satellite/Aeropuerto-Bilbao/en/Home.html> can
be easily reached from many European airports,
including international hubs such as Amsterdam, Brussels, Frankfurt,
Istanbul, London, Madrid or Paris, which provide worldwide connectivity.
The city is connected to the European road network by the AP-8 toll
motorway,
to the north of Spain by the A-8 (free) motorway and to the rest of Spain
by the AP-68 toll motorway.
Located in a hilly countryside, Bilbao offers many outdoor activities.
Hiking is very popular as well as rock climbing in the nearby mountains.
Mount Artxanda, easily accessible from the town centre by a funicular
railway,
features a recreational area at the summit, with restaurants, a sports
complex
and a balcony with panoramic views. In the south, the natural wonders of
Mount Pagasarri receive hundreds of hikers every weekend.
A few minutes away by public transport, the Bizkaia Bridge, declared World
Heritage in 2006, connects Portugalete and Las Arenas at the left and right
banks of the estuary. In the coast, old fishing villages like Plentzia,
Mundaka or Lekeitio have become touristic spots due to the nearby beaches,
where watersports, especially surfing, are practiced. Just an hour away
by car,
the beautiful city of San Sebastian, as well as the vineyards and wineries
of La Rioja, are worth a visit.
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*For more details:*
Website (under construction): http://www.odyssey2016.org
Email: info@odyssey2016.org <mailto:info@odyssey2016.org>
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*Odyssey 2016 is supported by:*
- ISCA SIG-SpLC
- University of the Basque Country
- University of Zaragoza
- Spanish Thematic Network on Speech Technology
- AGNITIO VOICE ID
- CIRRUS LOGIC
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