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Tuesday, May 10, 2016 by Chris Wellekens |
Call for papers SPECOM 2016 18th International Conference on Speech and Computer August 23-27, 2016 | Budapest, Hungary PROGRAMME COMMITTEE Rodmonga Potapova Moscow State Linguistic University, Russia General Conference Co-Chair Andrey Ronzhin SPIIRAS, Saint-Petersburg, Russia, General Conference Co-Chair Géza Németh Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary Organising Committee Chair 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 SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE 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 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 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 8, 2016 Submission of full papers April 15, 2016 Submission of final papers upload May 15, 2016 Notification of acceptance June 01, 2016 Camera-ready papers 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. VENUE The conference will be organized in the Aquincum Hotel Budapest, Hungary (http://www.aquincumhotel.com). 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. CONTACT All correspondence regarding the conference should be addressed to: SPECOM 2016 Secretariat Scientific Association for Infocommunications, HTE, Hungary E-mail: specom@hte.hu Phone: +36 1 353 1027 SPECOM 2016 conference web site: http://www.hte.hu/specom2016 |
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