HSCMA Hands Free Communication and Microphone Arrays

March 1–3, 2017 • San Francisco, CA, USA

Call for Papers

The Fifth Joint Workshop on Hands-free Speech Communication and Microphone Arrays will

be held on March 1-3, 2017 at the Google Offices in downtown San Francisco, California.

The workshop is devoted to presenting recent advances in distant-talking speech communication

and human/machine interaction with an emphasis on multi-microphone systems. It will bring

together researchers and practitioners from universities and industry working in distant speech

and speaker recognition, speech enhancement, high-quality sound capture, and multiple-input/

multiple-output (MIMO) acoustic signal processing. Demonstrations of experimental systems,

applications, and prototypes are especially welcome.

HSCMA 2017 is being held with technical sponsorship by the IEEE Signal Processing Society

and will immediately precede ICASSP 2017.

Workshop Topics

Papers in all areas of distant-talking human/human and human/machine interaction are

encouraged, including:

• Multi-channel and single-channel approaches for speech acquisition, noise suppression,

source localization and separation, dereverberation, echo cancellation, and acoustic event

detection

• Speech and speaker recognition technology for hands-free scenarios, including robust

acoustic modeling, novel features, feature enhancement, dereverberation, and model

adaptation

• Microphone array technology and architectures, especially for distant-talking speech

recognition and acoustic scene analysis

• Multi-channel rendering, including spatial audio for immersive environments, improvements

to intelligibility in noisy environments, and privacy of speech communications

• Speech corpora for training and evaluation of distant-talking speech systems

• Applications based on microphone arrays and hands-free speech systems.

Special Sessions

The program will also feature special sessions on new or emerging topics of interest. Proposals

for special sessions must include the session title, rationale, outline, and a list of four invited

papers.

Paper & demo submission

The workshop technical program will consist of oral presentations, poster sessions, and

demonstrations. Prospective authors are invited to submit full-length papers up to four pages,

with a fifth page permitted for references only. Submissions for proposed demonstrations may be

up to two pages in length. Manuscripts should be prepared using the same format as for ICASSP

submissions using the ICASSP author kit for LaTeX or Word. Accepted papers will be published

in IEEEXplore.

Committee

General Co-chairs Jerome Bellegarda, Apple Malcolm Slaney, Google Ivan Tashev, Microsoft Technical Program Chairs Shoko Araki, NTT Jacob Benesty, INRS-EMT, University of Quebec Bastiaan Kleijn, Victoria University of Wellington Mike Seltzer, Microsoft

Finance Chair Mark Thomas, Dolby

Publicity/Publications Chair Ozlem Kalinli,

Sony Demo/Special Sessions Chair Shiva Sundaram,

Amazon Local Arrangements Chair Horacio Franco, SRI

Important Dates
Special Session Proposals Due ..........................September 1, 2016 Notification for Special Sessions ........................September 15, 2016 Paper Submission Deadline .........................December 13, 2016 Final Upload of Submitted Papers .........................December 18, 2016 Notification of Paper Decisions .............................January 20, 2017 Camera Ready Papers Due .............................January 23, 2017