CHiME 2018

            5th International Workshop on

Speech Processing in Everyday Environments

         Microsoft, Hyderabad, Sep 7, 2018

          Submission deadline: Aug 3, 2018

  http://spandh.dcs.shef.ac.uk/chime_workshop/

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NEWS

* Keynote speakers

The workshop will feature two keynote speakers to be announced soon.

* Registration:

Registration will open on June 10. There will be a flat all-inclusive fee of 30 GBP for students and 50 GBP for other attendees. The fee will include buffet lunch, coffee breaks, bus to/from the Interspeech area (subject to availability), and a food/drinks event in the evening of September 7.

Seats are likely to fill up fast. If you plan to attend we recommend registering as early as possible.

* Travel grants:We will provide 8 travel grants of 150 GBP each (including free registration). These grants are meant for students and young scientists (age < 35). Exceptionally, researchers in special situations like unemployment or coming from low income-level countries may also apply. To apply, please send the following documents to chimechallenge@gmail.com by June 4th:- your CV,- a proof of your student status,- a cover letter stating whether you plan to enter the CHiME-5 challenge and/or submit a paper to the workshop.We will notify successful applicants by June 8 and transfer the money after the workshop.

ABOUT THE WORKSHOP

CHiME 2018 will bring together researchers from the fields of computational hearing, speech enhancement, acoustic modelling and machine learning to discuss the robustness of speech processing in everyday environments.

As a focus for discussion, the workshop will host the CHiME-5 Speech Separation and Recognition Challenge. To find out more about the challenge, seehttp://spandh.dcs.shef.ac.uk/chime_challenge/.

PAPER SUBMISSION

Relevant research topics include (but are not limited to):

- training schemes: data augmentation, semi-supervised training,

- speaker localization and beamforming,

- single- or multi-microphone enhancement and separation,

- robust features and feature transforms,

- robust acoustic and language modeling,

- robust speech recognition,

- robust speaker and language recognition,

- robust paralinguistics,

- cross-environment or cross-dataset performance analysis,

- environmental background noise modelling.

Papers reporting evaluation results on the CHiME-5 dataset or on other datasets are both welcome.

IMPORTANT DATES

10th Jun, 2018    Registration opens

3rd Aug, 2018    Extended abstract submission (2 pages)

20th Aug, 2018  Paper notification

7th Sept, 2018   CHiME-5 Workshop

8th Oct, 2018     Final paper (2 to 6 pages)

ORGANISERS

Jon Barker, University of Sheffield

Shinji Watanabe, Johns Hopkins University

Emmanuel Vincent, Inria

LOCAL ORGANISER

Simerpreet Kaur, Microsoft

SPONSORS

Microsoft

SUPPORTED BY

International Speech Communication Association (ISCA)

ISCA Robust Speech Processing SIG