| | Dear Colleagues,
We are pleased to inform you that the Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of Information and Communication Technology (DA-IICT), Gandhinagar will be organizing the 5th edition of ISCA Supported Summer School on Speech Signal Processing (S4P-2019) during July 06-10, 2019. S4P 2019 is the 5th edition of summer school of its kind in India which is focused this time on speaker biometrics and diarization.
URL: https://sites.google.com/site/s4p2019/
Early Registration: Before May 06, 2019.
The topic of S4P 2019 is ?Speaker Recognition and Diarization,? the latest topic of research involving understanding challenging field of voice biometrics. With the advent of new smartphones and deployment of voice authentication for banking transactions, it is now possible to answer, in a principled way, the insights about speech production-perception and its link to speaker-specific information, and develop new engineering models for this research problem. S4P 2019 would highlight recent developments in the field from world renowned experts. We expect researchers from IISc/IITs/NITs/DA-IICT/IIITs and other institutions in the country, industry researchers working in speech/audio area and research scholars to participate at the summer school.
S4P 2019 will have four experts from abroad and seven experts from India to present recent developments in their respective research topics that are related to the theme of summer school. The experts chosen are Jean-Francois Bonastre (Avignon University, France), Nicholas Evans (EURECOM, France), Thomas F. Zheng (Tsinghua University, Beijing, China), Dong Wang (Tsinghua University, Beijing, China), Dr. P. K. Saxena (Scientific Consultant, Office of the Principal Scientific Advisor (PSA)) to Govt of India, Swaran Lata (Retd. MeitY, New Delhi). B.Yegnanarayana (Retd. IIT Madras), Swaran Lata (Retd. MeitY, New Delhi), K. Samudravijaya (IIT Guwahati), Hema A. Murthy (IIT Madras), S. R. M. Prasanna (IIT Dharwad), Suryakanth Gangashetty (IIIT Hyderabad) and K. S. R. Murty (IIT Hyderabad). The program committee of S4P 2016 includes internationally well-known experts from 18 countries across the world. The S4P 2019 also includes 4th edition 5 minute Ph.D. thesis (5MPT) which provides doctoral students an opportunity to showcase their research work in front of eminent researchers both from academia and industry and possibly win ISCA endorsed cash prizes and DE GRUYTER book prizes. We are also attaching the poster and signed cover letter for call for participation. In addition, this summer school will also have a special session involving renowned experts from speech technology industry, namely. Vikram Vij (Senior Vice President, Voice Intelligence Group, Samsung Research Institute, Bengaluru, India), Sunayana Sitaram from Microsoft Research, Bangalore, K. Sunilkumar (TCS Innovation Labs, Mumbai) and Pranaw Kumar (C-DAC Mumbai).
We are writing this letter anticipating that you will participate in this event and we are sure, your participation will make this event enriching. We would also request you to encourage your post doctoral fellows, PhD Scholars and M.Tech. students, Research Associates (RA) and faculty colleagues to submit their application for participation. We are sure, participation at the summer school will help us to get updated on the latest research in the broad areas of speaker recognition and diarization. We will appreciate it very much if you can arrange to place the poster on the notice board of your department /institution / university/ R&D lab.
We look forward to hearing from you.
With best regards,
Prof. Hemant A. Patil,
APSIPA Distinguished Lecturer 2018-2019.
On behalf of the Organizing Committee, S4P 2019.
Patron K. S. Dasgupta, Director, DA-IICT GandhinagarOrganizing Committee , S4P 2019 Hemant A. Patil, Chair, DA-IICT Gandhinagar, Suman K. Mitra, Convener, DA-IICT Gandhinagar,
Yash Vasavada, DA-IICT Gandhinagar,
Sanjeev Gupta, DA-IICT Gandhinagar,
Srimanta Mandal, DA-IICT Gandhinagar,
Soman Nair, DA-IICT Gandhinagar,International Program Committee, S4P 2019 Douglas O'Shaughnessy, McGill University, Canada Sadaoki Furui, Toyota Technological Institute, Chicago, USA Douglas Reylonds, MIT Lincoln Lab, USA Pedro Torres-Carrasquillo, MIT Lincoln Lab, USA Hideki Kawahara, Wakayama University, Japan Odette Scharenborg, Delft University of Technology,The Netherlands Torbjørn Svendsen, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway Jiri Navratil, IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, NY, USA Yannis Stylianou, University of Crete, Greece Tomi H. Kinnunen, University of Eastern Finland, Finland Junichi Yamagishi, National Institute of Informatics, Japan Eduardo Lleida, University of Zaragoza, Spain Luis Javier Rodriguez-Fuentes, University of Basque Country, Euskal Herriko
Unibertsitatea Lori Lamel, LIMSI, France Saikat Chatterjee, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm Julia Hirschberg, Columbia University, New York Kong Aik Lee, NEC Corporation, Japan Amy Neustein, Verizon, USA Tanja Schultz, University of Bremen, Denmark Dong Ming Hui, Institute for Infocomm Research(I2R), A*STAR, Singapore Eliathamby Ambikairajah, University of New South Wales, Sydney Dong Wang, Tsinghua University, China Tara Sainath, AI Google, USA Tatsuya Kawahara, Kyoto University, Japan Jianwu Jang, JAIST, Japan Csapó Tamás Gábor, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary Bernd Moebius, Saarland University, Germany Pascal Perrier, GIPSA-Lab,Grenoble-INP, France Daryush Mehta, Center of Laryngeal and Voice Rehabilitation, Boston, USA |
