Suite au succès de la première édition des Deep Voice, Paris je suis très heureux de vous dévoiler le programme de la deuxième édition qui se tiendra les 15-16-17 juin 2022 avec pour thème la diversité et l’inclusion dans les technologies vocales  ! 

 

Deep Voice, Paris est l’événement parisien dédié à la voix et à l’intelligence artificielle dont l’objectif est de réunir expertises scientifique et technique, innovation et entrepreneuriat. Pour cette deuxième édition, keynote, discussions et tables rondes se succèderont pour traiter des langues rares, des langues peu dotées, de la langue des signes, des  dialectes et accents, du genre, des biais et des discriminations dans les technologies vocales. Des ateliers techniques - “hands-on” - seront proposés aux participants pour développer leurs compétences dans les domaines du traitement de la parole et du langage naturel. Des moments de rencontres et de réseautage en fin de journée faciliteront les rencontres et l’échange entre les participants en toute décontraction.

 

Pour cette deuxième édition : 

 

👉 un line-up exceptionnel avec les meilleurs spécialistes français et internationaux du domaine

👉 plus de discussions, plus de rencontres, plus d’événements

👉 les ateliers de formation technique aux dernières innovations, avec un tarif privilégié pour les étudiants

👉 et des ouvertures culturelle et artistique !

 

Les présentations sont librement accessibles en présence ou à distance sur inscription. Pour les personnes ne pouvant pas assister à l’évènement (par exemple, les chercheuses et chercheurs en pèlerinage sur l’ile de Noirmoutier), l’intégralité des présentations seront diffusées en ligne, captées, et rendues disponibles en replay.

 

Deep Voice est un événement co-organisé par l’Ircam, Sorbonne Université, et le SCAI dans le cadre du festival

ManiFeste 2022.

 

PS : la thématique de l’année prochaine portera sur la musique et le chant, n’hésitez pas à me contacter dès maintenant si vous êtes intéressé à y participer !

Nicolas Obin

 

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Le Congrès Mondial de Linguistique Française (CMLF) est la plus grande manifestation biennale consacrée à l’étude scientifique de la langue française. Les propositions de communication se font sous forme d’articles (10 pages minimum, 15 pages maximum) incluant une bibliographie. La gestion des propositions, leur répartition entre comités thématiques et au sein des comités thématiques s'effectue via la plateforme https://www.sciencesconf.org/ L'évaluation est assurée par des experts au moyen d'une grille unifiée et après anonymisation des soumissions. Les communications retenues, sous réserve de leur présentation effective en conférence, sont publiées en version intégrale dans les actes dès l’ouverture du colloque par edp sciences http://www.edpsciences.org à l’adresse www.linguistiquefrancaise.org

Toutes les informations se trouvent dans l'appel à communication que nous vous invitons à consulter.

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CALL FOR PAPERS
19th International Conference on Signal Processing and Multimedia Applications

**Submission Deadline: March 22, 2022**

https://sigmap.scitevents.org
July 14 - 16, 2022
Lisbon, Portugal

Important Note:
The conference will be held in Lisbon but we are open to accept online presentations in case the participants can't attend the conference.

The purpose of SIGMAP 2022, the International Conference on Signal Processing and Multimedia Applications, is to bring together researchers, engineers and practitioners interested on information systems and applications, including theory and practice in various heterogeneous and interrelated fields including image, video and audio data processing, new sources of multimodal data (text, social, health, etc.) and Multimedia Applications related to representation, storage, authentication and communication of multimedia information. Multimedia is a research field that includes computing methods in which different modalities are integrated and combined, with the aim to take advantage from each data source.
SIGMAP is organized in 6 major tracks:
1 - Multimedia Networking and Communication
2 - Multimedia Signal Processing
3 - Multimedia Systems and Applications
4 - Multimedia and Deep Learning
5 - Multimedia Indexing and Retrieval
6 - Social Multimedia

Conference Chair(s)
Andrew Sung, University of Southern Mississippi, United States

Program Chair(s)
Simone Santini, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain

In the last years, the proceedings have been fully indexed by SCOPUS. Beside this index all the proceedings have also been submitted to Google Scholar, The DBLP Computer Science Bibliography, Semantic Scholar, Engineering Index (EI) and Web of Science / Conference Proceedings Citation Index.

A short list of presented papers will be selected so that revised and extended versions of these papers will be published by Springer in a CCIS Series book.
Also, a short list of best papers will be invited for a post-conference special issue of the Springer Nature Computer Science journal.
All papers presented at the conference venue will also be available at the SCITEPRESS Digital Library.

Kind regards,
Mónica Saramago
SIGMAP Secretariat
Web: https://sigmap.scitevents.org
e-mail: mailto:sigmap.secretariat@insticc.org

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International Forensics Summer School (IFOSS)
Sicily 17-23 July 2022
The first edition of IFOSS aims to provide both an objective and clear overview and an
in-depth analysis of the state-of-the-art research as well as the professional best
practices in Forensics and related fields. The courses will be delivered by world
renowned experts, from either academia, law enforcement and industry, and will cover both
theoretical and practical aspects of real Forensics problems. The school aims to provide
a stimulating opportunity for professionals and young researchers, as well as Ph.D.
students. The participants will benefit from direct interaction and discussions with
world leaders in their specific fields.

LIST OF SPEAKERS AND TOPICS
Zeno Geradtz - University of Amsterdam, NL
           Forensic Deepfake Detection, Digital Forensics and New Developments

Didier Meuwly - University of Twente, NL
          Applications of Biometric Technology to Forensic Science
         Forensic Evaluation in Court of Biometric Data

Davide Maltoni, University of Bologna, IT
         Fingerprint Recognition: State-of-the-Art And New Directions
         Double-Identity Biometrics

Giovanni Ziccardi, University of Milan, IT
         Digital Forensics Recent Case Law in Italy and Abroad
         Facial Recognition, Discrimination and Law
         Biometrics Regulation in the UE Proposal of Regulation of AI, And Deepfake Regulation
Proposals in US And China

DIRECTORS
Sebastiano Battiato - University of Catania, Italy
Donatella Curtotti -  University of Foggia, Italy
Aldo Mattei   - Arma dei Carabinieri, Italy

APPLICATIONS
The school will be open to about 50 qualified, motivated and pre-selected candidates. Ph.
D. students, post-docs, young researchers (both academic and industrial), senior
researchers (both academic and industrial) or academic/industrial professionals are
encouraged to apply at: www.ifoss.it

The expected school fee will be in the order of 400 euros for Master and Phd students
granted by academia, € 600 for other academic positions and € 700 for industrial. Reduced
Fee will be reserved to LEAs, private lawyers and practitioners 250 Euros. The fee will
include all course materials, coffee breaks, bus service from Catania Airport to School
Location and return, WiFi Internet Connection, a guided tour, a social dinner and all the
events scheduled in the programme.

A certain number of scolarship will be available soon depending on sponsorship income.

Applications to attend IFOSS 2022 should be received before 15/5 (EXTENDED).
Applicants will receive notification of acceptance by mid of May.
Late registration can be done with an extra payment of € 50.

ACCOMODATIONS
IFOSS participants will be hosted at Hotel Village Baia Samuele (school location) at very
special rates. There are no other accommodation options. IFOSS participants must make
reservations for accommodation, using the accommodation reservation form (available soon)
to be sent by directly to Baia Samuele reception.

After a certain date there is no guarantee for reservations in Hotel Village Baia Samuele.
More information will be announced as soon as possible on the web site. Depending on
chosens settings (Single, Double or Triple Room) the overall cost enclosing Breakfast,
Lunch and Dinner should span in the range (550-900 euros) in the period 17(in) to 23
(out) July 2022.

LOCATION OF IFOSS 2022
IFOSS 2022 will be hosted by Hotel Village Baia Samuele in Punta Sampieri - Scicli
(Ragusa), Sicily from 17-23 July 2022.
Sicily is one of the most beautiful islands of the Mediterranean. The island is very rich
in archeological sites from various Ancient Civilizations. The sea, weather, food and the
wine are excellent. In particular Punta Sampieri - Scicli (RG) is located in the south
east of Sicily in a late Baroque area called Val di Noto. The Val di Noto area is
included in the Unesco World Heritage List and includes eight nearby towns: Caltagirone,
Militello Val di Catania, Catania, Modica, Noto, Palazzolo, Ragusa and Scicli.
The location of the school rises in the middle of an ample bay delimited on the west from
Sampieri and on the east from a cliff, on which is founded an ancient furnace, rare
example of industrial archaeology. The Hotel Village Baia Samuele stretches in a gentle
slant to the beach: 120 thousand square meters delimited from rows of secular cypresses.
An ultramodern village with an original architecture, pleasant design and all comforts
you can imagine. The frame of plants and flowers, typical of this angle of Sicily, in
front of the island of Malta, completes this gilded dream of the Mediterranean.

MORE INFORMATION
www.ifoss.it
info@ifoss.it

FOLLOW US ON
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/InternationalForensicsSummerSchool/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/IFOSS22

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The Fifth (2022) IEEE International Conference on
Multimedia Information Processing and Retrieval (MIPR'22)

http://www.ieee-mipr.org
Taking Place Virtually
August 2 - August 4, 2022
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MIPR 2022 highlights

Keynote Speakers
* Philip S. Yu, Professor, University of Illinois Chicago
* Jian Pei, Professor, Simon Fraser University 
* Shih-Fu Chang, Professor, Columbia University 

Innovation Forums
* The Future Trending of Metaverse
  Moderator: Shuxue Quan, Oppo
* Hardware and Software Acceleration for AI Applications
  Moderator: Xin Chen, Intel
* The Future of Media Compression: Deep Learning Approaches
  Moderator: Dong Liu, University of Science and Technology of China
* Computer Vision
  Moderator: Zhou Ren, Wormpex AI Research

New forms of multimedia data (such as text, numbers, tags, networking,
signals, geo-tagged information, graphs/relationships, 3D/VR/AR and
sensor data, etc.)  has emerged in many applications in addition to
traditional multimedia data (image, video, audio). Multimedia has
become the biggest of big data as the foundation of today's
data-driven discoveries. Almost all disciplines of science and
engineering, as well as social sciences, involve multimedia data in
some forms, such as recording experiments, driverless cars, unmanned
aerial vehicles, smart communities, biomedical instruments, security
surveillance.  Some recent events demonstrate the power of real-time
broadcast of unfolding events on social networks. Multimedia data is
not just big in volume, but also multi-modal and mostly
unstructured. Storing, indexing, searching, integrating, and
recognizing from the vast amounts of data create unprecedented
challenges. Even though significant progress has been made processing
multimedia data, today's solutions are inadequate in handling data
from millions of sources simultaneously.

The IEEE International Conference on Multimedia Information Processing
and Retrieval (IEEE-MIPR) aims to provide a forum for original
research contributions and practical system design, implementation,
and applications of multimedia information processing and retrieval
for single modality or multiple modalities. The target audiences will
be university researchers, scientists, industry practitioners,
software engineers, and graduate students who need to become
acquainted with technologies for big data analytics, machine
intelligence, information fusion in multimedia information processing
and retrieval.  A collection of keynotes, tutorials, and workshops
will be held, together with paper/poster sessions.  In addition, MIPR
2022 Innovation Forum invites leaders in multimedia society to discuss
the topics covering video compression, AI acceleration, metaverse, and
Computer Vision.

The conference will accept regular papers (6 pages), short papers (4
pages), and demo papers (4 pages). Authors are encouraged to compare
their approaches, qualitatively or quantitatively, with existing work
and explain the strength and weakness of the new approaches. Selected
submissions will be invited to submit to journal special issues.

The conference includes (but not limited) the following topics of
multimedia data processing and retrieval.

Multimedia Retrieval
        Multimedia Search and Recommendation
        Web-Scale Retrieval
        Relevance Feedback, Active/Transfer Learning
        3D and sensor data retrieval
        Multimodal Media (images, videos, texts, graph/relationship)
        Retrieval
        High-Level Semantic Multimedia Features
        Machine Learning/Deep Learning/Data Mining
        Deep Learning in Multimedia Data and / or Multimodal Fusion
        Deep Cross-Learning for Novel Features and Feature Selection
        High-Performance Deep Learning (Theories and Infrastructures)
        Spatio-Temporal Data Mining
        Novel Dataset for Learning and Multimedia
        Content Understanding and Analytics
        Multimodal/Multisensor Integration and Analysis
        Effective and Scalable Solution for Big Data Integration
        Affective and Perceptual Multimedia
        Multimedia/Multimodal Interaction Interfaces with humans
        Multimedia and Vision
        Multimedia Telepresence and Virtual/Augmented/Mixed Reality
        Visual Concept Detection
        Object Detection and Tracking
        3D Modeling, Reconstruction, and Interactive Applications
        Networks for Multimedia Systems
        Internet Scale System Design
        Information Coding for Content Delivery
        Systems and Infrastructures
        Multimedia Systems and Middleware
        Software Infrastructure for Data Analytics
        Distributed Multimedia Systems and Cloud Computing
        Data Management
        Multimedia Data Collections, Modeling, Indexing, or Storage
        Data Integrity, Security, Protection, Privacy
        Standards and Policies for Data Management
        Novel Applications
        Multimedia applications for health and sports
        Multimedia applications for culture and education
        Multimedia applications for fashion and living
        Multimedia applications for security and safety
        Internet of Multimedia Things
        Real-Time Data Processing
        Autonomous Systems such as Driverless Cars, Robots, and Drones
        Mobile and Wearable Multimedia

* IEEE Technical Committee on Multimedia Computing (TCMC) will sponsor
  5-6 student registration scholarships. Preference will be given to
  student authors

Important Dates:
        Regular and Short Paper Submission: March 28, 2022 [Extended]
        Notification of acceptance: May 10, 2022
        Camera ready due: July 1, 2022 
        Conference Date: August 2 - 4, 2022

General Co-Chairs:
        C.-C. Jay Kuo (University of Southern California, USA)
        Klara Nahrstedt (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA)
        Yong Rui (Lenovo Group, China)
        Guan-Ming Su (Dolby Labs, USA)

Program Co-Chairs:
        Ming-Ching Chang (State University of New York at Albany, USA)
        Abdulmotaleb El Saddik (University of Ottawa, Canada)
        Yan Tong (University of South Carolina, USA)
        Bihan Wen (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)

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13th Nordic Prosody Conference

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Sonderborg, Denmark

17-19 August 2022

Topic: Applied and Multimodal Prosody Research

The 13th edition of the Nordic Prosody (NP) conference series is proudly hosted by Centre of Industrial Electronics (CIE) and the CIE Acoustics Lab at the University of Southern Denmark on science campus Alsion, Sonderborg, Denmark. The conference will be held 17-19 August 2022.

Website: https://event.sdu.dk/13rdnordicprosody/main

The University of Southern Denmark (SDU) is both the third-largest and the third-oldest Danish university. Since the introduction of the ranking systems in 2012, the University of Southern Denmark has consistently been ranked as one of the top 50 young universities in the world by both the Times Higher Education World University Rankings and the QS World University Rankings. The SDU is also among the top 20 universities in Scandinavia.

Nordic Prosody conferences take place every 4 years. The first one was in Lund in 1978, organized by Eva Gårding, Gösta Bruce and Robert Bannert. The 12th Nordic Prosody was in 2016 in Trondheim, Norway. The conference series focuses on the forms and functions of prosodic patterns in Nordic languages and in languages spoken all around the Baltic Sea coastline. Contributions on all the various aspects of phonetics, phonology, and speech typology are welcome. Papers presenting new corpora, methods, or devices can be submitted as well. We also encourage researchers from neighboring disciplines like (second-language) pedagogy, acoustics, human-machine interaction, and voice pathology to submit contributions to the conference.

Keynote Speakers

- David House (KTH Stockholm, Sweden) & Gilbert Ambrazaitis (Linnaeus University, Sweden): The multimodal nature of prominence

- Wim van Dommelen (Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway): Interactions of segmental and prosodic parameters

- Nicolai Pharao (Copenhagen University, Denmark): Processing prosody – recognizing speakers and recognizing words

Scientific Areas (not exhaustive)

• Phonology and phonetics of prosody

• Production and perception of prosody

• Acquisition, learning and teaching of prosody

• Assessment of prosody and measures to evaluate prosodic skills

• Non-native aspects in the production and perception of prosody

• Socio-phonetic aspects of prosody

• Prosodic variation in continuous speech

• Speech processing of and for prosodic patterns

• Prosody in and for talking machines and robots

• Psychological and neural mechanisms of prosody

• Pathologies and therapies related to prosody

• Resources related to prosody: Speech corpora, annotation systems, tools & methods

• Cross-linguistic and cross-cultural aspects of prosody

• Mutimodal signals related to prosody

• Applied prosody

Conference proceedings will be published in a peer-reviewed volume by Sciendo/de Gruyter.

Important dates:
05 June 2022 Abstract submission deadline (through EasyChair)

01 July 2022 Notification of acceptance
31 July 2022 Early bird registration deadline
17-19 August 2022 13th Nordic Prosody Conference, Sonderborg, Denmark

01 November 2022 Full-paper submission deadline

Registrations are made through the conference website under “Sign up”. Abstracts should be submitted under the following EasyChair link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=np13 . Please find the formatting guidelines or template for both the abstract and the full paper below or on the “Download” subpage. Please note that the full-paper after the conference submission is not made through EasyChair. To submit your full paper, please use this link to Sciendo here: https://sciendo.com/book/9788366675728

We wish all of you a good start into the new lecture term.

The NP13 organizing committee

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We are pleased to announce the 11th International Workshop on Haptic and Audio Interaction Design (HAID 2022) that will be held in hybrid mode on 24–26 August 2022 at Queen Mary University of London in London, UK.

https://haid2022.qmul.ac.uk/

For questions please contact us at haid2022@qmul.ac.uk

To keep in touch and up to date on news related to the HAID community, please join our Google group (https://groups.google.com/g/haid-community) and follow us on twitter (https://twitter.com/HAID_conference).

===== Call for papers & demos =====

We invite submissions reporting on completed research and live demos at the intersection of haptics, audio, and human-computer interaction. We also welcome papers focusing on one of these fields with applications to the others.

We particularly welcome contributions, both theoretical and empirical, in the following areas: 

- Design of audio and haptic feedback for health & wellbeing

- Musical haptics & augmented instruments

Contributions in the following areas are also welcome:

- Novel haptic and auditory interfaces

- Perception & evaluation of multimodal and cross-sensory interactions

- Design principles for haptic and auditory interfaces

- Design of audio and haptic feedback for entertainment and creative applications 

- Affective and semiotic roles of haptics and audio in interaction

- Leveraging auditory-tactile correspondences in interaction design

Important dates

Papers - submission: 29 April 2022 (11:59 PM AoE)

Papers - acceptance: 30 May 2022 (11:59 PM AoE)

Papers - camera ready: 10 June 2022 (11:59 PM AoE)

Demos - submission: 10 June 2022 (11:59 PM AoE)

Demos - acceptance: 30 June 2022 (11:59 PM AoE)

More information is available here:

https://haid2022.qmul.ac.uk/submissions/papers-and-demos/ 

===== Call for work in progress =====

HAID 2022 seeks work in progress submissions, which describe recently completed work or highly relevant results of work in progress in all areas related to haptics, audio, and interaction design. 

We particularly encourage work in progress submissions from “newcomers”—master students or early-stage PhD Students without a supervisor who is part of the HAID community, especially from underrepresented groups.

Important dates:

Submission deadline: 10 June 2022 (11:59 PM AoE)

Acceptance notification: 30 June 2022 (11:59 PM AoE)

More information is available here:

https://haid2022.qmul.ac.uk/submissions/work-in-progress/ 

===== Call for workshops =====

We also invite proposals for workshops to be held during the 1st day of the conference. These proposals may take the form of theoretical or hands-on tutorials on specific HAID topics or forums for discussion and development.

Important dates:

Proposal submission: 8 April 2022 (11:59 PM AoE)

Acceptance notification: 15 April 2022 (11:59 PM AoE)

More information is available here:

https://haid2022.qmul.ac.uk/submissions/workshops/ 

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The 23rd Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue (SIGDIAL 2022) will be held as a hybrid conference at Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh and online between September 7-9, 2022.

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Call for papers:
Inclusive and Fair Speech Technologies
Special Session at Interspeech 2022
https://sites.google.com/view/fair-speech-interspeech22/

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We're organizing a special session on Trustworthy Speech Processing at Interspeech 22, inviting papers exploring topics from trustworthy machine learning (such as privacy, fairness, bias mitigation, etc.) within the realm of speech processing. Can you please include this CFP in your next newsletter, and forward to any relevant lists if possible?

Best,

Organizing team:

Anil Ramakrishna, Amazon Inc.

Shrikanth Narayanan, University of Southern California

Rahul Gupta, Amazon Inc.

Isabel Trancoso, University of Lisbon

Rita Singh, Carnegie Mellon University

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Call for papers:

Trustworthy Speech Processing (TSP)

Special Session at Interspeech 22

trustworthyspeechprocessing.github.io

September 18 - 22, 2022

Incheon, South Korea

Given the ubiquity of Machine Learning (ML) systems and their relevance in daily lives, it is important to ensure private and safe handling of data alongside equity in human experience. These considerations have gained considerable interest in recent times under the realm of Trustworthy ML. Speech processing in particular presents a unique set of challenges, given the rich information carried in linguistic and paralinguistic content including speaker trait, interaction and state characteristics. This special session on Trustworthy Speech Processing (TSP) was created to bring together new and experienced researchers working on trustworthy ML and speech processing.

We invite novel and relevant submissions from both academic and industrial research groups showcasing theoretical and empirical advancements in TSP. Topics of interest cover a variety of papers centered on speech processing, including (but not limited to):

* Differential privacy

* Federated learning

* Ethics in speech processing

* Model interpretability

* Quantifying & mitigating bias in speech processing

* New datasets, frameworks and benchmarks for TSP

* Discovery and defense against emerging privacy attacks

* Trustworthy ML in applications of speech processing like ASR

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Important Dates:

Paper submission deadline: March 21, 2022, 23:59, Anywhere on Earth.

Paper update deadline: March 28, 2022, 23:59, Anywhere on Earth.

Author notification: June 13, 2022.

Interspeech conference dates: September 18 to 22, 2022.

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Author Guidelines:

Submissions for TSP will follow the same schedule and procedure as the main conference. Submit your papers here: www.softconf.com/m/interspeech2022 (select option #14.13 as the submission topic).

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- March 10, 2022: Results submission
- March 14, 2022: Release of participant ranks
- March 21, 2022: INTERSPEECH Paper submission deadline
- March 28, 2022: INTERSPEECH Paper update deadline
- June 13, 2022: INTERSPEECH Author notification

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  CALL FOR PAPERS

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• 2nd Symposium on Security and Privacy in Speech Communication joint with 2nd VoicePrivacy Challenge Workshop (INTERSPEECH 2022 satellite event)

• https://symposium2022.spsc-sig.org/

• May 18 – Long paper submission deadline 
• June 15 – VoicePrivacy Challenge and short paper submission deadline
• September 23-24 – Workshop

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The second edition of the Symposium on Security & Privacy in Speech Communication (SPSC), this year combined with the 2nd VoicePrivacy Challenge workshop, focuses on speech and voice through which we express ourselves. As speech communication can be used to command virtual assistants to transport emotion or to identify oneself, the symposium tries to give answers to the question on how we can strengthen security and privacy for speech representation types in user-centric human/machine interaction? The symposium therefore sees that interdisciplinary exchange is in high demand and aims to bring together researchers and practitioners across multiple disciplines including signal processing, cryptography, security, human-computer interaction, law, and anthropology. The SPSC Symposium addresses interdisciplinary topics.

For more details, see https://symposium2022.spsc-sig.org/home/_cfp/CFP_SPSC-Symposium-2022.pdf

=== Important dates

• May 18 – Long paper submission deadline 
• June 15 – VoicePrivacy Challenge paper submission deadline 
• June 15 – Short paper submission deadline 
• July 1 – Author notification
• July 31 – VoicePrivacy Challenge results and system description submission deadline
• September 5 – Final paper submission
• September 23-24 – SPSC Symposium at the Incheon National University, Korea

===  Topics of interest

Topics regarding the technical perspective include:

• Privacy-preserving speech communication
• speech recognition and spoken language processing
• speech perception, production and acquisition
• speech synthesis and spoken language generation
• speech coding and enhancement
• speaker and language identification
• phonetics, phonology and prosody
• paralinguistics in speech and language
• Cybersecurity
• privacy engineering and secure computation
• network security and adversarial robustness
• mobile security
• cryptography
• biometrics
• Machine learning
• federated learning
• disentangled representations
• differential privacy
• Natural language processing
• web as corpus, resources and evaluation
• tagging, summarization, syntax and parsing
• question answering, discourse and pragmatics
• machine translation and document analysis
• linguistic theories and psycholinguistics
• inference of semantics and information extraction

Topics regarding the humanities’ view include:

• Human-computer interfaces (speech as medium)
• usable security and privacy
• ubiquitous computing
• pervasive computing and communication
• cognitive science
• Ethics and law
• privacy and data protection
• media and communication
• identity management
• electronic mobile commerce
• data in digital media
• Digital humanities
• acceptance and trust studies
• user experience research on practice
• co-development across disciplines
• data-citizenship
• situated ethics
• STS perspectives

We welcome contributions on related topics, as well as progress reports, project disseminations, theoretical discussions, and “work in progress”. There is also a dedicated PhD track. In addition, participants from academia, industry, and public institutions, as well as interested students are welcome to attend the conference without having to make their own contribution. All accepted submissions will appear in the conference proceedings published in ISCA Archive. The workshop will take place mainly in person at the Incheon National University (Korea) with additional support of participants willing to join virtually.

===  Submission

Papers intended for the SPSC Symposium should be up to eight pages of text. The length should be chosen appropriately to present the topic to an interdisciplinary community. Paper submissions must conform to the format defined in the paper preparation guidelines and as detailed in the author’s kit. Papers must be submitted via the online paper submission system. The working language of the conference is English, and papers must be written in English.

===  Reviews

At least three single-blind reviews will be provided, and we aim to obtain feedback from interdisciplinary experts for each submission. The review criteria applied to regular papers will be adapted for VoicePrivacy Challenge papers to be more in keeping with systems descriptions and results.

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VoicePrivacy 2022 Challenge
http://www.voiceprivacychallenge.org

• Challenge paper submission deadline: 15 June 2022
• Results and paper description submission deadline: 31 July 2022
• ISCA workshop (Incheon, Korea in conjunction with INTERSPEECH 2022): 23-24 September 2022

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 Dear colleagues,

registration for the VoicePrivacy 2022 Challenge continues!

The task is to develop a voice anonymization system for speech data which conceals the speaker’s voice identity while protecting linguistic content, paralinguistic attributes, intelligibility and naturalness.

The VoicePrivacy 2022 Challenge Evaluation Plan: https://www.voiceprivacychallenge.org/vp2020/docs/VoicePrivacy_2022_Eval_Plan_v1.0.pdf

VoicePrivacy 2022 is the second edition, which will culminate in a joint workshop held in Incheon, Korea in conjunction with INTERSPEECH 2022 and in cooperation with the ISCA Symposium on Security and Privacy in Speech Communication.

Registration: Participate | VoicePrivacy 2022

Subscription: Participate | VoicePrivacy 2022

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Call for Papers

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5th International Workshop on Multimedia Content Analysis in Sports (MMSports'22) @ ACM Multimedia, October 10-14, 2022, Lisbon, Portugal

We'd like to invite you to submit your paper proposals for the 5th International Workshop on Multimedia Content Analysis in Sports to be held in Lisbon, Portugal together with ACM Multimedia 2022. The ambition of this workshop is to bring together researchers and practitioners from different disciplines to share ideas on current multimedia/multimodal content analysis research in sports. We welcome multimodal-based research contributions as well as best-practice contributions focusing on the following (and similar, but not limited to) topics:

- annotation and indexing in sports 

- tracking people/ athlete and objects in sports

- activity recognition, classification, and evaluation in sports

- event detection and indexing in sports

- performance assessment in sports

- injury analysis and prevention in sports

- data driven analysis in sports

- graphical augmentation and visualization in sports

- automated training assistance in sports

- camera pose and motion tracking in sports

- brave new ideas / extraordinary multimodal solutions in sports

- personal virtual (home) trainers/coaches in sports

- datasets in sports 

Submissions can be of varying length from 4 to 8 pages, plus additional pages for the reference pages. There is no distinction between long and short papers, but the authors may themselves decide on the appropriate length of their paper. All papers will undergo the same review process and review period.

Please refer to the workshop website for further information: 

http://mmsports.multimedia-computing.de/mmsports2022/index.html

IMPORTANT DATES

Submission Due:                            July 4, 2022 

Acceptance Notification:             July 29, 2022

Camera Ready Submission:         August 21, 2022 

Workshop Date:                            TBA; either Oct 10 or Oct 14, 2022

Challenges

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This year, MMSports proposes a competition where participants will compete over State-of-the-art problems applied to real-world sport specific data. The competition is made of 4 individual challenges, each of which is sponsored by SportRadar with a US$1,000.00 prize. Each challenge comes with a toolkit describing the task, the dataset and metrics on which participants will be evaluated:

• Ball 3D localization
• Camera calibration
• Instance segmentation
• Player re-identification

The challenges are hosted on EvalAI where participants will submit the prediction of their model on an evaluation set for which labels are kept secret. Leaderboards will display the ranking for each challenge.

More information can be found at http://mmsports.multimedia-computing.de/mmsports2022/challenge.html

ACM MMSports’22 Chairs: Thomas Moeslund, Rainer Lienhart and Hideo Saito

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CALL FOR POSTER PAPERS
https://ismar2022.org/call-for-posters/

OVERVIEW
ISMAR 2022, the premier conference for Augmented Reality (AR) and Mixed Reality (MR), will be held on October 17-21, 2022. Note that ISMAR offers three distinct calls for journals, papers, and posters. This call is for submission to the conference poster track. See the ISMAR website for more information.

IMPORTANT DEADLINES
Poster Paper Submission Deadline: June 20th, 2022
Notification: August 15th, 2022
Camera-ready version: August 22nd, 2022
ISMAR is responding to the increasing commercial and research activities related to AR and MR and Virtual Reality (VR) by continuing the expansion of its scope over the past several years. ISMAR 2022 will cover the full range of technologies encompassed by the MR continuum, from interfaces in the real world to fully immersive experiences.

ISMAR invites research contributions that advance AR/VR/MR technologies, collectively referred to as eXtended Reality (XR) technologies, and are relevant to the community.

The poster session is one of the highlights of ISMAR, where the community engages in a discussion about the benefits and challenges of XR in other research and application domains.

SUBMISSION DETAILS
We welcome paper submissions from 2-6 pages, including the list of references. Poster papers will be reviewed on the basis of an extended abstract, which can contain smaller contributions, late breaking developments or in-progress work.

Please note that ISMAR further distinguishes poster papers of 2 pages to be non-archival and poster papers of 3 or more pages to be archival. This means that authors of 2 page poster papers can resubmit longer versions of their accepted work, with additional details, at later ISMAR conferences.

All submissions will be accepted or rejected as poster papers.
All accepted papers will be archived in the IEEE Xplore digital library
At least one of the authors must register and attend the ISMAR 2022 conference to present the poster
The Poster track is co-aligned to the Conference Paper track, which may accept some Conference Paper submissions as posters based on the merit of their contribution. Detailed submission and review guidelines are available on the conference website and the Guidelines section.

Note that All paper submissions must be in English.

ISMAR 2022 Poster Chairs
poster_chairs@ismar2022.org

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ICMI 2022
24th ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction

https://icmi.acm.org/2022/
7-11 Nov 2022, Bengaluru, India
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CALL FOR DEMONSTRATION AND EXHIBIT PAPERS

We invite you to submit your proposals for demonstrations and exhibits to be held during the 24th ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI 2022), located in Bengaluru (Bangalore), India, November 7-11th, 2022. This year’s conference theme is “Intelligent and responsible Embodied Conversational Agents (ECAs) in the multi-lingual real world”.

The ICMI 2022 Demonstrations & Exhibits session is intended to provide a forum to showcase innovative implementations, systems and technologies demonstrating new ideas about interactive multimodal interfaces. It can also serve as a platform to introduce commercial products. Proposals may be of two types: demonstrations or exhibits. The main difference is that demonstrations include a 2-3 page paper in one column, which will be included in the ICMI main proceedings, while the exhibits only need to include a brief outline (no more than two pages in one column; not included in ICMI proceedings). We encourage both the submission of early research prototypes and interesting mature systems. In addition, authors of accepted regular research papers may be invited to participate in the demonstration sessions as well.

Demonstration Submission

Please submit a 2-3 page description of the demonstration in a single column format through the main ICMI conference management system (https://new.precisionconference.com/sigchi). Demonstration description(s) must be in PDF format, according to the ACM conference format, of no more than 3 pages in a single column format including references. For instructions and links to the templates, please see the Guidelines for Authors.

Demonstration proposals should include a description with photographs and/or screen captures of the demonstration. Demonstration submissions should be accompanied by a video of the proposed demo (no larger than 200MB), which can include a set of slides (no more than 10 slides) in PowerPoint format.

The demo and exhibit paper submissions are not anonymous. However, all ACM rules and guidelines related to paper submission should be followed (e.g. plagiarism, including self-plagiarism).

The demonstration submissions will be peer reviewed, according to the following criteria: suitability as a demo, scientific or engineering feasibility of the proposed demo system, application, or interactivity, alignment with the conference focus, potential to engage the audience, and overall quality and presentation of the written proposal. Authors are encouraged to address such criteria in their proposals, along with preparing the papers mindful of the quality and rigorous scientific expectations of an ACM publication.

The demo program will include the accepted proposals and may additionally include invited demos from among regular papers accepted for presentation at the conference. Please note that the accepted demos will be included in the ICMI main proceedings.

Exhibit Submission

Exhibit proposals should be submitted following the same guidelines, formatting, and due dates as for demonstration proposals. Exhibit proposals must be shorter in length (up to two pages), and are more suitable for showcasing mature systems. Like demos, submissions for exhibits should be accompanied by a video (no larger than 200MB), which can include a set of slides (no more than 10 slides) in PowerPoint format. Exhibits will not have a paper published in the ICMI 2022 proceedings.

Facilities

Once accepted, demonstrators and video presenters will be provided with a table, poster board, power outlet and wireless (shared) Internet. Demo and video presenters are expected to bring with them everything else needed for their demo and video presentations, such as hardware, laptops, sensors, PCs, etc. However, if you have special requests such as a larger space, special lighting conditions and so on, we will do our best to arrange them.

Important note for the authors: The official publication date is the date the proceedings are made available in the ACM Digital Library. This date may be up to two weeks prior to the first day of the conference. The official publication date affects the deadline for any patent filings related to published work.

Attendance

At least one author of all accepted Demonstrations and Exhibits submissions must register for and attend the conference, including the conference demonstrations and exhibits session(s).

Important Dates

For the latest information re: author guidelines, important dates, facilities, attendance requirements, etc., please see https://icmi.acm.org/2022/call-for-demonstrations-and-exhibits/.

For any further questions, contact the Demonstrations and Exhibits co-chairs: Dan Bohus and Ramanathan Subramanian (icmi2022-demo-chairs@acm.org).

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International Workshop on “Voice Assistant Systems in Team Interactions ‒ Implications, Best Practice, Applications, and Future Perspectives”
VASTI 2022

co-located with the ICMI 2022

https://vasti2022.mobileds.de/

Scope
The workshop is encouraging an interdisciplinary exchange of researchers focussing on multimodal interactions in the wide range of group research aspects, linguistic and acoustic perspectives, as well as dialogue management in relation to speech based systems, e.g. voice  assistants. Regarding the mentioned research communities, the interdisciplinary collaboration between these research communities is currently rather loose. Therefore, the workshop aims on bridging the three research communities based on shared interests and provides a platform for detailed discussions.

Generally, human beings are usually interactive and socially engaged, often communicating in either dyads or groups. During such interactions, each communication partner (human or technical) is providing a variety of information, including general information/content, as well as personal and relational information. These communication aspects are in the focus of group interactions or multi-party interactions. In social sciences, areas such as investigating interpersonal relationships of the group members and the dynamics of group interaction, cohesion, and performance, are observed. These aspects are nowadays also considered in computer sciences and linguistics using automatic analyses. Unfortunately, these communities have started to collaborate only recently. In this sense, the workshop aims to strengthen these collaborations.

However, especially the advent of voice assistants and the increased distributions provide an optimal testbed to combine the three communities and encourage interdisciplinary discussions highlighting contributions from each research perspective. Especially, since at a certain level of development, current voice assistance systems seem to set the expectation of human-like linguistic flexibility and complexity, which is disproportionate to the actual skills of the artificial agent. To enable future technical systems to act as a conversational partner and act naturally in group or dyadic multimodal interactions, it is necessary to combine knowledge and research approaches on the fundamental mechanisms of human speech perception and speech production from a cognitive, psycholinguistic point of view as well as insights from interactional linguistics, discourse analysis and sociolinguistics with phonetics, phonology and prosody in the context of spoken interaction with machines. This should be further combined with aspects of dialogue management and social signal processing to allow a holistic consideration of the users and using groups.


Topics

• Voice Assistant Technology

• Multimodal Interactions in Teams

• Automatic Team Analyses
• Multi-Party Interaction
• Linguistics in Voice Assistance
• Linguistics in Teams
• Communication in Teams
• Human Speech Perception
• Multimodal Perception

Important dates:
Submission deadline: July 28, 2022
Notification of Acceptance: August 12, 2022
Camera ready: August 19, 2022
Workshop date: November 7, 2022

Submissions
Prospective authors are invited to submit full papers (8 pages, 7+1
reference) and short papers (5 pages, 4+1 reference) following the ICMI
2022 Latex or Word templates, as specified by ICMI 2021. All submissions
should be anonymous. Accepted papers will be published in the conference
proceedings.

Venue
in conjunction with ICMI 2022 (intended to be onsite)

Organizers
Ronald Böck, University Magdeburg, Germany
Daniel Duran, Leibniz Zentrum für Angewandte Sprachwissenschaft, Germany
Ingo Siegert, University Magdeburg, Germany

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SPECOM-2022 – CALL FOR PAPERS

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 The conference is relocated in India. 

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	SPECOM-2022 CALL FOR PAPERS 
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24th International Conference on Speech and Computer (SPECOM-2022) 
November 14-16, 2022, KIIT Campus, Gurugram, India
Web: www.specom.co.in

ORGANIZER 
The conference is organized by KIIT College of Engineering as a hybrid event in Gurugram/New Delhi, India and online.

CONFERENCE TOPICS 
SPECOM attracts researchers, linguists and engineers working in the following areas of speech science, speech technology, natural language processing, human-computer interaction: 
Affective computing 
Audio-visual speech processing 
Corpus linguistics 
Computational paralinguistics 
Deep learning for audio processing 
Feature extraction 
Forensic speech investigations 
Human-machine interaction 
Language identification 
Multichannel signal processing 
Multimedia processing 
Multimodal analysis and synthesis 
Sign language processing 
Speaker recognition 
Speech and language resources 
Speech analytics and audio mining 
Speech and voice disorders 
Speech-based applications 
Speech driving systems in robotics 
Speech enhancement 
Speech perception 
Speech recognition and understanding 
Speech synthesis 
Speech translation systems 
Spoken dialogue systems 
Spoken language processing 
Text mining and sentiment analysis 
Virtual and augmented reality 
Voice assistants 

OFFICIAL LANGUAGE 
The official language of the event is English. However, papers on processing of languages other than English are strongly encouraged. 

FORMAT OF THE CONFERENCE 
The conference program will include presentation of invited talks, oral presentations, and poster/demonstration sessions. 

SUBMISSION OF PAPERS 
Authors are invited to submit full papers of 8-14 pages formatted in the Springer LNCS style. Each paper will be reviewed by at least three independent reviewers (single-blind), and accepted papers will be presented either orally or as posters. Papers submitted to SPECOM 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 authors are asked to submit their papers using the on-line submission system: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=specom2022

PROCEEDINGS 
SPECOM Proceedings will be published by Springer as a book in the Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI/LNCS) series listed in all major international citation databases. 

IMPORTANT DATES 
July 31, 2022 ...................... Submission of full papers 
September 05, 2022 .......... Notification of acceptance 
September 15, 2022 .......... Camera-ready papers 
September 20, 2022 .......... Early registration 
November 14-16, 2022 .......Conference dates 

GENERAL CHAIR/CO-CHAIR 
Shyam S Agrawal - KIIT, Gurugram
Amita Dev - IGDTUW, Delhi

TECHNICAL CHAIR/CO-CHAIRS
S.R. Mahadeva Prasanna - IIT Dharwad
Alexey Karpov - SPC RAS
Rodmonga Potapova - MSLU
K. Samudravijaya - KL University

CONTACTS 
All correspondence regarding the conference should be addressed to SPECOM 2022 Secretariat  
E-mail: specomkiit@kiitworld.in
Web: www.specom.co.in

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The ICMR Steering Committee invites interested parties to submit proposals to
host and organize the 13th International Conference on Multimedia Retrieval,
ICMR2023 (sponsored by the ACM SIGMM). ACM ICMR is the premier
scientific conference for multimedia retrieval.  Its mission is
to provide a forum to discuss,  promote and advance the
state-of-the-arts in multimedia retrieval by bringing together
researchers and practitioners in its related field. It is thus essential
to ensure that the conference includes sessions for presenting high-quality
research papers and for sharing practitioner experience.  The list of
previous ICMRs is at http://www.acmicmr.org/.
We expect ICMR2023 to be held in Europe.

Parties interested in hosting ICMR2023 are invited to submit  their
proposals (20 pages or less) by Friday, 26 February 2021 by email with
the subject line: ICMR2023 to the steering committee chair.
The details of CFP is at http://acmicmr.org/icmr2023.cfo.final.pdf.

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MLDM 2023 : 18th International Conference on Machine Learning and Data Mining
http://www.mldm.de
 
When    Jul 16, 2023 - Jul 21, 2023
Where    New York, USA
Submission Deadline    Jan 15, 2023
Notification Due    Mar 18, 2023
Final Version Due    Apr 5, 2023
Categories:    machine learning   data mining   pattern recognition   classification
 
Call For Papers
MLDM 2023
18th International Conference on Machine Learning and Data Mining
July 15 - 19, 2023, New York, USA

The Aim of the Conference
The aim of the conference is to bring together researchers from all over the world who deal with machine learning and data mining in order to discuss the recent status of the research and to direct further developments. Basic research papers as well as application papers are welcome.

Chair
Petra Perner Institute of Computer Vision and Applied Computer Sciences IBaI, Germany

Program Committee
Piotr Artiemjew University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn, Poland
Sung-Hyuk Cha Pace Universtity, USA
Ming-Ching Chang University of Albany, USA
Mark J. Embrechts Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and CardioMag Imaging, Inc, USA
Robert Haralick City University of New York, USA
Adam Krzyzak Concordia University, Canada
Chengjun Liu New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA
Krzysztof Pancerz University Rzeszow, Poland
Dan Simovici University of Massachusetts Boston, USA
Agnieszka Wosiak Lodz University of Technology, Poland
more to be annouced...


Topics of the conference

Paper submissions should be related but not limited to any of the following topics:

Association Rules
Audio Mining
Autoamtic Semantic Annotation of Media Content
Bayesian Models and Methods
Capability Indices
Case-Based Reasoning and Associative Memory
case-based reasoning and learning
Classification & Prediction
classification and interpretation of images, text, video
Classification and Model Estimation
Clustering
Cognition and Computer Vision
Conceptional Learning
conceptional learning and clustering
Content-Based Image Retrieval
Control Charts
Decision Trees
Design of Experiment
Desirabilities
Deviation and Novelty Detection
Feature Grouping, Discretization, Selection and Transformation
Feature Learning
Frequent Pattern Mining
https://www.icphs2023.org/, where it is also possible to register for email notifications concerning the congress.

Contact: icphs2023@guarant.cz

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