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| Monday, April 07, 2025 by Chris Wellekens |
3 Events
| 3-1-1 | (2025-08-17) Interspeech 2025, Rotterdam, The Netherlands INTERSPEECH 2025
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| 3-1-2 | (2026) Interspeech 2026, Sydney, Australia The Australasian Speech Science and Technology Association is honoured to have been selected to host INTERSPEECH 2026. Our theme of Diversity & Equity ? Speaking Together strongly reflects Sydney and our broader region. Sydney is Oceania?s largest city and is also its most linguistically diverse: more than 300 different languages are spoken and 40% of Sydneysiders speak a language other than English at home. Consistent with the goals of ISCA ?to promote, in an international world-wide context, activities and exchanges in all fields related to speech communication science and technology?, INTERSPEECH Sydney will highlight the diversity of research in our field with a firm focus on equity and inclusivity. Recognizing the importance of multi-dimensional approaches to speech, INTERSPEECH 2026 will foster greater interdisciplinarity to better inform current and future work on speech science and technology. We look forward to welcoming all to Sydney!
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| 3-1-3 | (2026) Speech Prosody 2026 in Philadelphia, PA, USA Dear Speech Prosody SIG Members,
I'm pleased to announce that Speech Prosody 2026 will be in Philadelphia, organized by Jianjing Kuang and Mark Liberman. (There were 80 votes for Shanghai, 128 for Philadelphia, and 15 had no preference.)
I’m also pleased to announce the resumption of our lecture series with a talk by Simon Roessig:
Syntagmatic prominence relations in prosodic focus marking
Lecturer: Simon Roessig (University of York, UK) Host: Plinio A. Barbosa (Unicamp, Brazil)
Sept 24th at 1 pm (Brasilia time = UTC - 3)
Abstract: This talk is about the role of prenuclear prominences and their relation to nuclear accents in German and English. The production results (German) that I will present show that the realization of the prenuclear domain depends on whether it is focal or prefocal. The prenuclear noun is characterized by larger F0 excursions, higher F0 maxima, and longer durations when it is in broad focus than when it precedes a narrow focus. Furthermore, the realization of the prenuclear domain depends on the following focus type: The prenuclear noun is produced with smaller F0 excursions, lower F0 maxima and shorter durations before a corrective focus than before a non-corrective narrow focus. The findings suggest that the phonetic manifestation of information structure is distributed over larger prosodic domains with an inverse relationship in the syntagmatic dimension. In addition, the study contributes further evidence that continuous phonetic detail is used to encode information structural categories. An important question that arises from the production data is whether this phonetic detail can be used by listeners in perception. I will present first results from a series of perception experiments (German and English) to investigate this question.
Plan: 1. I will begin by outlining what we know about focus prosody in the nuclear and prenuclear domains. 2. I will then present findings from a production study that examines the prosody of the prenuclear domain in different types of focus. 3. These results show that there are interesting strength relations between prenuclear and nuclear prosody in the encoding of focus types. 4. I will present preliminary findings from perception experiments investigating the question whether listeners use prenuclear prominence modulations in identifying focus types. 5. Finally, I will conclude with a discussion of the results and future directions.
Nigel Ward, SProSIG Chair nigel@utep.edu https://www.cs.utep.edu/nigel/
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| 3-1-4 | (2027) Interspeech 2027, São Paulo, Brazil The ISCA Board has decided to award the organisation of Interspeech 2027 to São Paulo, Brazil. We are very excited to introduce researchers from all over the world to the South American continent for the first time.
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| 3-1-5 | (2028) Interspeech 2028 at San Antonio, Texas, USA Announcement of Interspeech 2028 location
The ISCA Board has decided to award the organisation of Interspeech 2028 to San Antonio, TX, USA. We are very excited to welcome researchers from all over the world back to the US for the first time since 2016. The conference will be held from September 3 - 8, 2028.
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| 3-1-6 | ISCA INTERNATIONAL VIRTUAL SEMINARS Now's the time of year that seminar programmes get fixed up.. please direct the attention of whoever organises your seminars to the ISCA INTERNATIONAL VIRTUAL SEMINARS scheme (introduction below). There is now a good choice of speakers: see https://www.isca-speech.org/iscaweb/index.php/distinguished-lecturers/online-seminars ISCA INTERNATIONAL VIRTUAL SEMINARSA seminar programme is an important part of the life of a research lab, especially for its research students, but it's difficult for scientists to travel to give talks at the moment. However, presentations may be given on line and, paradoxically, it is thus possible for labs to engage international speakers who they wouldn't normally be able to afford.
Speakers may pre-record their talks if they wish, but they don't have to. It is up to the host lab to contact speakers and make the arrangements. Talks can be state-of-the-art, or tutorials. If you make use of this scheme and arrange a seminar, please send brief details (lab, speaker, date) to education@isca-speech.org If you wish to join the scheme as a speaker, we need is a title, a short abstract, a 1 paragraph biopic and contact details. Please send them to education@isca-speech.org PS. The online seminar scheme is now up and running, with 7 speakers so far:
Jean-Luc Schwartz, Roger Moore, Martin Cooke, Sakriani Sakti, Thomas Hueber, John Hansen and Karen Livescu.
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| 3-1-7 | Speech Prosody courses Dear Speech Prosody SIG Members,
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| 3-2-1 | (2025-07-05) 7th Edition of Summer School on Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR), DAU, Gandhinagar, India. DAU is organizing the 7th Edition of Summer School on Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) during July 05-09, 2025.The event is sponsored by DAU (formerly, DA-IICT). ASR is a highly multidisciplinary field and it is a key component of commercially successful Voice Assistants, such as Apple's Siri, Microsoft's Cortana, Google Assistant, Amazon's Echo/Alexa, Samsung's Bixby, IBM's Watson, etc. The experts chosen for this event are Hervé Bourlard (EPFL and former Director, IDIAP Research Institute, Switzerland), Akihiko K. Sugiyama (Founder, Damas.cus Corporation, Tokyo and Kansai University, Japan), Thomas Hain (ISCA Fellow, The University of Sheffield, UK), Yu Tsao (Academia Sinica, Taiwan), B. Yegnanarayana (Fellow of IEEE, ISCA, INAE, Retd. IIT Madras), Hema A. Murthy (ISCA Fellow, IIT Madras), S. Umesh (IIT Madras), Nancy F. Chen (I2R Singapore), Tatsuya Kawahara (IEEE Fellow, Kyoto University, Japan), Sriram Ganapthy (IISc Bengaluru), K. S. R. Murty (IIT Hyderabad), Anil Kumar Vuppala (IIIT Hyderabad), and Vinayak Abrol (IIIT Delhi). This event is sponsored by ISCA, IndSCA, DAU Gandhinagar, and technically co-sponsored by IEEE Signal Processing Society (SPS) Gujarat Section.
URL: https://sites.google.com/view/s4p2025/speakers Note: The current version of the poster of this event is attached. The last date of early bird registration is March 31, 2025.
In addition, the Summer School will also have a special session on Industry Perspective Talks, where speakers are: Sunayana Sitaram (Microsoft Research, Bengaluru), Sri Garimella (Amazon, Bengaluru), Premjeet Singh (Samsung Research Institute, Bengaluru), K. Sunilkumar (TCS Innovation Labs, Mumbai), Debmalya Chakrabarty (Amazon, Bengaluru), Bidisha Sharma (Uniphore, Bengaluru), Nirmesh J. Shah (Sony Research, India), Nagaraj Adiga (Krutrim, Bengaluru), and Dipesh K. Singh (Augnito, Mumbai).
The program committee of S4P 2025 includes internationally well-known experts from 10 countries across the world. The S4P 2025 also includes 6th edition of 5 minute Ph.D. thesis (5MPT) contest, which provides doctoral scholars an opportunity to showcase their research work before eminent researchers both from academia and industry, and 2nd edition of Poster Presentation Contest (PPC). Four best presentations by the scholars during 5MPT and PPC will be awarded cash prizes. Further, we are also providing the Student Travel Grants (including DAU Student Grants to 50 students) to student participants. We are enclosing a poster which describes the outline of the event and call for participation.
Please do help in giving wide publicity of this event and you may please encourage students working in relevant areas to register for this event and apply for IndSCA Student Travel Grants, please.
Thanks and best regards, Prof. (Dr.) Hemant A. Patil, Professor and Placement Convenor, DAU (formerly DA-IICT) Gandhinagar, India. On behalf of the Organizing Committee, S4P, July 05-09, 2025. Associate Editor, IEEE Signal Processing Magazine 2021-2023. ISCA Distinguished Lecturer 2020-2022, and APSIPA Distinguished Lecturer 2018-2019 Speech Research Lab @ DAU Gandhinagar, https://sites.google.com/site/speechlabdaiict/ PS: The closure report of the 6th edition of Summer School is available at https://sites.google.com/view/s4p2025/past_events
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| 3-3-1 | (2025-04-22) Call for Science: 2025 Voice AI Symposium, Tampa, FL, USA Call for Science: 2025 Voice AI Symposium hosted by the Bridge2AI-Voice Consortium
Submit your innovative research and technology to shape the future of AI and voice biomarkers! This year's theme is 'Translating AI Research into Reality: Implementing Voice Biomarkers for Transformative Healthcare'
Important Dates Submission Deadline for Abstracts: December 15th, 2024 Selection Notifications begin January 15th, 2025 Symposium + Hackathon Dates: April 22-24, 2025
We are welcoming submissions for the following categories Podium or Poster Presentations Panel Discussions Voice AI Technology Fair
About: The Bridge 2AI Voice Symposium is more than a conference; it is an interactive and collaborative effort between three integral aspects which impact our understanding of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML): people, ethics, and data. Submit your groundbreaking work for consideration to be a part of the 2024 Bridge 2AI Voice Symposium. Come join a global network of pioneers and collaborate with patients, scientists, clinicians, and industry. You play a pivotal role in shaping the future of AI and ML. We will see you in sunny Tampa Florida April 22-24.
CATEGORY 1: PODIUM AND POSTER PRESENTATION ABSTRACTS
Abstracts will be accepted for the presentation of research. We will be accepting presentations in the format of (1) oral presentation (30 minute oral presentation), (2) poster, or (3) either format. Reviewers will evaluate the submission and determine the best fit for presentation.
The goals of the podium and poster sessions are to:
Topic Areas for Submission: We invite proposals for topics including but not limited to:
Topic Area 1: The reliability of Voice AI in clinical diagnostics and prediction. Subjects can include specific disorders, public health, health policy and organization, and accessibility. Proposals can target clinician workflow, home health, virtual screening etc. Focus on tangible solutions rather than broad ideas. Current projects or new projects/ideas can be included.
Topic Area 2: Validation of Voice AI processes and demonstrations of robustness. Subjects can include optimizing machine learning for voice data or identification of explicit and implicit biases in current clinical practice that could be exacerbated by voice AI. Topics should address mitigation strategies or systematic approaches to overcome these challenges.
Topic Area 3: How can we build trust and transparency in voice AI, ensuring that it is used in responsible and effective ways to improve health outcomes and transform healthcare? Practical solutions presented can cover: highlighting methods to promote data privacy and security while fostering data sharing for research innovation, respecting patients’ rights, addressing biases and unintended consequences, and establishing a clear and consistent legal framework for voice AI in healthcare.
Abstract Guidelines
Specifications and submission details: There is no submission fee. Abstracts will be reviewed by committee who will determine best presentation for research (either poster or podium) Podiums will be 30-minute oral presentations that offer valuable insights into the field of voice AI. Submissions should focus on either research or clinical applications of AI in voice. Research Presentations: Share recent findings or ongoing research that advances our understanding of voice AI]. Clinical Presentations: Highlight innovative approaches to diagnosis, treatment, or service delivery for voice AI. Discuss the practical implications and benefits of your methods. Abstracts should include: an introduction stating its relevance to improving human health, approach, preliminary findings (if available), conclusion, and future direction of your work. Maximum character count per abstract submission is 1,900 characters NOT including spaces. If you choose to add an image or table to your abstract submission, it will count as 600 characters towards the total 1,900 characters that are allowed.
CATEGORY 2: PANEL PRESENTATION ABSTRACT
We invite abstracts for panel presentations that address the effective development and use of AI in healthcare. Each panel will consist of a moderator and 3-4 presenters who will address moderator questions or present brief papers related to a specific topic. The panel session length will be approximately 60 minutes, and should include interaction with the audience through live polling questions, which we will facilitate through the use of 'Aha Slides' at the day of the event. The topic should be addressed within the context of our 3 key pillars – people, data, and ethics. The organizer of the symposium is expected to be the chair. Diversity of background and expertise within the panel is encouraged.Presenters should represent different laboratories and an international mix of contributors is encouraged.
Specifications and submission details: There is no submission fee. Panel presentation abstracts should include bullets that include: a title, name and affiliation of the moderator, a list of the panelists, and an abstract describing the intent of the panel presentation. The abstract should include a brief overview of the panel presentation, a description of the structure of the presentation, the purpose and the intended outcome(s). The abstract should include 5 questions relevant to your panel that will be used in interactive 'Aha slides' on the day of the event (e.g. 'How do you think voice biomarkers are most likely to be implemented in the next year?' plus four answers for the audience to choose from) Maximum character count per panel submission is 1,900 characters NOT including spaces. If you choose to add an image or table to your abstract submission, it will count as 600 characters towards the total 1,900 characters that are allowed.
CATEGORY 3: CALL FOR TECHNOLOGY - VOICE AI TECH FAIR
A technology fair will be hosted during the 2025 Bridge 2AI Voice Symposium. Eligible participants include startup companies, independent tech researchers and voice AI companies with relevant technology for demonstration. Technology should be relevant to applications of Voice AI or voice biomarkers in healthcare. Participants will have the opportunity to interact with clinicians, scientists, and patients to discuss and provide hands on interactions with their tech.
Specifications and submission details:
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| 3-3-2 | (2025-04-27) CfP Congrès Français d’Acoustique, Sorbonne Université, Paris Nous avons le plaisir de vous informer que le prochain Congrès Français d’Acoustique (https://cfa2025.fr), organisé sous l’égide de la Société Française d’Acoustique (SFA), se tiendra sur le Campus Pierre et Marie Curie de Sorbonne Université du 27 au 30 Avril 2025. L'Association Francophone de la Communication Parlée (AFCP) est société partenaire pour l'organisation avec le Groupe d'Acoustique de la Parole (GAP-SFA) d'une session générale intitulée : acoustique de la voix, de la parole et du chant. Cette session a pour objectif de donner un aperçu des recherches scientifiques actuelles en sciences phonétiques et en acoustique : études expérimentales, travaux en modélisation et simulation, en phonétique expérimentale et clinique, analyse et synthèse, et histoire des sciences de la parole. Nous vous sollicitons aujourd’hui pour soumettre un résumé pour une communication orale à ce congrès. Le format d'un résumé est entre 120 et 300 mots, en langue française de préférence. Le résumé et les différentes informations saisies restent modifiables jusqu’à la date limite de contribution fixée au 01 décembre 2024. Nous espérons que vous pourrez y participer pour présenter vos derniers travaux. Veuillez noter que vous devez effectuer une pré-inscription avant de soumettre votre résumé, vous engageant ainsi à payer ultérieurement les frais d’inscription. Après avoir pris connaissance des informations sur l’inscription et la soumission des résumés sur https://cfa2025.fr/ , vous pourrez procéder à l’inscription en vous enregistrant sur la plateforme https://conforg.fr/bin/IA/reg_cfa2025_fr puis en utilisant les identifiants pour soumettre votre résumé sur https://conforg.fr/bin/usrlogin_cfa2025. À la première étape, choisissez 'GAP - Voix et Parole' dans le menu déroulant nommé 'Thème', puis 'Session générale d'acoustique de la voix, de la parole et du chant' dans le menu déroulant 'Session spéciale'. En espérant que vous accepterez cette invitation à participer, nous vous remercions par avance pour votre contribution à la réussite de cette manifestation. Bien cordialement, Nathalie Henrich Bernardoni, Coriandre Vilain et Claire Pillot-Loiseau
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| 3-3-3 | (2025-04-29) Projet Oralidia, Strasbourg, France Nous avons le plaisir de vous inviter à la journée de clôture du projet Oralidia (financé par l'Idex de l'Université de Strasbourg, les laboratoires LiLPA (U. de Strasbourg), ATILF (CNRS & Université de Lorraine) et l'équipe de recherche Traverses (Université de Liège)).
Cette journée se tiendra le mardi 29 avril à Strasbourg. Toutes les informations sont dans le programme et l'affiche en pièce jointe ainsi que sur la page de l'évènement : https://www.atilf.fr/recherche/manifestations/colloques/20250429-je-les-vocaux/ Pour des questions logistiques, l'inscription à l'évènement est gratuit mais obligatoire, au lien suivant : https://evento.renater.fr/survey/inscription-je-vocaux-29-04-25-qnjzrxml Il sera possible de participer à l'évènement à distance, un lien sera fourni ultérieurement. Présentation : Le projet Oralidia (Oralité et Diachronie) a permis de constituer un corpus de sms oraux, Les Vocaux, nouveau mode de communication, disponible librement sur la plateforme Ortolang (https://www.ortolang.fr/market/corpora/lesvocaux). L’objectif de cette journée est d’inviter des spécialistes reconnus de la linguistique extérieurs au projet à en montrer les apports pour la recherche sur le français. La journée se terminera sur une table ronde autour des apports des nouveaux corpus. Ce projet a reçu le soutien de l’IDEx de l’Université de Strasbourg, du laboratoire LiLPa (Université de Strasbourg), du laboratoire ATILF (CNRS et Université de Lorraine) et de l’UR Traverses (Liège Université) Camille Fauth
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| 3-3-4 | (2025-05-16) CfP 3rd International Conference on Tone and Intonation - TAI 2025, Herrsching, Germany Call for Papers 3rd International Conference on Tone and Intonation - TAI 2025
We are delighted to announce that the Third International Conference on Tone and TAI 2025 will be held in Herrsching near Munich, Germany, from 16–18 May 2025. Jointly sponsored by the International Speech Communication Association (ISCA) and the International Phonetic Association (IPA), TAI 2025 will be hosted by the Institute for Phonetics and Speech Processing of the LMU Munich.
Sireemas Maspong
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| 3-3-5 | (2025-06-02) 28èmes Rencontres Jeunes Chercheurs, Paris, France28èmes Rencontres Jeunes ChercheursSystèmes2 et 3 juin 2025 à l’Université Sorbonne Nouvelle - Paris 3 (Maison de la Recherche) au 4, rue des Irlandais - 75005 PARIS. Le thème sélectionné cette année est le suivant : « Systèmes»
La date limite de soumission des propositions de communication aux 27èmes Rencontres Jeunes Chercheurs de l’ED 622 est prolongée au 1er mars 2025.
Soumission des propositions : Toute personne souhaitant réaliser une communication est invitée à soumettre un abstract d’un maximum de 3000 caractères espaces comprises (hors figure(s) et bibliographie) en français jusqu’au 1er mars 2025 à 19h (heure de Paris). Les propositions de communication devront être déposées sur :https://rjc2025.sciencesconf.org/.En choisissant l’option “Nouveau dépôt” vous pourrez saisir vos données personnelles (nom, prénom, affiliation). La proposition de communication est anonyme, merci de ne pas mettre vos nom, prénom et affiliation universitaires dans le fichier PDF que vous allez joindre à votre proposition.
Calendrier Date limite de soumission :22 février 2025 1er mars 2025 Notification aux participants : Avril 2025 Dates du colloque : 2 et 3 juin 2025
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| 3-3-6 | (2025-06-09?) Cf research proposals: 2025 Jelinek Workshop on Speech and Language Technologies (JSALT), Brno, Czech Republic
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| 3-3-7 | (2025-06-10) 10èmes Journées de Phonétique Clinique (JPC), Sète, France 10e Journées de Phonétique Clinique
En 2025, les 10e JPC auront lieu dans la proche région de Montpellier, à Sète du 10 au 12 Juin 2025. Elles seront organisées conjointement par l’équipe d’Anthropologie Évolutive de l’ISEM UMR5554 (CNRS & Université de Montpellier), le laboratoire Praxiling UMR5267 (CNRS & Université Paul Valéry Montpellier 3), le CHU Gui de Chauliac (Service Voix Parole Déglutition), le Laboratoire Audiocampus (Faculté de Pharmacie) et le Département Universitaire d’Orthophonie (Faculté de Médecine). Ces journées pluridisciplinaires sont principalement destinées à rassembler et à favoriser les échanges entre chercheurs, cliniciens et phonéticiens et avec tout autre professionnel s’intéressant aux mécanismes de production et de perception de la parole. Les JPC accueillent autant les experts que les jeunes chercheurs et les étudiants, des domaines cliniques (médecine, orthophonie, audiologie), psychologique, et des sciences du langage. Elles concernent tout ce qui a trait au langage, à la parole et à la voix de l’enfant et de l’adulte, sain ou atteint d’une pathologie. Ces aspects y sont abordés selon des points de vue variés, permettant le partage des savoirs et l’ouverture de nouvelles pistes de réflexion, de recherche et de collaboration. Les Journées de Phonétique Clinique offrent aux jeunes chercheurs une plateforme d'échange et de formation en contact direct avec des experts du domaine. Ils peuvent y présenter leurs travaux, recevoir des retours critiques, et assister à des conférences spécialisées, ce qui favorise l'acquisition de nouvelles compétences méthodologiques et théoriques. Cette immersion dans un cadre scientifique et collaboratif enrichit leur parcours académique, soutient leur développement professionnel en recherche clinique et linguistique et leur ouvre des perspectives d’avenir pour la suite de leur parcours universitaire (post-docs). Lors de cette 10e édition, les femmes, grandes oubliées de la recherche, seront mises à l’honneur. En effet, la recherche biomédicale vise à comprendre le fonctionnement, normal ou pathologique, du corps humain, afin d’améliorer la santé et la qualité de vie des individus. Que ce soit dans son volet clinique ou dans le domaine fondamental, elle s’est souvent cantonnée à des études sur des individus masculins sans tenir compte du fait que la prévalence de certaines maladies diffère selon le genre (Baggio et al. 2013). Ainsi, à l’heure actuelle, 60% des études publiées ne font aucunement mention du genre. La communauté scientifique a aujourd’hui pris conscience de l’importance d’inclure suffisamment de femmes dans les études et d’analyser ces données en fonction du genre. Les propositions de communication porteront sur les problématiques suivantes (liste non exhaustive) :
Dates importantes (site internet de soumission à venir) Date d’appel à communication : 12/11/2024 Les propositions de communication aux 10e Journées de Phonétique Clinique (10-12 juin 2025) peuvent désormais être déposées sur le site de la conférence —> https://jpc2025.sciencesconf.org/
***Date limite de réception des soumissions (abstracts de 500 mots) : 31/01/2025 Date de notification aux auteurs : 17/03/2025 * Pour organisation Ateliers contacter : fabrice.hirsch@univ-montp3.fr
* Pour Exposants (éditeurs, entreprises privées…) contacter : melissa.barkat-defradas@umontpellier.fr
Dates d’inscription (early-bird) : 17/03/2025 au 14/04/2025 inclus Date d’inscription (tarif normal) : 15/04/2025 au 02/06/2025 inclus Version finale des résumés : 16/05/2025
10e Journées de Phonétique Clinique : 10-12 juin 2025
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| 3-3-8 | (2025-06-10) Appel à ateliers: Journées de phonétique clinique 2025, Sète, France Objectifs Pour encourager les échanges entre cliniciens et chercheurs, le comité d’organisation des JPC 2025 lance un appel à propositions pour des ateliers transversaux (co-organisés par un chercheur et un clinicien) autour de thématiques liées soit à la production altérée de la voix/parole soit à la perception pathologique de la parole. Ces ateliers prendront des formes ouvertes et participatives (table ronde, débat, tutoriel, démonstration, séminaire, etc.). Deux ateliers sont prévus le matin du mardi 10 juin 2025, lors de la première journée des 10ᵉ Journées de Phonétique Clinique. Chaque atelier disposera d’un créneau de 1 heure maximum. Les organisateurs des ateliers sélectionnés seront responsables de :
Le comité des JPC prendra en charge la logistique : gestion des salles, pauses café, et inclusion des résumés dans le livret de la conférence. Les frais d’invitation ne seront pas couverts. Calendrier
Modalités de soumission Les propositions (maximum 2 pages) doivent inclure :
Les propositions doivent être envoyées en format PDF à fabrice.hirsch@univ-montp3.fr et seront évaluées par le comité de programme des JPC 2025. Publication dans le livret des résumés Les résumés doivent respecter les recommandations des JPC 2025 : maximum 400 mots en français (hors titre, auteurs et bibliographie). Contact et informations Pour toute question, contactez-nous à fabrice.hirsch@univ-montp3.fr.
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| 3-3-9 | (2025-06-10) Atelier surdité et implant cochéaire aux JPC 2025 La participation à l’atelier du mardi 10/06 (voir descriptif en PJ) aux JPC 2025 nécessite une inscription de votre part.
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| 3-3-10 | (2025-06-16) Madrid UPM Machine Learning and Advanced Statistics summer school, Boadilla del Monte, SpainWe would like to remind you that early registration for the is open until May, 27th (included). The summer school will be held in Boadilla del Monte, near Madrid, from June 16th to June 27th. This year's edition comprises 12 week-long courses (15 lecture hours each), given during two weeks (six courses each week). Attendees may register in each course independently. No restrictions, besides those imposed by timetables, apply on the number or choice of courses. Early registration is *OPEN*. Extended information on course programmes, price, venue, accommodation and transport is available at the school's website: https://www.dia.fi.upm.es/MLAS There is a 25% discount for members of Spanish AEPIA and SEIO societies.
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| 3-3-11 | (2025-06-18) PAC 2025 - Spoken English Varieties - Perception and Representations, Aix-en-Provence,France (extended deadline) Deuxième appel à communications pour la conférence internationale PAC 2025 (phonologie de l’anglais contemporain) - Spoken English Varieties - Perception and Representations, qui se tiendra à Aix-en-Provence du 18 au 20 juin 2025. La conférence sera suivie le 20 juin après-midi d’un atelier sur le dépôt et le partage des données.
Dates à retenir : Conférence : 18-20 juin 2025, Laboratoire Parole et Langage, Aix-en-Provence. Date de soumission des résumés: 5 janvier 2025 Bien cordialement, Le comité d’organisation PAC 2025.
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| 3-3-12 | (2025-06-23) CfP Forum Acusticum Euronoise 2025, Malaga, Spain Call for Submissions:
Special Session on Speaker Characterization: Speaker Recognition, Diarization, Speech Emotion Recognition We are pleased to invite you to submit your work to the Special Session on Speaker Recognition, Diarization, and Speech Emotion Recognition at the upcoming Forum Acusticum Euronoise 2025, to be held from 23rd to 26th of June 2025 in Malaga. This session will focus on cutting-edge research in the fields of speech analysis, with particular emphasis on speaker recognition, diarization, and the recognition of speech-based emotions. We welcome two types of submissions: 1. Oral Presentation of Published Work: Authors of previously published journal articles related to the session’s theme are invited to submit an abstract for an oral presentation of their work. This is an excellent opportunity to showcase your research to an interdisciplinary audience and engage in discussions. 2. Full Paper Submissions for Review: Authors with unpublished research are invited to submit their full papers for review. Accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings and will also be eligible for oral presentation during the special session. Important Dates: - Abstract Submission Deadline: January 19th - Full Paper Submission Deadline: March 23rd - Notification of Acceptance: April 10th - Conference Dates: 23rd to 26th of June Submission Guidelines: - Abstracts for oral presentations of published work should be no more than 200 words. - Full paper submissions should be 2-4 pages for short papers, and up to 8 pages for long papers. - Detailed instructions can be found on the conference website https://www.fa-euronoise2025.org/ We look forward to your contributions and hope to see you at Forum Acusticum Euronoise 2025! For more information, please contact: Thomas Thebaud, PhD Assistant Research Scientist, Center for Language and Speech Processing Johns Hopkins University tthebau1@jhu.edu
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| 3-3-13 | (2025-06-25) CfP : Prosody in Languages of the Middle East , Palma de Mallorca, Spain
Call for Papers: Prosody in Languages of the Middle East
Meeting Email: papeprosodyworkshop@gmail.com ; niamh.kelly@newcastle.ac.uk Webpage: https://agenda.uib.es/120122/section/53647/6th-phonetics-and-phonology-in-europe-pape-2025.html
Organisers
Meeting Description: Abstract guidelines: Max. 1 page for the body of the abstract (font size 11-12) and max. 1 page for figures/references. Please submit your abstracts to: papeprosodyworkshop@gmail.com Oral sessions: 10 min talk, 5 mins for Q&A. There will also be a poster session.
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| 3-3-14 | (2025-06-30) 4th ACM International Workshop on Multimedia AI against Disinformation (MAD’25), Chicago, ILL, USA 4th ACM International Workshop on Multimedia AI against Disinformation (MAD’25)
ACM International Conference on Multimedia Retrieval ICMR'25
Chicago, USA, June 30 - July 3, 2025
https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=mad2025
*** Call for papers ***
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* Paper submission due: April 10, 2025
* Acceptance notification: April 29, 2025
* Camera-ready papers due: May 5, 2025
* Workshop @ACM ICMR 2025: June 30, 2025
Modern communication does not rely anymore solely on mainstream media like newspapers or television, but rather takes place over social networks, in real-time, and with live interactions among users. The speedup of distribution and the amount of information available, however, also led to an increased amount of misleading content, disinformation and propaganda. Conversely, the fight against disinformation, in which news agencies and NGOs (among others) take part on a daily basis to avoid the risk of citizens' opinions being distorted, became even more crucial and demanding, especially for what concerns sensitive topics such as politics, health and religion.
Disinformation campaigns are leveraging, among others, AI-based tools for content generation and modification: hyper-realistic visual, speech, textual and video content have emerged under the collective name of 'deepfakes', and more recently with the use of Large Language Models (LLMs) and Large Multimodal Models (LMMs), undermining the perceived credibility of media content. It is, therefore, even more crucial to counter these advances by devising new robust and trustworthy AI tools able to detect the presence of inaccurate, synthetic and manipulated content, accessible to journalists and fact-checkers.
Future multimedia disinformation detection research relies on the combination of different modalities and on the adoption of the latest advances of deep learning approaches and architectures. These raise new challenges and questions that need to be addressed to reduce the effects of disinformation campaigns. The workshop, in its fourth edition, welcomes contributions related to different aspects of AI-powered disinformation detection, analysis and mitigation.
Topics of interest include but are not limited to:
- Disinformation detection in multimedia content (e.g., video, audio, texts, images)
- Multimodal verification methods
- Synthetic and manipulated media detection
- Multimedia forensics
- Disinformation spread and effects in social media
- Analysis of disinformation campaigns in societally-sensitive domains
- Robustness of media verification against adversarial attacks and real-world complexities
- Fairness and non-discrimination of disinformation detection in multimedia content
- Explaining disinformation detection results to non-expert users
- Temporal and cultural aspects of disinformation
- Dataset sharing and governance in AI for disinformation
- Datasets for disinformation detection and multimedia verification
- Open resources, e.g., datasets, software tools
- Large Language Models for analyzing and mitigating disinformation campaigns
- Large Multimodal Models for media verification
- Multimedia verification systems and applications
- System fusion, ensembling and late fusion techniques
- Benchmarking and evaluation frameworks
*** Submission guidelines ***
When preparing your submission, please adhere strictly to the ACM ICMR 2025 instructions, to ensure the appropriateness of the reviewing process and inclusion in the ACM Digital Library proceedings. The instructions are available here: https://mad2025.aimultimedialab.ro/submissions/.
*** Organizing committee ***
Dan-Cristian Stanciu (National University of Science and Technology Politehnica Bucharest, Romania)
Roberto Caldelli (CNIT and Mercatorum University, Italy)
Milica Gerhardt (Fraunhofer IDMT, Germany)
Bogdan Ionescu (National University of Science and Technology Politehnica Bucharest, Romania)
Giorgos Kordopatis-Zilos (Czech Technical University in Prague, Czechia)
Symeon Papadopoulos (CERTH-ΙΤΙ, Greece)
Adrian Popescu (CEA LIST, France)
Vera Schmitt (Technical University Berlin, Germany)
The workshop is supported under the following projects: (i) UEFISCDI DeteRel SOL12/2024 Detection of relationships between entities in unstructured and structured data sets (https://deterel.aimultimedialab.ro/), (ii) AI4Debunk (https://ai4debunk.eu/), (iii) vera.ai “VERification Assisted by Artificial Intelligence” (https://www.veraai.eu/), and (iv) News-Polygraph (https://news-polygraph.com/).
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| 3-3-15 | (2025-06-30) Appel à ateliers - CORIA TALN 2025, Marseille, France Appel à ateliers - CORIA TALN 2025 Dans le cadre de la conférence conjointe CORIA-TALN 2025 qui aura lieu à Marseille du 30 juin au 4 juillet 2025, nous invitons la communauté scientifique à soumettre des propositions d’ateliers. Ces ateliers doivent aborder une thématique spécifique en lien avec la Recherche d'Information ou le Traitement Automatique du Langage Naturel. L'objectif est de permettre des échanges approfondis et ciblés, complémentaires aux sessions plénières de la conférence principale. Chaque atelier disposera de son propre président ou présidente et de son propre comité de programme. Les responsables de l'atelier auront en charge la coordination des activités, incluant la communication autour de l’atelier, la publication de l’appel à contributions, ainsi que la gestion du processus de soumission et d’évaluation des articles. Les organisateurs et organisatrices de CORIA-TALN 2025 prendront en charge les aspects logistiques (par exemple : gestion des salles, pauses café). Les ateliers se tiendront en parallèle sur une journée complète ou une demi-journée le lundi 30 juin 2025 sur le campus Saint-Charles d’Aix-Marseille Université, à Marseille. Dates importantes
Modalités de proposition Les propositions d’ateliers (1 à 2 pages au format PDF) devront inclure :
Les propositions doivent être envoyées par courriel à coria-taln-25-ateliers@lis-lab.fr, avec pour objet : [Atelier CORIA-TALN 2025]. Modalités de sélection Les propositions seront évaluées par des membres du comité d’organisation avec l’aide d’experts issus de la communauté CORIA et TALN, et validées par l’ATALA et l’ARIA. Les critères suivants seront pris en compte :
Format Les ateliers pourront se dérouler en français ou en anglais (notamment pour les participants non-francophones). Les articles soumis devront respecter le format de CORIA-TALN 2025. Le calendrier de soumission des versions finales devra suivre celui de la conférence principale. ---- --
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| 3-3-16 | (2025-06-30) Atelier EvalLLM, Marseille, France L’atelier EvalLLM se tiendra le 30 juin à Marseille, en amont des conférences CORIA-TALN 2025. Des challenges seront annoncés séparément. Site web : https://evalllm2025.sciencesconf.org/ La question de leur évaluation se pose en particulier pour le français et plus généralement pour des langues autres que l’anglais ou pour des domaines spécifiques.
Cela inclut notamment les recherches concernant :
- Julianne Flament, AMIAD, Rennes - Lorenzo Gerardi, AMIAD, Rennes - Nihel Kooli, AMIAD, Rennes - Maxime Poulain, AMIAD, Rennes
Contact : vincent.claveau@def.gouv.fr ; nihel.kooli@def.gouv.fr
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| 3-3-17 | (2025-07-13) International Forensics Summer School (IFOSS) - Sicily, Italy International Forensics Summer School (IFOSS) - Sicily, IT 13-19 July 2025 Forensic Horizons: Investigating Truth in the Digital and AI Era Challenges and Opportunities in Digital Forensics, Cybersecurity, and AI-Driven Investigations
The fourth edition of IFOSS will aim 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. Leading scientists from the different fields involved will introduce the topics. A typical course is broad enough to provide a general introduction to the chosen topic, whilst one can learn the most relevant contributions in depthThe school will aim to provide a stimulating opportunity for professionals and young researchers, as well as Ph.D. students.
After the big success of the first two editions with about 75 attendees from all over the world, also this year we will focus on Digital Forensics and Law with specific emphasis on the AI revolution.
In the following the related recap videos: IFOSS 2022: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7a35Wjkygx0&ab_channel=IFOSS IFOSS 2023: https://youtu.be/lfRZ8LyfYYs?si=MJ_7g3BORdZH-sNo IFOSS 2024: https://youtu.be/525Krq0ZGF4?si=1a6VlSdO1PWr9VJt
The underlying theme of the current edition is: Forensic Horizons: Investigating Truth in the Digital and AI Era Challenges and Opportunities in Digital Forensics, Cybersecurity, and AI-Driven Investigations
Why Attend?
LIST OF SPEAKERS (almost confirmed)
Fernando-Perez Gonzalez, University of Vigo, ES Didier Meuwly - University of Twente, NL Jacopo Della Torre - University of Genova, IT Luisa Verdoliva - University of Naples, IT
Fabio Bruno, Interpol, Singapore
Gianluca Foresti, University of Udine, IT Stefano Mele - ICT Authority, San Marino ..others coming soon.
DIRECTORS Sebastiano Battiato - University of Catania, Italy Donatella Curtotti - University of Foggia, Italy Giovanni Ziccardi, University of Milan, Italy
PhD FORUM A special session is organized for participants who intend to take advantage of the audience for presenting their current research/tool in the covered areas. A Special Issue to follow up on the themes covered in the School will be published in some indexed high-impact journals (to be announced early). Applicants are particularly encouraged to submit their original research to the SI (the usual refereeing procedure applies to guarantee the highest scientific standards).
APPLICATION The school will be open to about 75 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 550 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 400 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 scholarships will be available soon depending on sponsorship income.
Applications to attend IFOSS 2025 should be received before 04/05/2025.
Applicants will receive notification of acceptance by mid of May. Late registration can be done with an extra payment of € 100.
ACCOMODATIONS IFOSS participants will be hosted at Hotel Village Baia Samuele (school location) at very special rates. There are no other accommodation options. IFOSS 2025 participants must make reservations for accommodation, using the accommodation reservation form (available soon) to be sent 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 (650-1000 euros) in the period 13(in) to 19 (out) July 2025.
LOCATION IFOSS 2025 will be hosted by Hotel Village Baia Samuele in Punta Sampieri - Scicli (Ragusa), Sicily from 13-19 July 2025. 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 found 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 the 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 Website: www.ifoss.it
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| 3-3-18 | (2025-07-20) CfP 61st IEEE Professional Communication Conference (ProComm), University of Southern Denmark, Sonderborg, Denmark Call for Papers for the 61st IEEE Professional Communication Conference (ProComm)
20-23 July 2025 at the University of Southern Denmark, Sonderborg, Denmark.
ProComm is the flagship conference of the IEEE Professional Communication Society.
The conference takes place under the theme: “Digital Solutions and Multimodal Challenges”
Modern communication calls for more than traditional methods today. Digital solutions play a crucial role as they expand the efficiency and reach of communication. Multimodal communication, an evolution of this trend, is about the challenge of seamlessly integrating various media forms, from messaging apps to video calls – and it is also about the challenge of understanding how the different type and layers of communication, text and images, speech and body language, interact and interfere in the creation of attractive and effective messages. In an increasingly interconnected world, the integration of digital solutions and multimodal communication is crucial for effective exchange and collaboration. While, of course, inviting papers from all areas of professional communication, the conference will put a focus on building such inter-disciplinary bridges, using our Acoustics Lab’s international network to invite (foreign) language teachers, public-speaking coaches, researchers from the speech sciences, and speech-communication engineers to the event.
The 2025 issue of the conference is hosted by the CIE Acoustics Lab at the University of Southern Denmark in Sonderborg, Denmark.
Conference website: https://event.sdu.dk/procomm2025
All papers are subject to two rounds of double-bling peer review, and accepted papers will be published as proceedings in IEEE Xplore®, see here for further information and indexing: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/Xplorehelp/overview-of-ieee-xplore/about-content
Please note that the website for the 2025 conference is constantly updated. Information about keynotes, important dates etc. follow in autumn 2024.
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| 3-3-19 | (2025-07-21) 12th INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL ON DEEP LEARNING, Porto, Portugal 12th INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL ON DEEP LEARNING (with a special focus on Large Language Models, Foundation Models and Generative AI) DeepLearn 2025 Porto – Maia, Portugal July 21-25, 2025 https://deeplearn.irdta.eu/2025/ ****************************************************** Co-organized by: University of Maia Institute for Research Development, Training and Advice – IRDTA Brussels/London ****************************************************** Early registration: January 23, 2025 ****************************************************** SCOPE: DeepLearn 2025 will be a research training event with a global scope aiming at updating participants on the most recent advances in the critical and fast developing area of deep learning. Previous events were held in Bilbao, Genova, Warsaw, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Guimarães, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Luleå, Bournemouth, Bari, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria and Porto. Deep learning is a branch of artificial intelligence covering a spectrum of current frontier research and industrial innovation that provides more efficient algorithms to deal with large-scale data in a huge variety of environments: computer vision, neurosciences, speech recognition, language processing, human-computer interaction, drug discovery, biomedicine and health informatics, medical image analysis, recommender systems, advertising, fraud detection, robotics, games, business and finance, biotechnology, physics experiments, biometrics, communications, climate sciences, geographic information systems, signal processing, genomics, materials design, video technology, social systems, earth and sustainability, etc. etc. The field is also raising a number of relevant questions about robustness of the algorithms, explainability, transparency, interpretability, as well as important ethical concerns at the frontier of current knowledge that deserve careful multidisciplinary discussion. Most deep learning subareas will be displayed, and main challenges identified through 18 four-hour and a half courses, 2 keynote lectures, 1 round table and a hackathon competition among participants. Renowned academics and industry pioneers will lecture and share their views with the audience. The organizers are convinced that outstanding speakers will attract the brightest and most motivated students. Face to face interaction and networking will be main ingredients of the event. It will be also possible to fully participate in vivo remotely. DeepLearn 2025 will place special emphasis on large language models, foundation models and generative artificial intelligence. ADDRESSED TO: Graduate students, postgraduate students and industry practitioners will be typical profiles of participants. However, there are no formal pre-requisites for attendance in terms of academic degrees, so people less or more advanced in their career will be welcome as well. Since there will be a variety of levels, specific knowledge background may be assumed for some of the courses. Overall, DeepLearn 2025 is addressed to students, researchers and practitioners who want to keep themselves updated about recent developments and future trends. All will surely find it fruitful to listen to and discuss with major researchers, industry leaders and innovators. VENUE: DeepLearn 2025 will take place in Porto, the second largest city in Portugal, recognized by UNESCO in 1996 as a World Heritage Site. The venue will be: University of Maia Avenida Carlos de Oliveira Campos - Castêlo da Maia 4475-690 Maia Porto, Portugal https://www.umaia.pt/en STRUCTURE: 3 courses will run in parallel during the whole event. Participants will be able to freely choose the courses they wish to attend as well as to move from one to another. All lectures will be videorecorded. Participants will be able to watch them again for 45 days after the event. An open session will give participants the opportunity to present their own work in progress in 5 minutes. Also companies will be able to present their technical developments for 10 minutes. The school will include a hackathon, where participants will be able to work in teams to tackle several machine learning challenges. Full live online participation will be possible. The organizers highlight, however, the importance of face to face interaction and networking in this kind of research training event. KEYNOTE SPEAKERS: Yonina Eldar (Weizmann institute of Science), Model Based Deep Learning: Applications to Imaging and Communications Manuela Veloso (JPMorganChase), The Journey of Humans and AI: Insights from AI in Robotics and AI in Finance PROFESSORS AND COURSES: Pierre Baldi (University of California Irvine), [intermediate/advanced] From Deep Learning and Transformers to AI Risks and Safety Sean Benson (Amsterdam University Medical Center), [intermediate] Digital Twins and Generative AI for Personalised Medicine Xavier Bresson (National University of Singapore), [intermediate/advanced] Graph Transformers, Graph Generative Models and Large Language Models Nello Cristianini (University of Bath), [introductory] Machina Sapiens - Towards More General Forms of AI Mark Derdzinski (Dexcom), [introductory] From Prototype to Production: Evaluation Strategies for Agentic Applications Samira Ebrahimi Kahou (University of Calgary), [intermediate/advanced] Explainability in Machine Learning Elena Giusarma (Michigan Technological University), [introductory/intermediate] Machine Learning at the Frontier of Astrophysics: Simulating the Universe Shih-Chieh Hsu (University of Washington), [intermediate/advanced] Real-Time Artificial Intelligence for Science and Engineering Xia 'Ben' Hu (Rice University), [introductory/advanced] Efficient LLM Serving: Algorithms and Systems Lu Jiang (ByteDance & Carnegie Mellon University), [introductory/intermediate] Transformers for Image and Video Generation: Fundamentals, Design, and Innovations Jayashree Kalpathy-Cramer (University of Colorado), [introductory/intermediate] Multimodal AI for Healthcare Yingbin Liang (Ohio State University), [intermediate/advanced] Theory on Training Dynamics of Transformers Chen Change Loy (Nanyang Technological University), [intermediate/advanced] Harnessing Prior for Content Enhancement and Creation Evan Shelhamer (DeepMind), [intermediate] Test-Time Adaptation for Updating Models on New and Different Data Atlas Wang (University of Texas Austin), [intermediate] Low Rank Strikes Back in the Era of Large Language Models Xiang Wang (University of Science and Technology of China), [advanced] Large Language Models for User Behavior Modeling: Cross-Modal Interpretation, Preference Optimization, and Agentic Simulation Cao (Danica) Xiao (GE HealthCare), [introductory/intermediate] Transforming Healthcare and Drug Development through Multimodal AI with LLMs and Generative AI Technologies Rex Ying (Yale University), [intermediate/advanced] Multimodal Foundation Models for Graph-Structured Data: Framework and Scientific Applications OPEN SESSION: An open session will collect 5-minute voluntary oral presentations of work in progress by participants. They should submit a half-page abstract containing the title, authors, and summary of the research to david@irdta.eu by July 13, 2025. INDUSTRIAL SESSION: A session will be devoted to 10-minute demonstrations of practical applications of deep learning in industry. Companies interested in contributing are welcome to submit a 1-page abstract containing the program of the demonstration and the logistics needed. People in charge of the demonstration must register for the event. Expressions of interest have to be submitted to david@irdta.eu by July 13, 2025. HACKATHON: A hackathon will take place, where participants can work in teams to tackle several machine learning challenges. They will be coordinated by Professor Sergei V. Gleyzer (University of Alabama). The challenges will be released 2 weeks before the beginning of the school. A jury will judge the submissions and the winners of each challenge will be announced by August 25, 2025. The winning teams will receive a modest monetary prize and the runners-up will get a certificate. SPONSORS: Companies/institutions/organizations willing to be sponsors of the event can download the sponsorship leaflet from https://deeplearn.irdta.eu/2025/sponsors/ ORGANIZING COMMITTEE: Sergei V. Gleyzer (Tuscaloosa, hackathon chair) José Paulo Marques dos Santos (Maia, local chair) Carlos Martín-Vide (Tarragona, program chair) Sara Morales (Brussels) José Luís Reis (Maia) Luís Paulo Reis (Porto) David Silva (London, organization chair) REGISTRATION: It has to be done at https://deeplearn.irdta.eu/2025/registration/ The selection of 6 courses requested in the registration template is only tentative and non-binding. For logistical reasons, it will be helpful to have an estimation of the respective demand for each course. Since the capacity of the venue is limited, registration requests will be processed on a first come first served basis. The registration period will be closed and the on-line registration tool disabled when the capacity of the venue will have got exhausted. It is highly recommended to register prior to the event. FEES: Fees comprise access to all program activities and lunches. There are several early registration deadlines. Fees depend on the registration deadline. The fees for on site and for online participation are the same. ACCOMMODATION: Accommodation suggestions will be available in due time at https://deeplearn.irdta.eu/2025/accommodation/ CERTIFICATE: A certificate of successful participation in the event will be delivered indicating the number of hours of academic activities. This should be sufficient for those participants who plan to request ECTS recognition from their home university. QUESTIONS AND FURTHER INFORMATION: david@irdta.eu ACKNOWLEDGMENTS: Universidade da Maia Universidade do Porto Universitat Rovira i Virgili Institute for Research Development, Training and Advice – IRDTA, Brussels/London
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| 3-3-20 | (2025-08-18) The 2nd International Generative AI and Computational Language Modelling Conference (GACLM 2025), Valencia, Spain The 2nd International Generative AI and Computational Language Modelling Conference (GACLM 2025)
18-21 August, 2025 | Valencia, Spain
Hybrid Event
Technically Co-Sponsored by IEEE Spain Section GACLM 2025 CFP: With the emergence of Generative AI (GenAI), the world is experiencing a new era of generative models producing various types of data, including textual and visual data. This is accompanied by the unprecedented advancement of Computational Language Modeling (CLM) techniques that are supporting a wide range of downstream applications. Both Generative AI and Computational Language Modeling are leading the paradigm shift we are witnessing in Artificial Intelligence. The International Generative AI and Computational Language Modeling Conference (GACLM 2025) addresses the architectures, applications, challenges, approaches, and future directions of this new era of Artificial Intelligence systems based on GenAI and CLM. We invite the submission of original papers on all topics related to GACLM, with special interest in, but not limited to, the following:
Submissions Guidelines and Proceedings Manuscripts should be prepared in 10-point font using the IEEE 8.5' x 11' two-column format. All papers should be in PDF format, and submitted electronically at Paper Submission Link. A full paper can be up to 8 pages (including all figures, tables and references). Submitted papers must present original unpublished research that is not currently under review for any other conference or journal. Papers not following these guidelines may be rejected without review. Also submissions received after the due date, exceeding length limit, or not appropriately structured may also not be considered. Authors may contact the Program Chair for further information or clarification. All submissions are peer-reviewed by at least three reviewers. Accepted papers will appear in the GACLM Proceeding, and be published by the IEEE Computer Society Conference Publishing Services and be submitted to IEEE Xplore for inclusion. Important Dates:
Contact:
Please send any inquiry on GACLM to: info@gaclm.org
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| 3-3-21 | (2025-08-24) 13th ISCA Speech Synthesis Workshop (SSW13) , Leeuwarden, The Netherlands (updated)This is the second call for papers for the 13th ISCA Speech Synthesis Workshop (SSW13). Submission website: <https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/SSW2025/Track/1/Submission/Create> Submission deadline: April 1, 2025 - initial submission; April 14, 2025 - paper update = General information = 13th ISCA Speech Synthesis Workshop (SSW13) - 24-26 August 2025 in Leeuwarden, NL - <https://blogs.helsinki.fi/ssw13-2025/> We are delighted to announce the 13th edition of the Speech Synthesis Workshop (SSW) which will take place in Leeuwarden (the Netherlands), from Sunday the 24th till Wednesday the 26th of August 2025. The workshop is a satellite event of the Interspeech 2025 conference (held in Rotterdam, the Netherlands). The SSW is the main meeting place for research and innovation in speech synthesis, i.e. predicting speech signals from text input. Text-to-Speech (TTS) technology is a key component of numerous applications: speech-to-speech translation, digital assistants, conversational agents, social robots. While early research focused on basic intelligibility, contemporary systems now achieve remarkable naturalness. Current research frontiers include emotional expression, speaking style control, and efficient deployment for the world's languages. **Theme: Scaling down: Sustainable synthesis for language diversity** SSW13 focuses on making speech synthesis more accessible for the world's languages. We encourage submissions addressing: - Data-efficient methods for low-resource languages - Computationally sustainable approaches - Cross-lingual transfer learning - Language-specific challenges in TTS = Key Information = - Paper Format: Up to 6 pages including references using the Interspeech 2025 template - Review Process: Double-blind peer review - Presentation format: Oral and poster sessions - Virtual Participation: None, in-person only = Important Dates = - **April 6, 2025: Updated submission deadline (title/authors)** - April 20, 2025: Updated full paper deadline - June 21, 2025: Notification of acceptance - July 4, 2025: Camera-ready deadline - August 17-22, 2025: Interspeech (Rotterdam) - August 24-26, 2025: SSW13 (Leeuwarden) = Topics = SSW welcomes contributions not only in the core TTS technology but also includes researchers from related science -- from phoneticians, phonologists, and neuroscientists to experts of multimodal human-machine interaction. First, we are delighted to already **announce two keynote speakers**: - **Alistair Conkie** from Apple - **Anna-Mari Wallenberg** from the University of Helsinki
Core tech - End-to-end text-to-speech synthesis - Direct waveform generation - Voice conversion and modification - Multilingual/cross-lingual synthesis - Low-resource TTS methods Linguistic aspects - Text normalization and preprocessing - Prosody modeling - Expression and emotion - Natural language generation for TTS - G2P conversion Applications & eval - Speech synthesis for accessibility - Embedded/edge deployment - Quality assessment metrics - Privacy and security - Ethical considerations Special applications - Singing synthesis - Non-human vocalization - Talking faces/avatars - Clinical applications We look forward to welcoming you in Leeuwarden! The SSW13 Organising committee
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| 3-3-22 | (2025-08-25) CfP The 26th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue (SIGDIAL), Avignon, France SIGDIAL 2025: Second Call for Papers (**submission deadline is April 21**)
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| 3-3-23 | (2025-08-25) CfP TDS-2025, Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany**************************************************************************
TSD 2025 - FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS
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The twenty-eighth International Conference on Text, Speech and Dialogue (TSD 2025)
Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany, 25-28 August 2025
http://www.tsdconference.org/
TSD 2025 will be organized by the Faculty of Applied Sciences, University
of West Bohemia, and the Faculty of Informatics, Masaryk University, in
cooperation with Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg. This
event continues the tradition of the TSD series, which started in 1998 and
has become a prime forum for interaction between researchers in computer
processing of both spoken and written language from all over the world.
IMPORTANT DATES
* >>> 30 May 2025 <<< ..... Deadline for submission of contributions
* 20 June 2025 ............ Notification of acceptance or rejection
* 27 June 2025 ............ Deadline for submission of camera-ready papers
* 25-28 August 2025 ....... Conference dates
For the review, a full paper must be submitted by the above deadline.
TSD SERIES
Proceedings of TSD form a book published by Springer in their Lecture Notes
in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI) series. The TSD proceedings are regularly
indexed by major citation databases such as Thomson Reuters Conference
Proceedings Citation Index, DBLP, SCOPUS, EI, INSPEC, or COMPENDEX.
TOPICS
Topics include (but are not limited to):
* Speech Recognition (multilingual, continuous, emotional speech, new
acoustic/language models)
* Corpora and Language Resources (large language models, text and spoken
corpora, lexicons, disambiguation)
* Speech and Spoken Language Generation (multilingual speech synthesis,
expressive speech)
* Tagging, Classification, and Parsing (sentiment analysis, credibility
analysis, summarization)
* Semantic Processing (information extraction, retrieval, data mining,
ontologies)
* Applications of Text and Speech Processing (machine translation,
question-answering, assistive tech)
* Automatic Dialogue Systems (multilingual, self-learning,
question-answering)
* Multimodal Techniques (visual speech synthesis, emotion and personality
modeling)
PROGRAMME COMMITTEE
Elmar Nöth, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany (General Chairman)
Rodrigo Agerri, University of the Basque Country, Spain
Vladimír Benko, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Slovakia
Archna Bhatia, Carnegie Mellon University, United States
Jan Černocký, Brno University of Technology, Czechia
Simon Dobrišek, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia
Kamil Ekštein, University of West Bohemia, Czechia
Karina Evgrafova, Saint-Petersburg State University, Russia
Yevhen Fedorov, Cherkasy State Technological University, Ukraine
Volker Fischer, EML Speech Technology GmbH, Germany
Darja Fišer, Institute of Contemporary History, Slovenia
Lucie Flek, Philipps-Universität Marburg, Germany
Björn Gambäck, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway
Radovan Garabík, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Slovakia
Alexander Gelbukh, Instituto Politécnico Nacional, Mexico
Louise Guthrie, University of Texas at El Paso, United States
Jan Hajič, Charles University, Czechia
Eva Hajičová, Charles University, Czechia
Yannis Haralambous, IMT Atlantique, France
Hynek Hermansky, Johns Hopkins University, United States
Daniel Hládek, Technical University of Košice, Slovakia
Aleš Horák, Masaryk University, Czechia
Eduard Hovy, Carnegie Mellon University, United States
Maria Khokhlova, Saint Petersburg State University, Russia
Aidar Khusainov, Tatarstan Academy of Sciences, Russia
Daniil Kocharov, Saint Petersburg State University, Russia
Miloslav Konopík, University of West Bohemia, Czechia
Valia Kordoni, Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany
Evgeny Kotelnikov, Vyatka State University, Russia
Pavel Král, University of West Bohemia, Czechia
Siegfried Kunzmann, Amazon Alexa Machine Learning, United States
Nikola Ljubešić, Jožef Stefan Institute, Croatia
Oier Lopez de Lacalle, Universtity of the Basque Country, Spain
Natalija Loukachevitch, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Russia
Bernardo Magnini, Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Italy
David Mareček, Charles University, Czechia
Václav Matoušek, University of West Bohemia, Czechia
Roman Mouček, University of West Bohemia, Czechia
Daša Munková, Constantine the Philosopher University in Nitra, Slovakia
Agnieszka Mykowiecka, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland
Hermann Ney, RWTH Aachen University, Germany
Joakim Nivre, Uppsala University, Sweden
Juan Rafael Orozco-Arroyave, University of Antioquia, Colombia
Maciej Piasecki, Wroclaw University of Science and Technology, Poland
Josef Psutka, University of West Bohemia, Czechia
James Pustejovsky, Brandeis University, United States
German Rigau, University of the Basque Country, Spain
Paolo Rosso, Universitat Politecnica de Valencia, Spain
Leon Rothkrantz, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands
Anna Rumshisky, University of Massachusetts Lowell, United States
Milan Rusko, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Slovakia
Pavel Rychlý, Masaryk University, Czechia
Mykola Sazhok, International Research and Training Center for Information Technologies and Systems, Ukraine
Pavel Skrelin, Saint Petersburg State University, Russia
Pavel Smrž, Brno University of Technology, Czechia
Petr Sojka, Masaryk University, Czechia
Ján Staš, Technical University of Košice, Slovakia
Georg Stemmer, Intel Corp., Germany
Marko Robnik Šikonja, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia
Marko Tadić, University of Zagreb, Croatia
Jan Trmal, Johns Hopkins University, Czechia
Tamas Varadi, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Hungary
Zygmunt Vetulani, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poland
Aleksander Wawer, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland
Pascal Wiggers, Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences, Netherlands
Alina Wróblewska, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland
Jerneja Žganec Gros, Alpineon, Slovenia
FORMAT OF THE CONFERENCE
The conference program will include:
* Invited Papers
* Oral Presentations
* Poster/Demonstration Sessions
Papers will be presented in topic-oriented sessions. The official language
of TSD 2025 is English. However, papers dealing with text and speech
processing in linguistic environments other than English are strongly
encouraged (as long as they are written in English).
The conference is planned as an on-site event. The conference will offer
a rich social programme.
SUBMISSION OF PAPERS
Authors are invited to submit full papers of up to 12 pages (including
references) in the LNCS format. Authors are also encouraged to present
practical demonstrations of software, projects, or interesting material
relevant to the conference topics. Demonstration abstracts of up to one
page will not appear in the proceedings.
Papers must not be under review by any other conference or publication
during the TSD review cycle, and they must not be previously published or
accepted for publication elsewhere.
VENUE
Erlangen-Nürnberg is home to Friedrich-Alexander-Universität
Erlangen-Nürnberg. The city offers a rich cultural heritage and convenient
transport links within Germany and throughout Europe.
CONTACT INFORMATION
All correspondence related to the conference, including paper submissions
and general inquiries, should be directed to:
TSD 2025 Organizing Committee
E-mail: tsd2025@tsdconference.org
We look forward to your submissions and to seeing you in Erlangen-Nürnberg
for TSD 2025
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| 3-3-24 | (2025-08-27) Blizzard Challenge, Leeuwarden, The Netherlands (updated) We have now released updated version of the Bildts dataset and the lexicon. Due to unforeseen circumstances, the release of the lexicon was delayed, so we have updated the schedule of the challenge which is now[1].
The lexicon is now available at <https://www.cstr.ed.ac.uk/projects/blizzard/2025/> and the dataset is available on zenodo: <https://zenodo.org/records/14995211> Finally, as the challenge moves to its next stage, all discussion will now happen on the blizzard discuss group (<https://groups.google.com/g/blizzard-challenge-discuss/> ). Kind regards, Sébastien Le Maguer for the Blizzard Challenge organising committee [1] *Mar 21 2025 – team registration closes* Apr 04 2025 – test sentences released to participants *Apr 11 2025 – deadline for participants to submit synthetic speech (23:59 AoE)* Apr 14 2025 – last date for payment of the entry fee (more details will be sent soon) Apr 30 2025 – evaluation systems go live Jun 20 2025 – end of the evaluation period Jun 27 2025 – release of results ***************************************************************
We are delighted to announce the 2025 edition of the Blizzard Challenge, which will be co-located with the Speech Synthesis Workshop 2025 (SSW13).
The theme of this edition of SSW is 'Scaling down: sustainable synthesis for language diversity'. In line with this theme, the challenge focuses on synthesizing speech for Bildts, a unique language variety from the Netherlands.
The information about the challenge is available (and will be updated) here: https://blogs.helsinki.fi/ssw13-2025/the-blizzard-challenge-2025/
About Bildts
Bildts (Indo-European > West Germanic) is spoken in Het Bildt, a region in the Dutch province of Friesland. With approximately 10,000 first and second language speakers, it represents a vibrant example of European linguistic diversity. The language variety has been systematically through grammatical descriptions, dictionaries with pronunciation information, literary works, media productions (weekly radio broadcasts, theater performances), and regular newspaper columns.
For the Blizzard Challenge 2025, we have curated a dataset of high-quality audio recordings with corresponding linguistic resources. This choice of Bildts aligns with our theme of 'sustainable synthesis for language diversity' - it presents participants with the real-world challenge of developing synthesis capabilities for a well-documented but data-limited language variety, representative of the thousands of smaller languages that could benefit from speech technology. The challenge is composed of two tasks:
Data download
The training data is available here: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14792457
A pronunciation dictionary for Bildts will be made available to participants in February 2025. This will include phonetic transcriptions that can be used for training text-to-speech systems. Participants will be notified when this resource becomes available.
Timeline
This is a preliminary timeline and is subject to change.
Any questions?
Please contact blizzard-challenge-organisers@googlegroups.com if you have any questions.
Please feel free to distribute this announcement.
The Blizzard Challenge 2025 Organising team
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| 3-3-25 | (2025-08-28) Third Run of the Automatic Minuting Shared Task - AutoMin @ SIGDIAL 2025 Third Run of the Automatic Minuting Shared Task - AutoMin @ SIGDIAL 2025
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| 3-3-26 | (2025-09-01) Workshop « Lenition and fortition in world's languages: new interdisciplinary insights », Lille, France
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| 3-3-27 | (2025-09-06) Labs @CLEF2025, Madrid, Spain
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| 3-3-28 | (2025-09-08) EUSIPCO 2025, Palermo, Italy
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| 3-3-29 | (2025-09-10) 7th Workshop on the history of speech communication research (HSCR), Paris, France Call for Papers
7th Workshop on the history of speech communication research (HSCR) Paris, September 10-12, 2025
*Manuscript submission deadline*: May 15, 2025
We are pleased to announce the 7th Workshop on the history of speech communication research (HSCR), which will take place in Paris, France from 10th to 12th September 2025.
After the launch in 2015 in Dresden, followed by Helsinki (2017), Vienna (2019), Prague (2021), Porto (2022), and Budapest (2024), this 7th edition of the workshop will be organized by members of the Laboratoire de Phonétique et Phonologie (CNRS & Sorbonne Nouvelle) et CLESTHIA Laboratory (Sorbonne Nouvelle).
HSCR provides an interdisciplinary forum for researchers working on all aspects of the history of research on speech and speech communication. A special focus of this edition will be on geographical and disciplinary exchanges within and beyond the field of speech research. Advances in our field have, from its beginning, been stimulated by intensive exchanges within the community through international exchanges between scholars and students, the development of international societies, congresses and journals, but also through fruitful transfers of knowledge, approaches, technology and instrumentation between disciplines.
Contributions on any such topic will be welcome, as well as on any topics related to the historical aspects of speech communication research.
Contributions must not be longer than 10 pages and follow the guidelines provided. The papers will be published in the book series Studientexte zur Sprachkommunikation at TUDpress (Technical University Dresden and also stored electronically in the ISCA archive.
More information on https://iwhscr2025.sciencesconf.org contact: hscr2025@gmail.com
Key dates: Manuscript submission: May 15, 2025 Notification of acceptance: June 02, 2025 Revised manuscript submission: July 05, 2025
We are very much looking forward to receiving your submissions.
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| 3-3-30 | (2025-09-?) 8th International Workshop on Multimedia Content Analysis in Sports, Dublin, Ireland Call for Papers ------------------- 8th International Workshop on Multimedia Content Analysis in Sports (MMSports'25) @ ACM Multimedia, Oct 27 – Oct 31, 2025, Dublin, Ireland
We'd like to invite you to submit your paper for the 8th International Workshop on Multimedia Content Analysis in Sports to be held in Dublin, Ireland together with ACM Multimedia 2025. The ambition of this workshop is to bring together researchers and practitioners from many different disciplines to share ideas and methods 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 - 3D scene and motion reconstruction 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 - graphical effects in sports - alternative sensing in sports (beyond the visible spectrum) - multimodal perception in sports - exploiting physical knowledge in learning systems for sports - sports knowledge discovery - narrative generation and narrative analysis in sports - mobile sports application - multimedia in sports beyond video, including 3D data and sensor data
Submissions can be of varying length from 6 to 8 pages, plus up to two pages for the references. 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 with the same review period.
Please refer to the workshop website for further information: http://mmsports.multimedia-computing.de/mmsports2025/index.html
IMPORTANT DATES Submission Due: 16 July 2025 Acceptance Notification: 24 July 2025 Camera Ready Submission: 26 August 2025 Workshop Date: TBA; either Oct 27th or Oct 28th, 2025
Challenges -------------- Once again, MMSports is running a competition that challenges participants to solve a cutting-edge problem applied to real-world sport-specific data. This year’s challenge is 'SoccerTrack Challenge 2025: Tracking and Identifying Soccer Players in Fixed Viewpoint Video“. It is a competition designed to advance the tracking and identification of soccer players in fixed viewpoint video footage. Participants will be provided with a dataset of match footage annotated with bounding boxes and player IDs for training. During the test phase and the final challenge phase, participants will be given unseen match footage in which they must perform player identification and tracking and submit their results. The ranking will be based on the performance of the tracking models on this unseen data. Also the 1st, 2nd and 3rd place will also be awarded with 150,000 JPY, 60,000 JPY and 30,000 JPY, respectively. More information on the challenges can be found at http://mmsports.multimedia-computing.de/mmsports2025/challenge.html.
ACM MMSports’25 Chairs: Thomas Moeslund, Rainer Lienhart and Hideo Saito
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| 3-3-31 | (2025-10-08) CfP SPECOM 2025, Szeged, Hungary ******************************************************* SPECOM-2025 – FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS *******************************************************
27th International Conference on Speech and Computer (SPECOM-2025) October 08-10, 2025 Szeged, Hungary Web: https://specom.inf.u-szeged.hu
ORGANIZER SPECOM-2025 conference is organized by the University of Szeged.
CONFERENCE TOPICS SPECOM attracts researchers, linguists and engineers working in the following areas of speech science, speech technology, natural language processing, human-computer interaction:
OFFICIAL LANGUAGE The official language of the event is English. However, papers on processing languages other than English are strongly encouraged.
FORMAT OF THE CONFERENCE The conference program will include presentation of invited talks, oral sessions, and poster/demonstration sessions.
SUBMISSION OF FULL PAPERS Authors are invited to submit full papers of 10-15 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. Authors should submit their papers using the on-line submission system: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=specom2025
DEADLINES June 15, 2025 ………. Submission of full papers (23:59 AoE) July 31, 2025 ........... Notification of acceptance/rejection August 10, 2025 ...... Camera-ready papers August 15, 2025 ...... Early registration
PROCEEDINGS SPECOM Proceedings will be published by Springer Nature as books in the Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNCS / LNAI, Scopus Q2) series listed in all major international citation databases.
GENERAL CHAIRS Gábor Gosztolya – University of Szeged, Hungary Alexey Karpov – SPC RAS, St. Petersburg, Russia
CONTACTS All correspondence regarding the conference should be addressed to SPECOM-2025 Secretariat E-mail: specom@inf.u-szeged.hu Web: https://specom.inf.u-szeged.hu
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| 3-3-32 | (2025-10-19) The 13th conference on Speech Technology and Human-Computer Dialogue, Cluj-Napoca, RomaniaSpeD 2025 – Welcome messageThe “SpeD 2025” Organizing Committee warmly invites you to attend the 13th Conference on Speech Technology and Human-Computer Dialogue, in Cluj-Napoca, Romania. The conference will be held in-person at the Technical University of Cluj-Napoca. The conference will bring together scientists, developers, and professionals to present their work, meet colleagues, discuss new ideas, and build collaboration between university, research center, and commercial sector research groups. The technical program will include oral sessions, keynotes by renowned speakers, and demonstrations of latest research on a wide range of topics positioned at the forefront of science and engineering in speech technology and human-computer dialogue. The past editions of the “SpeD” conference series were sponsored by IEEE and EURASIP (technical sponsors), the proceedings being indexed by the IEEE Xplore® Digital Library, Scopus, and the Web of Science Conference Proceedings Citation Index (the WoS indexing process has not been finalized for the previous 2023 edition). This year, papers accepted and presented during the conference will also be submitted for inclusion into IEEE Xplore, subject to meeting IEEE Xplore’s scope and quality requirements, and for indexing in Web of Science.
Joint eventThis year, the Language Data Space (LDS) Workshop organised by the Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence “Mihai Drăgănescu”, Romanian Academy, will be co-located with “SpeD”. Main Topics
Additional Topics in NLP and Multimodal Processing
Schedule (provisional)
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| 3-3-33 | (2025-10-22) 21st International Conference on Content-based Multimedia Indexing, CBMI 2025, Dublin, Ireland ==================================================================
21st International Conference on Content-based Multimedia Indexing, CBMI 2025
Dublin, Ireland, October 22-24, 2025 https://www.cbmi2025.org/
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Important DatesRegular and Special Session Papers
Demonstration Papers
Call for Regular PapersCBMI aims at bringing together the various communities involved in all aspects of content-based multimedia indexing for retrieval, browsing, management, visualization and analytics.
The organisers of CBMI 2025 call for novel and original research papers that are addressing the various topics of interest related to the conference. We encourage contributions both on theoretical aspects and applications of CBMI in the new era of Artificial Intelligence and foundation/language-backed-backed models for multimedia for multimedia. Authors are invited to submit previously unpublished research papers highlighting significant contributions addressing these topics.
Authors can submit full papers (6 pages + references) or short papers (4 pages + references).
Submissions to CBMI are peer reviewed in a double blind process and the language of the conference is English. For full details on the submission process see the submission guidelines.
Authors of high-quality papers accepted to the conference may be invited to submit extended versions of their contributions to a special journal issue.
Call for Special Session Papers
The organisers of CBMI 2025 call for novel and original research papers that are relevant for the following special sessions:
Please see https://www.cbmi2025.org/cfp/special-sessions/ for more details.
Call for DemonstrationsCBMI aims at bringing together the various communities involved in all aspects of content-based multimedia indexing for retrieval, browsing, management, visualization and analytics. We invite authors to report on novel and compelling demonstrations in all topic areas of CBMI. Demonstration papers are subject to peer review according to criteria such as novelty, interestingness, applications of or enhancements to state-of-the-art, and potential impact.
The length of the papers should be up to 4 pages. An additional 1-2 pages should be appended to the paper that illustrate how the demo will be conducted on-site at CBMI 2025. This additional content will not be published in the conference proceedings, should the submission be accepted. Including a link to a video showing the demo in action is highly encouraged. The submissions are peer-reviewed in a single-blind process. For full details on the submission process see the submission guidelines.
Presenters are expected to bring the necessary equipment (computers, etc.) themselves. The conference will provide a table, power outlet, screen, wireless (shared) internet and a poster board. If you have special needs (e.g., more space), please include a related note in your demo submission.
Topics of InterestTopics of interest to the CBMI community include (but are not limited to) the following:
Multimedia Content Analysis and Indexing:
Multimedia User Experiences:
Applications of Multimedia Indexing and Retrieval:
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| 3-3-34 | (2025-11-06) The First VoicePrivacy Attacker Challenge, ICASSP 2025, Hyderabad, India The First VoicePrivacy Attacker Challenge
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Dear colleagues,
Registration for The First VoicePrivacy Attacker Challenge is now open!
The First VoicePrivacy Attacker Challenge is supported by ICASSP 2025 as the SP Grand Challenge (https://2025.ieeeicassp.org/sp-grand-challenges/#gc7). It focuses on developing attacker systems against voice anonymization, which will be evaluated against a set of anonymization systems submitted to the VoicePrivacy 2024 Challenge. Training, development, and evaluation datasets are provided along with a baseline attacker system. Participants shall develop their attacker systems in the form of automatic speaker verification systems and submit their scores on the development and evaluation data to the organizers. To do so, they can use any additional training data and models, provided that they are openly available and declared before the specified deadline. The metric for evaluation is equal error rate (EER). Results will be presented at the ICASSP 2025 special session to which 5 selected top-ranked participants will be invited to submit and present their challenge systems.
Please find more information in The First VoicePrivacy Attacker Challenge Evaluation Plan: https://www.voiceprivacychallenge.org/attacker/docs/Attacker_Challenge_Eval_Plan.pdf
Registration: https://t.co/pPEXxHEtP6
Contact: attacker.challenge@inria.fr
The VoicePrivacy Attacker Challenge Organizers: Xiaoxiao Miao - Singapore Institute of Technology, Singapore Natalia Tomashenko - Inria, France Emmanuel Vincent - Inria, France Junichi Yamagishi - NII, Japan
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