| 3-1-1 | (2020-09-14) Cf Show and Tell, Interspeech 2020, Shanghai, China
 Show & Tell 
         
  
Important Dates ? Submission deadline: Saturday, April 25, 2020 ? Acceptance/rejection notification: Monday, June 8, 2020 ? Final paper and final video due: Monday, June 22, 2020
  INTERSPEECH is the world’s largest and most comprehensive conference on the science and technology of spoken language processing. Show & Tell is a special event organized during the conference. Participants are given the opportunity to demonstrate their most recent progress of developments, and interact with the conference attendees in an informal way, such as a demo, mock-up or any adapted format of their own choice. The contributions must highlight the innovative side of the concept and may relate to a regular paper.
  Submission and Preparation Guidelines Each initial Show & Tell submission must contain both a paper of up to 2 pages detailing the demonstration and a video illustrating what is going to be shown. The paper (including references) has to follow the format defined in the paper preparation guidelines as detailed in the “INTERSPEECH 2020 Author’s Kit”. Please note that the focus of the paper shall be on describing what the visitors will see and experience. The video can simply be recorded with a mobile phone or alike. Submissions will be evaluated by the organizing committee for relevance, originality, clarity, and significance of the proposed demonstration. At least one author of each accepted submission must register for and attend the conference, and demonstrate the system during the Show & Tell sessions. Each accepted Show & Tell paper will be allocated two pages in the conference proceedings. Furthermore, a final video, which is to be submitted by the final paper deadline, will be made publicly available. Show & Tell demonstrations will be presented in their dedicated time slot in the conference program. Each presentation space includes ?  one poster board ?  one table ?  wireless internet connection, and ?  a power outlet Please submit your proposal to the Show & Tell Chairs via show-and-tell@interspeech2020.org no later than April 25, 2020. QUESTIONS? PLEASE CONTACT our chair Ji Wu at show-and-tell@interspeech2020.org. 
 
 
 
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| 3-1-2 | (2020-09-14) Cf Tutorials Interspeech 2020, Shanghai, China
 Call for Tutorials
Important Dates ? Submission deadline: February 21, 2020 ? Acceptance/rejection notification: March 21, 2020
   INTERSPEECH conferences are attended by researchers with a long-term track-record in speech sciences and technologies as well as by early-stage researchers or researchers interested in a new domain within the INTERSPEECH areas. An important part of the conference is the tutorials held on the first day of the conference, September 14, 2020. Presented by speakers with extensive expertise in speech technologies, the tutorials will provide their audience with a rich learning experience and an exposure to longstanding research problems, contemporary research topics, and emerging areas.  We encourage proposals for addressing introductory or advanced topics in an introductory style as well as for targeting experienced researchers who want to dig deeper into a new topic.  A tutorial may introduce an emerging area in speech-related research or present an overview of an established area; but it should not focus on the presenter's individual research. Each tutorial should last for three hours.
  Proposals should include (in this order) ? Tutorial Title ? Presenter(s): Name, affiliation, contact information (email and telephone) ? 3-4 sentence abstract summarizing the proposed tutorial that could be used for advertisement ? Description of the proposal: 1-2 pages description plus references and any webpages/material useful for reviewing the proposal ? Explanation of relevance of the proposed tutorial (0.5 - 1 page) ? Tutorial logistics, including       o Duration (3 hours = 1 session)       o Description of presentation format (e.g. one or more presenters etc.)       o Special equipment required for the tutorial       o Choose one option for the distribution of the accompanying material: (1) with a USB stick or (2) with a password-protected download link. ? Presenter information       o Biography of presenter(s)       o Key publications of presenter(s) on the tutorial topic       o List of previous tutorial experience ? Audience information       o Target audience (e.g., new researchers to the field, research students, specialists of adjacent fields, etc.)       o Other considerations or comments
  Submission procedure  Proposals for INTERSPEECH 2020 tutorials may be no more than 4 pages and must conform to the format stated above; please use clear headings to indicate each point.  Proposals should be submitted by email to tutorials@interspeech2020.org by February 21, 2020 and notification of accepted proposals will be given by March 21, 2020.  By submitting a proposal, the presenter(s) understand the ISCA policy of strongly encouraging video-recording of the tutorial for education purposes if the proposal is accepted. Access to recording materials will be given via ISCA Video Archives.  Questions? Please contact tutorials@interspeech2020.org
  The tutorial chairs ? Zhijian Ou (ozj@tsinghua.edu.cn) ? Man-Wai Mak (man.wai.mak@polyu.edu.hk) 
 
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| 3-1-3 | (2020-09-14) CfSS and challenges Interspeech 2020, Shanghai, China
 
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 Call for proposals of  Special  Sessions & Challenges  deadline is approaching! 
For more information, please visit the Special Sessions & Challenges webpage. 
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 IMPORTANT DATES 
- Proposals of special sessions / challenges due: Monday, December 16, 2019
 
- Notification of pre-selection: Wednesday, January 15, 2020
 
- Final list of special sessions: Monday, June 15, 2020
 
 
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 SPECIAL SESSIONS & CHALLENGES 
Submission of the proposals are encouraged for INTERSPEECH 2020, covering interdisciplinary topics and/or important new emerging areas of interest related to main conference topics. Submissions related to special focus of the conference, Cognitive Intelligence for Speech Processing, are particularly welcome. Apart from supporting a particular theme, special sessions may also have a format that is different from a regular session. 
Each special session proposal must contain the following information: 
- Title of the proposed special session,
 
- Names and affiliations of the organizers (including contact information and a brief biography for each organizer),
 
- Up to five bullet points on what makes the session special,
 
- A summary (up to one page) stating the importance of the session’s topic and objectives. Furthermore, the session format should be clearly defined (panel, oral, posters, etc.). The summary should also explain why the topic cannot be properly covered by regular conference sessions,
 
- A tentative list of researchers who could contribute papers to the session. Note that with a nominal 50% acceptance rate for Interspeech papers, this means that special sessions should have a minimum of 12 anticipated submissions, unless their format allocates time to something other than paper presentations,
 
- Additional or non-standard resources (e.g., data, equipment, poster stands, etc.) required for organizing the special session.
 
 
Proposals will be evaluated by the organizing committee for relevance and significance. Papers for approved Special Sessions have to be submitted following the same schedule and procedure as regular papers; the papers will undergo the same review process by anonymous and independent reviewers. Special session organizers will be involved in the reviewer assignment and in the final decisions. 
Special session proposers are invited to submit a proposal via email to the Special Session Chairs Zhiyong Wu (Tsinghua University), Tim Fingscheidt (Technical University of Braunschweig), Bhuvana Ramabhadran (Google), Yongguo Kang (Baidu), Pengyuan Zhang (IOA, CAS) at special-sessions@interspeech2020.org no later than Friday, November 29, 2019. Please do not hesitate to ask before submitting your proposal if further clarifications are needed. Notification of pre-selection is scheduled for Tuesday, December 31, 2019. Final acceptance will be announced shortly after paper decisions are completed. 
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| 3-1-5 | (2020-10-12) ACM Multimedia, Seattle, WA, USA
 ===== ACM Multimedia 2020 =====
   Oct. 12-16, Seattle  More details please visit: https://2020.acmmm.org
   1. Call for Papers
   ACM Multimedia is the premier international conference in multimedia. It  covers multiple emerging fields focusing on advancing the research and  applications of many media, including but not limited to images, text, audio,  speech, music, sensor and social data.  It strongly encourages a complete and  integrated approach to exchange, process and utilize information across  modalities, as well as all cutting-edge research on each medium with potential  of great positive impacts on everyday lives and technological breakthroughs.  While the community has a tradition of developing and innovating AI and system  approaches to handle big data and improve users? experiences on engaging and  interacting with multimedia, it is also uniquely angled towards novel  applications and urgent industrial challenges. As such the conference openly  embraces new intellectual perspectives from both industry and academia, and  welcomes submissions from related fields, such as artificial intelligence,  vision and languages, data sciences, HCI and multimedia signal processing, as  well as healthcare, education and beyond.  We invite the submissions in four  major themes of multimedia.
   Engaging Users with Multimedia          Emotional and social signals          Multimedia search and recommendations          Summarization, analysis and storytelling
   Experience          Interactions and quality of experiences          Art and culture          Multimedia applications
   Multimedia Content Understanding          Multimodal integration and alignment          Vision and language          Resource-efficient multimedia computing on edges
   Multimedia Systems          Systems and middleware          Transport and delivery          Data systems management and indexing
   2. Highlights of ACM Multimedia 2020
   Scientific Diversity: It is among our top priorities to ensure a top-quality  conference that covers a full diversity of all fields of multimedia research  including a variety of media modalities by addressing both technological and  practical challenges.
   Value: We strive to select the most innovative and the highest-quality  research aiming at the most impactful novelty on individual media and/or from  a systematic perspective of innovating and integrating multiple components  across modalities.
   Sharing: We value the sharing of not only knowledge (in the form of papers,  presentations and demos) but also the code and open-source software. While we  will continue the implementation of the ACM Artifact Review and Badging, best  efforts will be made on sharing and preserving the open-source code and  systems resulting from the published papers.
   3. Location
   The conference will be held in Bellevue, Washington, United States, located in  the Greater Seattle area famous as an ever-green city and home to many hi-tech  companies. Our venue, Hyatt Regency Bellevue, is centrally located in  Bellevue.
   4. Important Dates
   Reproducibility Companion Paper - 2 Feb 2020  Workshop Proposals Submission - 10 Feb 2020  Grand Challenge Proposal Submission - 10 Feb 2020  Grand Challenge Proposal Notification - 24 Feb 2020  Regular Papers Submission - 28 Mar 2020 (Abstract: 21 Mar 2020)  Open Source Competition Submission - 11 May 2020  Brave New Ideas Submission - 11 May 2020  Interactive Artworks Submission - 11 May 2020  Doctorial Symposium Submission - 11 May 2020  Panel Proposals Submission - 11 May 2020  Tutorial Proposals Submission - 11 May 2020  Technical Demo and Video Program Submission - 25 May 2020  Regular Papers Notification - 22 Jun 2020  Grand Challenge Solutions Submission -        29 Jun 2020  Workshop Papers Submission - 29 Jun 2020
   5. Organizing Committee
   Honorary Chair:
   Ramesh Jain, University of California Irvine
   General Chairs:
   ChangWen Chen, CUHK Shenzhen  Rita Cucchiara, UNIMORE  Xian-Sheng Hua, Alibaba Group
   Technical Program Coordinator:
   Marcel Worring, University of Amsterdam
   Technical Program Chairs:
   Guo-Jun Qi, Futurewei Technologies  Elisa Ricci, UNITN & FBK  Zhengyou Zhang, Tencent  Roger Zimmermann, National University of Singapore
   Panel Chairs:
   Jiebo Luo, University of Rochester  Yong Rui, Lenovo
   Tutorial Chairs:
   Jialie Shen, Queen's University Belfast  Laura Toni, University College London
   Workshop Chairs:
   Winston Hsu, National Taiwan University  Shervin Shirmohammadi, University of Ottawa
   Brave New Ideas Chairs:
   Cees Snoek, University of Amsterdam  Hengtao Shen, UEST of China  Junsong Yuan, University at Buffalo
   Multimedia Grand Challenge Chairs:
   Ani Kembhavi, The Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence  Lei Zhang, Microsoft
   Open Source Chairs:
   Jianchao Yang, Bytedance AI Lab US  Lucile Sassatelli, Université Cote d'Azur
   Demo and Video Program Chairs:
   Cathal Gurrin, Dublin City University  Klaus Schoeffmann, Klagenfurt University  Yonghong Tian, Peking University
   Interactive Arts Chairs:
   Peter Knees, TU Wien  Zhe Gan, Microsoft
   Web & Social Media Chairs:
   Yiru Zhao, Alibaba Group  Yonggang Wen, Nanyang Technological University
   Sponsor Chairs:
   Yu-Gang Jiang, Fudan University  Tianzhu Zhang, University of Science and Technology of China
   Publicity Chairs:
   Benoit Huet, EURECOM  Kien A. Hua, University of Central Florida  Mohan Kankanhalli, National University of Singapore  Yuxin Peng, Peking University
   Finance Chair:
   Shuonan Zhang, Alibaba Group
   Local Chairs:
   Dinghuang Ji, Alibaba Group  Yu Cheng, Microsoft  Yu Wang, Alibaba Group
   Publication Chairs:
   Pradeep K. Atrey, University at Albany  Zhu Li, University of Missouri
   Preservation Chair:
   Balakrishnan Prabakaran, University of Texas at Dallas
   Reproducibility Chairs:
   Björn Þór Jónsson, IT University of Copenhagen  Naoko Nitta, Osaka University
   Doctoral Symposium Chair:
   Yao Liu, Binghamton University
   Student Travel Grant Chairs
   Abdulmotaleb El Saddik, University of Ottawa  Anthony Vetro, MERL 
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