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
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
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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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