INTERSPEECH 2021
Brno, Czech Republic, August 30 - September 3, 2021
Chairs : Hynek Hermansky and Honza Cernocky 
22^nd INTERSPEECH event

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Incheon in South Korea will welcome Interspeech 2022.

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, ISCA has reached the decision to hold INTERSPEECH-2023 in Dublin, Ireland (Aug. 20-24, 2023)

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Dear SProSIG Members,

I am pleased to announce that Speech Prosody 2022 will be held in Lisbon,  May 23-26, 2022.

Thanks to all who voted: 315 members from 46 countries.  Although the vote for Lisbon was decisive (41%), it was good to see strong support also for the bids for Aix (33%) and Nijmegen (26%).
 
Nigel Ward, SProSIG Chair
Professor of Computer Science, University of Texas at El Paso

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The International Conference 'Language Technologies for All (LT4All):  
Enabling Linguistic Diversity and Multilingualism Worldwide', which took  
place on December 4-6, 2019 at Unesco Headquarters in Paris in the  
framework of the International Year of Indigenous Languages (IYIL 2019),  
was sponsored by ISCA. 
 
The rationale of the conference was: 'How to improve the present  
situation where only 2% of the languages spoken over the world benefit  
from Language Technologies' ? 
 
It allowed for fruitful exchanges between Language Technology providers  
and Language Policy makers, as it can be seen on Twitter:  
https://twitter.com/hashtag/lt4all 
 
The conference oral sessions were webcasted and can be replayed, in  
English and French: see https://en.unesco.org/LT4All 
  

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Important note:  conference as a virtual meeting

 Instructions for Authors.

Note that previously accepted abstracts do not need to be resubmitted; however, authors are encouraged to upload revised versions of their abstracts based on reviewer feedback using the EasyChair portal. The deadline for new submissions and revisions to accepted abstracts is August 1st, 2020.  

The 12th International Seminar on Speech Production (ISSP),

organized through Haskins Laboratories, will take place June 1-4 2020 in Providence, RI, USA, at the Omni Convention Center Hotel.

Inaugurated in Grenoble in 1988, the ISSP is an international forum for researchers to share their work on all aspects of human speech production, including phonology, phonetics, prosody, biomechanics, signal processing, motor control, neuroscience, modeling, disordered speech and speech accommodation. The diversity of topics is a particular strength of the conference, providing opportunities for young researchers especially to be exposed to complementary ideas and methods apart from their immediate focus. Previous meetings have occurred in Sydney, Ubatuba (Brazil), Strasbourg, Montreal, Cologne, and Tianjin, and we anticipate that turnout for the Providence conference will be large and enthusiastic.

The overall theme of the conference is intended to foster discussion of how speech production develops, consolidates, and degenerates over the typical lifespan. The meeting is structured around eight invited speakers, each highlighting a subtopic of interest within their session:

Developmental

• Lisa Goffman (UT Dallas); language acquisition and its disorders

Elder speech

• Cécile Fougeron (U. Sorbonne); effects of aging on coarticulation

Disordered Speech

• Suzanne Boyce (U. Cincinnati); articulatory characteristics of motor deficits

Modeling

• Gabriel Mindlin (U. Buenos Aires); syllabic structure of birdsong

Methods

• Brad Sutton (U. Illinois); rtMRI as a tool for viewing articulation across the entire vocal tract

Neuroscience

• Kristofer Bouchard (UCSF); eCOG as an emerging method for investigating speech motor planning and execution

Speech Interaction

• Jennifer Pardo (Montclair State); aspects of phonetic convergence and turn-taking in conversational dyads

Speech Technology

• Carol Espy-Wilson (U. Maryland); estimating articulatory gestures from acoustics

For additional details please visit the conference website: https://issp2020.yale.edu

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Paper Submission Deadline: 6 July 2020 PST 

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Consider submitting your papers to the Eight International Conference on Big Data Analytics (BDA) 2020.

Kindly share the CFP with others who may wish to submit papers to BDA 2020, which will be held at Ashoka University, Sonepat (Delhi, NCR), India.

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Please accept our apologies if you receive multiple copies of the CFP.

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CALL FOR PAPERS

Eighth International Conference on Big Data Analytics

December 15-18, 2020

Ashoka University

Sonepat (Delhi, NCR), India

http://www.bda2020.org/

The 8th International Conference on Big Data Analytics (BDA 2020) will be held during December 15-18, 2020 at Ashoka University, India.  The conference will be organized by Ashoka University. BDA 2020 provides an international forum for researchers and industry practitioners to share their original research results, practical experiences and thoughts on big data from different perspectives including storage models, data access, computing paradigms, analytics, information sharing and privacy, redesigning mining algorithms, open issues and future research trends.

BDA 2020 invites original, technically sound, high-quality research papers proposing novel solutions addressing the problems related to big data analytics as well as case studies and practical experiences with big data. Major topics of interest to the conference include, but are not limited to:

Analytics as a Service

Architectural Design for Big Data

Big Data Analytics for Governance

Conceptual/cognitive/programming Models for Big data analytics 

Clustering of Big Data

Data Fusion and Multi Modal Analytics 

Data Models for Big Data Analytics

Domain-specific Analytics 

Index Structures for Big Data Analytics 

Interaction Design for Exploratory Analytics

Machine Learning techniques for Big Data 

Large-scale recommendation systems and graph analysis

Model Discovery from Big Data

NoSQL and non-standard Data Models

Physical Data Organization for Big Data

Predictive Modelling 

Rule Mining from Big Data

Scalability and Performance issues 

Security, privacy and legal issues specific to big data

Semantics of Big Data

Streaming Data Analytics

Summarization and Materialized views

Topic Modelling 

Unstructured and Semi-structured Data Mining

Research Track Submissions

Each paper should contain an abstract of approximately 300 words having a page limit of 20 pages in the LNCS style. The  submissions including the title page, references and appendix. For preparing the manuscript, please see instructions for authors by Springer, in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science series (LNCS) 

Submission Link: https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=bda2020

Important Dates: (All times in PST)

Abstract submission: July 6, 2020, 23:59 PST

Full paper submissions: July 13, 2020, 23:59 PST

Research paper notifications: September 14, 2020, 23:59 PST

Camera-ready submission: October 1, 2020, 23:59 PST

Call for Workshops and Tutorials 

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The BDA 2020 organizing committee invites proposals for half ? day and full - day workshops and tutorials on established and emerging topics in the areas of Big Data Analytics and other related areas. Information for submission of each type of proposal is provided on the conference website.

Note: Due to the Coronavirus pandemic, the conference is proposed to be held online. We are closely monitoring the situation and shall provide updates as necessary

Sincerely, 

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PC Co-Chairs of BDA 2020: 

Ladjel Bellatreche (bellatreche@ensma.fr), ENSMA, France

Hamido Fujita (hfujita-799@acm.org), Iwate Prefectural University, Japan

Vikram Goyal (vikram@iiitd.ac.in), IIIT Delhi, India

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Now to be held online and on demand.

7-8 January 2021

Dear Colleague,

We are excited to announce that the 12th Oxford Dysfluency Conference (ODC) will be held online from 7-8 January 2021 and will be available afterwards on-demand.

This exciting event is a valuable opportunity for you to share your work, listen to talks live or at your leisure and to connect with other attendees, speakers and poster presenters all in one place.

We are currently compiling the programme and registration will be open soon. Please sign up for conference news to make sure you are kept up to date.

We are pleased to extend the invitation for late-breaking oral and poster submissions to 11 September 2020.

Submit your abstracts now on the following topics. 

• Conceptualizing stuttering
• Genetics, brain, and neurophysiology
• More than speech
• Cluttering, acquired stuttering, and atypical disfluencies,
• Working with people who stutter

Regards,

Conference Chairs

Sharon Millard, The Michael Palin Centre for Stammering, UK
Shelley B. Brundage, George Washington University, USA

Dear Colleague,

We are excited to announce that the   http://t.author.email.elsevier.com/r/?id=ta86f914,ce5faf2,d162a5a&utm_campaign=STMJ_122328_CONF_NEWS_REG&utm_medium=
email&utm_acid=96616440&SIS_ID=&dgcid=STMJ_122328_CONF_NEWS_REG&CMX_ID=&utm_in=DM99753&utm_source=AC_ programme  for the  12th Oxford Dysfluency
Conference  is now available. Take a look now to plan your schedule in advance.

Register now to participate live in a high-level and inspiring programme providing a showcase and forum for discussion and collegial debate about the most
current and innovative research and clinical practices.

Interact with the following keynote speakers  - direct from your desktop or mobile device: Ask questions, participate in polls and live chat.

Frank Guenther
Boston University, USA

Talk title:   Neural modeling and imaging of stuttering

Ellen M. Kelly
Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, USA

Talk title:  Armoring Children for the Slings and Arrows of Stuttering

Vivian Sisskin
University of Maryland, USA

Talk title:  Stuttering treatment within a social model of disability: resolving contradictions and double messages

Kate Watkins
University of Oxford, UK

Talk title:  Scanning and stimulating the brain in people who stutter

Plan your schedule in advance:  Choose which of the contributed talks and posters to attend live and catch-up with those you’ve missed with on-demand access to recorded sessions for 30 days after the event.*

Follow up on your research interests : Meet with new contacts via messaging and one-to-one video meetings on our online platform.

 http://t.author.email.elsevier.com/r/?id=ta86f914,ce5faf2,d162a5b&utm_campaign=STMJ_122328_CONF_NEWS_REG&utm_medium=email&utm_acid=96616440&SIS_ID=&dgcid=STMJ_122328_CONF_NEWS_REG&CMX_ID=&utm_in=DM99753&utm_source=AC_ REGISTER HERE !  

Registration deadline for live participation:  5 January 2021

12th Oxford Dysfluency Conference Awards
The Dave Rowley Award for International Initiatives  and The Travers Reid Award  will be presented at the conference. For further details  http://t.author.email.elsevier.com/r/?id=ta86f914,ce5faf2,d162a5e&utm_campaign=STMJ_122328_CONF_NEWS_REG&utm_medium=email&utm_acid=96616440&SIS_ID=&dgcid=STMJ_122328_CONF_NEWS_REG&CMX_ID=&utm_in=DM99753&utm_source=AC_ view our website .

Regards,

Conference Chairs

Sharon Millard,  The Michael Palin Centre for Stammering, UK
Shelley B. Brundage,  George Washington University, US

New dates announced:
6-9 January 2021

So that you can submit your abstract and register with confidence we are relaxing our cancellation terms due to the Coronavirus COVID-19 situation. Rest assured that we will refund your registration fee, with no penalty, should you wish to cancel during the uncertainty of the outbreak.

Dear Colleague,

As the spread of COVID-19 continues and the situation is still uncertain, Elsevier and the Conference Chairs have taken the decision to postpone the 12th Oxford Dysfluency Conference (ODC) to 6-9 January 2021 in the same venue, St Catherine?s College Oxford. 

Due to the re-scheduling of the conference we are able to extend the submission deadline for oral and poster abstracts to 21 August 2020. 

Submit your abstracts now on the following topics. 

• Conceptualizing stuttering
• Genetics, brain, and neurophysiology
• More than speech
• Cluttering, acquired stuttering, and atypical disfluencies,
• Working with people who stutter

The Oxford Dysfluency Conference has a reputation as one of the leading international scientific conferences in the field of dysfluency.

The conference brings together researchers and clinicians, providing a showcase and forum for discussion and collegial debate about the most current and innovative research and clinical practices. 

Throughout the history of the Oxford Dysfluency Conference, the primary aim has been to bridge the gap between research and clinical practice. 
The conference seeks to promote research that informs management, with interventions that are supported by sound theory and which inform future research.

We look forward to welcoming you to Oxford in January.

Regards,

A

Conference Chairs

Sharon Millard, The Michael Palin Centre for Stammering, UK
Shelley B. Brundage, George Washington University, USA

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4^th INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL ON DEEP LEARNING
 
DeepLearn 2021 Winter
 
Milan, Italy
 
January 11-15, 2021
 
Co-organized by:
 
Department of Information Engineering
Marche Polytechnic University
 
Institute for Research Development, Training and Advice ? IRDTA
Brussels/London
 
https://irdta.eu/deeplearn2021w/
 
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--- Early registration deadline: October 8, 2020 ---
 
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In conjunction with ICPR 2020
 
https://www.micc.unifi.it/icpr2020/
 
ICPR 2020 participants are eligible for a registration discount.
 
SCOPE:
 
DeepLearn 2021 Winter 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 and Warsaw.
 
Deep learning is a branch of artificial intelligence covering a spectrum of current exciting research and industrial innovation that provides more efficient algorithms to deal with large-scale data in neurosciences, computer vision, speech recognition, language processing, human-computer interaction, drug discovery, biomedical informatics, healthcare, recommender systems, learning theory, robotics, games, etc. Renowned academics and industry pioneers will lecture and share their views with the audience.
 
Most deep learning subareas will be displayed, and main challenges identified through 24 four-hour and a half courses and 3 keynote lectures, which will tackle the most active and promising topics. The organizers are convinced that outstanding speakers will attract the brightest and most motivated students. Interaction will be a main component of the event.
 
An open session will give participants the opportunity to present their own work in progress in 5 minutes. Moreover, there will be two special sessions with industrial and recruitment profiles.
 
ADDRESSED TO:
 
Master's students, PhD students, postdocs, and industry practitioners will be typical profiles of participants. However, there are no formal pre-requisites for attendance in terms of academic degrees. Since there will be a variety of levels, specific knowledge background may be assumed for some of the courses. Overall, DeepLearn 2021 Winter 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 and discuss with major researchers, industry leaders and innovators.
 
VENUE:
 
DeepLearn 2021 Winter will take place in Milan, the third largest economy among European cities and one of the Four Motors for Europe. The venue will be:
 
MiCo Milano Convention Centre
Piazzale Carlo Magno 1
Milan
 
https://www.micomilano.it/it/
 
The venue will be shared with the 25th International Conference on Pattern Recognition ? ICPR 2020
 
https://www.micc.unifi.it/icpr2020/
 
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.
 
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS:
 
Nello Cristianini (University of Bristol), Data, Intelligence and Shortcuts
 
Petia Radeva (University of Barcelona), Uncertainty Modeling and Deep Learning in Food Analysis
 
Indr? ?liobait? (University of Helsinki), Any Hope for Deep Learning in Deep Time?
 
PROFESSORS AND COURSES:
 
Ignacio Arganda-Carreras (University of the Basque Country), [introductory/intermediate] Deep Learning for Bioimage Analysis
 
Thomas G. Dietterich (Oregon State University), [introductory] Machine Learning Methods for Robust Artificial Intelligence
 
Georgios Giannakis (University of Minnesota), [advanced] Ensembles for Online, Interactive and Deep Learning Machines with Scalability, and Adaptivity
 
Sergei V. Gleyzer (University of Alabama), [introductory/intermediate] Machine Learning Fundamentals and Their Applications to Very Large Scientific Data: Rare Signal and Feature Extraction, End-to-end Deep Learning, Uncertainty Estimation and Realtime Machine Learning Applications in Software and Hardware
 
Ça?lar Gülçehre (DeepMind), [intermediate/advanced] Deep Reinforcement Learning
 
Balázs Kégl (Huawei Technologies), [introductory] Deep Model-based Reinforcement Learning
 
Ludmila Kuncheva (Bangor University), [intermediate] Classifier Ensembles in the Era of Deep Learning
 
Vincent Lepetit (ENPC ParisTech), [intermediate] Deep Learning and 3D Geometry
 
Geert Leus (Delft University of Technology), [introductory/intermediate] Graph Signal Processing: Introduction and Connections to Distributed Optimization and Deep Learning
 
Andy Liaw (Merck Research Labs), [introductory] Machine Learning and Statistics: Better together
 
Debora Marks (Harvard Medical School), [intermediate] Protein Design Using Deep Learning
 
Abdelrahman Mohamed (Facebook AI Research), [introductory/advanced] Recent Advances in Automatic Speech Recognition
 
Sayan Mukherjee (Duke University), [introductory/intermediate] Integrating Deep Learning with Statistical Modeling
 
Hermann Ney (RWTH Aachen University), [intermediate/advanced] Speech Recognition and Machine Translation: From Statistical Decision Theory to Machine Learning and Deep Neural Networks
 
Lyle John Palmer (University of Adelaide), [introductory/advanced] Epidemiology for Machine Learning Investigators
 
Razvan Pascanu (DeepMind), [intermediate/advanced] Understanding Learning Dynamics in Deep Learning and Deep Reinforcement Learning
 
Jan Peters (Technical University of Darmstadt), [intermediate] Robot Learning
 
José C. Príncipe (University of Florida), [intermediate/advanced] Cognitive Architectures for Object Recognition in Video
 
Björn W. Schuller (Imperial College London), [introductory/intermediate] Deep Signal Processing
 
Sargur N. Srihari (University at Buffalo), [introductory] Generative Models in Deep Learning
 
Gaël Varoquaux (INRIA), [intermediate] Representation Learning in Limited Data Settings
 
René Vidal (Johns Hopkins University), [intermediate/advanced] Mathematics of Deep Learning
 
Ming-Hsuan Yang (University of California, Merced), [intermediate/advanced] Learning to Track Objects
 
OPEN SESSION:
 
An open session will collect 5-minute voluntary 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 January 3, 2021.
 
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 participating in the demonstration must register for the event. Expressions of interest have to be submitted to david@irdta.eu by January 3, 2021.
 
EMPLOYER SESSION:
 
Firms searching for personnel well skilled in deep learning will have a space reserved for one-to-one contacts. It is recommended to produce a 1-page .pdf leaflet with a brief description of the company and the profiles looked for to be circulated among the participants prior to the event. People in charge of the search must register for the event. Expressions of interest have to be submitted to david@irdta.eu by January 3, 2021.
 
ORGANIZING COMMITTEE:
 
Emanuele Frontoni (Ancona, co-chair)
Carlos Martín-Vide (Tarragona, program chair)
Sara Moccia (Ancona)
Sara Morales (Brussels)
Marina Paolanti (Ancona)
Manuel J. Parra-Royón (Granada)
Luca Romeo (Ancona)
David Silva (London, co-chair)
 
REGISTRATION:
 
It has to be done at
 
https://irdta.eu/deeplearn2021w/registration/
 
The selection of up to 8 courses requested in the registration template is only tentative and non-binding. For the sake of organization, it will be helpful to have an estimation of the respective demand for each course. During the event, participants will be free to attend the courses they wish.
 
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 is exhausted. It is highly recommended to register prior to the event.
 
FEES:
 
Fees comprise access to all courses and lunches. There are several early registration deadlines. Fees depend on the registration deadline.
 
ACCOMMODATION:
 
Suggestions for accommodation are available at
 
https://irdta.eu/deeplearn2021w/accommodation/
 
CERTIFICATE:
 
A certificate of successful participation in the event will be delivered indicating the number of hours of lectures.
 
QUESTIONS AND FURTHER INFORMATION:
 
david@irdta.eu
 
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS:
 
Dipartimento di Ingegneria dell'Informazione, Università Politecnica delle Marche
 
Institute for Research Development, Training and Advice ? IRDTA, Brussels/London

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FINAL CALL FOR APPLICATION for the Advanced Language Processing (Winter) Schoool (see more details below)

If you would like to participate, the final application deadline is Sept 6th. This is happening either virtually or physically, tbc in October together with acceptance notification

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ROBOTDIAL Workshop 2020
Robot Dialogues - Dialogue Models for Human-Robot Interaction

CALL FOR PAPERS:

http://sap.ist.i.kyoto-u.ac.jp/ijcai2020/robotdial/

In conjunction with IJCAI 2020, Yokohama, Japan

The IJCAI-PRICAI-2020 conference will take place either in Kyoto (January 4-10) or in Yokohama (January 18-23) and the organizers have set new deadlines for the workshop program. Accordingly, the new submission deadline for ROBOTDIAL 2020 is

August 28, 2020 AoE (Anywhere on Earth).

The ROBOTDIAL-2020 workshop will be held in conjunction with the main conference, and it will take place both in-person and also virtually for those who can't come.

Please consider submitting a paper to the 1st RobotDial Workshop on Dialogue Models for Human-Robot Interaction. The submission detail and more information about the workshop can be found on the workshop website:
http://sap.ist.i.kyoto-u.ac.jp/ijcai2020/robotdial/

More information about the IJCAI-PRICAI conference will be on the conference website:
https://ijcai20.org/

We are looking forward to seeing your at ROBOTDIAL2020 in-person or virtually in January.

Best wishes,
Kristiina, Martin, Divesh, and Pierre

ROBOTDIAL-2020 workshop organisers

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Large communities in AI, robotics and interaction technology already work
on spoken language-based human-robot interaction. Their different starting
points and assumptions call for discussions, exchange of ideas and more
integrated approaches to implementations and modelling of spoken dialogues
on robot platforms.

This one-day workshop offers a platform for researchers to discuss and
elaborate their views at the intersection of AI, robotics and spoken
dialogue modelling. Sophisticated interaction models and implementations
are critical in this endeavour but are not often explicitly addressed.
Dialogue modelling and dialogue system implementations, on their part, are
often developed without sufficiently considering how the models could be
used in an embodied robotic system which also interacts with the
environment. The workshop offers a platform for discussions concerning
appropriate architectures and representations, in order to build a joint
understanding of the aspects and features that address the pertinent
questions in the multidisciplinary field of robot dialogues.

We invite submissions for this workshop based on (but not limited to) the
following topics:

- models of human-robot interactions and dialogue
- multimodal human-robot dialogue
- non-verbal communication in human-robot dialogue
- language modeling for robot interactions
- robots and unstructured conversation
- user studies with human-robot dialogue
- paralinguistics for robot interaction
- cognitive architectures for spoken dialogues
- representations for interaction and dialogue modelling

For further information, please check the workshop website or contact the authors at:
robotdial2020@easychair.org

Looking forward to seeing you in Yokohama!

Kristiina Jokinen (AIRC, AIST Tokyo Waterfront, Japan)
Martin Heckmann (Honda Research Institute Europe, Germany)
Divesh Lala (University of Kyoto, Japan)
Pierre Lison (Norsk Regnesentral, Norway)

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Le comité d?organisation.

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14^th-15^th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON LANGUAGE AND AUTOMATA THEORY AND APPLICATIONS
 
LATA 2020 & 2021
 
Milan, Italy
 
March 1-5, 2021
 
Co-organized by:
           
Department of Informatics, Systems and Communication
University of Milano-Bicocca
 
and
 
Institute for Research Development, Training and Advice
Brussels/London
 
https://irdta.eu/lata2020-2021/
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AIMS:
 
LATA is a conference series on theoretical computer science and its applications. LATA 2020 & 2021 will reserve significant room for young scholars at the beginning of their career. It will aim at attracting contributions from classical theory fields as well as application areas.
 
LATA 2020 & 2021 will merge the scheduled program for LATA 2020, which could not take place because of the Covid-19 crisis, with a new series of papers submitted on this occasion.
 
VENUE:
 
LATA 2020 & 2021 will be held in Milan, the third largest economy among European cities and one of the Four Motors for Europe. The venue will be:
 
University of Milano-Bicocca
Viale Piero e Alberto Pirelli 22
Building U6
Aula Mario Martini (Aula U6-04)
Milan
 
SCOPE:
 
Topics of either theoretical or applied interest include, but are not limited to:
 
algebraic language theory
algorithms for semi-structured data mining
algorithms on automata and words
automata and logic
automata for system analysis and programme verification
automata networks
automatic structures
codes
combinatorics on words
computational complexity
concurrency and Petri nets
data and image compression
descriptional complexity
foundations of finite state technology
foundations of XML
grammars (Chomsky hierarchy, contextual, unification, categorial, etc.)
grammatical inference, inductive inference and algorithmic learning
graphs and graph transformation
language varieties and semigroups
language-based cryptography
mathematical and logical foundations of programming methodologies
parallel and regulated rewriting
parsing
patterns
power series
string processing algorithms
symbolic dynamics
term rewriting
transducers
trees, tree languages and tree automata
weighted automata
 
STRUCTURE:
 
LATA 2020 & 2021 will consist of:
 
invited talks
peer-reviewed contributions
 
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS:
 
Eric Allender (Rutgers University), The New Complexity Landscape around Circuit Minimization
 
Laure Daviaud (City, University of London), About Decision Problems for Weighted Automata
 
Christoph Haase (University College London), Approaching Arithmetic Theories with Finite-state Automata
 
Artur Je? (University of Wroc?aw), Recompression: Technique for Word Equations and Compressed Data
 
Jean-Éric Pin (CNRS), How to Prove that a Language Is Regular or Star-free?
 
Thomas Place (University of Bordeaux), Deciding Classes of Regular Languages: A Language Theoretic Point of View
 
PROGRAMME COMMITTEE:
 
Jorge Almeida (University of Porto, PT)
Franz Baader (Technical University of Dresden, DE)
Alessandro Barenghi (Polytechnic University of Milan, IT)
Marie-Pierre Béal (University of Paris-Est, FR)
Djamal Belazzougui (CERIST, DZ)
Marcello Bonsangue (Leiden University, NL)
Flavio Corradini (University of Camerino, IT)
Bruno Courcelle (University of Bordeaux, FR)
Laurent Doyen (ENS Paris-Saclay, FR)
Manfred Droste (Leipzig University, DE)
Rudolf Freund (Technical University of Vienna, AT)
Pawe? Gawrychowski (University of Wroc?aw, PL)
Amélie Gheerbrant (Paris Diderot University, FR)
Tero Harju (University of Turku, FI)
Lane A. Hemaspaandra (University of Rochester, US)
Jarkko Kari (University of Turku, FI)
Dexter Kozen (Cornell University, US)
Markus Lohrey (University of Siegen, DE)
Parthasarathy Madhusudan (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, US)
Sebastian Maneth (University of Bremen, DE)
Nicolas Markey (IRISA, Rennes, FR)
Carlos Martín-Vide (Rovira i Virgili University, ES, chair)
Giancarlo Mauri (University of Milano-Bicocca, IT)
Victor Mitrana (University of Bucharest, RO)
Paliath Narendran (University at Albany, US)
Gennaro Parlato (University of Molise, IT)
Dominique Perrin (University of Paris-Est, FR)
Nir Piterman (Chalmers University of Technology, SE)
Sanguthevar Rajasekaran (University of Connecticut, US)
Antonio Restivo (University of Palermo, IT)
Wojciech Rytter (University of Warsaw, PL)
Kai Salomaa (Queen?s University, CA)
Helmut Seidl (Technical University of Munich, DE)
William F. Smyth (McMaster University, CA)
Ji?í Srba (Aalborg University, DK)
Edward Stabler (University of California, Los Angeles, US)
Benjamin Steinberg (City University of New York, US)
Frank Stephan (National University of Singapore, SG)
Jan van Leeuwen (Utrecht University, NL)
Margus Veanes (Microsoft Research, US)
Mikhail Volkov (Ural Federal University, RU)
 
ORGANIZING COMMITTEE:
 
Alberto Leporati (Milan, co-chair)
Sara Morales (Brussels)
Manuel Parra-Royón (Granada)
Rafael Peñaloza Nyssen (Milan)
Dana Shapira (Ariel)
David Silva (London, co-chair)
Bianca Truthe (Giessen)
Claudio Zandron (Milan, co-chair)
 
SUBMISSIONS:
 
Authors are invited to submit non-anonymized papers in English presenting original and unpublished research. Papers should not exceed 12 single-spaced pages (all included) and should be prepared according to the standard format for Springer Verlag's LNCS series (see http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0). If necessary, exceptionally authors are allowed to provide missing proofs in a clearly marked appendix.
 
Upload submissions to:
 
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=lata20202021
 
PUBLICATIONS:
 
A volume of proceedings published by Springer in the LNCS series will be available by the time of the conference.
 
A special issue of Information and Computation (Elsevier, 2019 JCR impact factor: 0.872) will be later published containing peer-reviewed substantially extended versions of some of the papers contributed to the conference. Submissions to it will be by invitation.
 
REGISTRATION:
 
The registration form can be found at:
 
https://irdta.eu/lata2020-2021/registration/
 
DEADLINES (all at 23:59 CET):
 
Paper submission: October 19, 2020
Notification of paper acceptance or rejection: November 23, 2020
Final version of the paper for the LNCS proceedings: November 30, 2020
Early registration: November 30, 2020
Late registration: February 15, 2021
Submission to the journal special issue: June 5, 2021
 
QUESTIONS AND FURTHER INFORMATION:
 
david (at) irdta.eu
 
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS:
 
Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca
 
IRDTA ? Institute for Research Development, Training and Advice, Brussels/London

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*IEEE MIPR 2021: CALL FOR PAPERS AND PROPOSALS*
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IEEE 4th International Conference on
Multimedia Information Processing and Retrieval (MIPR 2021)
  March 22-24, 2021. Tokyo, Japan. https://mipr2021.org/
  Sponsored by IEEE TCMC. Supported by IEICE, IPSJ, ITE.
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Huge amounts of multimedia data are increasingly available and the knowledge of spatial and/or temporal phenomena becomes critical for many applications, which requires techniques for the processing, analysis, search, mining, and management of multimedia data. The 4th IEEE International Conference on Multimedia Information Processing and Retrieval (IEEE-MIPR 2021) will take place in Tokyo, Japan on March 22-24, 2021. The conference will provide a forum for original research contributions and practical system design, implementation, and applications of multimedia information processing and retrieval. The target audiences will be university researchers, scientists, industry professionals, software engineers and graduate students who need to become acquainted with new theories and technologies in multimedia information processing and retrieval. MIPR 2021 is now inviting submissions of regular research papers, demo papers, workshop proposals, special session proposals, and tutorial proposals. Please refer to the detail of each category in the following.

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*HISTORY & ACCEPTANCE RATE*
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- IEEE 3rd MIPR 2020 @ Shenzhen: 19.5% (Acceptance Rate)
- IEEE 2nd MIPR 2019 @ San Jose: 19.5% (Acceptance Rate)
- IEEE 1st MIPR 2018 @ Miami   : 19.5% (Acceptance Rate)
- 12 years of MIPR (workshop) in conjunction with IEEE ISM.

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*IMPORTANT DATES*
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- 04 Sep, 2020: Proposal deadline for special sessions and workshops.
- 11 Sep, 2020: Notification of proposal for special sessions and workshops.
- 02 Oct, 2020: Submission deadline for regular papers.
- 06 Nov, 2020: Submission deadline of papers for special sessions, workshops, and demos.
- 06 Nov, 2020: Proposal deadline for tutorials.
- 13 Nov, 2020: Notification of proposal for tutorials.
- 18 Dec, 2020: Notification of regular papers.
- 25 Dec, 2020: Notification of papers for special sessions, workshops, and demos.
- 08 Jan, 2021: Deadline for camera-ready submission (final version) and author registration.
- 22-24 Mar, 2021: Conference dates.

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*Call for Regular Papers*
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IEEE MIPR 2021 will take place in Tokyo, Japan on March 22-24, 2021. The conference will provide a forum for original research contributions and practical system design, implementation, and applications of multimedia information processing and retrieval.

**Topics**
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

* Multimedia Retrieval
- Multimedia Search and Recommendation
- Web-Scale Retrieval
- Relevance Feedback, Active/Transfer Learning
- 3D and sensor data retrieval
- Multimodal Media (images, videos, texts, graph/relationship) Retrieval
- High-Level Semantic Multimedia Features

* Machine Learning/Deep Learning/Data Mining
- Deep Learning in Multimedia Data and / or Multimodal Fusion
- Deep Cross-Learning for Novel Features and Feature Selection
- High-Performance Deep Learning (Theories and Infrastructures)
- Spatio-Temporal Data Mining

* Content Understanding and Analytics
- Multimodal/Multisensor Integration and Analysis
- Effective and Scalable Solution for Big Data Integration
- Affective and Perceptual Multimedia
- Multimedia/Multimodal Interaction Interfaces with humans

* Multimedia and Vision
- Multimedia Telepresence and Virtual/Augmented/Mixed Reality
- Visual Concept Detection
- Object Detection and Tracking
- 3D Modeling, Reconstruction, and Interactive Applications

* Networks for Multimedia Systems
- Internet Scale System Design
- Information Coding for Content Delivery

* Systems and Infrastructures
- Multimedia Systems and Middleware
- Software Infrastructure for Data Analytics
- Distributed Multimedia Systems and Cloud Computing

* Data Management
- Multimedia Data Collections, Modeling, Indexing, or Storage
- Data Integrity, Security, Protection, Privacy
- Standards and Policies for Data Management

* Novel Applications
- Multimedia applications for health and sports
- Multimedia applications for culture and education
- Multimedia applications for fashion and living
- Multimedia applications for security and safety

*Internet of Multimedia Things
- Real-Time Data Processing
- Autonomous Systems such as Driverless Cars, Robots, and Drones
- Mobile and Wearable Multimedia

and others.

**Paper Submission**
The conference will accept regular papers (6 pages plus reference pages). Authors are encouraged to compare their approaches, qualitatively or quantitatively, with existing work and explain the strength and weakness of the new approaches. We are planning to invite selected submissions to journal special issues.

**Important Dates**
- Paper submission deadline: October 2, 2020
- Notification of acceptance: December 18, 2020
- Camera-ready deadline: January 8, 2021

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*Call for Demo Papers*
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IEEE MIPR 2021 organizing committee invites proposals for technical demonstrations to be presented in conjunction with the conference. Technical Demonstrations will show leading edge work in any area of multimedia information retrieval. Demonstrations offer the opportunity to present and receive feedback on live working systems in an informal setting. Submissions are particularly encouraged in the following areas with emphasis on multimedia information retrieval, but not limited to:

### Multimedia information Retrieval
* Multimedia Search and Recommendation
* Web-Scale Retrieval
* Relevance Feedback
* Active/Transfer Learning
* 3D and Sensor Data Retrieval
* Multimodal Media (images, videos, texts, graph/relationship) Retrieval
* High-Level Semantic Multimedia Features
* Summarization
* Personalized Retrieval
* Browsing History
* Fuzzy Retrieval
* Accuracy Measures for Retrieval

### Machine Learning/Deep Learning/Data Mining in Multimedia
* Deep Learning in Multimedia Data and/or Multimodal Fusion
* Deep Cross-Learning for Novel Features and Feature Selection
* High-Performance Deep Learning (Theories and Infrastructures)
* Spatio-Temporal Data Mining

### Content Understanding and Analytics in Multimedia
* Multimodal/Multisensor Integration and Analysis
* Effective and Scalable Solution for Big Data Integration
* Affective and Perceptual Multimedia
* Multimedia/Multimodal Interaction Interfaces with humans
* Bias and Fairness in Multimedia Analysis

### Multimedia and Vision
* Multimedia Telepresence and Virtual/Augmented/Mixed Reality
* Visual Concept Detection
* Object Detection and Tracking
* 3D Modeling, Reconstruction, and Interactive Applications

### Fake Multimedia
* Image/Video Forensics
* Forgery Detection
* Multimedia Content Protection

### Multimedia Information Systems and Infrastructures
* User Interface
* Query-By-Retrieval Methods
* Retrieval Paradigms
* Novel Interfaces for Retrieval
* Multimedia Systems and Middleware
* Telepresence and Virtual/Augmented/Mixed Reality
* Software Infrastructure for Data Analytics
* Distributed Multimedia Systems and Cloud Computing
* GPU-based Retrieval

### Multimedia Data Management
* Multimedia Data Collections, Modeling, Indexing, or Storage
* Data Integrity, Security, Protection, Privacy
* Standards and Policies for Data Management
* Spatio-Temporal Modeling and Retrieval

### Novel Applications in Multimedia
* Multimedia Forensics and Security
* Urban planning and emergency responses
* Environmental monitoring
* Education (using Multimedia for Education or Education about Multimedia)
* Social Networks (multimedia content)
* Multimedia Information Retrieval from Scientific Databases
* Multimedia for Healthcare and Medicine

### Internet of Multimedia Things
* Real-Time Data Processing
* Autonomous Systems such as Driverless Cars, Robots, and Drones
* Mobile and Wearable Multimedia

The written and spoken language of IEEE MIPR 2021 is English. For technical demonstrations, authors should submit:

* a 4-page manuscript in double-column IEEE format including the authors’ names and affiliations, following the submission guidelines available on the IEEE MIPR 2021 web page
* a short abstract electronically, following the submission guidelines available on the IEEE MIPR 2021 web page
* a presentation/video, which can be a Microsoft PowerPoint presentation, a Flash presentation, an MPEG/WMV video clip, or a link on for the corresponding presentation on Social Media (e.g., vimeo, YouTube) not more than five minutes long.

Please create a single zip archive of all files, and upload it to the paper submission system. Only electronic submissions will be accepted. All technical demonstration papers should be in Adobe portable document format (PDF). The Conference Proceedings will be published by the IEEE Computer Society Press and be available for online access via IEEEXplore.

All submissions will be peer-reviewed to ensure quality. Demonstrators will be provided with space and access to a local network, however, demos should not rely on Internet access. The participants will be required to provide their own computing equipment and any additional network, display, or other specific hardware needed for the demonstration.

**Important Dates**

* Paper submission deadline: November 6, 2020
* Notification of acceptance: December 25, 2020
* Camera-ready deadline: January 8, 2021

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*Call for Tutorials*
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IEEE MIPR 2021 invites proposals for tutorials to be held on March 22 or March 24, 2021 (tentative date). We welcome 1.5 hours or 3 hours tutorial. Each tutorial is expected to focus on a significant research topic and/or application of multimedia information processing and retrieval.

Proposals should be submitted in single PDF file by email to Tutorial Chairs via [tutorial@mipr2021.org], and must include the following information:

* Title of the Tutorial
* Names, titles, affiliations, and primary contact email of the Tutorial Organizers/Speakers
* Preference for 1.5 hour or 3h event
* 300-word Abstract (for publicity purposes)
* Full description of the Tutorial including topics covered by the Tutorial and a brief description and detail of each topic
* CV’s for Organizers/Speakers including relevant publications and list of tutorials given in past conferences or workshops (if any)
* Planned materials to be distributed to attendees (if any)

Each proposal will be evaluated by Tutorial Chairs based on their estimated benefit to the community. Specific factors to be considered include relevance, timeliness, importance, experience, and the Organizers’/Speakers’ qualifications.

IEEE MIPR 2021 local arrangements will provide for rooms and necessary equipment needed for the tutorial session (microphones, video projector, and screen). Each tutorial speaker will need to cover her/his registration.

**Important Dates**

* Proposal deadline: November 6, 2020
* Notification of acceptance: November 13, 2020
* Camera-ready (1-page abstract of the Tutorial) deadline: January 8, 2021

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*Call for Workshop Proposals*
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IEEE MIPR 2021 invites proposals for half- or full-day workshops to be held during the conference. Workshops are expected to focus on new research directions and novel applications of multimedia information processing and retrieval.

Workshop proposals should be submitted in plain text or PDF, by e-mail to Workshop Chairs via [workshop@mipr2021.org], and must include the following elements:

* Title and its acronym
* Duration (full-day or half-day)
* Description of the workshop topic
* A draft CFP (not exceeding 500 words)
* Short description of how the organizers plan to attract quality submissions
* Preliminary list of invited speakers (if any)
* Information on past editions (if any)
* Short biographies of the organizers
* Contact information of the organizers (including names, affiliations, mailing addresses, and e-mail addresses)

After a workshop proposal is accepted, the organizers should create a Web page for the workshop and notify the workshop chairs of its URL. The main conference web site will provide a link to each workshop.

**Important Dates**

* Workshop proposal deadline: September 4, 2020
* Workshop proposal notification: September 11, 2020
* Paper submission deadline: November 6, 2020
* Notification of acceptance: December 25, 2020
* Camera-ready deadline: January 8, 2021

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*Call for Special Session Proposals*
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IEEE MIPR 2021 will take place in Tokyo, Japan on March 22-24, 2021 [https://mipr2021.org]. The conference will provide a forum for original research contributions and practical system design, implementation, and applications of multimedia information processing and retrieval. At this time, we invite you to propose special sessions for MIPR 2021. Special sessions supplement the regular program for MIPR 2021. They provide new and emerging topics in the fields of multimedia information processing and retrieval. Each special session should provide an overview of the state-of-the-art and highlight important research directions in a field of special interest to MIPR participants. Each Special Session should be a focused effort rather than defined broadly.

Each special session should consist of about 5 oral papers with authors from at least three independent institutions. The session organizers will be responsible for the selection of these papers. Special session papers can be invited or submitted. They will supplement the regular research papers and be included in the proceedings of MIPR 2021.

* Title of the special session
* Session abstract (approximately 100 words), with stating the importance of the topic and the rationale for the session
* Names and affiliations of the organizers (including brief bios and contact information)
* List of potential authors committed to submit paper (including a tentative title and a 300-word abstract for each paper)

Once the proposal has been approved, it is the duty of the organizers to publicize their special session among researchers and practitioners in each session field. The organizers will organize the review process as below.

1. Establish an independent program committee for your Special Session (SS-PC).
2. Assign 3 reviewers through SS-PC to each submitted paper.
3. Arrange a draft of peer-reviewed result for each paper, and suggest it to the program co-chairs and special session co-chairs (the final judgment is achieved by program co-chairs).

If a proposal is not accepted, potential papers in that proposal can still be submitted to regular track. If a significant number of the papers are rejected after peer-review for an approved Special Session, this Special Session may be cancelled or merged to other sessions.

Those who are interested in organizing a special session should submit a proposal with the above requirements by email to the Special Session co-chairs [special-session-chairs@mipr2021.org], and all the papers in the special sessions should follow the same style as the regular MIPR 2021 papers.

**Important Dates**

* Proposal deadline: September 4, 2020
* Proposal notification: September 11, 2020
* Paper deadline: November 6, 2020
* Notification: December 25, 2020
* Camera-ready deadline: January 8, 2021

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*Conference Organizing Committee*
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Honorary Co-Chairs:
Hiroyuki Kitagawa, University of Tsukuba, Japan
Kiyoharu Aizawa, The University of Tokyo, Japan
Shin'ichi Satoh, National Institute of Informatics, Japan
Shu-Ching Chen, Florida International University, USA

General Co-Chairs:
Benoit Huet, Median Technologies, France
Jianquan Liu, NEC Corporation, Japan
Keiji Yanai, The University of Electro-Communications, Japan

Program Co-Chairs:
Naoko Nitta, Osaka University, Japan
Shuqiang Jiang, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Toshihiko Yamasaki, The University of Tokyo, Japan
Vincent Oria, New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA

Special Session Co-Chairs:
Kyoung-Sook Kim, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Japan
Lin Li, Wuhan University of Technology, China
Tomoko Kajiyama, Hiroshima City University, Japan

Workshop Co-Chairs:
Jiaying Liu, Peking University, China
Masakazu Iwamura, Osaka Prefecture University, Japan
Pradeep K. Atrey, University at Albany, SUNY, USA

Tutorial Co-Chairs:
Chengcui Zhang, The University of Alabama at Birmingham, USA
Go Irie, NTT, Japan
Roger Zimmermann, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Zheng Wang, National Institute of Informatics, Japan

Demo Co-Chairs:
Hideki Nakayama, The University of Tokyo, Japan
Qiang Ma, Kyoto University, Japan
Ramazan Savas Aygun, Kennesaw State University, USA

Poster Co-Chairs:
Terumi Umematsu, NEC Corporation, Japan
Yoko Yamakata, The University of Tokyo, Japan

Award Committee Co-Chairs:
Homer Chen, National Taiwan University, Taiwan
Mei-Ling Shyu, University of Miami, USA
Mohan Kankanhalli, National University of Singapore, Singapore

Sponsorship & Industry Co-Chairs:
Atsushi Keyaki, Denso IT Labs, Japan
Guan-Ming Su, Dolby Labs, USA
Min Luo, EY Advanced Technology Tax Lab, Japan
Yoji Kiyota, LIFULL Co., Ltd., Japan
Yongqing Sun, NTT, Japan
Yusuke Uchida, Mobility Technologies Co., Ltd., Japan

Publicity Co-Chairs:
Abdulmotaleb El Saddik, University of Ottawa, Canada
Balakrishnan Prabhakaran, University of Texas at Dallas, USA
Cathal Gurrin, Dublin City University, Irland
Chong-Wah Ngo, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Hisashi Miyamori, Kyoto Sangyo University, Japan
Ichiro Ide, Nagoya University, Japan
Kien A. Hua, University of Central Florida, USA
Ling Guan, Ryerson University, Canada
Makoto Onizuka, Osaka University, Japan
Min Chen, University of Washington Bothell, USA
Toshiyuki Amagasa, University of Tsukuba, Japan
Wen-Huang Cheng, National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan

Local Arrangement Co-Chairs:
Xueting Wang, The University of Tokyo, Japan
Yusuke Matsui, The University of Tokyo, Japan

Publication Co-Chairs:
Atsushi Hashimoto, OMRON SINIC X Corporation, Japan
Masato Shirai, Shimane University, Japan

Finance Co-Chairs:
Shigeyuki Sakazawa, Osaka Institute of Technology, Japan
Wei-Bang Chen, Virginia State University, USA

Registration Co-Chairs:
Nakamasa Inoue, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan
Yuyang Dong, NEC Corporation, Japan

Web & SNS Co-Chairs:
Takahiro Komamizu (Web), Nagoya University, Japan
Yuanyuan Wang (SNS), Yamaguchi University, Japan

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*CONTACT*
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If you have any questions, please try to contact us by the following mailing list.
[question@mipr2021.org]

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7th INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL ON BIG DATA
 
BigDat 2021 Spring
 
Beersheba, Israel
 
April 18-22, 2021
 
Co-organized by:
 
Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
Department of Software and Information Systems Engineering
Data Science Research Center
 
Institute for Research Development, Training and Advice (IRDTA)
Brussels/London
 
https://irdta.eu/bigdat2021s/
 
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--- Early registration deadline: December 16, 2020 ---
 
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SCOPE:
 
BigDat 2021 Spring 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 big data. Previous events were held in Tarragona, Bilbao, Bari, Timi?oara, Cambridge and Ancona.
 
Big data is a broad field covering a large spectrum of current exciting research and industrial innovation with an extraordinary potential for a huge impact on scientific discoveries, medicine, engineering, business models, and society itself. Renowned academics and industry pioneers will lecture and share their views with the audience.
 
Most big data subareas will be displayed, namely foundations, infrastructure, management, search and mining, security and privacy, and applications (to biological and health sciences, to business, finance and transportation, to online social networks, etc.). Major challenges of analytics, management and storage of big data will be identified through 24 four-hour and a half courses and 2 keynote lectures, which will tackle the most active and promising topics. The organizers are convinced that outstanding speakers will attract the brightest and most motivated students. Interaction will be a main component of the event.
 
An open session will give participants the opportunity to present their own work in progress in 5 minutes. Moreover, there will be two special sessions with industrial and recruitment profiles.
 
ADDRESSED TO:
 
Master's students, PhD students, postdocs, and industry practitioners will be typical profiles of participants. However, there are no formal pre-requisites for attendance in terms of academic degrees. Since there will be a variety of levels, specific knowledge background may be assumed for some of the courses. Overall, BigDat 2021 Spring 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 and discuss with major researchers, industry leaders and innovators.
 
VENUE:
 
BigDat 2021 Spring will take place in Beersheba, the largest city in the Negev desert of southern Israel and an important technology center. The venue will be:
 
Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
Marcus Family Campus
 
https://in.bgu.ac.il/en/Pages/interactive.aspx
 
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.
 
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS:
 
Maria Girone (European Organization for Nuclear Research), Big Data Challenges at the CERN HL-LHC
 
Lisa Schurer Lambert (Oklahoma State University), Research Methods as a Lens: How We Know What We Know
 
PROFESSORS AND COURSES: (to be completed)
 
Thomas Bäck & Hao Wang (Leiden University), [introductory/intermediate] Data Driven Modeling and Optimization for Industrial Applications
 
Paul Bliese (University of South Carolina), [introductory/intermediate] Using R for Mixed-effects (Multilevel) Models
 
Altan Cakir (Istanbul Technical University), [intermediate] Big Data Analytics with Apache Spark
 
Michael X. Cohen (Radboud University Nijmegen), [introductory] Dimension Explosion and Dimension Reduction in Brain Electrical Activity
 
Ramez Elmasri (University of Texas, Arlington), [intermediate] Spatial, Temporal, and Spatio-Temporal Data
 
Ian Fisk (Flatiron Institute), [introductory] The Infrastructure to Support Data Science
 
Michael Freeman (University of Washington), [intermediate] Interactive Data Visualization Using D3 + Observable
 
David Gerbing (Portland State University), [introductory] Derive Meaning from Data with R Visualizations
 
Wagner A. Kamakura (Rice University), [intermediate] Advanced Business Analytics using Excel Addins
 
Ravi Kumar (Google), [intermediate/advanced] Clustering for Big Data
 
Victor O.K. Li (University of Hong Kong), [intermediate] Deep Learning and Applications
 
B.S. Manjunath (University of California, Santa Barbara), [introductory] Digital Media Forensics
 
Wladek Minor (University of Virginia), [introductory/advanced] Big Data in Biomedical Sciences
 
José M.F. Moura (Carnegie Mellon University), [introductory] Graph Signal Processing
 
Panos Pardalos (University of Florida), [intermediate/advanced] Optimization and Data Sciences Techniques for Large Networks
 
Valeriu Predoi (University of Reading), [introductory] A Beginner's Guide to Big Data Analysis: How to Connect Scientific Software Development with Real World Problem
 
Karsten Reuter (Max Planck Society), [introductory/intermediate] Machine Learning for Materials and Energy Applications
 
Ramesh Sharda (Oklahoma State University), [introductory/intermediate] Network-based Health Analytics
 
Steven Skiena (Stony Brook University), [introductory/intermediate] Word and Graph Embeddings for Machine Learning
 
Alexandre Vaniachine (VirtualHealth), [intermediate] Open-source Columnar Databases
 
Sebastián Ventura (University of Córdoba), [intermediate/advanced] Supervised Descriptive Pattern Mining
 
Xiaowei Xu (University of Arkansas, Little Rock), [introductory/advanced] Deep Learning for Text Mining
 
OPEN SESSION:
 
An open session will collect 5-minute voluntary 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 April 10, 2021.
 
INDUSTRIAL SESSION:
 
A session will be devoted to 10-minute demonstrations of practical applications of big data 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 participating in the demonstration must register for the event. Expressions of interest have to be submitted to david@irdta.eu by April 10, 2021.
 
EMPLOYER SESSION:
 
Firms searching for personnel well skilled in big data will have a space reserved for one-to-one contacts. It is recommended to produce a 1-page .pdf leaflet with a brief description of the company and the profiles looked for to be circulated among the participants prior to the event. People in charge of the search must register for the event. Expressions of interest have to be submitted to david@irdta.eu by April 10, 2021.
 
ORGANIZING COMMITTEE:
 
Stavi Baram (Beersheba)
Mark Last (Beersheba)
Carlos Martín-Vide (Tarragona, program chair)
Sara Morales (Brussels)
Manuel J. Parra-Royón (Granada)
Lior Rokach (Beersheba, co-chair)
Bracha Shapira (Beersheba, co-chair)
David Silva (London, co-chair)
 
REGISTRATION:
 
It has to be done at
 
https://irdta.eu/bigdat2021s/registration/
 
The selection of up to 8 courses requested in the registration template is only tentative and non-binding. For the sake of organization, it will be helpful to have an estimation of the respective demand for each course. During the event, participants will be free to attend the courses they wish.
 
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 is exhausted. It is highly recommended to register prior to the event.
 
FEES:
 
Fees comprise access to all courses and lunches. There are several early registration deadlines. Fees depend on the registration deadline.
 
ACCOMMODATION:
 
Suggestions for accommodation will be available in due time.
 
CERTIFICATE:
 
A certificate of successful participation in the event will be delivered indicating the number of hours of lectures.
 
QUESTIONS AND FURTHER INFORMATION:
 
david@irdta.eu
 
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS:
 
Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
 
Institute for Research Development, Training and Advice (IRDTA) ? Brussels/London

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Registration deadline: December 11th

Submission deadline: December 14th 

ACM MMSys 2021 Research Track - Call for Papers

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?Bridging Deep Media and Communications?

May 25-28, 2021, Istanbul, Turkey

https://2021.acmmmsys.org

The ACM Multimedia Systems Conference (MMSys) provides a forum for researchers to present and share their latest research findings in multimedia systems. While research about specific aspects of multimedia systems are regularly published in the various proceedings and transactions of the networking, operating systems, real-time systems, databases, mobile computing, distributed systems, computer vision, and middleware communities, MMSys aims to cut across these domains in the context of multimedia data types. This provides a unique opportunity to investigate the intersections and the interplay of the various approaches and solutions developed across these domains to deal with multimedia data types.

Such individual system components include:

• Operating systems

• Distributed architectures and protocols

• Domain languages, development tools and abstraction layers

• Using new architectures or computing resources for multimedia

• New I/O architectures/devices, innovative uses and algorithms

• Representation of continuous or time-dependent media

• Metrics and measurement tools to assess performance

This touches aspects of many hot topics including content preparation and (adaptive) delivery systems, HDR, games, virtual/augmented/mixed reality, 3D video, immersive systems, plenoptics, 360-degree/volumetric video delivery, multimedia Internet of Things (IoT), multi and many-core, GPGPUs, mobile multimedia and 5G, wearable multimedia, cloud-based multimedia, P2P, cyber-physical systems, multi-sensory experiences, smart cities and QoE.

We encourage submissions in the following Focus Areas:

• Machine learning and statistical modeling for streaming

• Volumetric media and collaborative immersive environments

• Fake media and tools for preventing illegal broadcasts

Important dates: https://2021.acmmmsys.org/index.php#call-to-action
Submissions instructions: https://2021.acmmmsys.org/calls.php

Supporters

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** Several travel grants will be offered **

Adobe, Ozyegin University, Turkish Airlines, Twitch, YouTube, Comcast, Medianova, MulticoreWare, AMD, Argela, Bigdata Teknoloji, Bitmovin, DASH-IF, Mux, Nokia, Pixery, SSIMWAVE, Streaming Video Alliance, Tencent, Unified Streaming, Ericsson, Interdigital, Sky

Follow Us

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https://twitter.com/acmmmsys/

https://www.linkedin.com/groups/12430121/

http://weixin.qq.com/r/tBIlPQzEH1FgrUhe90em

https://www.facebook.com/acmmmsys/

https://www.instagram.com/acmmmsys/

Join our Slack workspace: https://tinyurl.com/mmsys-slack

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Registration deadline: December 11th

Submission deadline: December 14th 

ACM NOSSDAV 2021 - Call for Papers

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May 25-28, 2021, Istanbul, Turkey

https://nossdav.org/2021/

As in previous years, NOSSDAV focuses on both established and emerging research topics, high-risk high-return ideas and proposals, and future research directions in multimedia systems. The single-track format encourages academic and industry researchers and practitioners to engage in fruitful and constructive discussions. Out-of-the-box ideas are particularly welcome; NOSSDAV prefers exciting-even-if-incomplete papers over complete-but-boring papers.

The workshop seeks papers in all areas of multimedia systems with an emphasis on the systems aspects. Authors are especially encouraged to submit papers with real-world experimental results and datasets. Topics of interest include (but are not limited to):

• Virtual reality (VR), augmented reality (AR) and immersive systems

• Deep learning approaches to improve multimedia delivery and processing

• Cloud architectures for multimedia coding and processing

• Wireless, mobile, IoT and embedded systems for multimedia applications

• Medical, surveillance and autonomous driving multimedia systems

• Network-distributed media processing

• Networked GPUs/TPUs, graphics and virtual environments

• Security in multimedia systems

Important dates and submissions instructions: https://nossdav.org/2021/#submission

Supporters

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** Several travel grants will be offered **

Adobe, Ozyegin University, Turkish Airlines, Twitch, YouTube, Comcast, Medianova, MulticoreWare, AMD, Argela, Bigdata Teknoloji, Bitmovin, DASH-IF, Mux, Nokia, Pixery, SSIMWAVE, Streaming Video Alliance, Tencent, Unified Streaming, Ericsson, Interdigital, Sky

Follow Us

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https://twitter.com/acmmmsys/

https://www.linkedin.com/groups/12430121/

http://weixin.qq.com/r/tBIlPQzEH1FgrUhe90em

https://www.facebook.com/acmmmsys/

https://www.instagram.com/acmmmsys/

Join our Slack workspace: https://tinyurl.com/mmsys-slack

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05-27) JPC 2021 - Toulouse du 27 au 29 mai 2021

https://www.irit.fr/jpc2021/

1e Appel à Communication

Rencontre scientifique internationale, les Journées de Phonétique Clinique sont principalement destinées à rassembler et à favoriser les échanges entre chercheurs, cliniciens, informaticiens, ingénieurs, phonéticiens et tout autre professionnel s?intéressant au fonctionnement de la parole, de la voix et du langage. Les JPC accueillent autant les experts que les jeunes chercheurs et les étudiants des domaines cliniques (médecine, orthophonie/logopédie), psychologique, et des sciences du langage.

La production et la perception de la parole, de la voix et du langage de l?enfant et de l?adulte, sain ou atteint d?une pathologie, sont les domaines de prédilection des JPC. Ils y sont ainsi 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.

Lors de cette neuvième édition, la thématique des mesures de la parole sera mise en avant. Elle s?inscrit dans un cadre conceptuel dont les facettes sont multiples : analyses perceptives, traitement automatique du signal, caractérisations de l?intelligibilité, du trouble de la parole, des di/ysfluences atteignant le débit de la parole, la prosodie? Sa pertinence clinique est essentielle : l?évaluation du trouble, de ses conséquences fonctionnelles et de l?impact sur la qualité de vie est primordiale pour le suivi des patients atteints de pathologies neurologiques, cancérologiques?

Trois conférences plénières sont déjà programmées faisant intervenir Lorraine Baqué, de l?Université Autonome de Barcelone, Vincent Martel-Sauvageau de l?Université Laval à Québec (Département de réadaptation Faculté de médecine) et Isabel Trancoso de l?Université de Lisbonne. 

Une table ronde ainsi que des ateliers feront également partie du programme de cette nouvelle édition. 

Les propositions de communication (résumé de 400 mots, hors titre, auteurs et références) porteront sur les problématiques suivantes (liste non exhaustive) :

• Parole et perturbations des systèmes perceptifs, auditifs et visuels
• Modélisation de la parole et de la voix pathologiques
• Perturbations du système oro-pharyngo-laryngé
• Évaluation fonctionnelle de la parole, du langage et de la voix.
• Diagnostic et traitement des troubles de la parole et de la voix parlée et chantée
• Instrumentation et ressources en phonétique clinique
• Troubles cognitifs et moteurs de la parole et du langage
• ?

Une attention particulière sera portée aux propositions ciblant la thématique autour des mesures de la parole.                                       

Dates importantes : 

? 15 janvier 2021 ? Soumission des résumés via Easychair : https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=jpc2021
? 15 mars 2021 ? Notification aux auteurs
? du 15 mars au 1^er mai 2021 ? Inscriptions au tarif réduit
? 1^er mai 2021 ? Version finale des résumés
? Du 27 au 29 mai 2021 ? Conférence

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NoDaLiDa 2021 May 31 - June 02, 2021, Reykjavik, Iceland

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23rd Nordic Conference on Computational Linguistics (NoDaLiDa)

May 31 - June 2, 2021 Reykjavik, Iceland

http://nodalida2021.org

CALL FOR PAPERS

The Northern European Association for Language Technology (NEALT) invites submissions to its bi-annual conference on human language and speech technologies. NoDaLiDa 2021 will be held between Monday, May 31 and Wednesday, June 2, 2021, on the campus of Reykjavik University, Iceland. We are monitoring the ongoing global pandemic and will update the conference plans (e.g. moving to a virtual or hybrid format) as needed closer to the conference dates.

SUBMISSIONS

NoDaLiDa addresses all aspects of natural language processing, speech recognition and synthesis and computational linguistics, including work in closely-related neighboring disciplines (such as, for example, machine learning, linguistics or psychology) that is sufficiently formalized or applied to bear relevance to speech and language technologies.

We invite paper submissions of three types:

• regular papers on substantial, original, and unpublished research, including empirical evaluation results, where appropriate;
• short papers on smaller, focused contributions, work in progress, negative results, surveys, or opinion pieces; and
• demonstration papers on software or resource demonstrations, e.g. of systems, interfaces, infrastructures, data collections, or annotations.

We particularly encourage the submission of papers on completed or on-going work, where the first author is a Master or PhD student. This should be indicated at submission time.

Papers accepted for presentation at the conference will be included in the NoDaLiDa 2021 proceedings, which are published as part of the NEALT Proceedings Series by Linköping University Electronic Press and in the ACL Anthology.

SCHEDULE

• Monday, February 1, 2021: Submission of Papers
• Monday, March 15, 2021: Notification of Acceptance
• Monday, April 12, 2021: Camera-Ready Manuscripts
• Monday, May 31, 2021: Pre-Conference Workshops
• Tuesday and Wednesday, June 1-2, 2021: Main Conference

SUBMISSION FORMATS

All submissions must follow the NoDaLiDa 2021 style files, which are available for LaTeX (preferred) and MS Word and can be retrieved from the following address:

http://nodalida2021.org/authorkit.zip

Submissions must be anonymous, i.e. not reveal author(s) on the title page or through self-references. Papers must be submitted digitally, in PDF, and uploaded through the on-line conference system. Paper submissions that violate either of these requirements will be returned without review.

The page limits for submissions are: up to eight pages for regular papers, and up to four pages for short papers and demo papers. For all three submission types, these page limits do not include additional pages with bibliographic references.

DOUBLE SUBMISSION and PRE-PUBLICATION

Papers that have been or will be submitted to other venues must indicate this at submission time in the Easychair submission system, and must be withdrawn from the other venues if accepted to NoDALiDa 2021. Authors of papers accepted for presentation at NoDALiDa must notify the program chairs by the camera-ready deadline as to whether the paper will be presented. We will not accept for publication or presentation the papers that overlap significantly in content or results with papers that will be (or have been) published elsewhere.

NoDaLiDA follows the ACL policy an anonymization and anonymity period.

The anonymity period for NoDaLiDa 2021 is from January 1, 2021.

SUBMISSION MANAGEMENT

Submissions to the conference must be uploaded electronically, obeying the above requirements and no later than (end of day, anywhere in the world):

Monday, February 1, 2021

NoDaLiDa 2021 utilizes the EasyChair conference management system for submission, reviewing, and preparation of proceedings.

https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=nodalida2021

To inquire about the submission and reviewing process or the scientific programme of the conference, please email nodalida2021-pc@googlegroups.com

For all practical inquiries, please email nodalida2021-loc@googlegroups.com.

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4^th INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL ON DEEP LEARNING
 
DeepLearn 2021 Summer
 
Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain
 
July 26-30, 2021
 
Co-organized by:
 
Department of Information Engineering
Marche Polytechnic University
 
Institute for Research Development, Training and Advice ? IRDTA
Brussels/London
 
https://irdta.eu/deeplearn2021s/
 
******************************************************************
 
--- Early registration deadline: December 26, 2020 ---
 
************************************************
 
SCOPE:
 
DeepLearn 2021 Summer 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 and Warsaw.
 
Deep learning is a branch of artificial intelligence covering a spectrum of current exciting research and industrial innovation that provides more efficient algorithms to deal with large-scale data in neurosciences, computer vision, speech recognition, language processing, human-computer interaction, drug discovery, biomedical informatics, healthcare, recommender systems, learning theory, robotics, games, etc. Renowned academics and industry pioneers will lecture and share their views with the audience.
 
Most deep learning subareas will be displayed, and main challenges identified through 24 four-hour and a half courses and 3 keynote lectures, which will tackle the most active and promising topics. The organizers are convinced that outstanding speakers will attract the brightest and most motivated students. Interaction will be a main component of the event.
 
An open session will give participants the opportunity to present their own work in progress in 5 minutes. Moreover, there will be two special sessions with industrial and recruitment profiles.
 
ADDRESSED TO:
 
Master's students, PhD students, postdocs, and industry practitioners will be typical profiles of participants. However, there are no formal pre-requisites for attendance in terms of academic degrees. Since there will be a variety of levels, specific knowledge background may be assumed for some of the courses. Overall, DeepLearn 2021 Summer 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 and discuss with major researchers, industry leaders and innovators.
 
VENUE:
 
DeepLearn 2021 Summer will take place in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, on the Atlantic Ocean, with a mild climate throughout the year, sandy beaches and a renowned carnival. The venue will be:
 
Palacio de Congresos de Canarias
Institución Ferial de Canarias
Avenida de la Feria, 1
35012 Las Palmas de Gran Canaria
 
https://www.infecar.es/index.php?option=com_k2&view=item&layout=item&id=360&Itemid=896
 
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.
 
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS:
 
Nello Cristianini (University of Bristol), Data, Intelligence and Shortcuts
 
Petia Radeva (University of Barcelona), Uncertainty Modeling and Deep Learning in Food Analysis
 
Indr? ?liobait? (University of Helsinki), Any Hope for Deep Learning in Deep Time?
 
PROFESSORS AND COURSES: (to be completed)
 
Ignacio Arganda-Carreras (University of the Basque Country), [introductory/intermediate] Deep Learning for Bioimage Analysis
 
Thomas G. Dietterich (Oregon State University), [introductory] Machine Learning Methods for Robust Artificial Intelligence
 
Georgios Giannakis (University of Minnesota), [advanced] Ensembles for Online, Interactive and Deep Learning Machines with Scalability, and Adaptivity
 
Sergei V. Gleyzer (University of Alabama), [introductory/intermediate] Machine Learning Fundamentals and Their Applications to Very Large Scientific Data: Rare Signal and Feature Extraction, End-to-end Deep Learning, Uncertainty Estimation and Realtime Machine Learning Applications in Software and Hardware
 
Ça?lar Gülçehre (DeepMind), [intermediate/advanced] Deep Reinforcement Learning
 
Balázs Kégl (Huawei Technologies), [introductory] Deep Model-based Reinforcement Learning
 
Geert Leus (Delft University of Technology), [introductory/intermediate] Graph Signal Processing: Introduction and Connections to Distributed Optimization and Deep Learning
 
Andy Liaw (Merck Research Labs), [introductory] Machine Learning and Statistics: Better together
 
Abdelrahman Mohamed (Facebook AI Research), [introductory/advanced] Recent Advances in Automatic Speech Recognition
 
Hermann Ney (RWTH Aachen University), [intermediate/advanced] Speech Recognition and Machine Translation: From Statistical Decision Theory to Machine Learning and Deep Neural Networks
 
Lyle John Palmer (University of Adelaide), [introductory/advanced] Epidemiology for Machine Learning Investigators
 
Jan Peters (Technical University of Darmstadt), [intermediate] Robot Learning
 
José C. Príncipe (University of Florida), [intermediate/advanced] Cognitive Architectures for Object Recognition in Video
 
Björn W. Schuller (Imperial College London), [introductory/intermediate] Deep Signal Processing
 
Sargur N. Srihari (University at Buffalo), [introductory] Generative Models in Deep Learning
 
Gaël Varoquaux (INRIA), [intermediate] Representation Learning in Limited Data Settings
 
René Vidal (Johns Hopkins University), [intermediate/advanced] Mathematics of Deep Learning
 
Ming-Hsuan Yang (University of California, Merced), [intermediate/advanced] Learning to Track Objects
 
OPEN SESSION:
 
An open session will collect 5-minute voluntary 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 18, 2021.
 
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 participating in the demonstration must register for the event. Expressions of interest have to be submitted to david@irdta.eu by July 18, 2021.
 
EMPLOYER SESSION:
 
Firms searching for personnel well skilled in deep learning will have a space reserved for one-to-one contacts. It is recommended to produce a 1-page .pdf leaflet with a brief description of the company and the profiles looked for to be circulated among the participants prior to the event. People in charge of the search must register for the event. Expressions of interest have to be submitted to david@irdta.eu by July 18, 2021.
 
ORGANIZING COMMITTEE:
 
Emanuele Frontoni (Ancona, co-chair)
Carlos Martín-Vide (Tarragona, program chair)
Sara Moccia (Ancona)
Sara Morales (Brussels)
Marina Paolanti (Ancona)
Manuel J. Parra-Royón (Granada)
Luca Romeo (Ancona)
David Silva (London, co-chair)
 
REGISTRATION:
 
It has to be done at
 
https://irdta.eu/deeplearn2021s/registration/
 
The selection of up to 8 courses requested in the registration template is only tentative and non-binding. For the sake of organization, it will be helpful to have an estimation of the respective demand for each course. During the event, participants will be free to attend the courses they wish.
 
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 get exhausted. It is highly recommended to register prior to the event.
 
FEES:
 
Fees comprise access to all courses and lunches. There are several early registration deadlines. Fees depend on the registration deadline.
 
ACCOMMODATION:
 
Suggestions for accommodation will be available in due time at
 
https://irdta.eu/deeplearn2021s/accommodation/
 
CERTIFICATE:
 
A certificate of successful participation in the event will be delivered indicating the number of hours of lectures.
 
QUESTIONS AND FURTHER INFORMATION:
 
david@irdta.eu
 
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS:
 
Dipartimento di Ingegneria dell'Informazione, Università Politecnica delle Marche
 
Institute for Research Development, Training and Advice ? IRDTA, Brussels/London
 
Institución Ferial de Canarias
  

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The European Signal Processing Conference

https://www.linkedin.com/company/eusipco

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 Call for Papers

*The 10th edition of the Disfluency in Spontaneous Speech (DiSS) workshop will be held in
Paris Saint-Denis, on August 25-26, 2021*. It will be followed by *a special day on
(dis)fluency in speech and language pathology on August 27, 2021*.


Important dates:
- Mid-September 2020: First call for papers
- March 15, 2021: Submission deadline
- May 10, 2021: Notification of acceptation
- August 25-27, 2021: DiSS workshop


Submissions are encouraged within the following fields: disfluency in spontaneous speech,
psychology, neuropsychology and neurocognition, psycholinguistics, linguistics,
conversation analysis, computational linguistics, speech technology, gesture analysis,
dialog systems, pathological speech disfluency, and evolutionary aspects on speech
production and perception.

You will find the call for papers and all the details at this URL: http://diss2021.fr/.

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                  TSD 2021 - PRELIMINARY CALL FOR PAPERS
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 The twenty-fourth International Conference on Text, Speech and Dialogue
        (TSD2021), Olomouc, Czech Republic, September 06-09, 2021
                       http://www.tsdconference.org


IMPORTANT

TSD2021 is going to take place in the beautiful city of Olomouc, Czech
Republic. Thus, it is nicely colocated with Interspeech 2021 which is
going to be held in Brno, Czech Republic. Olomouc is only 77 km (48 mi)
away from Brno (30-45 min by car, 1 hour by public transport).


COVID-19 CONSIDERATIONS

As the situation in September 2021 cannot be easily predicted, the TSD2021
organizing committee is ready to organize a virtual conference, if necessary.

* PC members have a good experience with it from TSD2020.
* A virtual conference would mean significantly decreased conference fees.
* If the majority of participants can travel to the Czech Republic, the
  onsite mode of the conference will be preferred. For others, there would
  be special virtual sessions. Organizers will record all the sessions.

All measures have been taken to ensure that the organization of the TSD
2021 conference in September 2021 is not threatened by the COVID-19
pandemic.


TSD HIGHLIGHTS

* The TSD book of proceedings is traditionally published by
  Springer-Verlag and regularly listed in all major citation databases:
  Thomson Reuters Conference Proceedings Citation Index, DBLP, SCOPUS, EI,
  INSPEC, COMPENDEX, etc.
* TSD offers a high-standard transparent review process -- double blind,
  final reviewers' discussion.
* TSD is going to take place in the beautiful city of Olomouc, Czech
  Republic.
* The conference is organized in cooperation with the Faculty of Arts,
  Palacky university, Olomouc.
* TSD provides an all-service package (conference access and material, all
  meals, social events, etc.) for an easily affordable fee.

IMPORTANT DATES

April 18, 2021 ........... Deadline for submission of contributions
May 21, 2021 ............. Notification of acceptance or rejection
May 31, 2021 ............. Deadline for submission of camera-ready papers

September 06-09, 2021 .... TSD2021 conference time

The proceedings will be provided on flash drives in the form of navigable
content. Printed books will be available for an extra fee.


TSD SERIES

The TSD series has evolved as a prime forum for interaction between
researchers in both spoken and written language processing from all over
the world. Proceedings of the TSD conference form a book published by
Springer-Verlag in their Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI)
series. The TSD proceedings are regularly indexed by Thomson Reuters
Conference Proceedings Citation Index. LNAI series are listed in all major
citation databases such as DBLP, SCOPUS, EI, INSPEC, or COMPENDEX.


TOPICS

Topics of the 24th conference will include (but are not limited to):

    Speech Recognition (multilingual, continuous, emotional speech,
    handicapped speaker, out-of-vocabulary words, alternative way of
    feature extraction, new models for acoustic and language modeling).

    Corpora and Language Resources (monolingual, multilingual, text, and
    spoken corpora, large web corpora, disambiguation, specialized
    lexicons, dictionaries).

    Speech and Spoken Language Generation (multilingual, high fidelity
    speech synthesis, computer singing).

    Tagging, Classification and Parsing of Text and Speech (multilingual
    processing, sentiment analysis, credibility analysis, automatic text
    labeling, summarization, authorship attribution).

    Semantic Processing of Text and Speech (information extraction,
    information retrieval, data mining, semantic web, knowledge
    representation, inference, ontologies, sense disambiguation,
    plagiarism detection).

    Integrating Applications of Text and Speech Processing (machine
    translation, natural language understanding, question-answering
    strategies, assistive technologies).

    Automatic Dialogue Systems (self-learning, multilingual,
    question-answering systems, dialogue strategies, prosody in
    dialogues).

    Multimodal Techniques and Modeling (video processing, facial
    animation, visual speech synthesis, user modeling, emotion and
    personality modeling).


PROGRAMME COMMITTEE

All programme committee members are listed on the conference web pages
https://www.kiv.zcu.cz/tsd2021/index.php?page=committees.


OFFICIAL LANGUAGE

The official language of the event is English, however, papers on issues
related to text and speech processing in languages other than English are
strongly encouraged.


LOCATION

Olomouc is a beautiful place on the Morava river with more than
a thousand-year-long history. Once a capital of Moravia - one of the three
historical Lands of the Bohemian Crown - nowadays, it still somehow waits
to be rediscovered. The world-renowned tourist guide Lonely Planet alerted
to this fact by putting Olomouc onto the list of TOP 10 tourist
destinations not to be missed during a visit to Europe. It even claimed
Olomouc is one of the most unappreciated destinations in the Czech
Republic.

By its beauty, Olomouc can, however, easily compete with not only Prague
but any other most sought spots around Europe. It certainly deserves our
attention.

One can find there the second most important urban conservation zone in
the Czech Republic, surrounded by splendorous parks, an incredible
concentration of ecclesiastical structures, UNESCO-protected monuments,
and even a horolog with a history maybe more interesting than the Prague
one. All together safe from the neverending bustle of large cities...

The most important monument in Olomouc is the Holy Trinity Column standing
in the central square. It represents the largest group of Baroque statues
in one structure in Central Europe. Apart from many historical buildings
such as Olomouc castle with the gothic cathedral of St. Wenceslas or the
former Olomouc fortress, another interesting point about Olomouc is the
astronomical clock, designed in the spirit of Socialist Realism.

The city of Olomouc has a convenient location close to the geographic
centre of Moravia (a historical region in the east of the Czech Republic),
on the banks of the river Morava. The place forms an important highway and
railroad junction; thus, it is easily accessible using both individual and
public means of transport.

Olomouc lies 260 km (162 mi) eastwards from the Czech capital Prague, and
210 km (130 mi) from both the Slovakian capital Bratislava and the
Austrian capital Vienna. The closest international airports are 77 km (48
mi) away in Brno, and 202 km (126 mi) away in Katowice in Poland.

We are very excited about the fact that the TSD2021 is going to take place
in such a fabulous, unique and rich in history city as Olomouc.


ABOUT CONFERENCE

The conference is organized by the Faculty of Applied Sciences, University
of West Bohemia, Pilsen; the Faculty of Informatics, Masaryk University,
Brno; and the Faculty of Arts, Palacky University, Olomouc.

VENUE

Faculty of Arts, Palacky University, Olomouc
Biskupske nam. 842/1
77900 Olomouc
Czech Republic


CONTACT

The preferred way of contacting the conference organizing committee is
writing an e-mail to:

    Ms Lucie Tauchenova, TSD2021 Conference Secretary
    E-mail: TSD2021@tsdconference.org
    Phone: +420 730 851 103

All paper correspondence regarding the conference should be addressed to:

    TSD2021 - NTIS P2

    Fakulta aplikovanych ved
    Zapadoceska univerzita v Plzni
    Univerzitni 8
    CZ-306 14 Plzen
    Czech Republic

    Fax: +420 377 632 402 -- Please, mark the faxed material with large
    capitals 'TSD' on top.

TSD2021 conference website: http://www.tsdconference.org/

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Call for Participation: The Ninth Dialog System Technology Challenge (DSTC9)

Website: https://sites.google.com/dstc.community/dstc9/home
 Background
 

The DSTC shared tasks have provided common testbeds for the dialog research community since 2013. From its sixth edition, it has been rebranded as 'Dialog System Technology Challenge' to cover a wider variety of dialog related problems.

 For this year's challenge, we opened the call for track proposals and selected the following four parallel tracks by peer-reviews:
 - Beyond Domain APIs: Task-oriented Conversational Modeling with Unstructured Knowledge Access (Amazon Alexa AI): This track aims to allow users to have requests that are out of the scope of APIs/DB but potentially available in external knowledge sources. Track participants will develop task-oriented dialogue systems to understand relevant domain knowledge, and generate system responses with the relevant selected knowledge. In addition, the track includes evaluation on generalization over unseen domains and modalities (i.e. moving from written to spoken conversations).
 - Multi-domain Task-oriented Dialog Challenge II (Microsoft Research AI & Tsinghua University): This track follows its success in DSTC-8 continuing with the effort of building dialog systems under a multi-domain setting. This time extending the task by incorporating new datasets, creating new sub-tasks, and providing a new development platform. The new task specifically focuses on two aspects of dialog systems: language portability and end-to-end system complexity. 
 
- Interactive Evaluation of Dialog (CMU & USC): This track targets the creation of systems that can be effectively used in interactive settings by real users. The task is intended to move research beyond datasets, and evaluate models in interactive environments with real users allowing several valuable properties of dialog to be measured: consistency, adaptiveness and user-centric development. DialPort, a platform for interactive assessment with real users will be used for evaluation. 
 
- SIMMC: Situated Interactive Multi-Modal Conversational AI (Facebook Assistant & Facebook AI): This track aims to tackle grounding dialog in an evolving multi-modal contextual input. Unlike previous multimodal track challenges, where the context from the non-textual modalities (video and audio) remains unchanged as the dialog progresses, this track encompasses a rich, situated multi-modal user context in the form of a shared image or VR environment that evolves fluidly based on the dialog flow.
 Participation is welcomed from any research team (academic, corporate, non-profit, government).
 Important Dates
 

- Jun 15, 2020: Training data is released

- Sep 21, 2020: Test data is released

- Oct 5, 2020: Entry submission deadline
- Nov 2020: Paper submission deadline
- Spring 2021: DSTC9 workshop (venue: TBD)
 DSTC9 Organizing Committee
 

- Chulaka Gunasekara - IBM Research AI, USA

- Abhinav Rastogi - Google Research, USA
- Yun-Nung (Vivian) Chen - National Taiwan University, Taiwan 
- Luis Fernando D'Haro - Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain
- Seokhwan Kim - Amazon Alexa AI, USA
 DSTC9 Track Organizers
Beyond Domain APIs: Task-oriented Conversational Modeling with Unstructured Knowledge Access 
- Seokhwan Kim, Mihail Eric, Behnam Hedayatnia, Karthik Gopalakrishnan, Yang Liu, Dilek Hakkani-tur (Amazon Alexa AI)
 Multi-domain Task-oriented Dialog Challenge II 
- Baolin Peng, Jianfeng Gao, Jinchao Li, Lars Liden, Minlie Huang, Qi Zhu, Runze Liang, Ryuichi Takanobu, Shahin Shayandeh, Swadheen Shukla, Zheng Zhang (Microsoft Research AI & Tsinghua University)
 Interactive Evaluation of Dialog 
- Shikib Mehri, Carla Gordon, David Traum, Maxine Eskenazi (CMU & USC)
SIMMC: Situated Interactive Multi-Modal Conversational AI 
- Ahmad Beirami, Eunjoon (EJ) Cho, Paul A. Crook, Ankita De, Alborz Geramifard, Satwik Kottur, Seungwhan Moon, Shivani Poddar, Rajen Subba (Facebook Assistant & Facebook AI)
 DSTC Steering Committee

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 Koichiro Yoshino - Nara Institute of Science and Technology (NAIST), Japan 
- Chiori Hori - Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories (MERL), USA 
- Rafael E. Banchs - Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore 
- Michel Galley - Microsoft Research AI, USA
 Contact Information
 Join the DSTC mailing list to get the latest updates about DSTC9:
- To join the mailing list: visit https://groups.google.com/a/dstc.community/forum/#!forum/list/join
- To post a message: send your message to list@dstc.community
- To leave the mailing list: visit https://groups.google.com/a/dstc.community/forum/#!forum/list/unsubscribe
 For specific enquiries about DSTC9: Please feel free to contact dstc9-organizing-committee@dstc.community

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

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

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Dear Speech Scientist:

IARPA and NIST are pleased to announce a new speech recognition challenge: OpenASR. Registration is still open.
The goal of the OpenASR (Open Automatic Speech Recognition) evaluation is to develop methods to quickly develop speech recognition systems in a variety of genres from low-resource languages, with minimal amounts of training data. Training data for ten languages will be released to aspirants, with two evaluations conditions: constrained and unconstrained.
The OpenASR challenge was developed out of IARPA's MATERIAL program
< https://www.iarpa.gov/index.php/research-programs/material>, but only evaluates WER for ASR.

For more information on the OpenASR timeline and participation details,  please refer to the OpenASR webpage:
https://www.nist.gov/itl/iad/mig/openasr-challenge

For the registration page, please visit: https://sat.nist.gov/openasr20
Participation is open to Everyone. Feel free to spread the word to interested participants.

Thanks,

The OpenASR Team at IARPA and NIST

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The International Christian University is hosting a Saturday series of prosody talks over the next two months, either 5-7pm or 10am-noon, Japan time.

Talks will Zoomed, and attendance is free, but you do need to pre-register.

October 10: Sara Myrberg,  Lena Borise
October 24: Frank Kgler, Nancy Kula
November 7: Shin Ishihara, Cedric Patin
November 21: Nichole Dehe, Adam Chong
December 5: Emily Elfner, Natalie Weber
December 19: Fatima Hamlaoui, Lauren Clemens

Host:  Seunghun J. Lee
For details:  https://sites.google.com/info.icu.ac.jp/linglab/projects/iculinc/icu-linc

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