3-3-1 | (2022-08-17) 13th Nordic Prosody Conference, Sonderborg, Denmark
13th Nordic Prosody Conference
-------------------------------
Sonderborg, Denmark
17-19 August 2022
Topic: Applied and Multimodal Prosody Research
The 13th edition of the Nordic Prosody (NP) conference series is proudly hosted by Centre of Industrial Electronics (CIE) and the CIE Acoustics Lab at the University of Southern Denmark on science campus Alsion, Sonderborg, Denmark. The conference will be held 17-19 August 2022.
Website: https://event.sdu.dk/13rdnordicprosody/main
The University of Southern Denmark (SDU) is both the third-largest and the third-oldest Danish university. Since the introduction of the ranking systems in 2012, the University of Southern Denmark has consistently been ranked as one of the top 50 young universities in the world by both the Times Higher Education World University Rankings and the QS World University Rankings. The SDU is also among the top 20 universities in Scandinavia.
Nordic Prosody conferences take place every 4 years. The first one was in Lund in 1978, organized by Eva Gårding, Gösta Bruce and Robert Bannert. The 12th Nordic Prosody was in 2016 in Trondheim, Norway. The conference series focuses on the forms and functions of prosodic patterns in Nordic languages and in languages spoken all around the Baltic Sea coastline. Contributions on all the various aspects of phonetics, phonology, and speech typology are welcome. Papers presenting new corpora, methods, or devices can be submitted as well. We also encourage researchers from neighboring disciplines like (second-language) pedagogy, acoustics, human-machine interaction, and voice pathology to submit contributions to the conference.
Keynote Speakers
- David House (KTH Stockholm, Sweden) & Gilbert Ambrazaitis (Linnaeus University, Sweden): The multimodal nature of prominence
- Wim van Dommelen (Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway): Interactions of segmental and prosodic parameters
- Nicolai Pharao (Copenhagen University, Denmark): Processing prosody – recognizing speakers and recognizing words
Scientific Areas (not exhaustive)
-
Phonology and phonetics of prosody
-
Production and perception of prosody
-
Acquisition, learning and teaching of prosody
-
Assessment of prosody and measures to evaluate prosodic skills
-
Non-native aspects in the production and perception of prosody
-
Socio-phonetic aspects of prosody
-
Prosodic variation in continuous speech
-
Speech processing of and for prosodic patterns
-
Prosody in and for talking machines and robots
-
Psychological and neural mechanisms of prosody
-
Pathologies and therapies related to prosody
-
Resources related to prosody: Speech corpora, annotation systems, tools & methods
-
Cross-linguistic and cross-cultural aspects of prosody
-
Mutimodal signals related to prosody
-
Applied prosody
Conference proceedings will be published in a peer-reviewed volume by Sciendo/de Gruyter.
Important dates: 05 June 2022 Abstract submission deadline (through EasyChair)
01 July 2022 Notification of acceptance 31 July 2022 Early bird registration deadline 17-19 August 2022 13th Nordic Prosody Conference, Sonderborg, Denmark
01 November 2022 Full-paper submission deadline
Registrations are made through the conference website under “Sign up”. Abstracts should be submitted under the following EasyChair link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=np13 . Please find the formatting guidelines or template for both the abstract and the full paper below or on the “Download” subpage. Please note that the full-paper after the conference submission is not made through EasyChair. To submit your full paper, please use this link to Sciendo here: https://sciendo.com/book/9788366675728
We wish all of you a good start into the new lecture term.
The NP13 organizing committee
|
3-3-2 | (2022-08-24) 11th International Workshop on Haptic and Audio Interaction Design (HAID 2022) , hybrid mode, Queen Mary University, London, UK
We are pleased to announce the 11th International Workshop on Haptic and Audio Interaction Design (HAID 2022) that will be held in hybrid mode on 24–26 August 2022 at Queen Mary University of London in London, UK.
https://haid2022.qmul.ac.uk/
For questions please contact us at haid2022@qmul.ac.uk
To keep in touch and up to date on news related to the HAID community, please join our Google group (https://groups.google.com/g/haid-community) and follow us on twitter (https://twitter.com/HAID_conference).
===== Call for papers & demos =====
We invite submissions reporting on completed research and live demos at the intersection of haptics, audio, and human-computer interaction. We also welcome papers focusing on one of these fields with applications to the others.
We particularly welcome contributions, both theoretical and empirical, in the following areas:
- Design of audio and haptic feedback for health & wellbeing
- Musical haptics & augmented instruments
Contributions in the following areas are also welcome:
- Novel haptic and auditory interfaces
- Perception & evaluation of multimodal and cross-sensory interactions
- Design principles for haptic and auditory interfaces
- Design of audio and haptic feedback for entertainment and creative applications
- Affective and semiotic roles of haptics and audio in interaction
- Leveraging auditory-tactile correspondences in interaction design
Important dates
Papers - submission: 29 April 2022 (11:59 PM AoE)
Papers - acceptance: 30 May 2022 (11:59 PM AoE)
Papers - camera ready: 10 June 2022 (11:59 PM AoE)
Demos - submission: 10 June 2022 (11:59 PM AoE)
Demos - acceptance: 30 June 2022 (11:59 PM AoE)
More information is available here:
https://haid2022.qmul.ac.uk/submissions/papers-and-demos/
===== Call for work in progress =====
HAID 2022 seeks work in progress submissions, which describe recently completed work or highly relevant results of work in progress in all areas related to haptics, audio, and interaction design.
We particularly encourage work in progress submissions from “newcomers”—master students or early-stage PhD Students without a supervisor who is part of the HAID community, especially from underrepresented groups.
Important dates:
Submission deadline: 10 June 2022 (11:59 PM AoE)
Acceptance notification: 30 June 2022 (11:59 PM AoE)
More information is available here:
https://haid2022.qmul.ac.uk/submissions/work-in-progress/
===== Call for workshops =====
We also invite proposals for workshops to be held during the 1st day of the conference. These proposals may take the form of theoretical or hands-on tutorials on specific HAID topics or forums for discussion and development.
Important dates:
Proposal submission: 8 April 2022 (11:59 PM AoE)
Acceptance notification: 15 April 2022 (11:59 PM AoE)
More information is available here:
https://haid2022.qmul.ac.uk/submissions/workshops/
|
3-3-3 | (2022-09-05) CfP Twenty-fifth International Conference on TEXT, SPEECH and DIALOGUE (TSD 2022), Brno, Czech Republic
TSD 2022 - SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS ********************************************************* Twenty-fifth International Conference on TEXT, SPEECH and DIALOGUE (TSD 2022) Brno, Czech Republic, 5-9 September 2022 http://www.tsdconference.org/THE SUBMISSION DEADLINE has been EXTENDED to: April 22 2022 ............ Submission of full papers KEYNOTE SPEAKERS Eneko Agirre, Universidad del PaÃs Vasco, Spain Anna Rogers, University of Copenhagen, Denmark The conference is organized by the Faculty of Informatics, Masaryk University, Brno, and the Faculty of Applied Sciences, University of West Bohemia, Pilsen. The conference is supported by International Speech Communication Association. Venue: Brno, Czech Republic SUBMISSION OF PAPERS Authors are invited to submit a full paper not exceeding 12 pages formatted in the LNCS style (including references). Those accepted will be presented either orally or as posters. The decision about the presentation format will be based on the recommendation of the reviewers. Proceedings papers do not distinguish the presentation format. The authors are asked to submit their papers using the on-line form accessible from the conference website. Papers submitted to TSD 2022 must not be under review by any other conference or publication during the TSD review cycle, and must not be previously published or accepted for publication elsewhere. As reviewing will be blind, the paper should not include the authors' names and affiliations. Furthermore, self-references that reveal the author's identity, e.g., 'We previously showed (Smith, 1991) ...', should be avoided. Instead, use citations such as 'Smith previously showed (Smith, 1991) ...'. Papers that do not conform to the requirements above are subject to be rejected without review. The authors are strongly encouraged to write their papers in TeX or LaTeX formats. These formats are necessary for the final versions of the papers that will be published in the Springer Lecture Notes. The paper format for review has to be in the PDF format with all required fonts included. Upon notification of acceptance, presenters will receive further information on submitting their camera-ready and electronic sources (for detailed instructions on the final paper format see https://www.tsdconference.org/tsd2022/paper_instr.html). Authors are also invited to present actual projects, developed software or interesting material relevant to the topics of the conference. The presenters of demonstrations should provide an abstract not exceeding one page. The demonstration abstracts will not appear in the conference proceedings. TSD SERIES TSD series evolved as a prime forum for interaction between researchers in both spoken and written language processing from all over the world. Proceedings of TSD form a book published by Springer-Verlag in their Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI) series. TSD Proceedings are regularly indexed by Thomson Reuters Conference Proceedings Citation Index/Web of Science. Moreover, LNAI series are listed in all major citation databases such as DBLP, SCOPUS, EI, INSPEC or COMPENDEX. CALL for SATELLITE WORKSHOP PROPOSALS https://www.tsdconference.org/tsd2022/conf_workshop_proposals.htmlThe TSD 2022 conference will be accompanied by one-day satellite workshops or project meetings with organizational support by the TSD organizing committee. The organizing committee can arrange for a meeting room at the conference venue and prepare a workshop proceedings as a book with ISBN by a local publisher. The workshop papers that will pass also the standard TSD review process will appear in the Springer proceedings. Each workshop is a subject to proposal that should be sent via the proposal submission form or discussed via the contact e-mail tsd2022@tsdconference.org ahead of the respective deadline. TOPICS Topics of the conference will include (but are not limited to): Corpora and Language Resources (monolingual, multilingual, text and spoken corpora, large web corpora, disambiguation, specialized lexicons, dictionaries) Speech Recognition (multilingual, continuous, emotional speech, handicapped speaker, out-of-vocabulary words, alternative way of feature extraction, new models for acoustic and language modelling) Tagging, Classification and Parsing of Text and Speech (morphological and syntactic analysis, synthesis and disambiguation, multilingual processing, sentiment analysis, credibility analysis, automatic text labeling, summarization, authorship attribution) Speech and Spoken Language Generation (multilingual, high fidelity speech synthesis, computer singing) Semantic Processing of Text and Speech (information extraction, information retrieval, data mining, semantic web, knowledge representation, inference, ontologies, sense disambiguation, plagiarism detection, fake news 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 Modelling (video processing, facial animation, visual speech synthesis, user modelling, emotions and personality modelling) Papers on processing of languages other than English are strongly encouraged. PROGRAM COMMITTEE Elmar Noeth, Germany (general chair) Rodrigo Agerri, Spain Eneko Agirre, Spain Vladimir Benko, Slovakia Archna Bhatia, USA Jan Cernocky, Czech Republic Simon Dobrisek, Slovenia Kamil Ekstein, Czech Republic Karina Evgrafova, Russia Yevhen Fedorov, Ukraine Volker Fischer, Germany Darja Fiser, Slovenia Lucie Flek, Germany Bjorn Gamback, Norway Radovan Garabik, Slovakia Alexander Gelbukh, Mexico Louise Guthrie, USA Tino Haderlein, Germany Jan Hajic, Czech Republic Eva Hajicova, Czech Republic Yannis Haralambous, France Hynek Hermansky, USA Jaroslava Hlavacova, Czech Republic Ales Horak, Czech Republic Eduard Hovy, USA Denis Jouvet, France Maria Khokhlova, Russia Aidar Khusainov, Russia Daniil Kocharov, Russia Miloslav Konopik, Czech Republic Ivan Kopecek, Czech Republic Valia Kordoni, Germany Evgeny Kotelnikov, Russia Pavel Kral, Czech Republic Siegfried Kunzmann, USA Nikola Ljubesic, Croatia Natalija Loukachevitch, Russia Bernardo Magnini, Italy Oleksandr Marchenko, Ukraine Vaclav Matousek, Czech Republic Roman Moucek, Czech Republic Agnieszka Mykowiecka, Poland Hermann Ney, Germany Joakim Nivre, Sweden Juan Rafael Orozco-Arroyave, Colombia Karel Pala, Czech Republic Maciej Piasecki, Poland Josef Psutka, Czech Republic James Pustejovsky, USA German Rigau, Spain Paolo Rosso, Spain Leon Rothkrantz, The Netherlands Anna Rumshisky, USA Milan Rusko, Slovakia Pavel Rychly, Czechia Mykola Sazhok, Ukraine Odette Scharenborg, The Netherlands Pavel Skrelin, Russia Pavel Smrz, Czech Republic Petr Sojka, Czech Republic Georg Stemmer, Germany Marko Robnik Sikonja, Slovenia Marko Tadic, Croatia Jan Trmal, Czechia Tamas Varadi, Hungary Zygmunt Vetulani, Poland Aleksander Wawer, Poland Pascal Wiggers, The Netherlands Marcin Wolinski, Poland Alina Wroblewska, Poland Victor Zakharov, Russia Jerneja Zganec Gros, Slovenia FORMAT OF THE CONFERENCE The conference program will include presentation of invited papers, oral presentations, and poster/demonstration sessions. Papers will be presented in plenary or topic oriented sessions. Hopefully, after two COVID years, the conference can be planned to be held on-site again. Social events including a trip in the vicinity of Brno will allow for additional informal interactions. IMPORTANT DATES April 22 2022 ............ Submission of full papers June 5 2022 .............. Notification of acceptance June 15 2022 ............. Final papers (camera ready) and registration August 8 2022 ............ Submission of demonstration abstracts August 15 2022 ........... Notification of acceptance for demonstrations sent to the authors September 5-9 2022 ...... Conference date Submission of abstracts serves for better organization of the review process only - please submit your abstract as soon as possible. For the actual review a full paper submission is necessary. The accepted conference contributions will be published in Springer proceedings that will be made available to participants at the time of the conference. OFFICIAL LANGUAGE The official language of the conference is English. ACCOMMODATION The organizing committee will arrange discounts on accommodation in the 4-star hotel at the conference venue. The current prices of the accommodation will be available at the conference website. ADDRESS All correspondence regarding the conference should be addressed to Ales Horak, TSD 2022 Faculty of Informatics, Masaryk University Botanicka 68a, 602 00 Brno, Czech Republic phone: +420-5-49 49 18 63 fax: +420-5-49 49 18 20 email: tsd2022@tsdconference.orgThe official TSD 2022 homepage is: http://www.tsdconference.org/LOCATION Brno is the second largest city in the Czech Republic with a population of almost 400.000 and is the country's judiciary and trade-fair center. Brno is the capital of South Moravia, which is located in the south-east part of the Czech Republic and is known for a wide range of cultural, natural, and technical sights. South Moravia is a traditional wine region. Brno had been a Royal City since 1347 and with its six universities it forms a cultural center of the region. Brno can be reached easily by direct flights from London, and by trains or buses from Vienna (150 km) or Prague (230 km). For the participants with some extra time, nearby places may also be of interest. Local ones include: Brno Castle now called Spilberk, Veveri Castle, the Old and New City Halls, the Augustine Monastery with St. Thomas Church and crypt of Moravian Margraves, Church of St. James, Cathedral of St. Peter & Paul, Cartesian Monastery in Kralovo Pole, the famous Villa Tugendhat designed by Mies van der Rohe along with other important buildings of between-war Czech architecture. For those willing to venture out of Brno, Moravian Karst with Macocha Chasm and Punkva caves, battlefield of the Battle of three emperors (Napoleon, Russian Alexander and Austrian Franz - Battle by Austerlitz), Chateau of Slavkov (Austerlitz), Pernstejn Castle, Buchlov Castle, Lednice Chateau, Buchlovice Chateau, Letovice Chateau, Mikulov with one of the largest Jewish cemeteries in Central Europe, Telc - a town on the UNESCO heritage list, and many others are all within easy reach.
|
|
3-3-4 | (2022-09-06) CfP Voices in and out of Place: Misplaced, Replaced and Interlaced Voices (on line conference)
|
3-3-5 | (2022-09-06) TSD 2022 - CALL FOR DEMONSTRATIONS and PARTICIPATION
********************************************************* TSD 2022 - CALL FOR DEMONSTRATIONS and PARTICIPATION *********************************************************
Twenty-fifth International Conference on TEXT, SPEECH and DIALOGUE (TSD 2022) Brno, Czech Republic, 6-9 September 2022 http://www.tsdconference.org/
SUBMISSION OF DEMONSTRATION ABSTRACTS
Authors are invited to present actual projects, developed software and hardware or interesting material relevant to the topics of the conference. The authors of the demonstrations should provide the abstract not exceeding one page as plain text. The submission must be made using the online form available at the conference www pages.
The accepted demonstrations will be presented during a special Demonstration Session (see the Demo Instructions at www.tsdconference.org). Demonstrators can present their contribution with their own notebook with an Internet connection provided by the organisers or the organisers can prepare a PC computer with multimedia support for demonstrators.
The demonstration abstracts will not appear in the Proceedings of TSD 2022, they will be published electronically at the conference website.
IMPORTANT DATES
August 8 2022 ............ Submission of demonstration abstracts August 15 2022 ........... Notification of acceptance for workshop papers and demonstrations sent to the authors September 6-9 2022 ....... Conference dates
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
Eneko Agirre, Universidad del PaÃs Vasco, Spain Anna Rogers, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
The conference is organized by the Faculty of Informatics, Masaryk University, Brno, and the Faculty of Applied Sciences, University of West Bohemia, Pilsen. The conference is supported by International Speech Communication Association.
Venue: Brno, Czech Republic
TUTORIAL
The conference program will be supplemented with a hands-on tutorial
Speech recognition on the edge Prof. Daniel Hromada; Hyungjoong Kim
Keywords: Automatic Speech Recognition; Speech Command Classification; DeepSpeech; RaspberryPi; NVIDIA Jetson; Python; Linux; Websockets
During this workshop, participants will be introduced to diverse ways how speech-to-text (STT) inferences can be realized on non-cloud, local (i.e. edge-computing) architectures. Participants will acquire knowledge and competence concerning intricacies and nuances of execution of two different types of ASR systems (DeepSpeech and Random Forests) on three different hardware architectures (e.g. RaspberryPiZero (armv6); RaspberryPi 4 (armv7 without CUDA) and NVIDIA Jetson Xavier (armv8 / aarch64 with CUDA). Thus, the hands-on workshop participants will experience the transformation of all three hardware platforms into a low-cost local STT inference engine.
TSD SERIES
TSD series evolved as a prime forum for interaction between researchers in both spoken and written language processing from all over the world. Proceedings of TSD form a book published by Springer-Verlag in their Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI) series. TSD Proceedings are regularly indexed by Thomson Reuters Conference Proceedings Citation Index/Web of Science. Moreover, LNAI series are listed in all major citation databases such as DBLP, SCOPUS, EI, INSPEC or COMPENDEX.
TOPICS
Topics of the conference will include (but are not limited to):
Corpora and Language Resources (monolingual, multilingual, text and spoken corpora, large web corpora, disambiguation, specialized lexicons, dictionaries)
Speech Recognition (multilingual, continuous, emotional speech, handicapped speaker, out-of-vocabulary words, alternative way of feature extraction, new models for acoustic and language modelling)
Tagging, Classification and Parsing of Text and Speech (morphological and syntactic analysis, synthesis and disambiguation, multilingual processing, sentiment analysis, credibility analysis, automatic text labeling, summarization, authorship attribution)
Speech and Spoken Language Generation (multilingual, high fidelity speech synthesis, computer singing)
Semantic Processing of Text and Speech (information extraction, information retrieval, data mining, semantic web, knowledge representation, inference, ontologies, sense disambiguation, plagiarism detection, fake news 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 Modelling (video processing, facial animation, visual speech synthesis, user modelling, emotions and personality modelling)
Papers on processing of languages other than English are strongly encouraged.
PROGRAM COMMITTEE
Elmar Noeth, Germany (general chair) Rodrigo Agerri, Spain Eneko Agirre, Spain Vladimir Benko, Slovakia Archna Bhatia, USA Jan Cernocky, Czech Republic Simon Dobrisek, Slovenia Kamil Ekstein, Czech Republic Karina Evgrafova, Russia Yevhen Fedorov, Ukraine Volker Fischer, Germany Darja Fiser, Slovenia Lucie Flek, Germany Bjorn Gamback, Norway Radovan Garabik, Slovakia Alexander Gelbukh, Mexico Louise Guthrie, USA Tino Haderlein, Germany Jan Hajic, Czech Republic Eva Hajicova, Czech Republic Yannis Haralambous, France Hynek Hermansky, USA Jaroslava Hlavacova, Czech Republic Ales Horak, Czech Republic Eduard Hovy, USA Denis Jouvet, France Maria Khokhlova, Russia Aidar Khusainov, Russia Daniil Kocharov, Russia Miloslav Konopik, Czech Republic Ivan Kopecek, Czech Republic Valia Kordoni, Germany Evgeny Kotelnikov, Russia Pavel Kral, Czech Republic Siegfried Kunzmann, USA Nikola Ljubesic, Croatia Natalija Loukachevitch, Russia Bernardo Magnini, Italy Oleksandr Marchenko, Ukraine Vaclav Matousek, Czech Republic Roman Moucek, Czech Republic Agnieszka Mykowiecka, Poland Hermann Ney, Germany Joakim Nivre, Sweden Juan Rafael Orozco-Arroyave, Colombia Karel Pala, Czech Republic Maciej Piasecki, Poland Josef Psutka, Czech Republic James Pustejovsky, USA German Rigau, Spain Paolo Rosso, Spain Leon Rothkrantz, The Netherlands Anna Rumshisky, USA Milan Rusko, Slovakia Pavel Rychly, Czechia Mykola Sazhok, Ukraine Odette Scharenborg, The Netherlands Pavel Skrelin, Russia Pavel Smrz, Czech Republic Petr Sojka, Czech Republic Georg Stemmer, Germany Marko Robnik Sikonja, Slovenia Marko Tadic, Croatia Jan Trmal, Czechia Tamas Varadi, Hungary Zygmunt Vetulani, Poland Aleksander Wawer, Poland Pascal Wiggers, The Netherlands Marcin Wolinski, Poland Alina Wroblewska, Poland Victor Zakharov, Russia Jerneja Zganec Gros, Slovenia
FORMAT OF THE CONFERENCE
The conference program will include presentation of invited papers, oral presentations, and poster/demonstration sessions. Papers will be presented in plenary or topic oriented sessions. After two COVID years, the conference is planned to be held on-site again.
Social events including a trip in the vicinity of Brno will allow for additional informal interactions.
OFFICIAL LANGUAGE
The official language of the conference is English.
ACCOMMODATION
The organizing committee has arranged discounts on accommodation in the 4-star hotel at the conference venue. The current prices of the accommodation are available at the conference website.
ADDRESS
All correspondence regarding the conference should be addressed to Ales Horak, TSD 2022 Faculty of Informatics, Masaryk University Botanicka 68a, 602 00 Brno, Czech Republic phone: +420-5-49 49 18 63 fax: +420-5-49 49 18 20 email: tsd2022@tsdconference.org
The official TSD 2022 homepage is: http://www.tsdconference.org/
LOCATION
Brno is the second largest city in the Czech Republic with a population of almost 400.000 and is the country's judiciary and trade-fair center. Brno is the capital of South Moravia, which is located in the south-east part of the Czech Republic and is known for a wide range of cultural, natural, and technical sights. South Moravia is a traditional wine region. Brno had been a Royal City since 1347 and with its six universities it forms a cultural center of the region.
Brno can be reached easily by direct flights from London, and by trains or buses from Vienna (150 km) or Prague (230 km).
For the participants with some extra time, nearby places may also be of interest. Local ones include: Brno Castle now called Spilberk, Veveri Castle, the Old and New City Halls, the Augustine Monastery with St. Thomas Church and crypt of Moravian Margraves, Church of St. James, Cathedral of St. Peter & Paul, Cartesian Monastery in Kralovo Pole, the famous Villa Tugendhat designed by Mies van der Rohe along with other important buildings of between-war Czech architecture.
For those willing to venture out of Brno, Moravian Karst with Macocha Chasm and Punkva caves, battlefield of the Battle of three emperors (Napoleon, Russian Alexander and Austrian Franz - Battle by Austerlitz), Chateau of Slavkov (Austerlitz), Pernstejn Castle, Buchlov Castle, Lednice Chateau, Buchlovice Chateau, Letovice Chateau, Mikulov with one of the largest Jewish cemeteries in Central Europe, Telc - a town on the UNESCO heritage list, and many others are all within easy reach.
|
3-3-6 | (2022-09-18) Call for tutorials Interspeech 2022, Incheon, Korea
Call for papers: Inclusive and Fair Speech Technologies Special Session at Interspeech 2022 https://sites.google.com/view/fair-speech-interspeech22/
September 18 - 22, 2022 Incheon, South Korea
______________
Automatic speech recognition systems have dramatically improved over the past decade thanks to the advances brought by deep learning and the effort on large-scale data collection. For some groups of people, however, speech technology works less well, maybe because their speech patterns differ significantly from the standard dialect (e.g., because of regional accent), because of intra-group heterogeneity (e.g., speakers of regional African American dialects; second-language learners; and other demographic aspects such as age, gender, or race), or because the speech pattern of each individual in the group exhibits a large variability (e.g., people with severe disabilities). The goal of this special session is (1) to discuss these biases and propose methods for making speech technologies more useful to heterogeneous populations and (2) to increase academic and industry collaborations to reach these goals. Such methods include:
- analysis of performance biases among different social/linguistic groups in speech technology,
- new methods to mitigate these differences,
- new approaches for data collection, curation and coding,
- new algorithmic training criteria,
- new methods for envisioning speech technology task descriptions and design criteria.
Moreover, the special session aims to foster cross-disciplinary collaboration between fairness and personalization research, which has the potential to both improve customer experiences and algorithm fairness. The special session will bring experts from both fields to advance the cross-disciplinary study between fairness and personalization, e.g., fairness-aware personalization.
______________
Important Dates: Paper submission deadline: March 21, 2022, 23:59, AoE. Paper update deadline: March 28, 2022, 23:59, AoE. Interspeech conference dates: September 18 to 22, 2022.
______________ Author Guidelines: Papers have to be submitted following the same schedule and procedure as the main conference, and will undergo the same review process. Submit your papers here: www.softconf.com/m/interspeech2022 and select the 'Submission Topic' 14.5 to include your work in this session.
______________
Organizers:
Laurent Besacier, Naver Labs Europe, France Keith Burghardt, USC Information Sciences Institute, USA Alice Coucke, Sonos Inc., France Mark Allan Hasegawa-Johnson, University of Illinois, USA Peng Liu, Amazon Alexa, USA Anirudh Mani, Amazon Alexa, USA Mahadeva Prasanna, IIT Dharwad, India Priyankoo Sarmah, IIT Guwahati, India Odette Scharenborg, Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands Tao Zhang, Amazon Alexa, USA
--
Alice Coucke Head of Machine Learning Research | Sonos Voice Experience
|
3-3-8 | (2022-09-18) CfP Special session on Trustworthy Speech Processing at Interspeech 22
We're organizing a special session on Trustworthy Speech Processing at Interspeech 22, inviting papers exploring topics from trustworthy machine learning (such as privacy, fairness, bias mitigation, etc.) within the realm of speech processing. Can you please include this CFP in your next newsletter, and forward to any relevant lists if possible?
Best,
Organizing team:
Anil Ramakrishna, Amazon Inc.
Shrikanth Narayanan, University of Southern California
Rahul Gupta, Amazon Inc.
Isabel Trancoso, University of Lisbon
Rita Singh, Carnegie Mellon University
======================================================================
Call for papers:
Trustworthy Speech Processing (TSP)
Special Session at Interspeech 22
trustworthyspeechprocessing.github.io
September 18 - 22, 2022
Incheon, South Korea
Given the ubiquity of Machine Learning (ML) systems and their relevance in daily lives, it is important to ensure private and safe handling of data alongside equity in human experience. These considerations have gained considerable interest in recent times under the realm of Trustworthy ML. Speech processing in particular presents a unique set of challenges, given the rich information carried in linguistic and paralinguistic content including speaker trait, interaction and state characteristics. This special session on Trustworthy Speech Processing (TSP) was created to bring together new and experienced researchers working on trustworthy ML and speech processing.
We invite novel and relevant submissions from both academic and industrial research groups showcasing theoretical and empirical advancements in TSP. Topics of interest cover a variety of papers centered on speech processing, including (but not limited to):
* Differential privacy
* Federated learning
* Ethics in speech processing
* Model interpretability
* Quantifying & mitigating bias in speech processing
* New datasets, frameworks and benchmarks for TSP
* Discovery and defense against emerging privacy attacks
* Trustworthy ML in applications of speech processing like ASR
======================================================================
Important Dates:
Paper submission deadline: March 21, 2022, 23:59, Anywhere on Earth.
Paper update deadline: March 28, 2022, 23:59, Anywhere on Earth.
Author notification: June 13, 2022.
Interspeech conference dates: September 18 to 22, 2022.
======================================================================
Author Guidelines:
Submissions for TSP will follow the same schedule and procedure as the main conference. Submit your papers here: www.softconf.com/m/interspeech2022 (select option #14.13 as the submission topic).
|
3-3-9 | (2022-09-18) CfP Spoofing-Aware Speaker Verification Challenge, Incheon, Korea
We are thrilled to announce the Spoofing-Aware Speaker Verification Challenge. While spoofing countermeasures, promoted within the sphere of the ASVspoof challenge series, can help to protect reliability in the face of spoofing, they have been developed as independent subsystems for a fixed ASV subsystem. Better performance can be expected when countermeasures and ASV subsystems are both optimised to operate in tandem.
The first Spoofing-Aware Speaker Verification (SASV) 2022 challenge aims to encourage the development of original solutions involving, but not limited to:
- back-end fusion of pre-trained automatic speaker verification and pre-trained audio spoofing countermeasure subsystems;
- integrated spoofing-aware automatic speaker verification systems that have the capacity to reject both non-target and spoofed trials.
We warmly invite the submission of general contributions in this direction. The Interspeech 2022 Spoofing-Aware Automatic Speaker Verification special session also incorporates a challenge ? SASV 2022. Participants are encouraged to evaluate their solutions using the SASV benchmarking framework which comprises a common database, protocol, and evaluation metric. Further details and resources can be found on the SASV challenge website.
Schedule:
-January 19, 2022: Release of the evaluation plan
- March 10, 2022: Results submission - March 14, 2022: Release of participant ranks - March 21, 2022: INTERSPEECH Paper submission deadline - March 28, 2022: INTERSPEECH Paper update deadline - June 13, 2022: INTERSPEECH Author notification
- September 18-22, 2022: SASV challenge special session at INTERSPEECH
We are looking forward to hearing from you.
Kind regards,
The SASV Challenge 2022 Organisers
|
3-3-10 | (2022-09-23) 2nd Symposium on Security and Privacy in Speech Communication joint with 2nd Challenge Workshop (INTERSPEECH 2022 satellite event)
CALL FOR PAPERS
=========================================
=========================================
The second edition of the Symposium on Security & Privacy in Speech Communication (SPSC), this year combined with the 2nd VoicePrivacy Challenge workshop, focuses on speech and voice through which we express ourselves. As speech communication can be used to command virtual assistants to transport emotion or to identify oneself, the symposium tries to give answers to the question on how we can strengthen security and privacy for speech representation types in user-centric human/machine interaction? The symposium therefore sees that interdisciplinary exchange is in high demand and aims to bring together researchers and practitioners across multiple disciplines including signal processing, cryptography, security, human-computer interaction, law, and anthropology. The SPSC Symposium addresses interdisciplinary topics.
For more details, see https://symposium2022.spsc-sig.org/home/_cfp/CFP_SPSC-Symposium-2022.pdf
=== Important dates
- May 18 – Long paper submission deadline
- June 15 – VoicePrivacy Challenge paper submission deadline
- June 15 – Short paper submission deadline
- July 1 – Author notification
- July 31 – VoicePrivacy Challenge results and system description submission deadline
- September 5 – Final paper submission
- September 23-24 – SPSC Symposium at the Incheon National University, Korea
=== Topics of interest
Topics regarding the technical perspective include:
- Privacy-preserving speech communication
- speech recognition and spoken language processing
- speech perception, production and acquisition
- speech synthesis and spoken language generation
- speech coding and enhancement
- speaker and language identification
- phonetics, phonology and prosody
- paralinguistics in speech and language
- Cybersecurity
- privacy engineering and secure computation
- network security and adversarial robustness
- mobile security
- cryptography
- biometrics
- Machine learning
- federated learning
- disentangled representations
- differential privacy
- Natural language processing
- web as corpus, resources and evaluation
- tagging, summarization, syntax and parsing
- question answering, discourse and pragmatics
- machine translation and document analysis
- linguistic theories and psycholinguistics
- inference of semantics and information extraction
Topics regarding the humanities’ view include:
- Human-computer interfaces (speech as medium)
- usable security and privacy
- ubiquitous computing
- pervasive computing and communication
- cognitive science
- Ethics and law
- privacy and data protection
- media and communication
- identity management
- electronic mobile commerce
- data in digital media
- Digital humanities
- acceptance and trust studies
- user experience research on practice
- co-development across disciplines
- data-citizenship
- situated ethics
- STS perspectives
We welcome contributions on related topics, as well as progress reports, project disseminations, theoretical discussions, and “work in progress”. There is also a dedicated PhD track. In addition, participants from academia, industry, and public institutions, as well as interested students are welcome to attend the conference without having to make their own contribution. All accepted submissions will appear in the conference proceedings published in ISCA Archive. The workshop will take place mainly in person at the Incheon National University (Korea) with additional support of participants willing to join virtually.
=== Submission
Papers intended for the SPSC Symposium should be up to eight pages of text. The length should be chosen appropriately to present the topic to an interdisciplinary community. Paper submissions must conform to the format defined in the paper preparation guidelines and as detailed in the author’s kit. Papers must be submitted via the online paper submission system. The working language of the conference is English, and papers must be written in English.
=== Reviews
At least three single-blind reviews will be provided, and we aim to obtain feedback from interdisciplinary experts for each submission. The review criteria applied to regular papers will be adapted for VoicePrivacy Challenge papers to be more in keeping with systems descriptions and results.
|
3-3-11 | (2022-09-23) Voice Privacy Challenge, Incheon, South Korea
VoicePrivacy 2022 Challenge http://www.voiceprivacychallenge.org
- Challenge paper submission deadline: 15 June 2022
- Results and paper description submission deadline: 31 July 2022
- ISCA workshop (Incheon, Korea in conjunction with INTERSPEECH 2022): 23-24 September 2022
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Dear colleagues,
registration for the VoicePrivacy 2022 Challenge continues!
The task is to develop a voice anonymization system for speech data which conceals the speaker’s voice identity while protecting linguistic content, paralinguistic attributes, intelligibility and naturalness.
The VoicePrivacy 2022 Challenge Evaluation Plan: https://www.voiceprivacychallenge.org/vp2020/docs/VoicePrivacy_2022_Eval_Plan_v1.0.pdf
VoicePrivacy 2022 is the second edition, which will culminate in a joint workshop held in Incheon, Korea in conjunction with INTERSPEECH 2022 and in cooperation with the ISCA Symposium on Security and Privacy in Speech Communication.
Registration: Participate | VoicePrivacy 2022
Subscription: Participate | VoicePrivacy 2022
|
3-3-12 | (2022-10-10) 5th International Workshop on Multimedia Content Analysis in Sports (MMSports'22) @ ACM Multimedia, Lisbon, Portugal
Call for Papers
-------------------
5th International Workshop on Multimedia Content Analysis in Sports (MMSports'22) @ ACM Multimedia, October 10-14, 2022, Lisbon, Portugal
We'd like to invite you to submit your paper proposals for the 5th International Workshop on Multimedia Content Analysis in Sports to be held in Lisbon, Portugal together with ACM Multimedia 2022. The ambition of this workshop is to bring together researchers and practitioners from different disciplines to share ideas on current multimedia/multimodal content analysis research in sports. We welcome multimodal-based research contributions as well as best-practice contributions focusing on the following (and similar, but not limited to) topics:
- annotation and indexing in sports
- tracking people/ athlete and objects in sports
- activity recognition, classification, and evaluation in sports
- event detection and indexing in sports
- performance assessment in sports
- injury analysis and prevention in sports
- data driven analysis in sports
- graphical augmentation and visualization in sports
- automated training assistance in sports
- camera pose and motion tracking in sports
- brave new ideas / extraordinary multimodal solutions in sports
- personal virtual (home) trainers/coaches in sports
- datasets in sports
Submissions can be of varying length from 4 to 8 pages, plus additional pages for the reference pages. There is no distinction between long and short papers, but the authors may themselves decide on the appropriate length of their paper. All papers will undergo the same review process and review period.
Please refer to the workshop website for further information:
http://mmsports.multimedia-computing.de/mmsports2022/index.html
IMPORTANT DATES
Submission Due: July 4, 2022
Acceptance Notification: July 29, 2022
Camera Ready Submission: August 21, 2022
Workshop Date: TBA; either Oct 10 or Oct 14, 2022
Challenges
--------------
This year, MMSports proposes a competition where participants will compete over State-of-the-art problems applied to real-world sport specific data. The competition is made of 4 individual challenges, each of which is sponsored by SportRadar with a US$1,000.00 prize. Each challenge comes with a toolkit describing the task, the dataset and metrics on which participants will be evaluated:
The challenges are hosted on EvalAI where participants will submit the prediction of their model on an evaluation set for which labels are kept secret. Leaderboards will display the ranking for each challenge.
More information can be found at http://mmsports.multimedia-computing.de/mmsports2022/challenge.html
ACM MMSports’22 Chairs: Thomas Moeslund, Rainer Lienhart and Hideo Saito
|
3-3-13 | (2022-10-12) French Cross-Domain Dialect Identification (FDI) task @VarDial2022, Gyeongju, South Korea
We are organizing the French Cross-Domain Dialect Identification (FDI) task @VarDial2022.
In the 2022 French Dialect Identification (FDI) shared task, participants have to train a model on news samples collected from a set of publication sources and evaluate it on news samples collected from a different set of publication sources. Not only the sources are different, but also the topics. Therefore, participants have to build a model for a cross-domain 4-way classification by dialect task, in which a classification model is required to discriminate between the French (FH), Swiss (CH), Belgian (BE) and Canadian (CA) dialects across different news samples. The corpus is divided into training, validation and test, such that the publication sources and topics are distinct across splits. The training set contains 358,787 samples. The development set is composed of 18,002 samples. Another set of 36,733 samples are kept for the final evaluation.
We invite you to participate!
Have a nice day.
|
3-3-14 | (2022-10-17) Cf Posters papers, ISMAR 2022, Singapore
CALL FOR POSTER PAPERS https://ismar2022.org/call-for-posters/
OVERVIEW ISMAR 2022, the premier conference for Augmented Reality (AR) and Mixed Reality (MR), will be held on October 17-21, 2022. Note that ISMAR offers three distinct calls for journals, papers, and posters. This call is for submission to the conference poster track. See the ISMAR website for more information.
IMPORTANT DEADLINES Poster Paper Submission Deadline: June 20th, 2022 Notification: August 15th, 2022 Camera-ready version: August 22nd, 2022 ISMAR is responding to the increasing commercial and research activities related to AR and MR and Virtual Reality (VR) by continuing the expansion of its scope over the past several years. ISMAR 2022 will cover the full range of technologies encompassed by the MR continuum, from interfaces in the real world to fully immersive experiences.
ISMAR invites research contributions that advance AR/VR/MR technologies, collectively referred to as eXtended Reality (XR) technologies, and are relevant to the community.
The poster session is one of the highlights of ISMAR, where the community engages in a discussion about the benefits and challenges of XR in other research and application domains.
SUBMISSION DETAILS We welcome paper submissions from 2-6 pages, including the list of references. Poster papers will be reviewed on the basis of an extended abstract, which can contain smaller contributions, late breaking developments or in-progress work.
Please note that ISMAR further distinguishes poster papers of 2 pages to be non-archival and poster papers of 3 or more pages to be archival. This means that authors of 2 page poster papers can resubmit longer versions of their accepted work, with additional details, at later ISMAR conferences.
All submissions will be accepted or rejected as poster papers. All accepted papers will be archived in the IEEE Xplore digital library At least one of the authors must register and attend the ISMAR 2022 conference to present the poster The Poster track is co-aligned to the Conference Paper track, which may accept some Conference Paper submissions as posters based on the merit of their contribution. Detailed submission and review guidelines are available on the conference website and the Guidelines section.
Note that All paper submissions must be in English.
ISMAR 2022 Poster Chairs poster_chairs@ismar2022.org
|
3-3-15 | (2022-11-07) 24th ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI 2022), Bengaluru, India (updated)
********************************************************************* ICMI 2022 24th ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction
https://icmi.acm.org/2022/ 7-11 Nov 2022, Bengaluru, India *********************************************************************
CALL FOR DEMONSTRATION AND EXHIBIT PAPERS
We invite you to submit your proposals for demonstrations and exhibits to be held during the 24th ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI 2022), located in Bengaluru (Bangalore), India, November 7-11th, 2022. This year’s conference theme is “Intelligent and responsible Embodied Conversational Agents (ECAs) in the multi-lingual real world”.
The ICMI 2022 Demonstrations & Exhibits session is intended to provide a forum to showcase innovative implementations, systems and technologies demonstrating new ideas about interactive multimodal interfaces. It can also serve as a platform to introduce commercial products. Proposals may be of two types: demonstrations or exhibits. The main difference is that demonstrations include a 2-3 page paper in one column, which will be included in the ICMI main proceedings, while the exhibits only need to include a brief outline (no more than two pages in one column; not included in ICMI proceedings). We encourage both the submission of early research prototypes and interesting mature systems. In addition, authors of accepted regular research papers may be invited to participate in the demonstration sessions as well.
Demonstration Submission
Please submit a 2-3 page description of the demonstration in a single column format through the main ICMI conference management system (https://new.precisionconference.com/sigchi). Demonstration description(s) must be in PDF format, according to the ACM conference format, of no more than 3 pages in a single column format including references. For instructions and links to the templates, please see the Guidelines for Authors.
Demonstration proposals should include a description with photographs and/or screen captures of the demonstration. Demonstration submissions should be accompanied by a video of the proposed demo (no larger than 200MB), which can include a set of slides (no more than 10 slides) in PowerPoint format.
The demo and exhibit paper submissions are not anonymous. However, all ACM rules and guidelines related to paper submission should be followed (e.g. plagiarism, including self-plagiarism).
The demonstration submissions will be peer reviewed, according to the following criteria: suitability as a demo, scientific or engineering feasibility of the proposed demo system, application, or interactivity, alignment with the conference focus, potential to engage the audience, and overall quality and presentation of the written proposal. Authors are encouraged to address such criteria in their proposals, along with preparing the papers mindful of the quality and rigorous scientific expectations of an ACM publication.
The demo program will include the accepted proposals and may additionally include invited demos from among regular papers accepted for presentation at the conference. Please note that the accepted demos will be included in the ICMI main proceedings.
Exhibit Submission
Exhibit proposals should be submitted following the same guidelines, formatting, and due dates as for demonstration proposals. Exhibit proposals must be shorter in length (up to two pages), and are more suitable for showcasing mature systems. Like demos, submissions for exhibits should be accompanied by a video (no larger than 200MB), which can include a set of slides (no more than 10 slides) in PowerPoint format. Exhibits will not have a paper published in the ICMI 2022 proceedings.
Facilities
Once accepted, demonstrators and video presenters will be provided with a table, poster board, power outlet and wireless (shared) Internet. Demo and video presenters are expected to bring with them everything else needed for their demo and video presentations, such as hardware, laptops, sensors, PCs, etc. However, if you have special requests such as a larger space, special lighting conditions and so on, we will do our best to arrange them.
Important note for the authors: The official publication date is the date the proceedings are made available in the ACM Digital Library. This date may be up to two weeks prior to the first day of the conference. The official publication date affects the deadline for any patent filings related to published work.
Attendance
At least one author of all accepted Demonstrations and Exhibits submissions must register for and attend the conference, including the conference demonstrations and exhibits session(s).
Important Dates
Submission of demo and exhibit proposals
|
July 26, 2022
|
Demo and exhibit notification of acceptance
|
August 1, 2022
|
Submission of demo final papers
|
August 15, 2022
|
For the latest information re: author guidelines, important dates, facilities, attendance requirements, etc., please see https://icmi.acm.org/2022/call-for-demonstrations-and-exhibits/.
For any further questions, contact the Demonstrations and Exhibits co-chairs: Dan Bohus and Ramanathan Subramanian (icmi2022-demo-chairs@acm.org).
|
3-3-16 | (2022-11-07) Doctoral Consortium at ICMI- Call for Contributions
Doctoral Consortium - Call for Contributions
The goal of the ICMI Doctoral Consortium (DC) is to provide PhD students with an opportunity to present their work to a group of mentors and peers from a diverse set of academic and industrial institutions, to receive feedback on their doctoral research plan and progress, and to build a cohort of young researchers interested in designing and developing multimodal interfaces and interaction. We invite students from all PhD granting institutions who are in the process of forming or carrying out a plan for their PhD research in the area of designing and developing multimodal interfaces.
Who should apply?
While we encourage applications from students at any stage of doctoral training, the doctoral consortium will benefit most the students who are in the process of forming or developing their doctoral research. These students will have passed their qualifiers or have completed the majority of their coursework, will be planning or developing their dissertation research, and will not be very close to completing their dissertation research. Students from any PhD granting institution whose research falls within designing and developing multimodal interfaces and interaction are encouraged to apply.
Why should you attend?
The DC provides an opportunity to build a social network that includes the cohort of DC students, senior students, recent graduates, and senior mentors. Not only is this an opportunity to get feedback on research directions, it is also an opportunity to learn more about the process and to understand what comes next. We aim to connect you with a mentor who will give specific feedback on your research. We specifically aim to create an informal setting where students feel supported in their professional development.
Submission Guidelines
Graduate students pursuing a PhD degree in a field related to designing multimodal interfaces should submit the following materials:
- Extended Abstract: Please describe your PhD research plan and progress as a seven-page paper in a single column format. The instructions and templates are on the following link: https://www.acm.org/publications/taps/word-template-workflow. Your extended abstract should follow the same outline, details, and format of the ICMI short papers. The submissions will not be anonymous. In particular, it should cover:
- The key research questions and motivation of your research;
- Background and related work that informs your research;
- A statement of hypotheses or a description of the scope of the technical problem;
- Your research plan, outlining stages of system development or series of studies;
- The research approach and methodology;
- Your results to date (if any) and a description of remaining work;
- A statement of research contributions to date (if any) and expected contributions of your PhD work;
- Advisor Letter: A one-page letter of nomination from the student's PhD advisor. This letter is not a letter of support. Instead, it should focus on the student's PhD plan and how the Doctoral Consortium event might contribute to the student's PhD training and research.
- CV: A two-page curriculum vitae of the student.
All materials should be prepared in a single PDF format and submitted through the ICMI submission system.
Important Dates
Submission deadline
|
July 1, 2022
|
Notifications
|
July 29, 2022
|
Camera-ready
|
August 12, 2022
|
The Doctoral Consortium will follow a review process in which submissions will be evaluated by a number of factors including (1) the quality of the submission, (2) the expected benefits of the consortium for the student's PhD research, and (3) the student's contribution to the diversity of topics, backgrounds, and institutions, in order of importance. More particularly, the quality of the submission will be evaluated based on the potential contributions of the research to the field of multimodal interfaces and its impact on the field and beyond. Finally, we hope to achieve a diversity of research topics, disciplinary backgrounds, methodological approaches, and home institutions in this year's Doctoral Consortium cohort. We do not expect more than two students to be invited from each institution to represent a diverse sample. Women and other underrepresented groups are especially encouraged to apply.
Attendance
All authors of accepted submissions are expected to attend the Doctoral Consortium and the main conference poster session. The attendees will present their work as a short talk or as a poster at the conference poster session. A detailed program for the Consortium and the participation guidelines will be available after the camera-ready deadline.
Process
For more information and updates on the ICMI 2022 Doctoral Consortium, visit the Doctoral Consortium page of the main conference website (https://icmi.acm.org/2022/doctoral-consortium/)
For further questions, contact the Doctoral Consortium co-chairs:
- Theodora Chaspari (chaspari@tamu.edu)
- Tanaya Guha (tanaya.guha@glasgow.ac.uk)
|
3-3-17 | (2022-11-07) International Workshop on “Voice Assistant Systems in Team Interactions ‒ Implications, Best Practice, Applications, and Future Perspectives” VASTI 2022 @ICMI 2022
International Workshop on “Voice Assistant Systems in Team Interactions ‒ Implications, Best Practice, Applications, and Future Perspectives” VASTI 2022
co-located with the ICMI 2022
https://vasti2022.mobileds.de/
Scope The workshop is encouraging an interdisciplinary exchange of researchers focussing on multimodal interactions in the wide range of group research aspects, linguistic and acoustic perspectives, as well as dialogue management in relation to speech based systems, e.g. voice assistants. Regarding the mentioned research communities, the interdisciplinary collaboration between these research communities is currently rather loose. Therefore, the workshop aims on bridging the three research communities based on shared interests and provides a platform for detailed discussions.
Generally, human beings are usually interactive and socially engaged, often communicating in either dyads or groups. During such interactions, each communication partner (human or technical) is providing a variety of information, including general information/content, as well as personal and relational information. These communication aspects are in the focus of group interactions or multi-party interactions. In social sciences, areas such as investigating interpersonal relationships of the group members and the dynamics of group interaction, cohesion, and performance, are observed. These aspects are nowadays also considered in computer sciences and linguistics using automatic analyses. Unfortunately, these communities have started to collaborate only recently. In this sense, the workshop aims to strengthen these collaborations.
However, especially the advent of voice assistants and the increased distributions provide an optimal testbed to combine the three communities and encourage interdisciplinary discussions highlighting contributions from each research perspective. Especially, since at a certain level of development, current voice assistance systems seem to set the expectation of human-like linguistic flexibility and complexity, which is disproportionate to the actual skills of the artificial agent. To enable future technical systems to act as a conversational partner and act naturally in group or dyadic multimodal interactions, it is necessary to combine knowledge and research approaches on the fundamental mechanisms of human speech perception and speech production from a cognitive, psycholinguistic point of view as well as insights from interactional linguistics, discourse analysis and sociolinguistics with phonetics, phonology and prosody in the context of spoken interaction with machines. This should be further combined with aspects of dialogue management and social signal processing to allow a holistic consideration of the users and using groups.
Topics
Important dates: Submission deadline: July 28, 2022 Notification of Acceptance: August 12, 2022 Camera ready: August 19, 2022 Workshop date: November 7, 2022
Submissions Prospective authors are invited to submit full papers (8 pages, 7+1 reference) and short papers (5 pages, 4+1 reference) following the ICMI 2022 Latex or Word templates, as specified by ICMI 2021. All submissions should be anonymous. Accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings.
Venue in conjunction with ICMI 2022 (intended to be onsite)
Organizers Ronald Böck, University Magdeburg, Germany Daniel Duran, Leibniz Zentrum für Angewandte Sprachwissenschaft, Germany Ingo Siegert, University Magdeburg, Germany
|
3-3-18 | (2022-11-07) Late-breaking results @24th ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI 2022), Bengaluru, India
CALL FOR LATE-BREAKING RESULTS
We invite you to submit your papers to the late-breaking results track of the 24th ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI 2022), located in Bengaluru (Bangalore), India, November 7-11th, 2022.
Based on the success of the LBR in the past ICMI 18-21, the ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI) 2022 continues soliciting submissions for the special venue titled Late-Breaking Results (LBR). The goal of the LBR venue is to provide a way for researchers to share emerging results at the conference. Accepted submissions will be presented in a poster session at the conference, and the extended abstract will be published in the new Adjunct Proceedings (Companion Volume) of the main ICMI Proceedings. Like similar venues at other conferences, the LBR venue is intended to allow sharing of ideas, getting formative feedback on early-stage work, and furthering collaborations among colleagues.
- Highlights
- Submission deadline: August 12th, 2022
- Notifications: September 9th, 2022
- Camera-ready deadline: September 16th, 2022
- Conference Dates: November 7-11, 2022
- Submission format: Anonymized, short paper (seven-page paper in a single column format, not including references),
- following the submission guidelines.
- Selection process: Peer-Reviewed
- Presentation format: Participation in the conference poster session
- Proceedings: Included in Adjunct Proceedings and ACM Digital Library
- LBR Co-chairs: Fabien Ringeval and Nikita Soni
Late-Breaking Work (LBR) submissions represent work such as preliminary results, provoking and current topics, novel experiences or interactions that may not have been fully validated yet, cutting-edge or emerging work that is still in exploratory stages, smaller-scale studies, or in general, work that has not yet reached a level of maturity expected for the full-length main track papers. However, LBR papers are still expected to bring a contribution to the ICMI community, commensurate with the preliminary, short, and quasi-informal nature of this track.
Accepted LBR papers will be presented as posters during the conference. This provides an opportunity for researchers to receive feedback on early-stage work, explore potential collaborations, and otherwise engage in exciting thought-provoking discussions about their work in an informal setting that is significantly less constrained than a paper presentation. The LBR (posters) track also offers those new to the ICMI community a chance to share their preliminary research as they become familiar with this field.
Late-Breaking Results papers appear in the Adjunct Proceedings (Companion Volume) of the ICMI Proceedings. Copyright is retained by the authors, and the material from these papers can be used as the basis for future publications as long as there are “significant” revisions from the original, as per the ACM and ACM SIGCHI policies.
Extended Abstract: An anonymized short paper, seven-page paper in a single column format, not including references. The instructions and templates are on the following link: https://www.acm.org/publications/taps/word-template-workflow. The paper should be submitted in PDF format and through the ICMI submission system in the “Late-Breaking Results” track. Due to the tight publication timeline, it is recommended that authors submit a very nearly finalized paper that is as close to camera-ready as possible, as there will be a very short timeframe for preparing the final camera-ready version and no deadline extensions can be granted.
Anonymization: Authors are instructed not to include author information in their submission. In order to help reviewers judge the situation of the LBR to prior work, authors should not remove or anonymize references to their own prior work. Instead, we recommend that authors obscure references to their own prior work by referring to it in the third person during submission. If desired, after acceptance, such references can be changed to first-person.
LBRs will be evaluated to the extent that they are presenting work still in progress, rather than complete work which is under-described in order to fit into the LBR format. The LBR track will undergo an external peer review process. Submissions will be evaluated by a number of factors including (1) the relevance of the work to ICMI, (2) the quality of the submission, and (3) the degree to which it “fits” the LBR track (e.g., in-progress results). More particularly, the quality of the submission will be evaluated based on the potential contributions of the research to the field of multimodal interfaces and its impact on the field and beyond. Authors should clearly justify how the proposed ideas can bring some measurable breakthroughs compared to the state-of-the-art of the field.
Similar rules for registration and attendance will be applied for authors of LBR papers as for regular papers. Further information will be available later on and given on the main page of the website.
|
|
3-3-19 | (2022-11-14) IberSPEECH 2022, Grenada, Spain
|
3-3-20 | (2022-11-14)) CfP SPECOM 2022, Gurugram, India (updated)
********************************************************************
SPECOM-2022 – CALL FOR PAPERS
********************************************************************
The conference is relocated in India.
********************************************************************
SPECOM-2022 – FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS
********************************************************************
24th International Conference on Speech and Computer (SPECOM-2022)
November 14-16, 2022, KIIT Campus, Gurugram, India
Web: www.specom.co.in
ORGANIZER
The conference is organized by KIIT College of Engineering as a hybrid event both in Gurugram/New Delhi, India and online.
CONFERENCE TOPICS
SPECOM attracts researchers, linguists and engineers working in the following areas of speech science, speech technology, natural language processing, and human-computer interaction:
Affective computing
Audio-visual speech processing
Corpus linguistics
Computational paralinguistics
Deep learning for audio processing
Feature extraction
Forensic speech investigations
Human-machine interaction
Language identification
Multichannel signal processing
Multimedia processing
Multimodal analysis and synthesis
Sign language processing
Speaker recognition
Speech and language resources
Speech analytics and audio mining
Speech and voice disorders
Speech-based applications
Speech driving systems in robotics
Speech enhancement
Speech perception
Speech recognition and understanding
Speech synthesis
Speech translation systems
Spoken dialogue systems
Spoken language processing
Text mining and sentiment analysis
Virtual and augmented reality
Voice assistants
OFFICIAL LANGUAGE
The official language of the event is English. However, papers on processing of languages other than English are strongly encouraged.
FORMAT OF THE CONFERENCE
The conference program will include presentations of invited talks, oral presentations, and poster/demonstration sessions.
SUBMISSION OF PAPERS
Authors are invited to submit full papers of 8-14 pages formatted in the Springer LNCS style. Each paper will be reviewed by at least three independent reviewers (single-blind), and accepted papers will be presented either orally or as posters. Papers submitted to SPECOM must not be under review by any other conference or publication during the SPECOM review cycle, and must not be previously published or accepted for publication elsewhere. The authors are asked to submit their papers using the on-line submission system: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=specom2022
PROCEEDINGS
SPECOM Proceedings will be published by Springer as a book in the Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI/LNCS) series listed in all major international citation databases.
IMPORTANT DATES (extended!)
August 16, 2022 .................. Submission of full papers
September 13, 2022 ........... Notification of acceptance
September 20, 2022 ........... Camera-ready papers
September 27, 2022 ........... Early registration
November 14-16, 2022 .......Conference dates
GENERAL CHAIR/CO-CHAIR
Shyam S Agrawal - KIIT, Gurugram
Amita Dev - IGDTUW, Delhi
TECHNICAL CHAIR/CO-CHAIRS
S.R. Mahadeva Prasanna - IIT Dharwad
Alexey Karpov - SPC RAS
Rodmonga Potapova - MSLU
K. Samudravijaya - KL University
CONTACTS
All correspondence regarding the conference should be addressed to SPECOM 2022 Secretariat
E-mail: specomkiit@kiitworld.in
Web: www.specom.co.in
|
3-3-21 | (2022-12-13) CfP 18th Australasian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology (SST2022), Canberra, Australia
SST2022: CALL FOR PAPERSThe Australasian Speech Science and Technology Association is pleased to call for papers for the 18th Australasian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology (SST2022). SST is an international interdisciplinary conference designed to foster collaboration among speech scientists, engineers, psycholinguists, audiologists, linguists, speech/language pathologists and industrial partners. ? Location: Canberra, Australia (remote participation options will also be available) ? Dates: 13-16 December 2022 ? Host Institution: Australian National University ? Deadline for tutorial and special session proposals: 8 April 2022 ? Deadline for submissions: 17 June 2022 ? Notification of acceptance: 31 August 2022 ? Deadline for upload of revised submissions: 16 September 2022 ? Website: www.sst2022.comSubmissions are invited in all areas of speech science and technology, including: ? Acoustic phonetics ? Analysis of paralinguistics in speech and language ? Applications of speech science and technology ? Audiology ? Computer assisted language learning ? Corpus management and speech tools ? First language acquisition ? Forensic phonetics ? Hearing and hearing impairment ? Languages of Australia and Asia-Pacific (phonetics/phonology) ? Low-resource languages ? Pedagogical technologies for speech ? Second language acquisition ? Sociophonetics ? Speech signal processing, analysis, modelling and enhancement ? Speech pathology ? Speech perception ? Speech production ? Speech prosody, emotional speech, voice quality ? Speech synthesis and speech recognition ? Spoken language processing, translation, information retrieval and summarization ? Speaker and language recognition ? Spoken dialog systems and analysis of conversation ? Voice mechanisms, source-filter interactions We are inviting two categories of submission: 4-page papers (for oral or poster presentation, and publication in the proceedings), and 1-page detailed abstracts (for poster presentation only). Please follow the author instructions in preparing your submission. We also invite proposals for tutorials, as 3-hour intensive instructional sessions to be held on the first day of the conference. In addition, we welcome proposals for special sessions, as thematic groupings of papers exploring specific topics or challenges. Interdisciplinary special sessions are particularly encouraged. For any queries, please contact sst2022conf@gmail.com.
|
3-3-22 | (2023-01-04) SIVA workshop @ Waikoloa Beach Marriott Resort, Hawaii, USA.
CALL FOR PAPERS: SIVA'23 Workshop on Socially Interactive Human-like Virtual Agents From expressive and context-aware multimodal generation of digital humans to understanding the social cognition of real humans
Submission (to be openened July, 22 2022): https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/SIVA2023 SIVA'23 workshop: January, 4 or 5 2023, Waikoloa, Hawaii, https://www.stms-lab.fr/agenda/siva/detail/ FG 2023 conference: January 4-8 2023, Waikoloa, Hawaii, https://fg2023.ieee-biometrics.org/
OVERVIEW
Due to the rapid growth of virtual, augmented, and hybrid reality together with spectacular advances in artificial intelligence, the ultra-realistic generation and animation of digital humans with human-like behaviors is becoming a massive topic of interest. This complex endeavor requires modeling several elements of human behavior including the natural coordination of multimodal behaviors including text, speech, face, and body, plus the contextualization of behavior in response to interlocutors of different cultures and motivations. Thus, challenges in this topic are two folds—the generation and animation of coherent multimodal behaviors, and modeling the expressivity and contextualization of the virtual agent with respect to human behavior, plus understanding and modeling virtual agent behavior adaptation to increase human’s engagement. The aim of this workshop is to connect traditionally distinct communities (e.g., speech, vision, cognitive neurosciences, social psychology) to elaborate and discuss the future of human interaction with human-like virtual agents. We expect contributions from the fields of signal processing, speech and vision, machine learning and artificial intelligence, perceptual studies, and cognitive and neuroscience. Topics will range from multimodal generative modeling of virtual agent behaviors, and speech-to-face and posture 2D and 3D animation, to original research topics including style, expressivity, and context-aware animation of virtual agents. Moreover, the availability of controllable real-time virtual agent models can be used as state-of-the-art experimental stimuli and confederates to design novel, groundbreaking experiments to advance understanding of social cognition in humans. Finally, these virtual humans can be used to create virtual environments for medical purposes including rehabilitation and training.
SCOPE
Topics of interest include but are not limited to:
+ Analysis of Multimodal Human-like Behavior - Analyzing and understanding of human multimodal behavior (speech, gesture, face) - Creating datasets for the study and modeling of human multimodal behavior - Coordination and synchronization of human multimodal behavior - Analysis of style and expressivity in human multimodal behavior - Cultural variability of social multimodal behavior
+ Modeling and Generation of Multimodal Human-like Behavior - Multimodal generation of human-like behavior (speech, gesture, face) - Face and gesture generation driven by text and speech - Context-aware generation of multimodal human-like behavior - Modeling of style and expressivity for the generation of multimodal behavior - Modeling paralinguistic cues for multimodal behavior generation - Few-shots or zero-shot transfer of style and expressivity - Slightly-supervised adaptation of multimodal behavior to context
+ Psychology and Cognition of of Multimodal Human-like Behavior - Cognition of deep fakes and ultra-realistic digital manipulation of human-like behavior - Social agents/robots as tools for capturing, measuring and understanding multimodal behavior (speech, gesture, face) - Neuroscience and social cognition of real humans using virtual agents and physical robots
IMPORTANT DATES
Submission Deadline September, 12 2022 Notification of Acceptance: October, 15 2022 Camera-ready deadline: October, 31 2022 Workshop: January, 4 or 5 2023
VENUE
The SIVA workshop is organized as a satellite workshop of the IEEE International Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition 2023. The workshop will be collocated with the FG 2023 and WACV 2023 conferences at the Waikoloa Beach Marriott Resort, Hawaii, USA.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION AND SUBMISSION DETAILS
Submissions must be original and not published or submitted elsewhere. Short papers of 3 pages excluding references encourage submissions of early research in original emerging fields. Long paper of 6 to 8 pages excluding references promote the presentation of strongly original contributions, positional or survey papers. The manuscript should be formatted according to the Word or Latex template provided on the workshop website. All submissions will be reviewed by 3 reviewers. The reviewing process will be single-blinded. Authors will be asked to disclose possible conflict of interests, such as cooperation in the previous two years. Moreover, care will be taken to avoid reviewers from the same institution as the authors. Authors should submit their articles in a single pdf file in the submission website - no later than September, 12 2022. Notification of acceptance will be sent by October, 15 2022, and the camera-ready version of the papers revised according to the reviewers comments should be submitted by October, 31 2022. Accepted papers will be published in the proceedings of the FG'2023 conference. More information can be found on the SIVA website.
DIVERSITY, EQUALITY, AND INCLUSION
The format of this workshop will be hybrid online and onsite. This format proposes format of scientific exchanges in order to satisfy travel restrictions and COVID sanitary precautions, to promote inclusion in the research community (travel costs are high, online presentations will encourage research contributions from geographical regions which would normally be excluded), and to consider ecological issues (e.g., CO2 footprint). The organizing committee is committed to paying attention to equality, diversity, and inclusivity in consideration of invited speakers. This effort starts from the organizing committee and the invited speakers to the program committee.
ORGANIZING COMMITTEE 🌸 Nicolas Obin, STMS Lab (Ircam, CNRS, Sorbonne Université, ministère de la Culture) 🌸 Ryo Ishii, NTT Human Informatics Laboratories 🌸 Rachael E. Jack, University of Glasgow 🌸 Louis-Philippe Morency, Carnegie Mellon University 🌸 Catherine Pelachaud, CNRS - ISIR, Sorbonne UniversitéCALL FOR PAPERS: SIVA'23 Workshop on Socially Interactive Human-like Virtual Agents From expressive and context-aware multimodal generation of digital humans to understanding the social cognition of real humans
Submission (to be openened July, 22 2022): https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/SIVA2023 SIVA'23 workshop: January, 4 or 5 2023, Waikoloa, Hawaii, https://www.stms-lab.fr/agenda/siva/detail/ FG 2023 conference: January 4-8 2023, Waikoloa, Hawaii, https://fg2023.ieee-biometrics.org/
OVERVIEW
Due to the rapid growth of virtual, augmented, and hybrid reality together with spectacular advances in artificial intelligence, the ultra-realistic generation and animation of digital humans with human-like behaviors is becoming a massive topic of interest. This complex endeavor requires modeling several elements of human behavior including the natural coordination of multimodal behaviors including text, speech, face, and body, plus the contextualization of behavior in response to interlocutors of different cultures and motivations. Thus, challenges in this topic are two folds—the generation and animation of coherent multimodal behaviors, and modeling the expressivity and contextualization of the virtual agent with respect to human behavior, plus understanding and modeling virtual agent behavior adaptation to increase human’s engagement. The aim of this workshop is to connect traditionally distinct communities (e.g., speech, vision, cognitive neurosciences, social psychology) to elaborate and discuss the future of human interaction with human-like virtual agents. We expect contributions from the fields of signal processing, speech and vision, machine learning and artificial intelligence, perceptual studies, and cognitive and neuroscience. Topics will range from multimodal generative modeling of virtual agent behaviors, and speech-to-face and posture 2D and 3D animation, to original research topics including style, expressivity, and context-aware animation of virtual agents. Moreover, the availability of controllable real-time virtual agent models can be used as state-of-the-art experimental stimuli and confederates to design novel, groundbreaking experiments to advance understanding of social cognition in humans. Finally, these virtual humans can be used to create virtual environments for medical purposes including rehabilitation and training.
SCOPE
Topics of interest include but are not limited to:
+ Analysis of Multimodal Human-like Behavior - Analyzing and understanding of human multimodal behavior (speech, gesture, face) - Creating datasets for the study and modeling of human multimodal behavior - Coordination and synchronization of human multimodal behavior - Analysis of style and expressivity in human multimodal behavior - Cultural variability of social multimodal behavior
+ Modeling and Generation of Multimodal Human-like Behavior - Multimodal generation of human-like behavior (speech, gesture, face) - Face and gesture generation driven by text and speech - Context-aware generation of multimodal human-like behavior - Modeling of style and expressivity for the generation of multimodal behavior - Modeling paralinguistic cues for multimodal behavior generation - Few-shots or zero-shot transfer of style and expressivity - Slightly-supervised adaptation of multimodal behavior to context
+ Psychology and Cognition of of Multimodal Human-like Behavior - Cognition of deep fakes and ultra-realistic digital manipulation of human-like behavior - Social agents/robots as tools for capturing, measuring and understanding multimodal behavior (speech, gesture, face) - Neuroscience and social cognition of real humans using virtual agents and physical robots
IMPORTANT DATES
Submission Deadline September, 12 2022 Notification of Acceptance: October, 15 2022 Camera-ready deadline: October, 31 2022 Workshop: January, 4 or 5 2023
VENUE
The SIVA workshop is organized as a satellite workshop of the IEEE International Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition 2023. The workshop will be collocated with the FG 2023 and WACV 2023 conferences at the Waikoloa Beach Marriott Resort, Hawaii, USA.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION AND SUBMISSION DETAILS
Submissions must be original and not published or submitted elsewhere. Short papers of 3 pages excluding references encourage submissions of early research in original emerging fields. Long paper of 6 to 8 pages excluding references promote the presentation of strongly original contributions, positional or survey papers. The manuscript should be formatted according to the Word or Latex template provided on the workshop website. All submissions will be reviewed by 3 reviewers. The reviewing process will be single-blinded. Authors will be asked to disclose possible conflict of interests, such as cooperation in the previous two years. Moreover, care will be taken to avoid reviewers from the same institution as the authors. Authors should submit their articles in a single pdf file in the submission website - no later than September, 12 2022. Notification of acceptance will be sent by October, 15 2022, and the camera-ready version of the papers revised according to the reviewers comments should be submitted by October, 31 2022. Accepted papers will be published in the proceedings of the FG'2023 conference. More information can be found on the SIVA website.
DIVERSITY, EQUALITY, AND INCLUSION
The format of this workshop will be hybrid online and onsite. This format proposes format of scientific exchanges in order to satisfy travel restrictions and COVID sanitary precautions, to promote inclusion in the research community (travel costs are high, online presentations will encourage research contributions from geographical regions which would normally be excluded), and to consider ecological issues (e.g., CO2 footprint). The organizing committee is committed to paying attention to equality, diversity, and inclusivity in consideration of invited speakers. This effort starts from the organizing committee and the invited speakers to the program committee.
ORGANIZING COMMITTEE 🌸 Nicolas Obin, STMS Lab (Ircam, CNRS, Sorbonne Université, ministère de la Culture)52023-01)04) 🌸 Ryo Ishii, NTT Human Informatics Laboratories 🌸 Rachael E. Jack, University of Glasgow 🌸 Louis-Philippe Morency, Carnegie Mellon University 🌸 Catherine Pelachaud, CNRS - ISIR, Sorbonne Université
|
3-3-23 | (2023-01-04) Workshop on Socially Interactive Human-like Virtual Agents (SIVA'23), Waikoloa, Hawaii
CALL FOR PAPERS: SIVA'23 Workshop on Socially Interactive Human-like Virtual Agents From expressive and context-aware multimodal generation of digital humans to understanding the social cognition of real humans Submission (to be openened July, 22 2022): https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/SIVA2023SIVA'23 workshop: January, 4 or 5 2023, Waikoloa, Hawaii, https://www.stms-lab.fr/agenda/siva/detail/FG 2023 conference: January 4-8 2023, Waikoloa, Hawaii, https://fg2023.ieee-biometrics.org/OVERVIEW Due to the rapid growth of virtual, augmented, and hybrid reality together with spectacular advances in artificial intelligence, the ultra-realistic generation and animation of digital humans with human-like behaviors is becoming a massive topic of interest. This complex endeavor requires modeling several elements of human behavior including the natural coordination of multimodal behaviors including text, speech, face, and body, plus the contextualization of behavior in response to interlocutors of different cultures and motivations. Thus, challenges in this topic are two folds—the generation and animation of coherent multimodal behaviors, and modeling the expressivity and contextualization of the virtual agent with respect to human behavior, plus understanding and modeling virtual agent behavior adaptation to increase human’s engagement. The aim of this workshop is to connect traditionally distinct communities (e.g., speech, vision, cognitive neurosciences, social psychology) to elaborate and discuss the future of human interaction with human-like virtual agents. We expect contributions from the fields of signal processing, speech and vision, machine learning and artificial intelligence, perceptual studies, and cognitive and neuroscience. Topics will range from multimodal generative modeling of virtual agent behaviors, and speech-to-face and posture 2D and 3D animation, to original research topics including style, expressivity, and context-aware animation of virtual agents. Moreover, the availability of controllable real-time virtual agent models can be used as state-of-the-art experimental stimuli and confederates to design novel, groundbreaking experiments to advance understanding of social cognition in humans. Finally, these virtual humans can be used to create virtual environments for medical purposes including rehabilitation and training. SCOPE Topics of interest include but are not limited to: + Analysis of Multimodal Human-like Behavior - Analyzing and understanding of human multimodal behavior (speech, gesture, face) - Creating datasets for the study and modeling of human multimodal behavior - Coordination and synchronization of human multimodal behavior - Analysis of style and expressivity in human multimodal behavior - Cultural variability of social multimodal behavior + Modeling and Generation of Multimodal Human-like Behavior - Multimodal generation of human-like behavior (speech, gesture, face) - Face and gesture generation driven by text and speech - Context-aware generation of multimodal human-like behavior - Modeling of style and expressivity for the generation of multimodal behavior - Modeling paralinguistic cues for multimodal behavior generation - Few-shots or zero-shot transfer of style and expressivity - Slightly-supervised adaptation of multimodal behavior to context + Psychology and Cognition of of Multimodal Human-like Behavior - Cognition of deep fakes and ultra-realistic digital manipulation of human-like behavior - Social agents/robots as tools for capturing, measuring and understanding multimodal behavior (speech, gesture, face) - Neuroscience and social cognition of real humans using virtual agents and physical robots IMPORTANT DATES Submission Deadline September, 12 2022 Notification of Acceptance: October, 15 2022 Camera-ready deadline: October, 31 2022 Workshop: January, 4 or 5 2023 VENUE The SIVA workshop is organized as a satellite workshop of the IEEE International Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition 2023. The workshop will be collocated with the FG 2023 and WACV 2023 conferences at the Waikoloa Beach Marriott Resort, Hawaii, USA. ADDITIONAL INFORMATION AND SUBMISSION DETAILS Submissions must be original and not published or submitted elsewhere. Short papers of 3 pages excluding references encourage submissions of early research in original emerging fields. Long paper of 6 to 8 pages excluding references promote the presentation of strongly original contributions, positional or survey papers. The manuscript should be formatted according to the Word or Latex template provided on the workshop website. All submissions will be reviewed by 3 reviewers. The reviewing process will be single-blinded. Authors will be asked to disclose possible conflict of interests, such as cooperation in the previous two years. Moreover, care will be taken to avoid reviewers from the same institution as the authors. Authors should submit their articles in a single pdf file in the submission website - no later than September, 12 2022. Notification of acceptance will be sent by October, 15 2022, and the camera-ready version of the papers revised according to the reviewers comments should be submitted by October, 31 2022. Accepted papers will be published in the proceedings of the FG'2023 conference. More information can be found on the SIVA website. DIVERSITY, EQUALITY, AND INCLUSION The format of this workshop will be hybrid online and onsite. This format proposes format of scientific exchanges in order to satisfy travel restrictions and COVID sanitary precautions, to promote inclusion in the research community (travel costs are high, online presentations will encourage research contributions from geographical regions which would normally be excluded), and to consider ecological issues (e.g., CO2 footprint). The organizing committee is committed to paying attention to equality, diversity, and inclusivity in consideration of invited speakers. This effort starts from the organizing committee and the invited speakers to the program committee. ORGANIZING COMMITTEE 🌸 Nicolas Obin, STMS Lab (Ircam, CNRS, Sorbonne Université, ministère de la Culture) 🌸 Ryo Ishii, NTT Human Informatics Laboratories 🌸 Rachael E. Jack, University of Glasgow 🌸 Louis-Philippe Morency, Carnegie Mellon University 🌸 Catherine Pelachaud, CNRS - ISIR, Sorbonne Université
|
3-3-24 | (2023-01-09) Advanced Language Processing School (ALPS) , Grenoble, France
FIRST CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
We are opening the registration for the third Advanced Language Processing School (ALPS), co-organized by University Grenoble Alpes and Naver Labs Europe.
*Target Audience*
This is a winter school covering advanced topics in NLP, and we are primarily targeting doctoral students and advanced (research) masters. A few slots will also be reserved for academics and persons working in research-heavy positions in industry.
*Characteristics*
Advanced lectures by first class researchers. A (virtual) atmosphere that fosters connections and interaction. A poster session for attendees to present their work, gather feedback and brainstorm future work ideas.
*Speakers*
The current list of speakers is: Kyunghyun Cho (New York University, USA); Yejin Choi (University of Washington and Allen Institute for AI, USA); Dirk Hovy (Bocconi University, Italia); Colin Raffel (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Hugging Face, USA); Lucia Specia (Imperial College, UK), François Yvon (LISN/CNRS, France).
*Application*
To apply to this winter school, please follow the instructions at http://alps.imag.fr/index.php/application/ . The deadline for applying is Sept 16th, and we will notify acceptance on October 3rd.
*Contact*
Website: http://alps.imag.fr/
E-mail: alps@univ-grenoble-alpes.fr
|
3-3-25 | (2023-06-12)) 13th International Conference on Multimedia Retrieval, Thessaloniki, Greece
ICMR2023 – ACM International Conference on Multimedia Retrieval
|
3-3-26 | (2023-07-15) MLDM 2023 : 18th International Conference on Machine Learning and Data Mining, New York,NY, USA
MLDM 2023 : 18th International Conference on Machine Learning and Data Mining http://www.mldm.de When Jul 16, 2023 - Jul 21, 2023 Where New York, USA Submission Deadline Jan 15, 2023 Notification Due Mar 18, 2023 Final Version Due Apr 5, 2023 Categories: machine learning data mining pattern recognition classification Call For Papers MLDM 2023 18th International Conference on Machine Learning and Data Mining July 15 - 19, 2023, New York, USA
The Aim of the Conference The aim of the conference is to bring together researchers from all over the world who deal with machine learning and data mining in order to discuss the recent status of the research and to direct further developments. Basic research papers as well as application papers are welcome.
Chair Petra Perner Institute of Computer Vision and Applied Computer Sciences IBaI, Germany
Program Committee Piotr Artiemjew University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn, Poland Sung-Hyuk Cha Pace Universtity, USA Ming-Ching Chang University of Albany, USA Mark J. Embrechts Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and CardioMag Imaging, Inc, USA Robert Haralick City University of New York, USA Adam Krzyzak Concordia University, Canada Chengjun Liu New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA Krzysztof Pancerz University Rzeszow, Poland Dan Simovici University of Massachusetts Boston, USA Agnieszka Wosiak Lodz University of Technology, Poland more to be annouced...
Topics of the conference
Paper submissions should be related but not limited to any of the following topics:
Association Rules Audio Mining Autoamtic Semantic Annotation of Media Content Bayesian Models and Methods Capability Indices Case-Based Reasoning and Associative Memory case-based reasoning and learning Classification & Prediction classification and interpretation of images, text, video Classification and Model Estimation Clustering Cognition and Computer Vision Conceptional Learning conceptional learning and clustering Content-Based Image Retrieval Control Charts Decision Trees Design of Experiment Desirabilities Deviation and Novelty Detection Feature Grouping, Discretization, Selection and Transformation Feature Learning Frequent Pattern Mining https://www.icphs2023.org/, where it is also possible to register for email notifications concerning the congress.
Contact: icphs2023@guarant.cz
|