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Thursday, September 08, 2022 by Chris Wellekens

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(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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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

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(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

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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

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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.

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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).

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3-3-4

(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.

URL: https://sasv-challenge.github.io

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

To participate, please register your interest at https://forms.gle/htoVnog34kvs3as56

For further information, please contact us at sasv.challenge@gmail.com.

We are looking forward to hearing from you.

Kind regards,

The SASV Challenge 2022 Organisers

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3-3-5

(2022-09-23) 2nd Symposium on Security and Privacy in Speech Communication joint with 2nd Challenge Workshop (INTERSPEECH 2022 satellite event)

CALL FOR PAPERS

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2nd Symposium on Security and Privacy in Speech Communication joint with 2nd VoicePrivacy Challenge Workshop (INTERSPEECH 2022 satellite event)
https://symposium2022.spsc-sig.org/
May 18 – Long paper submission deadline
June 15 – VoicePrivacy Challenge and short paper submission deadline
September 23-24 – Workshop

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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.

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3-3-6

(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

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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

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3-3-7

(2022-10-10) 5th International Workshop on Multimedia Content Analysis in Sports (MMSports'22) @ ACM Multimedia, Lisbon, Portugal

Call for Papers

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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

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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

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3-3-8

(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.

Contact: raducu.ionescu@gmail.com

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.

Important Dates:
- Training set release: May 20, 2022
- Test set release: June 30, 2022
- Submissions due: July 6, 2022

Link: https://sites.google.com/view/vardial-2022/shared-tasks#h.mj5vivaubw8r

We invite you to participate!

Have a nice day.

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3-3-9

(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

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3-3-10

(2022-10-19) CfP Journée scientifique 'Accès à l'information', IRISAQ, Rennes,France

Dans le cadre du GdR CNRS Traitement automatique des langues (GdR TAL), l’IRISA organise une journée scientifique sur le thème de « l’accès à l’information » le 19 octobre 2022 à Rennes. La journée sera organisée autour de plusieurs présentations orales invitées et de présentations posters et de démos (cf. appel ci-dessous).

Thèmes

La numérisation de la société a censément facilité l’accès aux informations, que ce soit pour le grand public (savoir encyclopédique, actualités…) ou dans des domaines de spécialité (p. ex. littérature scientifique).

Cependant, face à l’avalanche de documents, de sites web, de sources, etc., de nombreuses questions pratiques émergent, qui sont autant de défis scientifiques pour les domaines de la recherche d’information, du traitement de la langue et de la parole :

Comment trouver les documents ou passages permettant de répondre à un besoin spécifique d’informations ?
Comment extraire des informations spécifiques d’un ensemble de documents, des termes, des entités nommées ?
Comment faciliter l’interaction entre un utilisateur et une collection de documents, naviguer en son sein, développer des interfaces de visualisation ?
Comment résumer l'information ?
Comment exploiter efficacement la multimodalité, traiter des documents multilingues ou multimédias ?
Comment interfacer bases de connaissances et systèmes de TAL ?
Comment s’assurer de la fiabilité des sources et des informations extraites, comment caractériser leurs biais ?
...

Appel à poster et démos

Dans le cadre de cette journée, nous invitons les chercheuses et chercheurs, travaillant sur ces thèmes dans un cadre académique ou industriel à présenter (démo ou poster) leurs travaux, même déjà publiés, pour échanger avec des collègues du domaine. Pour cela, il suffit de soumettre un résumé d’une page maximum, et/ou le poster s’il est déjà existant, et/ou l’article décrivant les travaux si déjà publié, en français ou en anglais, https://gdr-tal-rennes.sciencesconf.org .

Soumission des résumés/posters/articles : au fil de l’eau et au plus tard 30 septembre 2022

Notification aux auteurs : 1 semaine après réception de la proposition

Orateurs invités

Il y aura 4 présentations invitées, bientôt annoncées…

Inscription et venue

La journée se tiendra dans le centre de conférence à l’IRISA - Centre Inria de l'université de Rennes, Campus de Beaulieu, Rennes.

Inscription (gratuite mais obligatoire), programme et informations : https://gdr-tal-rennes.sciencesconf.org

Rappel : Le GDR TAL finance une mission pour un chercheur ou enseignant chercheur par équipe du GDR. La demande est à effectuer par le responsable de l’équipe au bureau du GDR. La liste des équipes éligibles est sur le site du GDR TAL ; cf. https://gdr-tal.ls2n.fr/reseau-des-doctorants/

De plus, pour les jeunes chercheuses et chercheurs venant présenter leurs travaux, des aides pour venir à cette journée peuvent également être sollicitées auprès des organisateurs. Contactez vincent.claveau@irisa.fr

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3-3-11

(2022-11-07) 24th ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI 2022), Bengaluru (Bangalore), 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.

For more information and updates on the ICMI 2022 Late-Breaking Results (LBR), visit the LBR page of the main conference website: https://icmi.acm.org/2022/index.php?id=cflbr.

For further questions, contact the LBR co-chairs (Fabien Ringeval and Nikita Soni) at icmi2022-latebreaking-chairs@acm.org

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3-3-12

(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

Review Process

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

Submission format: seven-page extended abstract using the NEW ACM format (https://www.acm.org/publications/taps/word-template-workflow)
Submission system: https://new.precisionconference.com/sigchi
Selection process: Peer-Reviewed
Presentation format: Talk/Poster
Proceedings: Included in conference proceedings and ACM Digital Library

Questions?

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)

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3-3-13

(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

Voice Assistant Technology
Multimodal Interactions in Teams
Automatic Team Analyses
Multi-Party Interaction
Linguistics in Voice Assistance
Linguistics in Teams
Communication in Teams
Human Speech Perception
Multimodal Perception

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

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3-3-14

(2022-11-07) Late-breaking results @24th ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI 2022), Bengaluru, India

CALL FOR LATE-BREAKING RESULTS

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

For more information and updates on the ICMI 2022 Late-Breaking Results (LBR), visit the LBR page of the main conference website: https://icmi.acm.org/2022/index.php?id=cflbr.

For further questions, contact the LBR co-chairs (Fabien Ringeval and Nikita Soni) at icmi2022-latebreaking-chairs@acm.org

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3-3-15

(2022-11-14) IberSPEECH 2022, Grenada, Spain

IberSPEECH’2022 will be held in Granada (Spain), from 14 to 16 November 2022. The IberSPEECH event –the sixth of its kind using this name– brings together the XII Jornadas en Tecnologías del Habla and the VIII Iberian SLTech Workshop events.

Following with the tradition of previous editions, IberSPEECH’2022 will be a three-day event, planned to promote interaction and discussion. There will be a wide variety of activities: technical papers presentations, keynote lectures, presentation of projects, laboratories activities, recent PhD thesis, entrepreneurship & discussion panels, and awards to the best thesis and papers.

You can find all the information of this first call for papers at http://iberspeech2022.ugr.es/. More details will be available soon on this website.

Important Dates

Regular Papers

Submission opens: June 17th, 2022
Submission abstract deadline: July 8th, 2022
Submission full paper deadline: July 15th, 2022
Paper notifications sent: September 16th, 2022
Camera-ready paper due: September 25th, 2022

Special Sessions (Projects, Demos, PhD Theses & Entrepreneurship)

Proposals: October 7th, 2022
Full-Paper: October 14th, 2022

Albayzin Evaluations 2022

Registration deadline: September 4th, 2022.
Release of the evaluation data: September 5th, 2022.
Submission deadline (including system summary): October 16th, 2022.
Results distribution to the participants: October 24th, 2022.
Paper submission deadline: October 30th, 2022.
Iberspeech 2022 Albayzin Evaluations special session in Granada: November 15th, 2022.

Conference IBERSPEECH’2022

Registration opens: September 16th, 2022
Early Registration ends: October 18th, 2022
Conference Starts: Monday, November 14th, 2022
Conference Ends: Wednesday, November 16th, 2022

At least one author of each accepted paper must complete a full early registration for the conference.

Topics

The topics of interest regarding processing Iberian languages include, but are not limited to:

1. Speech technology and applications

1. Spoken language generation and synthesis

2. Speech and speaker recognition

3. Speaker diarization

4. Speech enhancement

5. Speech processing and acoustic event detection

6. Spoken language understanding

7. Spoken language interfaces and dialogue systems

8. Systems for information retrieval and information extraction from speech

9. Systems for speech translation

10. Applications for aged and handicapped persons

11. Applications for learning and education

12. Emotions recognition and synthesis

13. Language and dialect identification

14. Applications for learning and education

15. Speech technology and applications: other topics

2. Human speech production, perception, and communication

1. Linguistic, mathematical, and psychological models of language

2. Phonetics, phonology, and morphology

3. Pragmatics, discourse, semantics, syntax, and lexicon

4. Paralinguistic and nonlinguistic cues (e.g. emotion and expression)

5. Human speech production, perception, and communication: other topics

3. Natural language processing (NLP) and applications

1. Natural language generation and understanding

2. Retrieval and categorization of natural language documents

3. Summarization mono and multi-document

4. Extraction and annotation of entities, relations, and properties

5. Creation and processing of ontologies and vocabularies

6. Machine learning for natural language processing

7. Shallow and deep semantic analysis: textual entailment, anaphora resolution, paraphrasing

8. Multi-lingual processing for information retrieval and extraction

9. Natural language processing for information retrieval and extraction

10. Natural language processing (NLP) and applications: other topics

4. Speech, Language and Multimodality

1. Multimodal Interaction

2. Sign Language

3. Handwriting recognition

4. Speech, Language and Multimodality: other topics

5. Resources, standardization, and evaluation

1. Spoken language resources, annotation, and tools

2. Spoken language evaluation and standardization

3. NLP resources, annotation, tools

4. NLP evaluation and standarization

5. Multimodal resources, annotation and tools

6. Multimodal evaluation and standardization

7. Resources, standardization, and evaluation: other topics

Paper Submission

Regular Papers must be written in English and submission will be online. Papers must be submitted in PDF following the Interspeech 2022 format. Paper length is 4 pages and one additional page for references. There is no minimum length requirement for papers of the special sessions project review and demos.

Upon acceptance, at least one author will be required to register (full & early) and present the paper at the conference.

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3-3-16

(2022-11-14)) CfP SPECOM 2022, Gurugram, India (updated)

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SPECOM-2022 – CALL FOR PAPERS

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The conference is relocated in India.

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SPECOM-2022 – FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS

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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

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3-3-17

(2022-11-30) Third workshop on Resources for African Indigenous Language (RAIL), Potchefstroom, South Africa

Final call for papers

Third workshop on Resources for African Indigenous Language (RAIL)
https://bit.ly/rail2022

The South African Centre for Digital Language Resources (SADiLaR) is
organising the 3rd RAIL workshop in the field of Resources for African
Indigenous Languages. This workshop aims to bring together researchers
who are interested in showcasing their research and thereby boosting
the field of African indigenous languages. This provides an overview of
the current state-of-the-art and emphasizes availability of African
indigenous language resources, including both data and tools.
Additionally, it will allow for information sharing among researchers
interested in African indigenous languages and also start discussions
on improving the quality and availability of the resources. Many
African indigenous languages currently have no or very limited
resources available and, additionally, they are often structurally
quite different from more well-resourced languages, requiring the
development and use of specialized techniques. By bringing together
researchers from different fields (e.g., (computational) linguistics,
sociolinguistics, language technology) to discuss the development of
language resources for African indigenous languages, we hope to boost
research in this field.

The RAIL workshop is an interdisciplinary platform for researchers
working on resources (data collections, tools, etc.) specifically
targeted towards African indigenous languages. It aims to create the
conditions for the emergence of a scientific community of practice that
focuses on data, as well as tools, specifically designed for or applied
to indigenous languages found in Africa.

Suggested topics include the following:
* Digital representations of linguistic structures
* Descriptions of corpora or other data sets of African indigenous
languages
* Building resources for (under resourced) African indigenous languages
* Developing and using African indigenous languages in the digital age
* Effectiveness of digital technologies for the development of African
indigenous languages
* Revealing unknown or unpublished existing resources for African
indigenous languages
* Developing desired resources for African indigenous languages
* Improving quality, availability and accessibility of African
indigenous language resources

The 3rd RAIL workshop 2022 will be co-located with the 10th Southern
African Microlinguistics Workshop (
https://sites.google.com/nwulettere.co.za/samwop-10/home). This will be
an in-person event located in Potchefstroom, South Africa. Registration
will be free.

RAIL 2022 submission requirements:
* RAIL asks for full papers from 4 pages to 8 pages (plus more pages
for references if needed), which must strictly follow the Journal of
the Digital Humanities Association of Southern Africa style guide (
https://upjournals.up.ac.za/index.php/dhasa/libraryFiles/downloadPublic/30
).
* Accepted submissions will be published in JDHASA, the Journal of the
Digital Humanities Association of Southern Africa (
https://upjournals.up.ac.za/index.php/dhasa/).
* Papers will be double blind peer-reviewed and must be submitted
through EasyChair (https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=rail2022).

Important dates
Submission deadline: 28 August 2022
Date of notification: 30 September 2022
Camera ready copy deadline: 23 October 2022
RAIL: 30 November 2022, North-West University - Potchefstroom
SAMWOP: 1 – 3 December 2022, North-West University - Potchefstroom

Organising Committee
Jessica Mabaso
Rooweither Mabuya
Muzi Matfunjwa
Mmasibidi Setaka
Menno van Zaanen

South African Centre for Digital Language Resources (SADiLaR), South
Africa

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3-3-18

(2022-12-13) CfP 18th Australasian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology (SST2022), Canberra, Australia

SST2022: CALL FOR PAPERS

The 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.com

Submissions 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.

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3-3-19

(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

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3-3-20

(2023-01-04) Workshop on Socially Interactive Human-like Virtual Agents (SIVA'23), Waikoloa, Hawaii

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3-3-21

(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

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3-3-22

(2023-01-16) Advanced Language Processing School (ALPS), Grenoble, France

SECOND CALL FOR PARTICIPATION

Advanced Language Processing School (ALPS)

January, 16-20 2023

Virtual Event

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: Michael Auli (Meta, USA), 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

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3-3-23

(2023-04-02) 45th European Conference on Information Retrieval , Dublin, Ireland

++ CALL FOR WORKSHOP PROPOSALS ++

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45th European Conference on Information Retrieval

April 2^nd – 6^th April 2023 – Dublin, Ireland

Website: https://ecir2023.org/

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++ Important Dates ++

- Submission deadline: September 19th, 2022

- Acceptance Notification Date: October 9th, 2022

- Workshops day: April 2nd, 2023

++ Overview ++

ECIR 2023 workshops provide a platform for presenting novel ideas and research results in emerging areas in IR in a more focused and interactive way than the conference itself. Workshops can be either a half-day (3.30 hours plus breaks) or a full day (7 hours plus breaks) and are to be onsite. At least one organizer is expected to attend the workshop.

++ List of Topics ++

ECIR 2023 encourages the submission of workshops on the theory, experimentation, and practice of retrieval, representation, management, and usage of textual, visual, audio, and multi-modal information, but proposals aligned with other topics of IR (namely those identified in the general call for papers) are highly welcome as well.

Relevant topics include, but are not limited to:

User aspects, including information interaction, contextualisation, personalisation, simulation, characterisation, and behaviours.
System and foundational aspects, including retrieval models and architectures, content analysis and classification, recommendation algorithms, query processing and ranking, efficiency and scalability.
Machine learning, deep learning, neural IR, natural language processing, as applied to textual, visual, audio, and multi-modal information.
Applications such as web search, recommender systems, web and social media apps, domain-specific search, enterprise search, novel interfaces to search tools, intelligent search, academic search, and conversational agents.
Evaluation research, including new measures and novel methods for measuring and evaluating systems, datasets, users, and/or applications.
Cross-disciplinary workshops, including IR and other domains such as NLP, data science, etc., are also particularly welcome.

++ Submission Guidelines ++

Workshop proposals should contain the following information:

Title and abstract of the workshop;
Motivation and relevance to ECIR;
Workshop goals/objectives and overall vision, coupled with desired outcomes;
Format and Structure, in particular duration of the workshop (full-day or half-day workshop); mention to the type of papers (e.g., full papers, demo papers, negative papers, etc); type of presentation (e.g., oral; poster, etc); and proceedings (e.g., CEUR; Special Issue, etc); planned activities, the tentative schedule of events etc.; resources needed to deliver the workshop (e.g., poster boards, etc);
Intended audience, including number of expected participants and how they will be selected/invited;
List of organisers with a brief bio of each with respect to the content of the workshop;
Names of potential programme committee members, invited speakers; etc
Indicate if the workshop is related to or follows on from another workshop; if so, please, identify which conference it was previously held at, the past attendance and outcomes, and why another workshop is needed;
Any other relevant information to support your proposal.

Workshop proposals should be prepared using Springer proceedings templates to be found on Springer webpage (https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-guidelines), with a maximum length of 8 pages. All proposals should be submitted electronically through the conference submission system (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ecir23) and must be in English. Workshop proposals will be reviewed by the ECIR 2023 workshop committee based on the quality of their proposal, covered topics, relationship to ECIR and likelihood to attract participants. Final decisions will be made by the ECIR workshop co-chairs.

++ Workshop Chairs ++

Ricardo Campos, Polytechnic Institute of Tomar and INESC TEC, Portugal

Gianmaria Silvello, University of Padua, Italy

++ Contacts ++

For further information, please contact the ECIR 2023 Workshop chairs by email to ecir2023-workshop@easychair.org

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3-3-24

(2023-06-04) CfP ICASSP 2023, Rhodes Island, Greece

Announcing the ICASSP 2023 Call for Papers!

The Call for Papers for ICASSP 2023 is now open! The 48th IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, & Signal Processing (ICASSP) will be held from 4-9 June 2023 in Rhodes Island, Greece.

The ﬂagship conference of the IEEE Signal Processing Society will oﬀer a comprehensive technical program presenting all the latest developments in research and technology for signal processing and its applications. Featuring world-class oral and poster sessions, keynotes, plenaries and perspective talks, exhibitions, demonstrations, tutorials, short courses, and satellite workshops, it is expected to attract leading researchers and global industry ﬁgures, providing a great networking opportunity. Moreover, exceptional papers and contributors will be selected and recognized by ICASSP.

ICASSP 2023 Call for Papers Guidelines

Technical Scope

We invite submissions of original unpublished technical papers on topics including but not limited to:

Applied Signal Processing Systems
Audio & Acoustic Signal Processing
Biomedical Imaging & Signal Processing
Compressive Sensing, Sparse Modeling
Computational Imaging
Computer Vision
Deep Learning/Machine Learning for Signal Processing
Image, Video & Multidimensional Signal Processing
Industrial Signal Processing
Information Forensics & Security
Internet of Things
Multimedia Signal Processing
Quantum Signal Processing
Remote Sensing & Signal Processing
Sensor Array & Mulltichanel SP
Signal Processing for Big Data
Signal Processing for Communication
Signal Processing for Cyber Security
Signal Processing for Education
Signal Processing for Robotics
Signal Processing Over Graphs
Signal Processing Theory & Methods
Speech & Language Processing

Learn More about ICASSP 2023 Call for Papers

SP Society Journal Paper Presentations

Authors of papers published or accepted in IEEE SPS journals may present their work at ICASSP 2023 at appropriate tracks. These papers will neither be reviewed nor included in the proceedings. In addition, the IEEE Open Journal of Signal Processing (OJSP) will provide a special track for longer submissions with the same processing timeline as ICASSP. Accepted papers will be published in OJSP and presented in the conference but will not be included in the conference proceedings.

Open Preview

Conference proceedings will be available in IEEE Xplore, free of charge, to all customers, 30 days prior to the conference start date, through the conference end date.

Important Dates

Paper Submission Deadline: 19 October 2022
Paper Acceptance Notification: 8 February 2023
SPS Journal Papers/Letters Deadline: 8 February 2023
Camera Ready Paper Deadline: 6 March 2023
Author Registration Deadline: 20 March 2023
Open Preview Starts: 5 May 2023

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3-3-25

(2023-06-12)) 13th International Conference on Multimedia Retrieval, Thessaloniki, Greece

ICMR2023 – ACM International Conference on Multimedia Retrieval

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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

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