ISCApad number 81

March 10th, 2005

ISCA for most of you is the acronym of International Speech Communication Association; however for others it means International Society for Computers and Applications. You may receive invitations to participate to conferences on Computers and Applications that are not related with our activities: do not infer we are moving our main focus that remains Speech science and technology!

To prepare Interspeech2005 with a bit of zest, a committee has been set up to organize the Interspeech 2005 science quiz. You are invite to participate to this quite enjoyable activity! (see below)

Do not forget to send the information you want to display for members in time to be included in IscaPad (last week of each month).

TABLE OF CONTENTS

1. ISCA News
2. Courses, internships, data bases, softwares
3. Job openings
4. Journals and Books
5. Future Interspeech Conferences
6. Future ISCA Tutorial and Research Workshops (ITRW)
7. Forthcoming Events supported (but not organized) by ISCA
8. Future Speech Science and technology events

ISCA NEWS

INTERSPEECH2005 SCIENCE QUIZ - CALL FOR QUESTIONS
A new, imaginative activity at INTERSPEECH-EUROSPEECH in LISBON! Participants will be challenged to find questions to 20 intruiging questions from the area of language and speech science and technology. Sparkling discussions are expected during coffee breaks, lunches and during Lisbon night life.
YOU are invited to submit questions by email before June 1, 2005. See the INTERSPEECH2005 Science Quiz webaddress for more details.

Organization of INTERSPEECH 2009 -- EUROSPEECH
Call for proposals
Individuals or organisations interested in organizing INTERSPEECH 2009 -- EUROSPEECH should submit by 15 December 2005 a brief preliminary proposal, including:
* The name and position of the proposed general chair and other principal organizers.
* The proposed period in September/October 2009 when the conference would be held
*The institution assuming financial responsibility for the conference and any other sponsoring institutions
*The city and conference center proposed (with information on that center's capacity)
*Information on transportation and housing for conference participants
*Likely support from local bodies (e.g. governmental)
*The commercial conference organizer (if any)
*A preliminary budget
Guidelines for the preparation of the proposal are available at our website. Additional information can be provided by Julia Hirschberg . Those who plan to put in a bid are asked to inform ISCA of their intentions as soon as possible. They should also consider attending Eurospeech 2005 in Lisbon to discuss their bids, if possible.
Proposals should be submitted by email to the above address. Candidates fulfilling basic requirements will be asked to submit a detailed proposal by 28 February 2006.
Julia Hirschberg
Vice President and Conference Liaison, ISCA
Columbia University
Department of Computer Science
1214 Amsterdam Avenue, M/C 0401
450 CS Building
New York, NY 10027
phone: (212) 939-7114 FAX: (212) 666-0140 Webaddress

-Revised Membership fees
Memberwship fees have been revised to in order to further broaden membership in speech research communities worldwide, and in order to ensure that fee level is not a barrier to ISCA membership. Details can be found on our Website.

- A full list of members (including membership numbers and subcription expiry dates) is available online at: http://www.isca-speech.org/member_list.html

-ISCApad publishes now a list of papers
accepted for publication in Speech Communication (under heading Journals,...). These papers can be also viewed on the website of ScienceDirect (http://www.sciencedirect.com/) if your institution has subscribed to Speech Communication.

-ISCA Grants
are available for students and young scientists attending meetings. Even if no information on the grants is advertised on the conference announcement, they may apply.
For more information: http://www.isca-speech.org/grants

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COURSES, DATABASES, SOFTWARES

CROSS-LANGUAGE EVALUATION FORUM CLEF 2005
CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
The CLEF series of system evaluation campaigns aims at promoting research into the design and development of user-friendly, multilingual, multimodal retrieval systems.
Registration opens for CLEF 2005 on 31 January.
The objective of CLEF 2005 will be to test different aspects of mono- and cross-language information retrieval system performance. There will be eight tracks this year:
1. Multilingual Document Retrieval on News Collections (Ad-Hoc)
2. Mono- and Cross-Language Information Retrieval on Structured Scientific Data (Domain-Specific)
3. Interactive Cross-Language Information Retrieval (iCLEF)
4. Multiple Language Question Answering (QAatCLEF)
5. Cross-language Retrieval in Image Collections (ImageCLEF)
6. Cross-Language Spoken Document Retrieval (CL-SR)
7. Multilingual Web Track (WebCLEF)
8. Cross-Language Geographical Retrieval (GeoCLEF)
Important dates:
Data Release - from 15 February 2005
Topic Release - from 15 March 2005
Submission of Runs by Participants - from 15 May 2005
Release of relevance assessments and individual results - from 15 July 2005
Submission of paper for Working Notes - 15 August 2005
Workshop - 21-23 September (in conjunction with ECDL 2005)
Test collections
The CLEF 2005 multilingual corpora include:
- news documents in 12 European languages
- social science databases in German and Russian
- historical photographs and medical image collections with text and/or annotations in English, French and German
- spontaneous conversational speech
- multilingual collection of web documents from European governmental sites
For full details on the CLEF Agenda and Task Description for 2005 and instructions on How to Participate, see the conference website For further information, contact:
Carol Peters - ISTI-CNR
Tel: +39 050 315 2987
Fax: +39 050 315 2810

SUMMER SCHOOL: VARIATION IN SPEECH PRODUCTION AND SPEECH PERCEPTION
On August 10-15, 2005, the Nordic Network on Variation in Speech Production and Speech Perception (VISPP) will organize an international summer school on speech variation in Palmse, Estonia.
Course list:

Fiona Gibbon (Queen Margaret University College, UK): Speech production and pathologies: normal and disordered EPG data

Valerie Hazan (University College London, UK): Issues of individual variability in speech production and/or perception in various populations (L1 and L2 speakers, children with dyslexia, children with hearing impairment)

Anne-Marie Öster (KTH, Sweden): Pronunciation training in relation to variation in phonological capabilities for prelingually hearing-impaired children and L2 speakers using several computer-based systems

Martin Russell (University of Birmingham, UK): Engineering approaches to modelling variability in speech signals

-Information on ON-GOING THESES
could be very useful for thesis supervisors, researchers as well as PhD students. A list of speech theses is available under the section HLTheses at http://www.elsnet.org/

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JOB OPENINGS

(also have a look at http://www.isca-speech.org/jobsas well as http://www.elsnet.org/> Jobs)

Research positions in SPEECH SYNTHESIS and AUDIO PROCESSING at the VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT -BRUSSELS

The Laboratory for Speech and Audio Processing of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussels is looking for two junior researchers for its text-to-speech research as well as a senior researcher and a research engineer for its audio R&D.

The successful candidates will work in a young and dynamic research team in a stimulating environment on the university campus.

The junior researchers will work on a new approach for the development = of speech synthesis engines in the context of the inter-university research project SPACE . If successful, this research can earn them the PhD degree.

Requirements:
University degree in a relevant subject
Good English and communication skills
Knowledge of Digital Signal Processing
Preferred: Electrical Engineer, Master in Computer Science, or related discipline, Knowledge of Advanced Signal Processing and Speech Technology

The senior researcher and the research engineer will work on several projects in audio coding, audio analysis and related topics in the context of the Interdisciplinary institute for BroadBand Technology .

Requirements:
University degree in a relevant subject
Strong background in at least one field of audio processing
Good English and communication skills

Preferences senior researcher:
PhD in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, or related discipline
Experience of supervising technical work of others
Background in more than one field of Digital Audio Processing
Background in Audio Coding and/or Audio Analysis

Preferences research engineer:
Good software skills using Matlab, C and/or C++, Windows
Knowledge of Speech Technology

Applicants should send a CV and a covering letter to Werner Verhelst.Questions or requests for further details can be sent to the same email address.

Prof. Werner Verhelst, Laboratory for Speech and Audio Processing,
Vrije Universiteit Brussel, department Electronics and Informatics ETRO-DSSP,
Pleinlaan 2, B-1050 Brussels, Belgium

-Postdocs at DEUTSCHE TELEKOM LABORATORIES, Berlin Deutsche Telekom, in collaboration with the Technical University of Berlin, is setting up a new corporate research and development center under the name of "Deutsche Telekom Laboratories". Several postdoc positions are open each in the broad areas of Human Interface, Multimedia, Security, and Networking ( please refer to http://www.deutsche-telekom-laboratories.de/). Outstanding applicants will be invited to interview and speak at one of three symposia which we will hold in Berlin in April and June 2005.

ROVIRA i VIRGILI UNIVERSITY (Tarragona, Spain)
Sabbatical positions in 2006-2007 in the Research Group on Mathematical Linguistics.
Website or Website
Eligible topics
- Formal language theory and its applications.
- Bioinformatics.
- Biomolecular computing and nanotechnology.
- Language and speech technologies.
- Formal theories of language acquisition.
- Computational neuroscience.
Other related fields might still be eligible provided there exist strong enough candidates for them.
Job profile
- Top-level appointments for experienced researchers being on leave from their home organization.
- The main duty of the job is research, with possible supervising and doctoral teaching too.
- 3-12 months long.
- To start in 2006 and to be developed in the period January 1st, 2006 - = October 31st, 2007.
Eligibility conditions
- The positions can be filled in only by scholars that occupy a full/associate professorship at their home organization.
- PhD degree got earlier than 2000.
- There is no restriction on nationality or age.
Economic conditions
- This will be a scholarship (not a work contract).
- Salary in the interval 1,500-3,000 euro/month (most probably, not less than 2,500 euros).
- Travel grant.
- Healt insurance coverage will be provided exceptionally to those scholars that don't have one from their home country.
Evaluation procedure
- a pre-selection based on CV and carried out by the host institute,
- a full proposal (CV + research project + work plan), to be evaluated externally by the funding agency.
Schedule
Expressions of interest are welcome until March 6, 2005. They should contain the researcher's CV and mention "2005-5" in the subject box. The outcome of the preselection will be reported immediately after. Preselected candidates will be given appropriate support in the application process by the host institute.
Contact
Carlos Martin-Vide

JOURNALS and BOOKS

Call for Papers for a
Special issue of Speech Communication Journal on ROBUSTNESS ISSUES IN CONVERSATIONAL INTERACTION
Following the ISCA Tutorial and COST 278 Research Workshop (ITRW) on Robustness Issues in Conversational Interaction (Robust2004) held at the University of East Anglia (Norwich) in August 2004 a special edition of the Speech Communication Journal is planned along the same theme of robustness. This special edition will focus on methods of developing robustness against effects that are known to degrade the performance of components within conversational interaction systems. Degradation can arise from many different sources (acoustic noise, packet loss, speaker variability, etc) and compensation against these may come from a variety of different techniques; from signal processing, model adaptation, confidence measures, dialogue strategies and inclusion of additional modalities. In particular the special edition will focus on the following areas:
*Robustness against environmental noise
-Model adaptation
-Feature extraction
-Filtering and transformations
-Enhancement
*Robustness against unreliable transmission channels
-Distributed approaches to ASR
-Channel protection
-Error concealment – reconstruction or adaptation
*Robust conversational system design
-Utterance verification
-Confidence measures
-Error handling
-Dialogue strategies
-User modelling and adaptation
*Non-speech modalities to improve robustness
-Multi-modal interaction
-Modality fusion and synchronisation
-Non-speech audio
-Non-acoustic features
*Robustness to speaker variability
-Spontaneous speech
-Dialects and non-native speakers
-Speaker adaptation
Submission of papers is open to both participants of Robust2004 (through submission of an extended workshop paper) and non-participants alike.
Guest Editors

Dr. Ben Milner, University of East Anglia, UK
Prof. Borge Lindberg, Aalborg University, Denmark
Prof. Christian Wellekens, EURECOM, France

Important Dates
Submission deadline 30th April 2005 (extended deadline)

Submission Procedure:
Electronic submission http://ees.elsevier.com/specom. During submission authors must select the Section as "Special Issue Paper", not "Regular Paper", and the title of the special issue should be referenced in the "Comments" page along with any other information.

Special Issue of Signal Processing (Elsevier) on MULTIMODAL HUMAN-COMPUTER INTERFACES
Closely linked with the actions of the Network of Excellence on Multimodal Interfaces SIMILAR (www.similar.cc) we are seeking for original manuscripts for a Special Issue of Signal Processing scheduled to appear in January 2006.
Multimodal Interfaces represent an emerging interdisciplinary research direction, involving speech and language, vision, gesture, haptics and other senses.

The topics of interest are (but not limited to):
· Multimodal-multisensor input and output interfaces
· Multimodal interface design and evaluation
· Architecture, Tools and System Infrastructure for multimodal interfaces
· Fusion techniques
· Processing of speech, language and action patterns
· Gaze, gesture and vision-based interfaces
· Speech & conversational interfaces
· Musical interfaces
· Haptics interfaces
· Adaptive multimodal interfaces
· Multimodal interfaces for Mobile, Wearable, Tangible, Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality systems
· Applications of multimodal interfaces

Papers for this special issue will be chosen from the submissions whether they are unpublished results or those previously included in conference publications. The submissions that are revised or extended versions of previous conference publications should contain at least 30% new material. Copies of any previous published work affiliated with the new submission must also be included as supportive documentation upon submission.

For omplete submission guidelines at: authors.elsevier.com The paper submission should be by e-mail, in PDF format, to multimodal@imag.fr
Prospective authors are invited to announce as early as possible the tentative title and the list of authors to the following address: multimodal@imag.fr

For any questions
Thierry Dutoit - Faculté Polytechnique de Mons, Belgium
Laurence Nigay - University Joseph Fourier Grenoble 1, France,
Michael Schnaider - Zentrum für Graphische Datenverarbeitung e.V. , Germany,

Important dates:
Special Issue Submission Deadline: May 31, 2005
Notification of Final Acceptance: September 30, 2005
Complete Publication Materials Due: November 30, 2005
Publication: January 2006

-Papers accepted for FUTURE PUBLICATION in Speech Communication
Full text available on http://www.sciencedirect.com/ for Speech Communication subscribers and subscribing institutions. Click on Publications, then on Speech Communication and on Articles in press. The list of papers in press is displayed and a .pdf file for each paper is available.

Kevin M. Indrebo, Richard J. Povinelli and Michael T. Johnson, Sub-banded reconstructed phase spaces for speech recognition, Speech Communication, In Press, Corrected Proof, Available online 24 February 2005, .

Kaisheng Yao, Kuldip K. Paliwal and Te-Won Lee, Generative factor analyzed HMM for automatic speech recognition, Speech Communication, In Press, Uncorrected Proof, Available online 19 February 2005, .

Junho Park and Hanseok Ko, Effective acoustic model clustering via decision-tree with supervised learning, Speech Communication, In Press, Uncorrected Proof, Available online 12 February 2005, .

Makiko Muto, Hiroaki Kato, Minoru Tsuzaki and Yoshinori Sagisaka, Effect of intra-phrase position on acceptability of change in segment duration in sentence speech, Speech Communication, In Press, Corrected Proof, Available online 2 February 2005, .

Katsuhito Sudoh and Mikio Nakano, Post-dialogue confidence scoring for unsupervised statistical language model training, Speech Communication, In Press, Corrected Proof, Available online 2 February 2005, .

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FUTURE CONFERENCES

Publication policy: Hereunder, you will find very short announcements of future events. The full call for participation can be accessed on the conference websites
See also our Web pages (http://www.isca-speech.org/) on conferences and workshops.

FUTURE INTERSPEECH CONFERENCES

INTERSPEECH 2005 / EUROSPEECH
September 4--8, 2005
Lisbon, Portugal
http://www.interspeech2005.org/
info@interspeech2005.org
Theme: Ubiquitous Speech Processing
CALL FOR PAPERS/TUTORIALS/SPECIAL SESSIONS
Topics of interest:
Phonetics and Phonology
Discourse and Dialogue
Prosody
Paralinguistic and Nonlinguistic Information
Speech Production
Speech Perception
Physiology and Pathology
Spoken Language Acquisition, Development and Learning
Signal Analysis, Processing and Feature Estimation
Single- and Multi-channel Speech Enhancement
Speech Coding and Transmission
Spoken Language Generation and Synthesis
Speech Recognition: Acoustic processing for ASR, language and pronunciation modeling, adaptation and general robustness issues, engineering issues in ASR (e.g. searches, large vocabulary), etc.
Spoken Language Understanding
Speaker Characterization and Recognition
Language/Dialect Identification
Multi-modal/Multi-media Processing
Spoken Language Resources and Annotation
Spoken/Multi-modal Dialogue Systems
Spoken Language Extraction/Retrieval
Spoken Language Translation
Spoken Language Technology for the Aged and Disabled (e-inclusion)
Spoken Language Technology for Education (e-learning)
New Applications
Evaluation and Standardization
Ubiquitous Speech Processing
Others
Paper submission
Full paper submission (4 pages) by April 8, 2005 exclusively via the conference website.
No previously published papers should be submitted.
Notification of acceptance by June 10, 2005.
Minor updates allowed during June 10 - June 17.
Proposals for Tutorials and Special Sessions
Proposals (one-page description) for pre-conference tutorials to be held on September 4, 2005 should bde sent to tutorials@interspeech2005.org by January 14, 2005.
INTERSPEECH'2005 also welcomes proposals for special sessions (normally 6 invited papers). The topics of the special sessions should be important, new, emerging areas of interest to the speech processing community, yet have little overlap with the regular sessions. They could also be interdisciplinary topics that encourage cross -fertilization of fields or topics investigated by members of other societies that are becoming of keen interest to the speech and language community. Special session papers follow the same submission format as regular papers. Send proposals to mailto:special_sessions@interspeech2005.orgby January 14, 2005.
Important dates:
Proposals for Tutorials and Special Sessions due by: January 14, 2005
Full paper submission deadline: April 8, 2005
Notification of paper acceptance/rejection June 10, 2005
Early registration deadline: June 25, 2005
Organizer:
L2F - Spoken Language Systems Laboratory, INESC ID Lisboa
Rua Alves Redol, 9 - 1000-029 Lisbon - Portugal
Phone:+351 213100268 Fax: +351 213145843 http://www.l2f.inesc-id.pt/

-INTERSPEECH (ICSLP)-2006, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
Chair: Richard M.Stern, Carnegie Mellon University,USA http://www.interspeech2006.org/

-INTERSPEECH (EUROSPEECH)-2007, Antwerp, Belgium , August 27-31,2007
Chair: Dirk van Compernolle, K.U.Leuven and Lou Boves, K.U.Nijmegen Website

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FUTURE ISCA TUTORIAL AND RESEARCH WORKSHOP (ITRW)

- NOLISP'05: Non linear speech processing
April 19-22 April 2005, Barcelona, Spain
organized by Cost 277
http://www.nolisp2005.org/
Contact person: Marcos Faundez-Zanuy(see ISCApad 66)

-ISCA Workshop on PLASTICITY in SPEECH PERCEPTION (PSP 2005)
Organized by: UCL Centre for Human Communication, UCL, London, UK
co-sponsored by the Acoustical Society of America and ISCA
Senate House (heart of London)
15-17 June 2005, London, UK
This 3-day workshop will bring together researchers who examine changes in speech perception during infancy and adulthood, from clinical and non-clinical perspectives and will also include selected speakers who study plasticity in other domains and modalities.
Invited speakers:
Anne Cutler, Max Planck Institute, Netherlands
James Flege, University of Alabama at Birmingham, USA
Patricia Kuhl, University of Washington, USA
David Moore, MRC Institute of Hearing Research, UK
Christophe Pallier, Inserm Cognitive Neuroimaging Unit, France
David Pisoni, Indiana University, USA
Franck Ramus, CNRS Cognitive and Psycholinguistic Sciences Laboratory, France
Stuart Rosen, UCL, UK
Jenny Saffran, University of Wisconsin - Madison, USA
Glenn Schellenberg, University of Toronto Mississauga, Canada
Sophie Scott, UCL, UK
Important dates:
Deadline for abstract submission 1 Feb 2005
Notification of acceptance, intructions to authors 28 Feb 2005
Deadline of early registration: 1 April 2005
Deadline forf final papers (optional): 1 May 2005
Workshop dates 15-17 June 2005
Contact: Valerie Hazan

-6th SIGdial Workshop on DISCOURSE and DIALOGUE
Lisbon, Portugal, 2-3 September 2005
(held in conjunction with Eurospeech/Interspeech 2005)
http://www.sigdial.org/workshops/workshop6/
Topics of interest:
1. Dialogue Systems
Spoken, multi-modal, and text/web based dialogue systems
2. Corpora, Coding Schemes and Tools
Corpus-based work on discourse and spoken, text-based and multi-modal dialogue including its support.
3. Pragmatic and/or Semantic Modelling
The pragmatics and/or semantics of discourse and dialogue (i.e. beyond a single sentence).
Submission of papers and abstracts
Long papers (10 pages max) for full plenary presentation as well as short papers (5 pages max) and demonstrations.
Deadline: April 25,2005 at mailto:workshop6@sigdial.org
Style files are available at http://www.sigdial.org/workshops/workshop6/ style/

Workshop website
Sigdial website
Eurospeech website

-DISFLUENCY IN SPONTANEOUS SPEECH 2005
Aix-en-Provence, France, September 10-12,2005
organised by the DELIC team of the University of Provence.
The meeting is timed to allow participants at INTERSPEECH (Lisbon, September 4-8) to attend. Previous meetings (Berkeley, 1999; Edinburgh, 2001; Gothenburg, 2003) have seen papers addressing normal disfluency from a wide range of disciplines, from automatic speech recognition and computational linguistics to linguistic analysis, psycholinguistics (production and comprehension), and beyond. Papers comparing normal disfluencies to those occurring in communication disorders are also welcome. 4-page papers by April 8 2005 to papers@disfluency.org
Once accepted, papers may be revised and extended to 6 pages.
Website
Additional infos diss05@disfluency.org
The DiSS Planning team
Jean Veronis, DELIC, Université de Provence, France.
Robert Eklund, Teliasonera, Sweden.
Robin Lickley, Queen Margaret University College, Edinburgh, UK.
Liz Shriberg, SRI International, Menlo Park, CA, USA.
Åsa Wengelin, Lund University, Sweden.

YOUNG RESEARCHERS' ROUNDTABLE ON SPOKEN DIALOGUE SYSTEMS
an ISCA event in conjunction with
INTERSPEECH/EUROSPEECH 2005
9th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology
Lisbon, Portugal
Thursday, September 1st, 2005
Website
Contact
Workshop Overview

The Young Researchers' Roundtable on Spoken Dialog Systems will bring together students, post docs, and junior researchers from different countries, different research institutions, and different disciplines who share an interest in applied dialog systems research. It will provide a setting in which participants can discuss their own research and work and obtain feedback from others who are at a similar level and who are working on similar problems. It will also provide a forum for discussing recent papers and talks with an eye toward (1) solving the problems participants currently face in their work and (2) identifying issues that are likely to be important in the coming years. Perhaps most importantly, the event will help to create a more permanent international network of young researchers working in spoken dialog systems.

This workshop will be a full-day event consisting of multiple small-group discussions of topics that will be chosen based on suggestions submitted by the participants themselves.

After the small-group discussions, each of the groups will present a summary to the rest of the participants. We hope that the discussion format will foster creative thinking about current issues in spoken dialog systems research, setting the stage for the colocated conferences SIGdial and INTERSPEECH.

We invite participation from students, post docs, and junior researchers who are currently working in applied spoken dialog systems research. We also invite participation from those who are working in related fields such as human factors, speech recognition, artificial intelligence, or speech synthesis, as applied to spoken dialog systems. Potential participants should submit a 2-page paper following the template provided at www.cs.cmu.edu/~dod/roundtable/cfp.html. The paper will include a statement of research interests, an overview of past, current and future work, a discussion of what you consider to be the most compelling issues in spoken dialog systems, and a short biographical sketch. Accepted papers will be collated and distributed to participants in CD-ROM and/or paper format. We also plan to publish the position papers and presentations from the workshop on the web, subject to sponsor or publisher constraints.

-ITRW 2005 Workshop on DSP for IN-VEHICLE and MOBILE SYSTEMS
Saturday, September 3, 2005 at Hotel do Mar, Sesimbra, Portugal
(Satelite event of Interspeech 2005)
Organized by The International Alliance for Advanced Studies on In-Car Human Behavioral Signals in cooperation with the IEEE Signal Processing Society.
This biennial is sponsored in part by: National Science Foundation (USA), 21st Century Center of Excellence at Nagoya University (Japan) and International Speech Communication Association
The topics include but not limited to:
· DSP technologies for personalization of vehicle
· DSP technologies in vehicle and traffic control
· DSP technologies in fatigue and DUI detection
· Audio & video processing in mobile & cellular applications
· Multi-sensor applications and fusion
· Deployment of multimedia devices in vehicles
· Human interface in mobile environment
· Applications
Submission:
Prospective authors are invited to submit a photo-ready paper electronically (normally four pages, but up to six pages can be permitted with prior approval.)
Important dates:
Brief Summary of the paper and a letter of intent to participate is due on March 20, 2005
Notification of acceptance mailed out by April 20, 2005
Full paper submission to be received by June 20, 2005
Advance registration before August 1, 2005
Workshop Date September 3, 2005
Chairs
Honorary Chair: Fumitada Itakura, Meijo University, Japan.
Co-Chair: Hüseyin Abut, SDSU. Huseyin Abut
Co-Chair: Kazuya Takeda, Nagoya Uni., Japan. Kazuya Takeda
Program Chair: John Hansen, Univ. Colorado John Hansen
Website

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FORTHCOMING EVENTS SUPPORTED (but not organized) by ISCA

-The Second Baltic Conference on HUMAN LANGUAGE TECHNOLOGIES
Tallinn, Estonia, April 4 - 5, 2005
and
Tutorials Day:April 6, 2005
ioc.ee/hlt2005/
Organised in co-operation with the Institute of Cybernetics at Tallinn University of Technology and the Institute of the Estonian Language.
Aims and Scope
The main aim of the conference is to provide a forum for the sharing of new ideas and recent advances in human language processing and promote interdisciplinary co-operation between the research communities of computer science and linguistics from the Baltic countries and the rest of the world.
The Tutorials Day provides seven presentations on different topics in written and spoken language processing given by well-known scholars.
Topics
Original contributions dealing with both theory and/or applications of human language processing are invited. Contributions on HLT policy, programs and supported activities in Baltic countries and EU are also welcome.
The conference topics include, but are not limited to, the following:

- HLT in Baltic countries - overview, policy, opportunities
- co-operation in HLT in the Baltic Sea area and in the EU
- speech analysis and synthesis
- speech and speaker recognition
- written and spoken language resources and standards
- machine translation
- discourse and dialogue
- information retrieval systems
- multi-modal dialogue systems
- language technology for education, learning and rehabilitation
- new applications of HLT-systems including Internet and mobile devices
Submission
An abstract (150-400 words) should be submitted electronically via submission form available on http://ioc.ee/hlt2005/
or sent by January 17, 2005 to hlt2005@phon.ioc.ee
Acceptance notification will be by February 1, 2005.

Full papers in English (not exceeding four pages) should be submitted electronically before February 28, 2005.
Registration
Only electronic registration on the conference web-site http://ioc.ee/hlt2005/ is available.
Important dates
Submission of abstracts: January 17, 2005
Notification of acceptance: February 1, 2005
Final paper submission: February 28, 2005
Early registration deadline: March 4, 2005
Regular registration deadline: March 30, 2005
Conference: April 4-5, 2005
Tutorials Day: April 6, 2005
Contact address
Einar Meister, Ph.D.
Laboratory of Phonetics and Speech Technology
Institute of Cybernetics at Tallinn Technical University
Akadeemia tee 21, 12618 Tallinn Estonia
www.ioc.ee/hlt2005
mailto:hlt2005@phon.ioc.ee
phone: +372 620 4200 fax:+372 620 4151

eNTERFACE'05
Mons, Belgium, July 18th - August 12th, 2005.
Conference website
Call for Participation
The eNTERFACE summer workshops, organized by the SIMILAR European Network of Excellence , aim at establishing a tradition of collaborative, localized research and development work by gathering, in a single place, a team of senior project leaders in multimodal interfaces, researchers, and (undergraduate) students, to work on a pre-specified list of challenges, for 4 weeks. Participants are organized in teams, attached to specific projects, working on free software. Each week ends by a presentation session, starting by a tutorial state-of-the art survey of aspects of multimodal interfaces design, given by an invited senior researcher, and followed by a presentation of the results achieved by each project group.
The eNTERFACE'05 committee now invites candidate participants to apply for a summer workshop on multimodal interfaces, to be held in Mons, Belgium, from July 18th to August 12th, 2005. eNTERFACE'05 will welcome 40 students, researchers, and seniors, working in teams on the following projects (selected from the proposals we have received in a previous Call for Projects):

*Combined Gesture-Speech Analysis and Synthesis (Coordinators : Profs. Murat Tekalp, Engin Erzin, Yucel Yemez, Mehmet Emre Sargin, Koc University Multimedia, Vision and Graphics Lab, Istambul). This project will include the preparation of a database, the study of correlations between speech features and gesture units, the modeling of gesture units, and the adaptation of units for specific speakers.

*Multimodal Caricatural Mirror (Coordinator : Prof. B. Macq, UCL Louvain La Neuve). This project aims at creating a caricatural mirror where people could see their own emotions amplified (image+speech) by an avatar, on a wide screen facing them. It includes multimodal face tracking, multimodal emotion recognition, and multimodal emotion synthesis.

*Biologically-driven musical instrument (Coordinator : Prof. Benoit Macq, UCL Louvain La Neuve). The goal is to build a virtual musical instrument driven by EMGs, EEGs, Heart beats, video, etc.

*Multimodal Focus Attention Detection in an Augmented Driver Simulator (Coordinators : Profs. Laurent Bonnaud & Alice Caplier, INPG_LIS, Grenoble; Prof. B. Macq, TELE Lab, UCL Louvain La Neuve). This project proposes to use physiological signals, the analysis of facial expression as well as tracking of the user's focus (eye tracking) in an augmented reality driver simulator able to appropriately react to hypovigilence.

*Multilingual Multimodal Biometric Identification/Verification (Coordinator : Prof. Yannis Stylianou, University of Crete) This project will involve the recording of a multilingual multimodal (face, lips, speech, writing, body movement) database for biometric identification/verification. It will then perform on site tests of the various scenarios of fusion between various modalities and under various noise conditions. The project will be concluded by suggestions on the next steps in fusion R&D.

*Speech Conductor (Coordinator : Prof. C. D'Alessandro, LIMSI-CNRS, Paris) The Speech Conductor project aims at developing a gesture interface for driving ("conducting") a text to speech synthesis system. Then, automatic speech synthesis will be modified in real time according to the gestures of a Speech Conductor. The Speech Conductor will add expression and emotion to the speech flow using speech signal modification algorithms and gesture interpretation algorithms.

*A Multimodal (Gesture+Speech) Interface for 3D Model Search and Retrieval Integrated in a Virtual Assembly Application (Coordinator : Prof. Dimitrios Tzovaras ITI-CERTH, Thessaloniki). The goal of the project is the development of a multimodal interface for content-based search of 3D objects based on sketches. This user interface will integrate gesture and speech modalities to aid the user in sketching the outline of the 3D object he/she wants to search from a large database.

No funding will be provided for researchers, but no registration fees will be asked for. Researchers will therefore have to pay for their travel, lodging, and catering expenses. Catering and lodging will be available at the University, at minimal rates (360 EU for lodging and breakfast; 15 EU per day for lunch+dinner). See our website for more information. Seven undergraduate students will be selected, whose travel, lodging and catering expenses will be paid by the workshop organizers.

AUDITORY-VISUAL SPEECH PROCESSING (AVSP 2005)
July24-27 Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada
Website
Papers and posters
Hands-on demos of the 3D Full-head Modeling System
Important dates
Submission of 2-page abstracts and 4-6 page papers March15, 2005
Notification of acceptance March 31,2005
Early registration (reduced fees) March 31, 2005
Camera ready papers and abstracts May 15 2005
Normal registration June 15 2005

-Pan European Voice Conference (PEVOC 6) http://www.pevoc6.com/home.htm
August 31 - September 3, 2005, London, UK

International Conference on TEXT, SPEECH and DIALOGUE TSD 2005
Postovni dvur, Karlovy Vary (Carlsbad), Czech Republic
September 12-16, 2005 (right after Eurospeech 2005)
Conference website
Call for papers
TSD 2005 is organized by the Faculty of Applied Sciences, University of West Bohemia, Pilsen, and the Faculty of Informatics, Masaryk University, Brno. TSD 2005 is also supported by International Speech Communication Association (ISCA).
Keynote speakers
Tue Sep 13:
Frederick Jelinek, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, USA: The confirmed title will be announced later
Hynek Hermansky, IDIAP Martigny, Switzerland: The Role of Speech in Multimodal Human-Computer Interaction
Wed Sep 14:
Sadaoki Furui, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan: Why Is the Recognition of Spontaneous Speech so Hard?
Klaus Fellbaum, BTH Cottbus, Germany: On the Acoustic Components in Multimedia Presentations
Thu Sep 15:
Leon J. M. Rothkrantz, Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands: Affect-Sensitive Multimodal HCI
Pavel Slavik, Czech Technical University, Prague, Czech Republic: Speech Based User Interfaces for Users with Special Needs
Detailed abstracts of the invited talks can be found in section "Invited Speakers" .
Topics
Topics of the international conference will include (but are not limited to):
*text corpora and tagging;
*transcription problems in spoken corpora;
*sense disambiguation;
*links between text and speech oriented systems;
*parsing issues, especially parsing problems in spoken texts;
*multilingual issues, especially multilingual dialogue systems;
*information retrieval and information extraction;
*text/topic summarization;
*machine translation;
*semantic networks and ontologies;
*speech modelling;
*speech segmentation;
*speech recognition;
*text-to-speech synthesis;
*dialogue systems;
*development of dialogue strategies;
*prosody in dialogues;
*user modelling;
*knowledge representation in relation to dialogue systems;
*assistive technologies based on speech and dialogue;
*applied systems and software;
*facial animation;
*visual speech synthesis.
Addresses
All paper correspondence regarding the conference should be addressed to:
Ms. Helena Benesova
University of West Bohemia in Pilsen
Faculty of Applied Sciences
Department of Computer Science
Univerzitni 8, CZ - 306 14 PLZEN
Czech Republic
Phone: +420 377 632 401 Fax: +420 377 632 402
The peferred way of contacting the conference organising committee is in writing to Mr. Kamil Ekstein, TSD 2005 Public Relations Manager
ICQ: 331 357 910
TSD 2005 - Call for Workshop proposals
The Program Committee of the TSD 2005 Conference invites proposals for workshops to be held in conjunction with the TSD 2005 in Karlovy Vary (Carlsbad), Czech Republic. We welcome proposals from any fields of interest relating to the conference topics. We especially encourage interdisciplinary proposals involving, but not limited to, research areas such as multimodal communication. The workshops will be held on Monday, September 12, 2005 at the TSD 2005 conference venue.
Submission details
Proposals for workshops should contain:
1. A title and brief description (max. 500 words) of the workshop=0D topic.
2. A description of target audience and expected number of=0D participants.
3. The intended length (half a day or one day)
4. A list of individuals who have agreed to be part of the workshop program committee if the workshop proposal is accepted.
5. Full postal address, phone number, e-mail and fax of the workshop contact person.
Please submit proposals as soon as possible, preferably by electronic mail in plain ASCII text to the following address. The subject line should be: "TSD 2005 WORKSHOP PROPOSAL".
Important dates
Submission deadline for workshop proposals: March 31, 2005
Notification of acceptance workshop proposals: April 30, 2005
Workshop date: September 12, 2005
TSD 2005- Call for Tutorials
The Program Committee of the TSD 2005 Conference invites proposals for tutorials to be held in conjunction with the TSD 2005 in Karlovy Vary (Carlsbad), Czech Republic. We welcome proposals on any field of interest relating to the conference topics.
We especially encourage interdisciplinary proposals involving, but not limited to, research areas such as multimodal communication. The tutorials will be held on Monday, Sept. 12, 2005 at the TSD 2005 conference venue.
Submission details
Proposals for tutorials should contain:
1. A title and extended abstract of the tutorial topic.
2. The intended length.
3. Full postal address, phone number, e-mail and fax of the tutorial contact person.
Please submit proposals as soon as possible, preferably by electronic mail in plain ASCII text. The subject line should be: "TSD 2005 TUTORIAL PROPOSAL".
Important dates
Submission deadline for tutorial proposals: March 31, 2005
Notification of acceptance tutorial proposals: April 30, 2005
Tutorial date: September 12, 2005

-SPECOM 2005
10th International Conference on Speech and Computer
October 17-19 2005, University of Patras, Patras, Greece

Topics
Topics of interest for paper submission include but are not limited to:
a.. Speech production and perception
b.. Speech analysis and processing
c.. Natural language processing
d.. Speech coding and transmission
e.. Speech recognition and understanding
f.. Speech synthesis
g.. Spoken dialog systems
h.. Speaker recognition
i.. Multi-modal processing
j.. Speech and language resources
k.. Applied systems for Human-Computer Interaction

Submission of papers
Four page papers in english will be accepted only by electronic submission through e-mail in ASCII format

Important dates
Submission of full paper: June 27, 2005
Notification of acceptance: July 18, 2005
Early registration: July 29, 2005
Late registration: September 10, 2005

General Chair
George Kokkinakis, WCL, University of Patras, Greece
For further information:http://www.wcl.ee.upatras.gr/SPECOM2005.htmor e-mail to our secretary

-4th International Workshop on
Models and Analysis of Vocal Emissions for Biomedical Applications
MAVEBA 2005
Firenze, 29-31 October 2005
Claudia Manfredi
http://maveba.det.unifi.it/

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FUTURE SPEECH SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY EVENTS

-ICASSP 2005
Philadelphia, PA, USA, March 19-23, 2005
http://www.icassp2005.com/

-2nd LANGUAGE and TECHNOLOGY Conference:
Human Language Technologies as a Challenge for Computer Science and Linguistics
April 21-23, April 2005, Poznan, Poland
Conference website

-DEAF and HEARING IMPAIRED CHILDREN Europe 2005
London 13-14 May 2005
Promoting joined-up working for Europe’s professionals with deaf children and their families.
The meeting is designed to bring together the wide range of professionals and voluntary organisations throughout Europe with an interest in childhood hearing impairment. There is a growing awareness of the need to work collaboratively across organisations and professional boundaries and with the users themselves if the goal of delivering high quality hearing services to all of Europe’s children who need them is to be achieved. This meeting will provide exciting opportunities to explore these challenges. It will also raise the profile of hearing impairment and an awareness of the needs of our children across Europe.
The meeting will be held under the auspices of NDCS (National Deaf Children’s Society) and RNID (Royal National Institute for Deaf People) and will be organised by The Ear Foundation. The meeting will be held in central London on 13/14 May 2005..
Registration form and further details from:
Brian Archbold
http://www.dhice.org/

-NODALIDA 2005
the 15th Nordic Conference of Computational Linguistics
Joensuu, Finland, May 20-21, 2005
ling.joensuu.fi/nodalida2005/
1000 word abstract before January 31,2005 (extended deadline) to be mailed to nodalida2005
Registration before March 31,2005
Contact: Stefan Werner In connection with NODALIDA, the following events will be organized on May 18-19 (and possibly May 22):
* Seminar of the NorFA Language Technology research program, May 18-19
* Special Session on Treebanks for Spoken Language and Discourse, organized by the Nordic Treebank Network, May 19 (please visit our website)
* Workshop on reference (to be confirmed)

47th International Symposium ELMAR-2005 focused on MULTIMEDIA SYSTEMS and APPLICATIONS
08-10 June 2005
Zadar, Croatia
Conference website
Submission deadline: February 11, 2005
The aim of the symposium is to promote the interface of researchers involved in the development, design and application of methods and techniques within the framework of multimedia systems and technologies, multimedia applications, image and video processing, digital video broadcasting (DVB), navigation systems, marine electronics, etc.

Mini-exhibition facilities will be available for companies wishing to display their products, services, hardware & software and literature relating to the symposium topics. The companies wishing to participate in the exhibition are kindly requested to contact Asst.Prof. Mislav Grgic.

Fourth International Workshop on
CONTENT-BASED MULTIMEDIA INDEXING (CBMI 2005)
June 21-23, 2005
Conference website
Reval Hotel Latvija, Riga, Latvia
Selected papers will appear (after extension and peer-review) in a Special Issue of the journal Multimedia Tools and Applications.
Topics of interest for submissions include, but are not limited to:
* Multimedia indexing and retrieval (image, audio, video, text)
* Multimedia content extraction
* Matching and similarity search
* Construction of high level indices
* Multi-modal and cross-modal indexing
* Representation models
* Content-based search techniques
* Multimedia data mining
* Presentation tools
* Meta-data compression and transformation
* Handling of very large scale multimedia database
* Organisation, summarisation and browsing of multimedia documents
* Applications
Paper Submission
Submit full papers of not more than eight (8) pages including results, figures and references. Papers will be accepted only by electronic submission through the . conference web site. Style files (Latex and Word) are provided for the convenience of the authors.
Important dates
Submission of full paper (to be received by): February 18, 2005
Notification of acceptance: March 31, 2005
Submission of camera-ready papers: April 29, 2005

The 5th EURASIP conference focused on SPEECH and IMAGE PROCESSING, MULTIMEDIA COMMUNICATIONS and SERVICES
EC-SIP-M 2005
June 29 - July 2, 2005
Smolenice, Slovak Republic

Important deadlines
Full paper proposals February 28, 2005
Notification of acceptance April 16, 2005
Camera ready papers April 30, 2005

SLU 2005
AAAI Workshop on Spoken Language Understanding
Held in conjunction with The Twentieth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence - AAAI 2005
July 9 or 10, 2005, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Call for Papers
Accepted papers
Workshop Program
Instructions for Authors
Program Committee
Workshop Topics
Topics of interest include (but are not limited to):
* Approaches to building an SLU
* rule-based, data-driven, or hybrid
* automatic adaptation across domains
* Approaches to robustness in SLU
* Handling uncertain and erroneous input
* Handling dysfluencies and language variations
* Tighter integration of Speech Recognition and SLU
* Exploiting weighted packed representation of hypotheses
* Exploiting prosodic and emotional cues from speech
* Approaches to semantic representations provided by SLU
* Combining shallow and deep representations
* Representations permitting robust inference mechanisms
* Tools and Data Resources
* Issues and metrics for evaluation of SLU
* SLU in the context of Applications
* multilingual systems
* multimodal systems
* tutoring systems
* speech mining systems
* spoken dialog systems
Paper Submission
All submissions must be sent by e-mail, with the subject line "AAAI-05 SLU Workshop paper submission". Please use the AAAI prescribed formatting instructions. Papers must be 5 to 8 pages long, including all references and figures. All papers must be submitted in either PDF (preferred) or postscript format. If any special fonts are used, they must be included in the submission. The papers must be original, and have not been published. Note that reviewing will NOT be blind, the paper submissions may include the authors' names and affiliations. Important Dates
* April 20, 2005: Deadline for electronic submission
* May 11, 2005: Notification of acceptance or rejection
* May 18, 2005: Submission of camera-ready papers
Workshop Co-Chairs
* Srinivas Bangalore , AT&T Labs-Research, NJ, USA. e-mail.
* Dilek Hakkani-Tur , AT&T Labs-Research, NJ, USA. e-mail.
* >/a> Tur , AT&T Labs - Research, NJ, USA. e-mail.

-Eighth International Symposium
on SIGNAL PROCESSING and its APPLICATIONS, (ISSPA 2005),
22-25 August 2005, Sydney, AUSTRALIA, University of Wollongong

Topics
1. Digital Filter Design & Structures
2. Signal Processing for Communications
3. Multirate Filtering & Wavelets
4. Image and Video Coding
5. Adaptive Signal Processing
6. Image Enhancement and Restoration
7. Time-Frequency/Time-Scale Analysis
8. Biomedical Signal and Image Processing
9. Security Signal Processing & Digital Watermarking
10. Neural Networks & Pattern Recognition
11. Statistical Signal & Array Processing
12. Blind Source Separation
13. Radar & Sonar Processing
14. Signal Processing Education
15. Speech Processing & Recognition
16. Multimedia Signal Processing
17. Image & Multidimensional Signal Processing
18. Image Sequence Analysis & Processing
19. Machine Learning
20. Photonic & Optical Signal Processing
21. VLSI for Signal and Image Processing
22. Other Signal Processing Applications

Schedule
Full paper submission: March 15, 2005
Tutorial & special session proposals: March 15, 2005
Notification of acceptance: May 16, 2005
Camera ready paper: June 10, 2005

conference website

-Forum Acusticum 2005
29 August- 2 September 2005
Eotvos Lorand University of Sciences, Budapest
http://www.fa2005.org/

-European Conference on Circuit Theory and Design (ECCTD)
University College Cork, Ireland
29 August - 1 September, 2005
"Innovation through Understanding"

Topics
*Circuits
*Signals
*Systems
*Mathematical Methods
*Computational Methods
*Industrial Applications

Authors are invited to submit a Full 4-page Paper according to posted guidelines. Only electronic submissions will be accepted via the Web at: http://ecctd05.ucc.ie/

-EUSIPCO-2005
The 13th European Conference on Signal Processing
Antalya, Turkey, September 4-8, 2005
Conference website
The main conference themes are:
- Statistical Signal Processing
- Sensor Array and Multichannel Processing
- Biosignal Processing
- Signal Processing for Communications
- Speech Processing
- Image and Multidimensional Signal Processing
- Multimedia Signal Processing
- Nonlinear Signal Processing
- Audio and Electroacoustics
- DSP Implementations and Embedded Systems
- Rapid Prototyping and Tools for DSP Design
- Industrial Applications of Signal Processing
- Signal Processing Education
- Emerging Technologies in Signal Processing
Invited lectures and plenary talks are now announced on the website

-10th MACHINE TRANSLATION SUMMIT
September 12-16, 2005
The Hilton Phuket Arcadia Resort and Spa
Phuket, Thailand
Conference Schedule

12 September 2005 Tutorials
13-15 September 2005 Papers, panels and exhibitions
16 September 2005 Workshops

- MT for the Web
- Practical MT systems (MT for professionals, MT for multilingual eCommerce, MT for localization, etc.)
- Translation aids (translation memory, terminology databases, etc.)
- Translation environments (workflow, support tools, conversion tools for lexica etc.)
- Methodologies for MT
- Human factors in MT and user interfaces
- Speech and dialogue translation
- Natural language analysis and generation techniques geared towards MT
- Dictionaries and lexicons for MT systems
- Text and speech corpora for MT and knowledge extraction from corpora
- MT evaluation techniques and evaluation results
- Standards in text and lexicon encoding for MT
- Cross-lingual information retrieval
- MT and related technologies (information retrieval, text categorization, text summarization, information extraction, etc.)

Call for Exhibitions
Kunio Matsui by April 15, 2005.

Call for Panel / Special Session / Invited Speaker Proposals
Program Chair by January 31, 2005.

Call for Tutorial and Workshop Proposals
We would like proposals for workshops and tutorials that are to be co-located with MT Summit X. We will provide the required facilities. If you are willing to take an initiative in organizing satellite events, please submit a brief description of the events to Eiichiro Sumita by December 15, 2004.

Important Dates
15 Dec. 2004 Proposals for tutorials and workshops
31 Jan. 2005 Proposals for panels etc.
Notification for tutorials and workshops
15 Apr. 2005 Paper submission deadline
Exhibition registration deadline
31 May 2005 Paper acceptance notifications
29 Jul. 2005 Final camera-ready copy deadline

- ISPA 2005
4th Int'l Symposium on Image and Signal Processing and Analysis
Zagreb, Croatia, September 15-17, 2005
Conference website

Topics of interest
A. Image and Video Processing
B. Image and Video Analysis
C. Image Formation and Reproduction
D. Signal Processing
E. Signal Analysis
F. Applications

Important dates
Electronic submission of full paper: February 1, 2005
Notification of acceptance/rejection: April 15, 2005
Submission of camera-ready papers and registration: May 15, 2005

HLT/EMNLP-05
Human Language Technology Conference/Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
Vancouver, B.C., Canada, Oct. 6-8, 2005
Website
Important Dates:
Submission deadline: June 3, 2005
Notification of acceptance: July 29, 2005
Submission of camera-ready papers: August 12, 2005

The 2nd International Joint Conference on NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING (IJCNLP-05)
October 11-13, 2005, Jeju Island, Korea
organized by the Asian Federation of Natural Language Processing .
+++Submission deadline: Friday 15th April 2005 +++
Scope
IJCNLP-05 invites the submission of original papers in all areas of natural language processing, including, but not limited to:
- the lexicon, phonology and morphology
- word segmentation
- part-of-speech tagging
- syntax and parsing
- semantics and pragmatics
- discourse and dialogue processing
- machine translation and multilingual processing
- question answering
- information extraction and text mining
- text summarisation
- natural language generation
- natural language applications, tools and resources
- linguistic, psychological and mathematical models of language

In addition to the above, we are particularly keen to include within the scope of the conference work in speech technology and information retrieval.

CALL FOR PAPERS International Conference on SMART OBJECTS & AMBIENT INTELLIGENCE
sOc-EUSAI-2005
October 12-14, 2005, Grenoble - France
Conference website

The Smart Objects and Ambient Intelligence conference will explore tools and techniques for augmenting environments with smart, networked, interacting objects.

-2005 IEEE Workshop on
Applications of SIGNAL PROCESSING to AUDIO and ACOUSTICS
Mohonk Mountain House
New Paltz, New York
October 16-19, 2005
www.LNT.de/~WASPAA05/
Infos
Topics of interest
Acoustic Scenes
- Scene Analysis: Source Localization, Source Separation, Room Acoustics
- Signal Enhancement: Echo Cancellation, Dereverberation, Noise Reduction, Restoration
- Multichannel Signal Processing for Audio Acquisition and Reproduction
- Virtual Acoustics via Loudspeakers or Headphones
Audio Coding
- Waveform Coding and Parameter Coding
- Spatial Audio Coding
- Internet Audio
- Musical Signal Analysis: Segmentation, Classification, Transcription
- Digital Rights
- Mobile Devices
Hearing and Perception
- Auditory Perception, Spatial Hearing, Quality Assessment
- Hearing Aids
Music
- Signal Analysis and Synthesis Tools
- Creation of Musical Sounds: Waveforms, Instrument Models, Singing
Important dates
Submission of four-page paper: April 15, 2005
Notification of acceptance: June 27, 2005
Early registration until: September 1, 2005
General Chair:
Walter Kellermann
Multimedia Communications and Signal Processing
University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany
Professor Walter Kellermann

7th IEEE International Conference on MULTIMEDIA SIGNAL PROCESSING (MMSP 05)
Oct 30- Nov 2, 2005 in Shanghai, China. Conference website
Topics
- Multimedia Processing
- Multimedia Databases
- Human-Machine Interface
- Multimedia Assurance
- Multimedia Networking
- Multimedia Systems: Design, Implementation and Applications
- Human Perception
- Standards
General Co-chairs Drs. Xinhua Zhuang, John Sorensen, Qidi Wu
Important deadlines
Special Sessions and Tutorials (Contact the respective chair by): March 8, 2005
Demos (Contact the respective chair by): April 8, 2005
Papers (Four page full paper to be received by): April 8, 2005
Notification of acceptance by: July 8, 2005
Camera-ready paper submission by: August 8, 2005

-IEEE ASRU 2005
Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding Workshop
Cancun, Mexico
November 27 - December 1, 2005
http://www.asru2005.org/
Papers in all areas of human language technology are encouraged to be submitted, with emphasis placed on automatic speech recognition and understanding technology, speech to text systems, spoken dialog systems, multilingual language processing, robustness in ASR, spoken document retrieval, and speech-to-speech translation.
Paper submission:
Submit full-length, 4-6 page papers, including figures and references, to http://www.asru2005.org/
Special sessions:
Special session proposals should be submitted by June 15 ,2005, to mailto:asru05-tc@lists.csail.mit.eduand must include a topical title, rationale, session outline, contact information, and a description of how the session will be organized.
Tentative dates:
May 1, 2005 Workshop registration opens
July 1, 2005 Camera-ready paper submission deadline
August 15, 2005 Paper Acceptance / Rejection notices mailed
Sept. 15, 2005 Revised Papers Due and Author Registration Deadline
Oct. 1, 2005 Hotel Reservation and Workshop Registration
Nov. 27 - Dec.1, 2005 Workshop

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