[iva] CALL FOR SPECIAL SESSIONS -- SPECOM 2018

[Ingo Siegert]

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                SPECOM 2018 – CALL FOR SPECIAL SESSIONS
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20th International Conference on Speech and Computer (SPECOM-2018)
Leipzig, Germany, September 18-22, 2018
Web: whttp://www.specom2018.org/

CALL FOR SPECIAL SESSIONS
The program for SPECOM 2018 will include Special Sessions that complement the 
traditional 
program with new and emerging topics of interest to the Speech and Computer 
community, 
particularly those that are in line with the theme of the conference. The aim 
of a special session is to provide an overview of the state-of-the-art as well 
as to highlight current research directions and challenges in specific fields of 
signal processing. 

THE CONFERENCE
The International Conference on Speech and Computer - SPECOM is a regular 
event organized since 1996 and attracts researchers in the area of computer 
speech processing, multimodal 
interfaces and applied systems for telecommunication, robotics, intelligent 
and cyber-physical environments.
 
SUBMISSION OF PROPOSALS
Prospective organizers of Special Sessions should submit proposals indicating:

- Title of the Special Session 
- Motivation, indicating the novelty of the topic 
  and why it is timely. 
- Short biography of the organizers 
- List of tentative papers (including titles, authors, and contact information  
of the corresponding author/s)

to the Special Session Chair Ingo Siegert (ingo.siegert at ovgu.de)

Proposals will be evaluated based on the timeliness and attractiveness of the 
topic as well as on the qualifications of the organizers and the authors of the 
contributed papers and the balance of topics across the areas of Speech and 
Computer.

The papers in each accepted Special Session will undergo a review process 
identical to that of regular papers. It is the responsibility of the 
organizers to ensure that their Special-Session papers meet SPECOM quality 
standards. In case a paper in a Special Session does not meet the expected 
quality, it will be rejected, and an effort will be made to draw papers from 
the regular-submission process to fill the gap. If too few papers for a given 
Special Session are accepted in the review process, and we are unable to find 
suitable substitutes from the regular review pool, the Special Session may be 
canceled—in such a case, the accepted papers from a canceled Special Session 
will be placed into the regular program.

TENTATIVE RESEARCH AREAS FOR SPECIAL SESSIONS
Acoustic scene analysis
Affective computing
Applications for human-computer interaction
Audio-visual speech processing
Automatic language identification
Computational paralinguistics
Corpus linguistics
Multichannel signal processing
Multimedia processing
Multimodal analysis and synthesis
Low-Resourced Languages
Privacy-Preserving signal processing
Signal processing and feature extraction
Social media analyses
Speaker identification and diarization
Speaker localization
Speech and language resources
Speech dereverberation
Speech enhancement
Speech perception and speech disorders
Speech translation automatic systems
Spoken dialogue systems
Text-to-speech and Speech-to-text systems
Virtual and augmented reality
Voice biometrics

 
 
IMPORTANT DATES
February 16, 2018 ............. Submission of Special Session Proposals
Feburary 28, 2018 ............. Notification of Pre-selection
April 15, 2018 ............. Submission of full papers
May  30, 2018 ............. Notification of acceptance
June 15, 2018 ............. Final papers (camera ready) and registration
Sept. 18-22, 2018 ....... Conference date
 
The contributions to the conference will be published in proceedings that will 
be made available to participants at the time of the conference.

ADDRESS
Special Session Chair: ingo.siegert at ovgu.de
All correspondence regarding the conference should be addressed to:
SPECOM 2018 Secretariat:
Email: specom at iias.spb.su and specom at hft-leipzig.de
SPECOM 2018 web site: www.specom2018.org
 

-- 
Dr.-Ing. Ingo Siegert
FEIT IIKT-Cognitive Systems
Building 03, Room 325
Otto-von-Guericke-University Magdeburg
Universitätsplatz 2, 39106 Magdeburg Germany
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