[iva] 3rd Call for Papers: 20th International Conference on Speech and Computer

Ingo Siegert ingo.siegert at ovgu.de
Tue Apr 24 13:18:01 CEST 2018


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SPECOM 2018 – 20th International Conference on Speech and Computer
ICR 2018 – 3rd International Conference on Interactive Collaborative Robotics 
(Satellite)

SPECOM 2018 – 20th International Conference on Speech and Computer
18-22 September 2018, Leipzig, Germany
http://www.specom2018.org/
Important Dates
May 02, 2018		Submission of full papers
May 30, 2018		Notification of acceptance
June 15, 2018		Final papers (camera ready) and early registration
Sept. 18-22, 2018	Conference dates
Registration and Fees
http://specom.nw.ru/dates-and-fees/
Topics
Affective computing; Applications for human-machine interaction; Audio-visual 
speech processing; Automatic language identification; Corpus linguistics and 
linguistic processing; Forensic speech investigation and security systems; 
Multichannel signal processing; Multimedia processing; Multimodal analysis and 
synthesis; Signal processing and feature extraction; Speaker identification 
and diarization; Speaker verification systems; Speech analytics and audio 
mining; Speech and language resources; Speech de-reverberation; Speech 
disorders and voice pathologies; Speech driving systems in robotics; Speech 
enhancement; Speech perception; Speech recognition and understanding; Speech 
translation automatic systems; Spoken dialogue systems; Spoken language 
processing; Text mining and sentiment analysis; Text-to-speech and speech-to-
text systems; Virtual and augmented reality.
Invited Speakers
Prof. Tanja Schultz, University of Bremen and Carnegie Mellon University, 
Pittsburgh 
“Advances in Biosignal-based Spoken Communication”
Prof. Sebastian Möller, TU Berlin and German Research Center for Artificial 
Intelligence, 
“Quality Engineering of Speech and Language Services”
Prof. Dongheui Lee, Technical University of Munich, 
“Robot Learning Through Physical Interaction and Human Guidance”

http://specom.nw.ru/invited-speakers/


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Special Session 1: Positioning and Power Relations in Conversations

The topics include (but are not limited to): Interactive Communication 
Management (ICM), conversational systems, conversation intelligence platform, 
positioning and power relations, conversation infographics, speech analytics. 
http://specom.nw.ru/satellites/session1/
Organizers:
Vered Silber-Varod (OMILab, The Open University of Israel) - 
vereds at openu.ac.il
Benjamin Weiss (TU Berlin, Germany) - BWeiss at telekom.de
Anat Lerner (The Open University of Israel) - anat at openu.ac.il
Omri Allouche (Gong.io, San Mateo CA & Herzliya Israel) - 
omri.allouche at gong.io
Helena Moniz (INESC-ID, Portugal) - helenam at l2f.inesc-id.pt


Special Session 2: Advanced Cognitive Models for Human-Machine and Human-Robot 
Interaction

The topics include (but are not limited to): semantic information processing, 
knowledge representation, HMI/HRI concepts, adaptive dialog systems, agent 
modeling and algorithms inspired from quantum theory. http://specom.nw.ru/
satellites/session2/
Organizers:
Matthias Wolff (BTU Cottbus-Senftenberg, Germany) - matthias.wolff at b-tu.de
Eduardo Mizraji (Universidad de la República Uruguay, Montevideo) - 
mizraj at fcien.edu.uy
Wolfram Erlhagen (University of Minho, Braga, Portugal) - 
wolfram.erlhagen at math.uminho.pt
Ronald Römer (BTU Cottbus-Senftenberg, Germany) - ronald.roemer at b-tu.de
Peter beim Graben (BTU Cottbus-Senftenberg, Germany) - Peter.beimGraben at b-
tu.de

Special Session 3: Big Data in Speech Computation

The topics include (but are not limited to): deep learning, transfer learning,  
(semi-)automatic  speech data analyses (for big data), language modelling and 
big data generative adversarial networks.
http://specom.nw.ru/satellites/session3/
Organizers:
Anna Esposito (Università della Campnania "Luigi Vanvitelli", Italy) - 
iiass.annaesp at tin.it
Friedhelm Schwenker (University Ulm, Germany) - friedhelm.schwenker at uni-ulm.de
Ingo Siegert (Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg, Germany) - 
ingo.siegert at ovgu.de

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Satellite Event
ICR 2018 – 3rd Intern. Conference on Interactive Collaborative Robotics
18-22 September 2018, Leipzig, Germany
http://specom.nw.ru/icr2018/
Topics: Assistive robots; Child-robot interaction; Collaborative robotics; 
Educational robotics; Human-robot interaction; Medical robotics; Robotic 
mobility systems; Robots at home; Robot control and communication; Social 
robotics; Safety robot behavior.
Conference chairs: Andrey Ronzhin (SPIIRAS, St. Petersburg), Gerhard Rigoll 
(TU Munich) and Roman Meshcheryakov (TUSUR, Tomsk/Russia)
ICR submissions, dates and venue: Jointly organized with SPECOM. http://
specom.nw.ru/icr2018/

On behalf of the SPECOM Organizing Committee,
Oliver Jokisch, Leipzig University of Telecommunications, Germany
Alexey Karpov, SPIIRAS, St. Petersburg, Russia
Rodmonga Potapova, Moscow State Linguistic University, Russia
20th International Conference on Speech and Computer
SPECOM 2018 http://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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