[iva] Call for Papers: INTERSPEECH SATELLITE SPSC Symposium 2023

[Ingo Siegert]

3rdSPSC Symposium

with

3rdVoicePrivacy Challenge Workshop

– Call for Papers – <https://symposium2023.spsc-sig.org/>


Speech is becoming an increasingly important means for human-computer 
interaction with numerous deployments in biometrics, forensics and, most 
importantly, information access through virtual voice assistants. 
Alongside these developments, the need for robust, secure algorithms and 
applications which guard the user’s security and privacy emerged at the 
forefront of speech-based research and development.


The third edition of the Symposium on Security & Privacy in Speech 
Communication, this year combined with the 3rd VoicePrivacy Challenge 
<https://www.voiceprivacychallenge.org/>, 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 – 
more specifically: signal processing, cryptography, security, 
human-computer interaction, law, and anthropology.


The VoicePrivacy initiative is spearheading the effort to develop 
privacy preservation solutions for speech technology. It aims to 
consolidate the newly formed community to develop the task and metrics 
and to benchmark progress in anonymization solutions using common 
datasets, protocols, and metrics. VoicePrivacy takes the form of a 
competitive challenge. This year, participants are required to develop 
algorithms for attacker systems against speaker anonymization systems. 
All the participants are encouraged to submit to the SPSC Symposium 
papers related to their challenge entry,  as well as other scientific 
papers related to developing attack models for speaker anonymization 
systems,  voice privacy,  and anonymization. More details can be found 
on the VoicePrivacy Challenge webpage: 
https://www.voiceprivacychallenge.org/ 
<https://www.voiceprivacychallenge.org/>.


To strengthen the efforts for both events, ease joined discussions, and 
extend the interdisciplinary exchange, we decided to combine our teams 
and organised a joined event. For the general symposium, we  welcome 
contributions to related topics, as well as progress reports, project 
dissemination, or theoretical discussions and “work in progress”.  In 
addition, guests 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 symposium proceedings published in the ISCA Archive.




SPSC TOPICS

Technical perspective include (but are not limited to):

	

Humanities and social perspective include (but are not limited to):

  *

    Privacy-preserving speech communication

      o

        Speech Recognition and Processing

      o

        Speech Perception, Production, and Acquisition

      o

        Speech Synthesis

      o

        Speech Coding and Enhancement

      o

        Speaker and Language Identification

      o

        Phonetics, Phonology, and Prosody

      o

        Paralinguistics

  *

    Cybersecurity

      o

        Privacy Engineering and Secure Computation

      o

        Network Security and Adversarial Robustness

      o

        Mobile Security

      o

        Cryptography

      o

        Biometrics

  *

    Machine Learning

      o

        Federated Learning

      o

        Disentangled Representations

      o

        Differential Privacy

      o

        Distributed Learning

  *

    Natural Language Processing

      o

        Web as Corpus and Resources

      o

        Tagging, Parsing and Document Analysis

      o

        Discourse and Pragmatics

      o

        Machine Translation

      o

        Linguistic Theories and Psycholinguistics

      o

        Inference of Semantics and Information Extraction

	

  *

    Human-Computer Interfaces (Speech as Medium)

      o

        Usable Security and Privacy

      o

        Ubiquitous Computing

      o

        Pervasive Computing and Communication

      o

        Cognitive Science

  *

    Ethics & Law

      o

        Privacy and Data Protection

      o

        Media and Communication

      o

        Identity Management

      o

        Electronic Mobile Commerce

      o

        Data in Digital Media

  *

    Digital Humanities

      o

        Acceptance and Trust Studies

      o

        User Experience research on practice

      o

        Co-development across disciplines

      o

        Data-citizenship

      o

        Future studies

      o

        Situated Ethics

      o

        STS perspectives



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 
<https://www.interspeech2023.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/INTERSPEECH_2023_Paper_Kit.zip>. 
Papers must be submitted via the online paper submission system on 
EasyChair. The working language of the conference is English, and papers 
must be written in English. All accepted papers will be published in the 
ISCA archive alongside Interspeech papers and related ISCA workshops.


Reviews:

At least three single-blind reviews are provided, and we aim to obtain 
feedback from interdisciplinary experts for each submission. For 
VoicePrivacy Challenge contributions, the review will be focused on the 
systems’ descriptions and results.


Important Dates:

IMPORTANT DATES AND DEADLINES

Long paper (up to 8 pages, excl. references) submission deadline

	

June 5th, 2023

Short papers (up to 4 pages incl. references)

submission deadline

	

June 5th, 2023

VoicePrivacy Challenge paper submission deadline (4 to 6 pages excl. 
references)

	

June 5th, 2023

Author notification

	

July 5th, 2023

VoicePrivacy Challenge results and system description update deadline

	

July 15th

Final (camera-ready) paper submission

	

July 31st

Symposium

	

August 19


Venue:

The Symposium takes place at the *Dublin City University in the centre 
of Dublin, Ireland*. Hybrid participation is possible

-- 
Jun.-Prof. Dr.-Ing. Ingo Siegert
FEIT IIKT-Mobile Dialog Systems
Building 03, Room 323
Phone: +49 391 67 50060
Otto-von-Guericke-University Magdeburg
Universitätsplatz 2, 39106 Magdeburg Germany
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