[iva] CfP 4th SPSC Symposium 2024 -- Interspeech Sattelite Event

[Ingo Siegert]

4thSPSC Symposium

with

3rdVoicePrivacy Challenge Workshop (Sept. 6 2024)

Call for Papers <http://www.spsc2024.mobileds.de/>


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 fourth 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. In keeping with the previous VoicePrivacy 
Challenge editions, the current edition focuses on voice anonymization. 
Participants are required to develop anonymization systems to suppress 
speaker identity while keeping the content and paralinguistic attributes 
intact. This edition focuses on preserving the emotional state, which is 
the key paralinguistic attribute in many real-world applications of 
voice anonymization. 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 speaker anonymization and voice 
privacy. 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 organized 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):

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    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

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    Cybersecurity

      o

        Privacy Engineering and Secure Computation

      o

        Network Security and Adversarial Robustness

      o

        Mobile Security

      o

        Cryptography

      o

        Biometrics

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    Machine Learning

      o

        Federated Learning

      o

        Disentangled Representations

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        Differential Privacy

      o

        Distributed Learning

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    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

	

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    Human-Computer Interfaces (Speech as Medium)

      o

        Usable Security and Privacy

      o

        Ubiquitous Computing

      o

        Pervasive Computing and Communication

      o

        Cognitive Science

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    Ethics & Law

      o

        Privacy and Data Protection

      o

        Media and Communication

      o

        Identity Management

      o

        Electronic Mobile Commerce

      o

        Data in Digital Media

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    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://drive.google.com/file/d/1PDE-3Ql8A-9dAAkbGW8qDbHx8NJ5V6VI/view?usp=sharing>. 
Papers must be submitted via the online paper submission system via the 
Link on the SPSC Website <http://www.spsc2024.mobileds.de/>. 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 double-blind reviews will be 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 15, 2024

Short papers (up to 4 pages incl. references)

submission deadline

	

June 15, 2024

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

	

June 15, 2024

VoicePrivacy Challenge results and system description

	

June 15, 2024

Author notification (challenge paper)

	

July 5, 2024

Author notification (long and short)

	

July 30, 2024

Final (camera-ready) paper submission

	

August 15, 2024

Symposium

	

September 6, 2024


Venue:

The venue of the Symposium will be published soon, we are planning to 
have it co-located with Interspeech. Hybrid participation is possible


Sponsors:


<https://nijta.com/>

https://nijta.com/

-- 
Jun.-Prof. Dr.-Ing. Ingo Siegert
FEIT IIKT-Mobile Dialog Systems
Building 03, Room 323
+49 391 67 500 60
Otto-von-Guericke-University Magdeburg
Universitätsplatz 2, 39106 Magdeburg Germany
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