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[hts-users:04012] Special session on phase processing at Interspeech 2014


Dear all,

 

Please find below a call for a special session on phase processing at Interspeech 2014, and which might be of interest to some of you.

 

Best regards,

 

Thomas Drugman

 

 

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Call for INTERSPEECH 2014 Special session on 

“Phase Importance in Speech Processing Applications“

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In the past decades, the amplitude of speech spectrum is considered to be the most important feature in different speech processing applications and phase of the speech signal has received less attention. Recently, several findings justify the phase importance in speech and audio processing communities. The importance of phase estimation along with amplitude estimation in speech enhancement, complementary phase-based features in speech and speaker recognition and phase-aware acoustic modeling of environment are the most prominent reported works scattered in different communities of speech and audio processing. These examples suggest that incorporating the phase information can push the limits of state-of-the-art phase-independent solutions employed for long in different aspects of audio and speech signal processing.

 

The goal of the special session is to 

 

• explore the recent advances and methodologies to exploit the knowledge of signal phase information in different aspects of speech processing. 

• unify the previous efforts to better understand the pros and cons of using phase and the degree of feasibility for phase estimation/enhancement in different areas of speech processing including: speech enhancement, speech separation, speech quality estimation, speech and speaker recognition, voice transformation and speech analysis and synthesis. 

• promote the "phase-aware speech and audio signal processing" to form a community of researchers to organize the next steps to share the interesting findings from different speech processing applications.

 

Paper submissions are invited on the theme of

• Phase importance in speech analysis/synthesis

• Phase importance in automatic speech recognition

• Phase importance in speech enhancement

• Phase importance in source separation

• Phase importance in audio and music signal processing

• Phase-sensitive model of the acoustic environment

• Audibility of phase distortion

• Phase sensitive speech quality metrics

 

The session organizers wish to encourage submissions that bring insight and understanding to the issues highlighted above. The session will consist of oral and poster presentations. A discussion will take place based on a summary of the contributions and the results on the newly released test sets. Papers should be submitted according to the Interspeech 2014 procedures.

 

Important dates

* Submission deadline: 24 March 2014

* Notification of acceptance: 10 June 2014

* Camera-ready submission: 20 June 2014

* Event: 18-20 September 2014

 

Organization committee:

Pejman Mowlaee

Rahim Saeidi

Yannis Stylianou

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