The 2017 IEEE Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding Workshop (ASRU 2017) was held on December 16-20, 2017 in Okinawa, a southern island of Japan.
The workshop gathered the record number of participants (271 registrations, 48% from industry and 47% from academia). The workshop featured 4 keynote speech and 6 invited talks, some of which are outlined in more detail below.
This April at ICASSP, Alejandro (Alex) Acero will receive the Society Award from IEEE Signal Processing Society for "contributions to speech technology and leadership in the signal processing community." The Society Award is the highest honor awarded by the Signal Processing Society, and it honors members who have demonstrated both outstanding technical contributions in the signal processing field and outstanding leadership to the society.
EAB is launching a call for nominations for the twelfth European Biometrics Research and Industry Awards. These prestigious awards are granted annually to individuals who have been judged by a panel of internationally respected experts to be making a significant contribution to the field of biometrics research and innovations in Europe.
Technical Committee Tutorial Articles
The AASP TC is actively supporting the activities of the IEEE SPS. This website provides links to some of these activities, including the following Tutorial Articles.
special issue on "Acoustic source localization and tracking in dynamic real-life scenes" to be published in IEEE Journal on Selected Topics in Signal Processing.
The special issue aims to present recent advances in the development of signal processing methods for localization and tracking of acoustic sources and the associated theory and applications. To address the challenges raised by the real-life environment, novel methods that use modern array processing, speech processing and data inference tools, become a necessity.
Feeling the beat of music and then producing it, e.g. by foot-tapping, is an intrinsically real-time process. As listeners, we do not wait for the beat to occur before tapping our foot; instead we make predictions about when the next beat in the music will occur. Likewise, performing musicians have a shared sense of beat which is what allows them to play in time together.
Candidates are sought for a 2-year (renewable) post-doctoral fellowship position to work at the Reasoning for Complex Data (Recod) Lab. (http://www.recod.ic.unicamp.br/) at the Institute of Computing (www.ic.unicamp.br/en), University of Campinas, Unicamp (www.unicamp.br/index.php/english), Campinas, SP, Brazil.