Call for Papers
IEEE Signal Processing Society
IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Signal Processing
Special Issue on Speech Processing for Natural Interaction
with Intelligent Environments
With the advances in microelectronics, communication technologies and
smart materials, our environments are transformed to be increasingly
intelligent by the presence of robots, bio-implants, mobile devices,
advanced in-car systems, smart house appliances and other professional
systems. As these environments are integral parts of our daily work
and life, there is a great interest in a natural interaction with
them. Also, such interaction may further enhance the perception of
intelligence. "Interaction between man and machine should be based
on the very same concepts as that between humans, i.e. it should be
intuitive, multi-modal and based on emotion," as envisioned by
Reeves and Nass (1996) in their famous book "The Media
Equation". Speech is the most natural means of interaction for
human beings and it offers the unique advantage that it does not
require carrying a device for using it since we have our
"device" with us all the time.
Speech processing techniques are developed for intelligent
environments to support either explicit interaction through message
communications, or implicit interaction by providing valuable
information about the physical ("who speaks when and where") as
well as the emotional and social context of an interaction. Challenges
presented by intelligent environments include the use of distant
microphone(s), resource constraints and large variations in acoustic
condition, speaker, content and context. The two central pieces of
techniques to cope with them are high-performing "low-level"
signal processing algorithms and sophisticated "high-level"
pattern recognition methods.
We are soliciting original, previously unpublished manuscripts
directly targeting/related to natural interaction with intelligent
environments. The scope of this special issue includes, but is not
limited to:
* Multi-microphone front-end processing for distant-talking interaction
* Speech recognition in adverse acoustic environments and joint
optimization with array processing
* Speech recognition for low-resource and/or distributed computing
infrastructure
* Speaker recognition and affective computing for interaction with
intelligent environments
* Context-awareness of speech systems with regard to their applied
environments
* Cross-modal analysis of speech, gesture and facial expressions for
robots and smart spaces
* Applications of speech processing in intelligent systems, such as
robots, bio-implants and advanced driver assistance systems.
Submission information is available at
http://www.ece.byu.edu/jstsp . Prospective authors are required to
follow the Author's Guide for manuscript preparation of the IEEE
Transactions on Signal Processing at
http://ewh.ieee.org/soc/sps/tsp . Manuscripts will be peer reviewed
according to the standard IEEE process.
Manuscript submission due: Jul. 3, 2009
First review completed: Oct. 2, 2009
Revised manuscript due: Nov. 13, 2009
Second review completed: Jan. 29, 2010
Final manuscript due: Mar. 5, 2010
Lead guest editor:
Zheng-Hua Tan, Aalborg University, Denmark
zt@es.aau.dk
Guest editors:
Reinhold Haeb-Umbach, University of Paderborn, Germany
haeb@nt.uni-paderborn.de
Sadaoki Furui, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan
furui@cs.titech.ac.jp
James R. Glass, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
glass@mit.edu
Maurizio Omologo, FBK-IRST, Italy
omologo@fbk.eu
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