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SAPA - SCALE Conference 2012

Salon Ballroom, Hilton Portland
7-8 September 2012, Portland, OR, USA
http://www.sapaworkshops.org/2012
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Friday September 7th
0930-0945Welcome & introduction
0945-1045Keynote 1:
Human sound perception - what can we learn from it when developing audio analysis algorithms?
Tuomas Virtanen (Tampere University of Technology)
1045-1105 break
1105-1130 Pitch Estimation Using Mutual Information
(pp. 1-4)
Majid Mirbagheri, Yanbo Xu, Shihab Shamma (University of Maryland College Park)
1130-1155 Establishing some principles of human speech production through two-dimensional computational models
(pp. 5-10)
Mauro Nicolao, Roger K. Moore (University of Sheffield)
1155-1220 A Spectral Envelope Estimation Method Based on F0-Adaptive Multi-Frame Integration Analysis
(pp. 11-16)
Tomoyasu Nakano, Masataka Goto (AIST)
1220-1315 lunch
1315-1340 Cochlear Implant-like Processing of Speech Signal for Speaker Verification
(pp. 17-21)
Cong-Thanh Do, Claude Barras (LIMSI-CNRS/Universite Paris-Sud)
1340-1405 Speech intelligibility enhancement for HMM-based synthetic speech in noise
(pp. 22-27)
Cassia Valentini-Botinhao, Junichi Yamagishi, Simon King (University of Edinburgh)
1405-1430 A Generalized Stein's Estimation Approach for Speech Enhancement Based on Perceptual Criteria
(pp. 28-33)
Sunder Ram Krishnan, Chandra Sekhar Seelamantula (Indian Institute of Science)
1430-1455 Non-Stationary Signal Processing and its Application in Speech Recognition
(pp. 34-39)
Zoltán Tüske, Friedhelm R. Drepper, Ralf Schlüter (RWTH Aachen University)
1455-1515 break
1515-1540 Joint Uncertainty Decoding with Unscented Transform for Noise Robust Subspace Gaussian Mixture Models
(pp. 40-45)
Liang Lu, Arnab Ghoshal, Steve Renals (University of Edinburgh)
1540-1605 Hierarchical Hybrid Language Models for Open Vocabulary Continuous Speech Recognition using WFST
(pp. 46-51)
M. Ali Basha Shaik, David Rybach, Stefan Hahn, Ralf Schlueter, Hermann Ney (RWTH Aachen University)
1605-1630 Template-based ASR using Posterior features and Synthetic References: comparing different TTS systems
(pp. 52-57)
Serena Soldo, Mathew Magimai.-Doss, Hervé Bourlard (Idiap Research Institute)
1630-1655 Explicit Duration Modelling in HMM-based Speech Synthesis using a Hybrid Hidden Markov Model-Multilayer Perceptron
(pp. 58-63)
Kalu U. Ogbureke, João P. Cabral, Julie Carson-Berndsen (University College Dublin)

Saturday September 8th
0945-1045Keynote 2:
Speech processing in human auditory cortex
Nima Mesgarani (UCSF)
1045-1105 break
1105-1130 Dimensionality Reduction of Large TDOA Vectors for Speaker Diarization
(pp. 64-67)
Deepu Vijayasenan, Fabio Valente (Universität des Saarlands/Idiap)
1130-1155 Joint Detection and Localization of Multiple Speakers using a Probabilistic Steered Response Power
(pp. 68-73)
Youssef Oualil, Mathew Magimai.-Doss, Friedrich Faubel, Dietrich Klakow (Saarland University/Idiap)
1155-1220 Structured Sparse Coding for Microphone Array Location Calibration
(pp. 74-79)
Afsaneh Asaei, Bhiksha Raj, Hervé Bourlard (Idiap/CMU)
1220-1315 lunch
1315-1340 Log-normal matrix factorization with application to speech-music separation
(pp. 80-85)
Takuya Yoshioka, Sakaue Daichi, (NTT Communication Science Laboratories)
1340-1405 Multi-Channel Speech Separation with Soft Time-Frequency Masking
(pp. 86-91)
Rahil Mahdian Toroghi, Friedrich Faubel, Dietrich Klakow (Saarland University)
1405-1430 Smoothing Speech Trajectories by Regularization
(pp. 92-97)
Heyun Huang, Louis ten Bosch, Bert Cranen, Lou Boves (Radboud University Nijmegen)
1430-1455 Data-driven Speech Representations for NMF-based Word Learning
(pp. 98-103)
Joris Driesen, Jort F. Gemmeke, Hugo Van hamme (KU Leuven)
1455-1515 break
1515-1540 Spectro-Temporal Features with Distribution Equalization
(pp. 104-109)
Samuel K. Ngouoko M., Britta Wrede, Martin Heckmann (Bielefeld University/Honda Research)
1540-1605 Language Identification using Spectro-Temporal Patch features
(pp. 110-113)
Kamal Sahni, Pranay Dinghe, Rita Singh, Bhiksha Raj (CMU)
1605-1630 Inharmonic Speech: A Tool for the Study of Speech Perception and Separation
(pp. 114-117)
Josh McDermott, Dan Ellis, Hideki Kawahara (NYU/Columbia/Wakayama)
1630-1645 Conclusion & farewell
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