FAAVSP 2015 - 1st Joint Conference on Facial Analysis, Animation and Audio-Visual Speech Processing (FAAVSP)

The Auditory-Visual Speech Processing (AVSP) conference serves as the major meeting of the Auditory-Visual Speech Association (AVISA), the second ISCA Special Interest Group to form. This year the AVSP conference will be held in conjunction with the Facial Analysis and Animation (FAA) conference, i.e., AVSP + FAA conferences = FAAVSP: “The 1st Joint Conference on Facial Analysis, Animation and Audio-Visual Speech Processing”.
Both conferences have a common focus on facial communication research. FAA focuses on facial animation analysis and synthesis addressed in the fields of computer graphics, computer vision and psychology. AVSP focuses on how auditory and visual speech information plays a role in human perception, machine recognition, and human-machine interaction. The two conferences attract researchers from diverse fields, such as speech processing, computer graphics and computer vision, psychology, neuroscience, linguistics, robotics and electrical engineering. The aim of this first joint conference is to bring together, from both academia and industry, the two communities of facial animation (FAA) and auditory-visual speech processing (AVSP) to discuss research and exchange ideas, data and experiences.