HSCMA 2017 - Fifth Joint Workshop on Hands-free Speech Communication and Microphone Arrays (HSCMA)

The Fifth Joint Workshop on Hands-free Speech Communication and Microphone Arrays will be held on March 1-3, 2017 at the Google Offices in downtown San Francisco, California. The workshop is devoted to presenting recent advances in distant-talking speech communication and human/machine interaction with an emphasis on multi-microphone systems. It will bring together researchers and practitioners from universities and industry working in distant speech and speaker recognition, speech enhancement, high-quality sound capture, and multiple-input/multiple-output (MIMO) acoustic signal processing. Demonstrations of experimental systems, applications, and prototypes are especially welcome.
HSCMA 2017 is being held with technical sponsorship by the IEEE Signal Processing Society and will immediately precede ICASSP 2017.
Workshop topics
Papers in all areas of distant-talking human/human and human/machine interaction are encouraged, including:
Multi-channel and single-channel approaches for speech acquisition, noise suppression, source localization and separation, dereverberation, echo cancellation, and acoustic event detection
Speech and speaker recognition technology for hands-free scenarios, including robust acoustic modeling, novel features, feature enhancement, dereverberation, and model adaptation
Microphone array technology and architectures, especially for distant-talking speech recognition and acoustic scene analysis
Multi-channel rendering, including spatial audio for immersive environments, improvements to intelligibility in noisy environments, and privacy of speech communications
Speech corpora for training and evaluation of distant-talking speech systems
Applications based on microphone arrays and hands-free speech systems.
Special Sessions
The program will also feature special sessions on new or emerging topics of interest. Proposals for special sessions must include the session title, rationale, outline, and a list of four invited papers.