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Speech Separation and Comprehension in Complex Acoustic Environments
Thu Nov 4 - Sun Nov 7, 2004
Montreal, Quebec
sponsored by the Air Force Office of Scientific Research and the National Science Foundation
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Printed Program as a single PDF file. The actual program below differs slightly because a couple of speakers were unable to present.
Thursday Nov. 4, 17:00 – 20:00
| 17:00-18:00 | Welcome refreshments |
| 18:00-20:00 |
The Speech in Speech Separation - A Primer |
Friday November 5, morning session 8:00 – 12:00
| 8:00-10:00 |
Brief Overview of Areas of Speech Separation: Objectives, Advantages, and Problems |
| 10:00-10:30 | Morning Break |
| 10:30-11:10 | Summary of the Hanse Workshop on
Speech Segregation |
| 11:10-12:00 |
Introduction of and Precis by Students/Postdocs |
| 12:00-13:00 | Lunch |
Friday November 5, afternoon session 13:30 – 18:00
| 13:30-16:00 |
Variations in Design and Performance of Sensing Arrays |
| 16:00-16:30 | Afternoon break |
| 16:30-18:00 |
What Kinds of Knowledge about Humans (behavior and physiology) are useful for designing Machine-only and Human-Machine systems |
| 19:30-22:00 | Evening Poster Session |
Saturday November 6, morning session 8:00 – 12:00
| 8:00-10:00 |
Combatting the Reverberation Problem |
| 10:00-10:30 | Morning break |
| 10:30-12:00 |
Integration of Different Machine Approaches |
| 12:00-13:30 | Lunch break |
Saturday November 6, afternoon session 13:30 – 18:00
Other types of Signals, Other Sensing Modalities, Other Species
Evaluation of Speech Separation, Corpus Development
Design of Superior Systems and Research Programs Needed to Achieve Them
13:30-16:00
Collaborative Human-Machine Systems
Chair: Nat Durlach
Participants: Barbara Shinn-Cunningham, Jay Desloge, Betty Tuller, Abeer Alwan, Sumit Basu, Misha Pavel
16:00-16:30 Afternoon break 16:30-18:00
Chair: Shihab Shamma
Participants: Max Riesenhuber, Henning Scheich
18:30-20:00 Workshop reception
Sunday November 7, 8:00 – 12:00
8:00-9:30
Chair: Dan Ellis
Participants: Martin Cooke, Alex Acero, Douglas Brungart, Lucas Parra
9:30-10:00 Morning Break 10:00-12:00
Chair: Pierre Divenyi, Nat Durlach, Dan Ellis, DeLiang Wang
12:00-13:30 Farewell lunch
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