Track I: Speech

Modeling Aspect of Speech:

• Speech analysis and representation
• Analysis of Speech and Audio Signals
• Audio signal analysis and representation
• Speech and audio segmentation
• Speech and audio classification
• Speech coding and transmission
• Perceptual audio coding of speech signals
• Noise reduction for speech signals
• Speech enhancement: single-channel
• Speech enhancement: multi-channel
• Speech intelligibility
• Speech enhancement in hearing aids
• Echo cancelation for speech signals
• Statistical parametric speech synthesis
• Speech enhancement
• Speech synthesis
• Speech translation systems
• Spoken dialogue systems
• Speech Acquisition
• Speech acoustics
• Models of speech production
• Voice activity detection
• Pitch and harmonic analysis
• Speaker spatial localization
• Phonation and voice quality
• Far field and microphone array speech recognition
• Language identification and verification
• Dialect and accent recognition
• Speech transcription
• Pronunciation variants and modeling for speech recognition
• Speech analysis in the presence of music
• Singing analysis
• Synthesis of singing voices
• Voice modification, conversion and morphing
• Concept-to-speech conversion
• Tools and data for speech synthesis
• Conversation, communication and interaction
• Stochastic modeling for dialog
• Question-answering from speech
• Language modeling for conversational speech (dialog, interaction)
• Evaluation and quality insurance of language resources
• Evaluation of speech transmission, coding and enhancement
• Evaluation of speaker and language identification systems
• Evaluation of speech synthesis
• Evaluation of speech and multimodal dialog systems

 

Computation Aspect of Speech:

• Speaker recognition
• Speech analytics and audio mining
• Speech recognition and understanding
• Voice assistants
• Feature extraction
• Audio-visual speech processing
• Deep learning for speech processing
• Human-machine interaction
• Language identification
• Multimodal analysis and synthesis
• Analysis of speaker states
• Analysis of speaker traits
• Automatic analysis of speaker states
• Automatic analysis of speaker traits
• Features for speaker and language recognition
• Speech Synthesis and Spoken Language Generation
• Computational resource constrained speech recognition
• Spoken machine translation
• Speech-to-speech translation systems
• Voice search
• Spoken term detection
• Metadata descriptions of speech, audio and text resources
• Automatic segmentation and labeling of resources

 

Cognitive Aspect of Speech:

• Speech perception
• Models of speech perception
• Speech and voice disorders
• Neurophysiology of speech production and perception
• Interaction speech production-speech perception
• Multimodal speech perception
• Cognition and brain studies on speech
• Code switching and multilingual studies
• Combining speech and other biosignals
• Hearing disorders
• Pathological speech and language

Track II: Music

Signal Aspect of Music

• Music signal processing
• Symbolic music processing
• Sound source separation
• Music transcription and annotation
• Music summarization
• Representations of music
• Music synthesis and transformation
• Mathematical Analysis of Musical Instruments
• Controllers and interfaces for musical expression
• Segmentation and form
• Melody extraction
• Timbre, instrumentation and voice
• Rhythm, beat and tempo
• Rhythm, Meter and Timing
• Noise reduction from music
• Music pattern matching and detection
• Music Theory
• Mathematical Models in Music
• Mathematical Models in Acoustics
• Musical features and properties

 

Computational Aspect of Music

• Computational music theory
• Machine learning in music
• Artificial Intelligence in Music
• Automatic classification
• Automatic Music Composition
• Computational Acoustics
• Computational music theory and musicology
• Computers in Music Composition
• Digital libraries and archives
• E-Learning and Music
• Evaluation Methodology for Music
• Evaluation Metrics for Music
• Indexing and querying of Music
• Music metadata, tags, linked data, and semantic web
• Music lyrics and other textual data
• Digital Representations of music
• Human-computer interaction
• Music information retrieval
• Music similarity Analysis
• Automatic classification of Music
• Music recommendation
• Music informatics
• Music recognition
• Pattern Recognition in Music
• Music fingerprinting
• Musical human-computer interaction

 

Cognitive Aspect of Music

• Musical style and Genre
• Musical affect, emotion and mood
• Expression and performative aspects of music
• Philosophical and methodological foundations for Music
• Motion, gesture and music
• Aesthetic Perception and Response
• Music training and education
• Music Engineering
• Musicology
• Psychoacoustics
• Audio-Visual Perception of music
• Ethnomusicology
• Cognitive Musicology
• Music and Neuroscience
• Memory and Music
• Music Perception and Cognition
• Music and Psychology
• Music and Personality
• Social Psychology of Music

Track III: Application

Applications of Speech

• Forensic speech investigations
• Virtual and augmented reality
• Text processing for speech synthesis
• Text mining and sentiment analysis
• Speech driving systems in robotics
• Speech-based applications
• Social signal processing
• Sentiment analysis and opinion mining
• Speech science in end-user applications
• Applications in education and learning
• Applications in medical practice
• Interactive systems for speech training, therapy, communication aids
• Systems for spoken language understanding
• Indexing, mining and retrieval of speech and audio documents
• Spoken document summarization
• Semantic analysis and classification
• Entity extraction from speech
• Topic spotting and classification
• Relevance of language models for mental state detection

 

Applications of Music

• Film and Music
• Music for Robotics
• Music Therapy
• Music for mental health
• Music as Medicine
• Application of natural language processing in music
• Mental health expression and experience in popular music
• Music for alienation, order and disorder
• Music for pain, loss and grief
• Music related to specific mental health conditions
• Solfeggio and other systems of tonal therapy
• Apps and business start-ups that facilitate use of music
• Music and mental health of animals
• Music and sports psychology
• Music and the spiritual mind
• Social media, networking and music
• Music to address mental health issues in vulnerable communities
• Music to improve mental health in schools, businesses and organizations
• Music to reduce the social stigma around mental health issues
• Online music retrieval systems
• Music recommendation and playlist generation
• Music for well-being and therapy
• Music training and education
• Music for gaming