The topics of Interest (not limited)

The special theme for the symposium is “Speech, Music and Applications in Everyday life”. 

The Conference is broadly divided into four tracks:

1. Speech and Hearing: This track covers modeling, computation and cognitive aspects of Speech and Hearing abilities.

2. Music (both Vocal and Instrumental): This Track covers signal, computation as well as cognitive aspects of music. 

3. Languages and Linguistics: This track covers the topics related to frontiers in development of languages and linguistics

4. Interdisciplinary Applications: Application of both speech and music are covered in this track. 

The topics covered (but are not limited to) in the conference are as follows:

1. Speech and Hearing (SH)

•    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

• ·       Speech transcription

• ·       Pronunciation variants and modeling for speech recognition

• ·       Speech analysis in the presence of music

• ·       Singing analysis

• ·       Synthesis of singing voices

• ·       Question-answering from speech

• ·       Evaluation of speech transmission, coding and enhancement

• ·       Evaluation of speech synthesis

• ·       Evaluation of speech and multimodal dialog systems

• ·       Speaker recognition

• ·       Speech analytics and audio mining

• ·       Feature extraction

• ·       Audio-visual speech processing

• ·       Deep learning for speech processing

• ·       Human-machine interaction

• ·       Multimodal analysis and synthesis

• ·       Analysis of speaker states

• ·       Analysis of speaker traits

• ·       Automatic analysis of speaker states

• ·       Automatic analysis of speaker traits

• ·       Spoken machine translation

• ·       Speech-to-speech translation systems

• ·       Voice search

• ·       Spoken term detection

• ·       Metadata descriptions of speech, audio and text resources

• ·       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

• ·       Combining speech and other biosignals

• ·       Hearing disorders

2. Music (M)

• ·       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 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

• ·       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

3. Languages and Linguistics  (LL)

• ·       Language identification and verification

• ·       Dialect and accent recognition

• ·       Voice modification, conversion and morphing

• ·       Concept-to-speech conversion

• ·       Tools and data for speech synthesis

• ·       Conversation, communication and interaction

• ·       Stochastic modeling for dialog

• ·       Language modeling for conversational speech (dialog, interaction)

• ·       Evaluation and quality insurance of language resources

• ·       Evaluation of speaker and language identification systems

• ·       Speech recognition and understanding

• ·       Voice assistants

• ·       Language identification

• ·       Features for speaker and language recognition

• ·       Speech Synthesis and Spoken Language Generation

• ·       Computational resource constrained speech recognition

• ·       Automatic segmentation and labeling of resources

• ·       Code switching and multilingual studies

• ·       Pathological speech and language

4. Interdisciplinary Applications (IA)

• ·       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

• ·       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