CHiME 2013

Machine Listening in Multisource Environments (CHiME 2013)

CHiME 2013 is a one-day workshop to be held in conjunction with ICASSP 2013 that will consider the challenge of developing machine listening applications for operation in multisource environments, i.e. real-world conditions with acoustic clutter, where the number and nature of the sound sources is unknown and changing over time. CHiME brings together researchers from a broad range of disciplines (computational hearing, blind source separation, speech recognition, machine learning) to discuss novel and established approaches to this problem. The cross-fertilisation of ideas will foster fresh approaches that efficiently combine the complementary strengths of each research field.

Relevant research topics include (but are not limited to),

  • automatic speech recognition in multisource environments,
  • acoustic event detection in multisource environments,
  • sound source detection and tracking in multisource environments,
  • music information retrieval in multisource environments,
  • sound source separation or enhancement in multisource environments,
  • robust feature extraction and classification in multisource environments,
  • scene analysis and understanding for multisource environments.

The workshop will feature keynote talks from

  • Daniel P.W. Ellis - Columbia University
  • Steven J. Rennie - IBM T.J. Watson Research Center

The full programme and key note talk presentations now available.

The CHiME Challenge

As a focus for discussion during the day, the workshop will host the 2nd CHiME Speech Separation and Recognition Challenge. This is a two-microphone multisource speech separation and recognition challenge supported by the IEEE AASP, MLSP and SLTC Technical Committees. To find out more please visit the Challenge Website.

1st June

Vancouver, Canada

Organisers

  • Emmanuel Vincent
    INRIA, France
  • Jon Barker
    Univ. of Sheffield, UK
  • Shinji Watanabe &
    Jonathan Le Roux
    MERL, USA
  • Francesco Nesta &
    Marco Matassoni
    FBK-IRST, Italy
  • More info

Dates

  • Submission: Jan 15 29th
  • Notification: Feb 18th
  • Workshop: June 1st
  • More info

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