Registration open & Late-Breaking Session: HSCMA 2014 (4th Joint Workshop on Hands-Free Speech Communication and Microphone Arrays)

[Emmanuel Vincent <emmanuel.vincent@xxxxxxxx>]

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  4th Joint Workshop on Hands-Free Speech Communication
            and Microphone Arrays (HSCMA 2014)

              May 12-14, 2014, Nancy, France

                http://hscma2014.inria.fr/
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*News*
Registration is open: http://hscma2014.inria.fr/registration/
Travel & accomodation information: https://hscma2014.inria.fr/venue/
List of accepted papers: https://hscma2014.inria.fr/program/


*Late-Breaking Session*
HSCMA will feature a Late-Breaking Session dedicated to the presentation 
of recent results, ideas, and demos.

To submit, send a 1-page pdf to hscma2014-chairs@xxxxxxxx including:
- a title
- the nature of the proposal: poster or demo
- the names and affiliations of all authors
- a 150-250 word abstract

Demo stands will consist of a table, a power plug, and a poster board. 
In case you would need anything else, please mention it.

There is a maximum of 10 slots available. Submissions will be reviewed 
for a "sanity check" and accepted on a first-come first-served basis. 
Accepted proposals will be given a poster or a demo slot, but will not 
be published in the conference proceedings.

At least one author must register to the conference at the student rate 
or at the full rate by April 4, 2014. Each registration can cover only 
one late-breaking presentation and it cannot cover both a late-breaking 
presentation and a paper in the main program.


*Keynotes*
The workshop will feature three keynotes:
- Marc Moonen (KU Leuven, Belgium): Distributed adaptive node-specific 
signal estimation in wireless acoustic sensor networks
- Steve Renals (University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom): Neural 
networks for distant speech recognition
- Volker Hohmann (University of Oldenburg, Germany): Modeling auditory 
processing of complex sounds


*Important Dates*
April 4, 2014: Early registration deadline – Submission of camera-ready 
papers & demos – Submission of late-breaking proposals
May 5, 2014: Late registration deadline
May 12-14, 2014: Workshop


*Organizing Committee*
Emmanuel Vincent (Inria, France)
Dietrich Klakow (Saarland University, Germany)
Hiroshi Saruwatari (Nara Institute of Technology, Japan)
Mike Seltzer (Microsoft Research, USA)
Bhiksha Raj (Carnegie Mellon University, USA)


*Supported by*
Microsoft Research
ISCA
Honda Research Institute - Japan
Google
Audience
Central Research Laboratory, Hitachi
Phonak
Starkey
MH Acoustics
IBM