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<p class="MsoNormal">Dear List,<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">For those of you interested – the registration deadline for the
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">eNTERFACE Workshop Socially Aware Many-to-Machine Communication<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">is today. Please see the attached call or below in case of interest.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Thank you for excusing cross-postings.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<h1 align="center" style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt">Call for Participation<o:p></o:p></span></h1>
<h1 align="center" style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:48.0pt;font-family:"Courier 10 Pitch"">m</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:24.0pt;font-family:"Courier 10 Pitch";position:relative;top:-2.5pt;mso-text-raise:2.5pt">2</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:48.0pt;font-family:"Courier 10 Pitch"">m</span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></h1>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center">Research and Development Workshop on<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:20.0pt;font-family:"Liberation Sans","sans-serif"">Socially Aware Many-to-Machine Communication<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Liberation Serif","serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">held at the 8th International Summer Workshop on Multimodal Interfaces (<b>eNTERFACE 2012</b>)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Metz, France<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">July, 2th - July, 27th 2012<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Background:<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify">The M2M workshop aims to bring together excellent graduate researchers from the affective computing and the speech signal processing domains for a four week research and development project in the field of emotional
virtual agents. Affective computing applications, aiming to emulate 'social skills' in technical systems by signal processing and machine learning, are facing several grand challenges when moving from laboratory conditions to deployment 'in-the-wild'. In particular,
these include interaction with multiple individuals in multi-source natural environments. As a proof of concept, multi-user interaction capabilities will be integrated into the virtual agents developed in the European FP7 SEMAINE project. The focus of the
M2M project will be on the front-end; hence, techniques for single- and multi-channel speaker diarization and speech recognition are of special interest, in order to provide the foundation for natural “many-to-machine” communication . By that, the workshop
aims at advancing the state-of-the-art in machine intelligence for socially aware, natural, and hands-free interaction with speech-based technical systems.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Call for Participation:<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify">Prospective participants should have excellent background in at least one of the following areas:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<![if !supportLists]><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:OpenSymbol"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">•<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><![endif]><span lang="EN-US">monaural speech enhancement and/or de-reverberation;<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<![if !supportLists]><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:OpenSymbol"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">•<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><![endif]><span lang="EN-US">speaker diarization;<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<![if !supportLists]><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:OpenSymbol"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">•<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><![endif]><span lang="EN-US">affective computing, emotion and personality models and annotation;<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span lang="EN-US">machine learning in signal processing;<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<![if !supportLists]><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:OpenSymbol"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">•<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><![endif]><span lang="EN-US">object oriented software development in C++.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Organization / Registration:<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify">This event is part of the 8th International Summer Workshop on Multimodal Interfaces (eNTERFACE 2012) in Metz, France, organized by Supélec. Workshop attendance is free of charge. Accomodation and meals will be
provided for a small fee. Please refer to the enterFACE website, <a href="http://enterface12.metz.supelec.fr/call_for_participation.php">
<span style="color:windowtext;text-decoration:none">http://enterface12.metz.supelec.fr/call_for_participation.php</span></a> for details.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><b>Registration deadline: 15<sup>th</sup> April, 2012<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Team Leaders:<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="DE">Björn Schuller (Technische Universität München) schuller@tum.de<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="DE">Cyril Joder (Technische Universität München) cyril.joder@tum.de<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="DE">Florian Eyben (Technische Universität München) eyben@tum.de<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="DE">Felix Weninger (Technische Universität München) weninger@tum.de<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="DE"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="DE"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="DE">___________________________________________<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="DE"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="DE">Dr. Björn Schuller<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="DE"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="DE">Technische Universität München<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">Institute for Human-Machine Communication<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">D-80333 München<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">Germany<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">+49-(0)89-289-28548<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><a href="mailto:schuller@tum.de">schuller@tum.de</a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><a href="http://www.mmk.ei.tum.de/~sch">www.mmk.ei.tum.de/~sch</a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">___________________________________________<o:p></o:p></p>
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