Section: Dissemination

Promoting Scientific Activities

Scientific Events Organisation

General Chair, Scientific Chair

• Elected chair, Steering Committee of the Latent Variable Analysis and Signal Separation (LVA/ICA) conference series (E. Vincent)

• General co-chair, AVSP 2017 - 14th International Conference on Auditory-Visual Speech Processing (S. Ouni)

Member of the Organizing Committees

• Co-organizer of the Task “Large-scale weakly supervised sound event detection for smart cars”, DCASE 2017 Challenge on Detection and Classification of Acoustic Scenes and Events (E. Vincent)

• Member of the organizing committee, 2017 IEEE Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding Workshop, Okinawa, Japan, December 2017 (E. Vincent)

• Member of the steering committee, Detection and Classification of Acoustic Scenes and Events (DCASE) challenge series (E. Vincent)

• Co-organizer of AVSP 2017 - International Conference on Auditory-Visual Speech Processing (S. Ouni)

Scientific Events Selection

Chair of Conference Program Committees

• Program chair, DCASE 2017 Workshop on Detection and Classification of Acoustic Scenes and Events (E. Vincent)

• Review chair, IEEE Technical Committee on Audio and Acoustic Signal Processing, responsible for organizing the review of the 313 papers submitted to the 2018 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP) in the general AASP domain (E. Vincent)

• Proceedings co-chair (editor), AVSP 2017 - 14th International Conference on Auditory-Visual Speech Processing [76] (S. Ouni)

Member of the Conference Program Committees

• AVSP 2017 - 14th International Conference on Auditory-Visual Speech Processing (S. Ouni)

• ICNLSSP'2017 - International Conference on Natural Language, Signal and Speech Processing (D. Fohr, D. Jouvet, O. Mella)

• Area chair, 2017 IEEE Workshop on Applications of Signal Processing to Audio and Acoustics (WASPAA) (E. Vincent)

• ISSP 2017 - International Seminar On Speech Production (Y. Laprie)

Reviewer

• ASRU'2017 - IEEE Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding Workshop (D. Jouvet, I. Illina, E. Vincent)

• AVSP 2017 - 14th International Conference on Auditory-Visual Speech Processing (S. Ouni)

• DCASE'2017 - Workshop on Detection and Classification of Acoustic Scenes and Events (R. Serizel, E. Vincent)

• EUSIPCO'2017 - European Signal Processing Conference (D. Jouvet, A. Liutkus)

• GLU'2017 - International Workshop on Grounding Language Understanding (D. Jouvet)

• GRETSI 2017 - Colloque du Groupe d'Etudes du Traitement du Signal et des Images (R. Serizel)

• HSCMA'2017 - Joint Workshop on Hands-free Speech Communication and Microphone Arrays (E. Vincent)

• ICASSP'2017 - IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (D. Jouvet, A. Liutkus, R. Serizel, E. Vincent)

• ICNLSSP'2017 - International Conference on Natural Language, Signal and Speech Processing (D. Jouvet, O. Mella, E. Vincent)

• INTERSPEECH 2017 (A. Bonneau, D. Jouvet, I. Illina, Y. Laprie, S. Ouni, E. Vincent)

• ISSP 2017 - International Seminar On Speech Production (Y. Laprie)

• LVA/ICA'2017 - International Conference on Latent Variable Analysis and Signal Separation (A. Liutkus, E. Vincent)

• PaPE 2017 - Phonetics and Phonology in Europe (A. Bonneau)

• SLaTE'2017 - ISCA Workshop on Speech and Language Technology in Education (A. Bonneau, D. Jouvet)

• WASPAA 2017 - IEEE Workshop on Applications of Signal Processing to Audio and Acoustics (A. Liutkus, R. Serizel, E. Vincent)

Journal

Member of the Editorial Boards

• ANAE Approche Neuropsychologique des Apprentissages chez l’enfant. Coordination of a special issue: N°147 : “Troubles de l’apprentissage du langage écrit et prise en charge multidisciplinaire: De la science à la salle de classe” (A. Piquard-Kipffer)

• Computer Speech and Language, special issue on Multi-Microphone Speech Recognition in Everyday Environments (E. Vincent)

• EURASIP Journal on Audio, Speech, and Music Processing (Y. Laprie)

• Speech Communication (D. Jouvet)

• Speech Communication, special issue on Realism in Robust Speech and Language Processing (E. Vincent)

• Traitement du signal (E. Vincent)

Reviewer - Reviewing Activities

• Computer Speech and Language (D. Jouvet)

• Computers in Biology and Medicine (R. Serizel)

• IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing (A. Liutkus, S. Ouni, R. Serizel)

• IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computational Intelligence (R. Serizel)

• IET Signal Processing (R. Serizel)

• Journal of the Acoustical Society of America (B. Elie, Y. Laprie)

• Jasa Express Letters (Y. Laprie, S. Ouni, R. Serizel)

• Logopedics Phoniatrics Vocology (S. Ouni)

• Speech Communication (V. Colotte, S. Ouni)

Invited Talks

• Dyslexia-dysorthographia, « Dyslexie-Dysorthographie. Du repérage à la prise en charge ». Unaape, Le Chesnay, Jan 2017 (A. Piquard-Kipffer)

• New paradigms in speech recognition, SIIE 2017, Feb 2017 (D. Fohr, I. Illina) [35]

• Speech processing techniques for far-end spoken interactions in noisy environments, Sonos, Santa Barbara (US), March 2017 (R. Serizel)

• A tutorial on probabilistic modeling for audio source separation, Kyoto University, March 2017 (A. Liutkus)

• An articulatory model of the complete vocal tract from medical images, Electronic Speech Signal Processing 2017, Saarbrücken, March 2017 (Y. Laprie)

• Language pathology, Séminaire “Dépistage des troubles des apprentissages” in EHESP, Rennes, March 2017 (A. Piquard-Kipffer)

• Speech synthesis, Ecole Nationale d’Ingénieurs de Tunis (Tunisia), May 2017 (V. Colotte)

• Speech recognition, Ecole Nationale d’Ingénieurs de Tunis (Tunisia), May 2017 (D. Jouvet)

• Deep learning for distant-microphone enhancement and recognition — Expected and unexpected results, Audio Analytic, Cambridge (UK), June 2017 (E. Vincent)

• Deep learning for speech and audio processing, Journées scientifiques Inria, Sophia-Antipolis, June 2017 (R. Serizel)

• Deep learning for distant-microphone enhancement and recognition — Expected and unexpected results, Inria Rennes - Bretagne Atlantique (France), July 2017 (E. Vincent)

• When mismatched training data outperform matched data, Erwin Schroedinger Institute Workshop on “Systematic approaches to deep learning methods for audio”, Vienna (Austria), Sep 2017 (E. Vincent)

• Rehaussement et reconnaissance robuste de la parole, Université Grenoble - Alpes (France), Nov 2017 (E. Vincent)

• Reading predictors, “les habiletés associées à la lecture. Comment être le mieux outillé(e) pour apprendre à lire ?”. Canopé, Nancy, Nov 2017 (A. Piquard-Kipffer)

• Beginning of reading, “Les premiers apprentissages de la lecture”. Conférences de circonscriptions 1 et 2. Longwy, Nov 2017 (A. Piquard-Kipffer)

Leadership within the Scientific Community

• Elected chair, ISCA Special Interest Group on Robust Speech Processing (E. Vincent)

• Secretary/Treasurer, executive member of AVISA (Auditory-VIsual Speech Association), an ISCA Special Interest Group (S. Ouni)

Scientific Expertise

• Expertise of an ANR project proposal (D. Jouvet, Y. Laprie)

• Expertise of an ERC project proposal (E. Vincent)

• Expertise of the ÖAW - Austrian Academy of Sciences Fund (S. Ouni)

Research Administration

• Vice Scientific Deputy of Inria Nancy - Grand Est from Sep 2017 (E. Vincent)

• Elected Member of the board of the AM2I Scientific Pole - Université de Lorraine (E. Vincent)

• Member of Comité Espace Transfert (E. Vincent)

• Member of the Comipers of Inria Nancy - Grand Est until Aug 2017 (E. Vincent)

• Member of the Comité de Centre of Inria Nancy - Grand Est until Aug 2017 (E. Vincent)

• Vice-Chair of the Recruitment Jury for Junior Research Scientists, Inria Nancy - Grand Est (E. Vincent).

• Member of the “Commission de développement technologique” (A. Bonneau)

• Head of the AM2I Scientific Pole of Université de Lorraine (Y. Laprie)

• Member of the Scientific Committee of an Institute for deaf people, La Malgrange (A. Piquard-Kipffer)