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, 5th CHiME Speech Separation and Recognition Challenge, September 2018 (E. Vincent)

• General co-chair, 5th International Workshop on Speech Processing in Everyday Environments, Hyderabad, India, September 2018 (E. Vincent)

• Area chair, Latent Variable Analysis and Signal Separation (LVA/ICA), July 2018 (A. Deleforge)

• Area Chair, INTERSPEECH, September 2018 (D. Jouvet)

• Co-chair, special session “Geometry-Aware Auditory Scene Analysis” at ICASSP, April 2018 (A. Deleforge)

• Co-chair, special session “Advances in Phase Retrieval and Application” at LVA/ICA, July 2018 (A. Deleforge)

• Co-chair, special session “Distant speech processing for smart speakers” at EUSIPCO, September 2018 (R. Serizel)

• Chair, IEEE signal processing cup (SPCup), 2019 (A. Deleforge)

Member of Organizing Committees

• Steering Committee of the Detection and Classification of Acoustic Scenes and Events (DCASE) challenge series (E. Vincent)

• Organizing Committe of Automatic Speaker Verification Spoofing and Countermeasures Challenge 2019 (ASVspoof 2019) (M. Sahidullah)

• Organizing Committee of the DCASE challenge series, 2018 (R. Serizel)

Scientific Events Selection

Chair of Conference Program Committees

• Review chair, IEEE Technical Committee on Audio and Acoustic Signal Processing, responsible for organizing the review of the 443 papers submitted to the 2019 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP) in the general AASP domain (E. Vincent)

Member of Conference Program Committees

• Plate-Forme Intelligence Artificielle (PFIA), July 2018 (A. Bonneau, S. Ouni, R. Serizel)

• International Conference on Multimedia and Network Information Systems (MISSI), September, 2018 (D. Jouvet)

• International Conference on Speech and Computer (SPECOM), September 2018 (D. Jouvet)

• International Conference on Text, Speech, and Dialogue (TSD), September 2018 (D. Jouvet)

Reviewer

• ACLing 2018 - Arabic Computational Linguistics series (D. Jouvet)

• APSIPA ASC 2018 - Asia-Pacific Signal and Information Processing Association - Annual Summit and Conference (M. Sahidullah)

• CHiME 2018 - International Workshop on Speech Processing in Everyday Environments (E. Vincent)

• EUSIPCO 2018 - European Signal Processing Conference (D. Jouvet, M. Sahidullah, R. Serizel)

• ICASSP 2018 - IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (A. Deleforge, I. Illina, D. Jouvet, S. Ouni, R. Serizel, E. Vincent)

• ICPR 2018 - International Conference on Pattern Recognition (M. Sahidullah)

• INTERSPEECH 2018 (A. Bonneau, I. Illina, S. Ouni, M. Sahidullah, E. Vincent)

• IROS 2018 - International Conference on Intelligent Robots (A. Deleforge)

• IWAENC 2018 - International Workshop on Acoustic Signal Enhancement (E. Vincent)

• JEP 2018 - Journées d'Etudes sur la Parole (A. Bonneau, Y. Laprie, S. Ouni)

• LVA/ICA 2018 - International Conference on Latent Variable Analysis and Signal Separation (E. Vincent)

• MISSI 2018 - International Conference on Multimedia and Network Information Systems (D. Jouvet)

• Speaker Odyssey 2018 - The Speaker and Language Recognition Workshop (M. Sahidullah)

• SPECOM 2018 - International Conference on Speech and Computer (D. Jouvet)

• SPEECH PROSODY 2018 (A. Bonneau, A. Deleforge, D. Jouvet)

• SLT 2018 - IEEE Spoken Language Technology Workshop (D. Jouvet, M. Sahidullah, I. Illina)

Journal

Member of Editorial Boards

• Speech Communication (D. Jouvet)

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

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

Reviewer - Reviewing Activities

• Computers in Biology and Medicine (M. Sahidullah)

• Computer Speech & Language (M. Sahidullah)

• Digital Signal Processing (M. Sahidullah)

• Expert Systems With Applications (M. Sahidullah)

• IEEE Access (M. Sahidullah)

• IEEE/ACM Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing (A. Deleforge, M. Sahidullah, R. Serizel)

• IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Signal Processing (A. Deleforge, R. Serizel)

• IEEE Signal Processing Letters (A. Deleforge, M. Sahidullah)

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

• IEEE Transactions on Multimedia (S. Ouni)

• Jasa Express Letters (Y. Laprie)

• Journal of the Acoustical Society of America (Y. Laprie, S. Ouni)

• Language Resources and Evaluation (S. Ouni)

• Signal Processing Letters (D. Jouvet)

• Speech Communication (A. Deleforge, M. Sahidullah)

Invited Talks

• Deep learning for distant-microphone speech enhancement and recognition, Facebook AI Research, Paris, January 2018 (E. Vincent)

• Multidimensional and multi-level learning of music structure for machine improvisation in the DYCI2 project, University Pompeu Fabra, Spain, February 2018 (E. Vincent)

• Des difficultés aux troubles de l’apprentissage de la lecture – Impact sur l’estime de soi. Canopé, Nancy, February 2018 (A. Piquard-Kipffer)

• A brief introduction to deep learning and its application to multichannel speech enhancement, Laboratoire des systèmes perceptifs, Paris, March 2018 (R. Serizel)

• Speaker embeddings: from i-vector to x-vector and beyond in summer school on Machine Learning Applied to Speech Technology and Autonomous Agents, University of Eastern Finland, Finland, August 2018 (M. Sahidullah)

Leadership within the Scientific Community

• Elected chair, ISCA Special Interest Group on Robust Speech Processing, until September 2018 (E. Vincent)

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

Scientific Expertise

• Expertise of ANR project proposals (Y. Laprie)

• Expertise of an ASTRID proposal (R. Serizel)

• Expertise of a Netherlands Orgaadminisnisation for Scientific Research (NWO) proposal (R. Serizel)

• Member of an expertise Committee for specific language disabilities (MDPH 54) (A. Piquard-Kipffer)

Research Administration

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

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

• Member of Management board of Université de Lorraine (Y. Laprie)

• Member of the Comité Espace Transfert of Inria Nancy - Grand Est (E. Vincent)

• Member of the HCERES committee for the Laboratoire Psychologie de la Perception (E. Vincent)

• Member of the HCERES committee for the LIMSI laboratory (D. Jouvet)

• Vice-chair of the recruitement jury for an Associate Professor, Polytech Nancy (E. Vincent)

• Member of the national recruitment jury for Inria Junior Research Scientists (E. Vincent)

• Member of the Commission du personnel scientifique of Inria Nancy - Grand Est (R. Serizel)

• Member of the Commission développement technologique of Inria Nancy - Grand Est (R. Serizel)

• Member of “Commission paritaire” of Université de Lorraine (Y. Laprie)