Joint Audio-Visual Speech Processing
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Special issue of EURASIP Journal on Applied Signal Processing


Joint audio and video signal processing has been recently
attracting considerable attention in the signal processing
community. In particular, the value of joint audio and video
signal processing is being demonstrated to improve the robustness
and naturalness of human-computer interfaces in a variety of
speech applications such as speech recognition, speaker
recognition, speech synthesis, etc.


Although significant progress has been made in speech and speaker
recognition in relatively controlled environments using methods
solely based on audio, true environment and task independence
still remains a challenge. Environment independence is a key
enabler to pervasive deployment of speech applications. Joint
audio and visual speech processing is being shown as a promising
approach to address this challenge. The benefit of audio-visual
speech synthesis is being demonstrated for improved human-computer
interfaces and animation applications. To realize the full benefit
of joint processing in any of these application areas, several
technical challenges have to be addressed.


The aim of this special issue is to highlight innovative research
in joint audio and video signal processing and its application to
improved practical speech recognition and synthesis. Prospective
papers should be unpublished and present solid research work
offering innovative contributions either from a methodological or
application point of view.


Topics of interest include (but are not limited to):


- Audio-visual speech recognition
- Audio-visual speaker recognition
- Audio-visual speaker change detection
- Audio-visual emotion analysis
- Audio-visual speaker localization
- Audio-visual speech synthesis
- Face detection, tracking, and region of interest extraction
- Visual speech processing
- Fusion methodologies and source reliability estimation


Authors should follow the EURASIP JASP manuscript format described
at the Journal site http://asp.hindawi.com/. Prospective authors
should submit an electronic copy of their complete manuscript
through the EURASIP JASP^s web submission system at
http://asp.hindawi.com/, according to the following timetable.

  Manuscript Due            Oct 31, 2001
  Acceptance Notification   March 31, 2002
  Final Manuscript          Due May 15, 2002
  Publication Date          Third Quarter, 2002


GUEST EDITORS:


Chalapathy Neti, IBM T.J. Watson Research Ctr, Rte 134, Yorktown
Heights, NY 10598, USA; cneti@us.ibm.com


Gerasimos Potamianos, IBM T.J. Watson Research Ctr, Rte 134,
Yorktown Heights, NY 10598, USA; gpotam@us.ibm.com


Juergen Luettin, Ascom Systec AG, Gewerbepark, CH-5506 Maegenwil,
Switzerland; juergen.luettin@ascom.ch


Eric-Vatiokotis Bateson, ATR International, 2-2-2 Hikaridai, Kyoto
619-0288, Japan; bateson@isd.atr.co.jp


EDITORIAL BOARD REPRESENTATIVE:

Prof. Tsuhan Chen, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
Other Special Issues:

Space-Time Coding and its Applications
Guest-Editors: Dirk Slock, Vahid Tarokh, Xiang-Gen Xia
Manuscripts Due: May 30, 2001
Publication Date: 1st Quarter, 2002

Emerging Applications of Multimedia Data Hiding
Guest-Editors: Mauro Barni, Franco Bartolini, Jiri Fridrich
Manuscripts Due: April 30, 2001
Publication Date: 1st Quarter, 2002


Applied Visual Inspection
Guest-Editors: Luciano da F. Costa, Fabrice Meriaudeau
Manuscripts Due: July 30, 2001
Publication Date: Second quarter, 2002


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