Program – ESSV2018

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Wednesday – March 7, 2018
12:00	Opening of the conference office / registration
13:00	Opening
	Welcome by the President of the University of Ulm: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Michael Weber
	Keynote
13:20	Kruijff G.-J. Nuance Communications Aachen The Mobile Cognitive Assistant: Bridging the Gap Between In-Car and Outside-the-Car Experiences
	Session: Signal Processing [Session Chair: G. Schmidt]
14:10	Bulling, P. ; Linhard, K. ; Wolf, A. ; Schmidt, G. Daimler AG, Kiel University Automatic Equalization for In-Car Communication Systems
14:30	Gimm, M. ; Bulling, P. ; Schmidt, G. Kiel University, Daimler AG Energy-Decay Based Postfilter for ICC Systems with Feedback Cancellation
14:50	Mnasri, Z. ; Amiri, H. University Tunis El Manar On the relationship between instantaneous frequency and pitch in speech signals
15:10	Coffee
	Session: Speech Recognition [Session Chair: R. Hoffmann]
15:30	Müller, M. ; Stüker, S. ; Waibel, A. Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) Enhancing Multilingual Graphemic RNN based ASR Systems using Phone Information
15:50	Fischer, V. ; Ghahabi, O. ; Kunzmann, S. EML GmbH Heidelberg Recent Improvements to Neural Network Based Acoustic Modeling in The EML Real-Time Transcription Platform
16:10	Li, X. ; Pan, Y. ; Willett, D. ; Zhan, P. Nuance Communications Inc. DNN Online Adaptation for Automatic Speech Recognition
16:30	Höge, H. Universität der Bundeswehr München Using Elementary Articulatory Gestures as Phonetic Units for Speech Recognition
	Poster Session [Session Chair: K. Fellbaum]
16:50	Liste der Posterpräsentationen
18:00	Welcome Reception
20:00	Meeting of the support association

Thursday – March 8, 2018
	Keynote [Session Chair: J. Trouvain]
09:00	McTear, M. University of Ulster Conversation modelling for chatbots: current approaches and future directions
	Session: Speech Processing and Prosody [Session Chair: J. Trouvain]
09:50	Weiss, B. ; Michael, T. ; Hillmann, S. TU Berlin Kontinuierliche Schätzung von Sprechgeschwindigkeit mit einem Rekurrenten Neuronalen Netzwerk
10:10	Kisler, T. ; Schiel, F. LMU Munich Towards a speaker localization from spontaneous speech: North-South classification for speakers of contemporary German
10:30	Coffee
	Session: Affective Speech [Session Chair: A. Wendemuth]
10:50	Lotz, A. ; Faller, F. ; Siegert, I. ; Wendemuth, A. University of Magdeburg Emotion recognition from disturbed speech – towards affectice computing in real-world in-car environments
11:10	Höbel-Müller, J. ; Böck, R. ; Wendemuth, A. University of Magdeburg The Effect of Emotional Speech on Relative Speaker Discrimination
11:30	Jokisch, O. ; Iaroshenko, V. ; Maruschke, M. ; Ding, H. HfT Leipzig, Shanghai Jiao Tong University Influence of Age, Gender and Sample Duration on the Charisma Assessment of German Speakers
11:50	Lewandowski, N. ; Duran, D. University of Stuttgart Testing speech perception today and tomorrow: serious computer games as perception tests
12:10	Lunch & Demo Session
	List of demos
	Keynote [Session Chair: B. Weiss]
13:50	Schwenker, F. Ulm University Artificial deep neural networks for multimodal emotion recognition
	Session: Speech Dialog [Session Chair: B. Weiss]
14:40	Böck, R. ; Egorow, O. ; Wendemuth, A. University of Magdeburg Acoustic Detection of consecutive stages of spoken interaction based on speaker-group specific features
15:00	Kraljevski, I. ; Fischer, M. ; Gjoreski, A. ; Hirschfeld, D. voice INTER connect GmbH Dresden Development of a natural language speech dialogue system for an AR-based, adaptive mobility agent
15:20	Reichel, U. D. ; Lendvai, P. LMU Munich, University of Göttingen Dodging the question of competitive spoken dialogs: semantic and prosodic characteristics
15:40	Coffee
	Keynote [Session Chair: P. Birkholz]
16:00	Ultes, S. Cambridge University Towards Natural Spoken Interaction with Artificial Intelligent Systems
18:15	City Tour [Stadthaus Ulm, Münsterplatz 50]
19:30	Conference Dinner [Barfüßer Hausbrauerei Neu-Ulm, Paulstraße 4]

Friday – March 9, 2018
	Keynote [Session Chair: M. Wolff]
09:00	Schmidt, G. Kiel University In-Car (Voice) Communication: Problems, Solutions, and Challenges
	Session: Signal Processing in Health and Music [Session Chair: M. Wolff]
09:50	Kroschel, K. ; Metzler, J. Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) Contactless Measurement of the Respiration Frequency by Vibrometry
10:10	Wagner, C. ; Stone, S. ; Birkholz, P. TU Dresden Towards combined force and distance sensing using only optical sensors to aid in stroke rehabilitation
10:30	Steiner, P. ; Stone, S. ; Birkholz, P. TU Dresden Piano Transcriber – A note-based approach for Multi-Pitch-Tracking
10:50	Coffee
	Session: Speech Synthesis [Session Chair: B. Möbius]
11:10	Trouvain, J. ; Möbius, B. Saarland University, Saarbrücken Zu Mustern der Pausengestaltung in natürlicher und synthetischer Lesesprache
11:30	Burkhardt, F. ; Steinhilber, A. ; Weiss, B. Deutsche Telekom Ironic Speech – Evaluating Acoustic Correlates by Means of Speech Synthesis
11:50	Howard, I. S. ; Birkholz, P. University of Plymouth, TU Dresden Using State Feedback to control an articulatory synthesizer
12:10	Marwitz, J. A. ; Stone, S. ; Birkholz, P. TU Dresden Optimierung der Numerik eines linearen Gleichungssystems für die Simulation des Schallfeldes im Vokaltrakt
12:30	Closing word by the organizer of the 30th ESSV

Poster Session (Wednesday – 16:50)
Sautter, J. ; Faubel, F. ; Buck, M. ; Schmidt, G. Nuance Communications Deutschland GmbH, Kiel University Evaluation of different excitation generation algorithms for artificial bandwith extension
Harding, P. ; Gibson M. Nuance Communications Ltd. UK Unsupervised Neural-Network based vocal tract length normalization
Gibson, M. ; Plahl, C. ; Zhan, P. ; Cook, G. Nuance Communications Inc. Multi-condition Deep Neural Network Training
Ghahabi, O. ; Zhou, W. ; Fischer, V. EML GmbH Heidelberg A Robust Voice Activity Detection for Real-Time Automatic Speech Recognition
Stille, C. ; Kröger, B. J. RWTH Aachen University Zeichensatz-Erweiterung zur phonetischen Transkription pathologischer Sprache
Ding, H. ; Hoffmann, R. ; Jokisch, O. Shanghai Jiao Tong University, TU Dresden Voice Preference in German: A Cross-linguistic Comparison of Native and Chinese Listeners
Siegert, I. ; Shuran, T. ; Lotz, A. F. University of Magdeburg Acoustic Addressee-Detection – Analysing the impact of age, gender and technical knowledge
Landesberger, J. ; Kornmüller, D. ; Ehrlich, U. Daimler AG Explorative Untersuchung von Multi-Intents in Sprachdialogsystemen
Beim Graben, P. ; Huber, M. ; Römer, R. ; Schmitt, I. BTU Cottbus Der Fockraum als Labyrinth: Wissensrepräsentation und Problemlösungen am Beispiel des Mouse-Maze-Problems
Manthey, R. ; Hussein, H. ; Erler, R. ; Siegel, R. ; Kowerko, D. Chemnitz University of Technology, FU Berlin Realisation of an audio & video laboratory for precise object localization and tracking
Schmidt, M. ; Braunger, P. Daimler AG Towards a Speaking Style-Adaptive Assistant for Task-Oriented Applications
Hillmann, S. ; Weiss, B. ; Michael, T. ; Möller, S. TU Berlin Simulation von Nutzerverhalten bei der Interaktion mit Sprachdialogsystemen mittels Künstlicher Neuronaler Netzwerke
Duran, D. ; Lewandowski, N. University of Stuttgart Untersuchung der kognitiven Beanspruchung durch Sprachassistenzsysteme
Huber, M. ; Römer, R. BTU Cottbus Agenten in höheren Sphären – Quantenmechanische Situationsmodellierung kognitiver Systeme am Beispiel des Mouse-Maze-Problems
Demo Session (Thursday – 12:30)
Villemure J. ; Yeh, P. ; Policano, R. ; Kaisser, M. ; Gruhn R. Nuance Communications Inc. The Dragon Drive Innovation Showcase: Advancing the state-of-the-art in automotive assistants
Sowa, T. ; Richter, A. ; Fey, D. Elektrobit Automotive GmbH, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg A toolkit for 3D-gesture and speech dialog in automotive enviroments
Meyer, W. ; Wolff, M. BTU Cottbus Verhaltenssteuerung einer universellen kognitiven Benutzerschnittstelle anhand einer Heizungssteuerung
Ranzenberger, T. ; Hacker, C. ; Gallwitz, F. Elektrobit Automotive GmbH, TH Nürnberg Integration of a Kaldi Speech Recognizer into a Speech Dialog System for automotive infotainment applications

Poster Session (Wednesday – 16:50)

Sautter, J. ; Faubel, F. ; Buck, M. ; Schmidt, G.

Nuance Communications Deutschland GmbH, Kiel University

Evaluation of different excitation generation algorithms for artificial bandwith extension

Harding, P. ; Gibson M.

Nuance Communications Ltd. UK

Unsupervised Neural-Network based vocal tract length normalization

Gibson, M. ; Plahl, C. ; Zhan, P. ; Cook, G.

Nuance Communications Inc.

Multi-condition Deep Neural Network Training

Ghahabi, O. ; Zhou, W. ; Fischer, V.

EML GmbH Heidelberg