Special Events & Sessions

  1. Organisation and Chairing Special Session “AI Security and Privacy in Speech and Audio Processing”, Zhao Ren, Kun Qian, Björn W. Schuller, 48th International Conference on Acoustic, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), IEEE, Rhode Island, Greece, 04.-09.06.2023.
  2. Organisation and Chairing Special Session “Signal Processing and Machine Learning for Respiratory Disease Analysis”, Jing Han, Cecilia Mascolo, Björn W. Schuller, 47th International Conference on Acoustic, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), IEEE, Singapore, Singapore, 22.-27.05.2022.
  3. Organisation and Chairing Special Session “Computer Audition for Healthcare (CA4H)”, Kun Qian, Rita Singh, Björn W. Schuller, 47th International Conference on Acoustic, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), IEEE, Singapore, Singapore, 22.-27.05.2022.
  4. Organisation Competition “HEAR 2021 NeurIPS Challenge Holistic Evaluation of Audio Representations”, Joseph Turian Bhiksha Raj, Björn W. Schuller, George Tzanetakis, Gissel Velarde, Kirk McNally, Jordie Shier, Max Henry, Nicolas Pinto, Yonatan Bisk, Gyanendra Das, Dorien Herremans, Jesse Engel, Pranay Manocha, Shinji Watanabe, Zeyu Jin, NeurIPS, NIPS, virtual, 06.-14.12.2021.
  5. Organisation and Chairing Special Session “INTERSPEECH 2021 Computational Paralinguistics Challenge (ComParE)”, Björn Schuller, Anton Batliner, Christian Bergler, Cecilia Mascolo, Jing Han, Iulia Lefter, Heysem Kaya, INTERSPEECH 2021, ISCA, Brno, Czechia, 30.08.-03.09.2021.
  6. Organisation and Chairing Special Session “Intelligent Computing and Human Factors in Healthcare”, Björn Schuller, Lucas Paletta, 12th International Conference on Applied Human Factors and Ergonomics (AHFE 2021) and the Affiliated Conferences, Springer, New York, NY, 25.-29.07.2021.
  7. Organisation and Chairing Special Session “Computer Audition for Healthcare (CA4H)”, Kun Qian, Tanja Schultz, Björn W. Schuller, 46th International Conference on Acoustic, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), IEEE, Toronto, Canada, 06.-11.06.2021.
  8. Organisation and Chairing Special Session “INTERSPEECH 2020 Computational Paralinguistics Challenge (ComParE)”, Björn Schuller, Anton Batliner, Christian Bergler, Eva-Maria Messner, Antonia Hamilton, INTERSPEECH 2020, ISCA, Shanghai, China, 14.-18.09.2020.
  9. Organisation and Chairing Special Session “Deep Neural Audio Processing”, Emanuele Principi, Aurelio Uncini, Björn Schuller, Stefano Squartini, International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN)/World Congress on Computational Intelligence (WCCI), INNS/IEEE, Glasgow, UK, 19.-24.07.2020.
  10. Organisation and Chairing Special Session “INTERSPEECH 2019 Computational Paralinguistics Challenge (ComParE)”, Björn Schuller, Anton Batliner, Christian Bergler, Florian Pokorny, Jarek Krajewski, INTERSPEECH 2019, ISCA, Graz, Austria, 15.-19.09.2019.
  11. Organisation and Chairing Special Session “Dynamics of Emotional Speech Exchanges in Multimodal Communication”, Anna Esposito, Maria Inés Torres, Olga Gordeeva, Raquel Justo, Zoraida Callejas Carrión, Kristiina Jokinen, Gennaro Cordasco, Björn Schuller, Carl Vogel, Alessandro Vinciarelli, Gerard Chollet, Neil Glackin, INTERSPEECH 2019, ISCA, Graz, Austria, 15.-19.09.2019.
  12. Organisation and Chairing Special Session “Deep Neural Audio Processing”, Emanuele Principi, Aurelio Uncini, Björn Schuller, Stefano Squartini, International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN), INNS/IEEE, Budapest, Hungary, 12.-14.07.2019.
  13. Organisation and Chairing Special Session “Speech & Diagnostics”, Björn Schuller, Tanja Schultz, Speech Communication, 13. ITG Fachtagung Sprachkommunikation, ITG, Oldenburg, Germany, 10.-12.10.2018.
  14. Organisation and Chairing Special Session “INTERSPEECH 2018 Computational Paralinguistics Challenge (ComParE)”, Björn Schuller, Stefan Steidl, Anton Batliner, Peter Marschik, Harald Baumeister, Fengquan Dong, INTERSPEECH 2018, ISCA, Hyderabad, India, 02.-06.09.2018.
  15. Organisation Special Session “Deep Neural Audio Processing”, Emanuele Principi, Aurelio Uncini, Björn Schuller, Stefano Squartini, International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN) as part of the IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence (WCCI), INNS/IEEE, Rio, Brazil, IEEE, 08.-13.07.2018.
  16. Organisation Special Session “Deep Learning for Computational Paralinguistics”, Zixing Zhang, Björn Schuller, Shrikanth Narayanan, 43rd International Conference on Acoustic, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), IEEE, Seoul, Korea, 22.-27.04.2018.
  17. Organisation and Chairing Structured Session “Deep Learning for Audio”, Björn Schuller, Gerhard Rigoll, DAGA 2018, 44. Deutsche Jahrestagung für Akustik, DEGA, München, Germany, 19.-22.03.2018.
  18. Organisation Special Session “Utilising Big Unlabelled and Unmatched Data for Affective Computing”, Hesam Sagha, Zixing Zhang, Florian Metze, Björn Schuller,  7th International AAAC Conference on Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction 2017 (ACII 2017), IEEE/AAAC, San Antonio, TX,  23.-26.10.2017.
  19. Organisation and Chairing Special Session “INTERSPEECH 2017 Computational Paralinguistics Challenge (ComParE)”, Björn Schuller, Stefan Steidl, Anton Batliner, Elika Bergelson, Jarek Krajewski, Christoph Janott, INTERSPEECH 2017, ISCA, Stockholm, Sweden, 20.-24.08.2017.
  20. Organisation Special Event “Deep Learning killed the Linguistics Star? A bit of Ouija with a dash of Serious Discussion”, 18th International Conference on Intelligent Text Processing and Computational Linguistics, Springer, Budapest, Hungary, 17.-23.04.2017.
  21. Organisation Special Session “Computational Intelligence Algorithms for Digital Audio Applications”, Emanuele Principi, Aurelio Uncini, Björn Schuller, Stefano Squartini, International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN), INNS/IEEE, Anchorage, AK, IEEE, 14.-19.05.2017.
  22. Organisation and Chairing Special Session “Speech & Diagnostics”, Björn Schuller, Tanja Schultz, Speech Communication, 12. ITG Fachtagung Sprachkommunikation, ITG, Paderborn, Germany, 05.-07.10.2016.
  23. Organisation and Chairing Special Session “INTERSPEECH 2016 Computational Paralinguistics Challenge (ComParE)”, Björn Schuller, Stefan Steidl, Anton Batliner, Julia Hirschberg, Judee Burgoon, Eduardo Coutinho, INTERSPEECH 2016, ISCA, San Francisco, CA, 08.-12.09.2016.
  24. Organisation Special Session “Computational Intelligence Algorithms for Digital Audio Applications”, Stefano Squartini, Aurelio Uncini, Björn Schuller, Francesco Piazza, International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN), INNS/IEEE, Vancouver, Canada, IEEE, 25.-29.07.2016.
  25. Organisation and Chairing Special Session “Socio-cognitive Language Processing”, Björn Schuller, Michael McTear, The Seventh International Workshop on Spoken Dialogue Systems (IWSDS), Springer, Riekonlinna, Finland, 13.-16.01.2016.
  26. Organisation Symposium “Music Emotion Recognition: Machine Learning and Cognitive Modelling”, Eduardo Coutinho, Björn Schuller, 4th International Conference on Music & Emotion (ICME 2015), Geneva, Switzerland, 12.-16.10.2015.
  27. Organisation and Chairing Special Session “INTERSPEECH 2015 Computational Paralinguistics Challenge (ComParE)”, Björn Schuller, Stefan Steidl, Anton Batliner, Florian Hönig, Juan Rafael Orozco-Arroyave, INTERSPEECH 2015, ISCA, Dresden, Germany, 06.-10.09.2015.
  28. Organisation and Chairing Special Session “Speech science in end user applications”, Felix Burkhardt, Norbert Reithinger, Björn Schuller, Nils Lenke, Diane Hirschfeld, INTERSPEECH 2015, ISCA, Dresden, Germany, 06.-10.09.2015.
  29. Organisation Special Session “Computational Intelligence Algorithms for Digital Audio Applications”, Stefano Squartini, Aurelio Uncini, Björn Schuller, Francesco Piazza, International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN), INNS/IEEE, Killarney, Ireland 11.-16.07.2015.
  30. Organisation and Chairing Special Session “INTERSPEECH 2014 Computational Paralinguistics Challenge (ComParE)”, Björn Schuller, Stefan Steidl, Anton Batliner, Julien Epps, INTERSPEECH 2014, ISCA, Singapore, Singapore, 14.-18.09.2014.
  31. Organisation and Co-Chairing Panel Session “Looking for emotional and social signals in multimedia: Where art thou?”, Hayley Hung, Hatice Gunes, Lexing Xie, Björn Schuller, 22nd ACM International Conference on Multimedia (MM 2014), ACM, Orlando, FL, 03.-07.11.2014.
  32. Organisation and Co-Chairing Special Session “Emotional Speech Processing for Human-Machine Interaction”, Dong-Yan Huang, Swee Lan See, Björn Schuller, Vidhyasaharan Sethu, Asia-Pacific Signal and Information Processing Association Annual Summit and Conference (APSIPA-ASC 2014), IEEE, Siem Reap, Cambodia, 09.-12.12.2014.
  33. Organisation Special Session “Computational Intelligence Algorithms for Digital Audio Applications”, Stefano Squartini, Aurelio Uncini, Björn Schuller, Francesco Piazza, World Congress on Computational Intelligence (WCCI 2014), IEEE, Beijing, China, 06.-09.07.2014.
  34. Organisation and Chairing Special Session “Speech science in end user applications”, Felix Burkhardt, Jürgen Schröter, Björn Schuller, INTERSPEECH 2013, ISCA, Lyon, France, 25.-29.08.2013.
  35. Organisation and Chairing Special Event “INTERSPEECH 2013 Computational Paralinguistics Challenge (ComParE)”, Björn Schuller, Stefan Steidl, Anton Batliner, Alessandro Vinciarelli, Klaus Scherer, Fabien Ringeval, Mohamed Chetouani, INTERSPEECH 2013, ISCA, Lyon, France, 25.-29.08.2013.
  36. Organisation and Chairing Special Event “INTERSPEECH 2012 Speaker Trait Challenge”, Björn Schuller, Stefan Steidl, Anton Batliner, Elmar Nöth, Alessandro Vinciarelli, Felix Burkhardt, Rob van Son, INTERSPEECH 2012, Portland, OR, USA, 09.-13.09.2012.
  37. Organisation Special Session “Advances in Cognitive and Emotional Information Processing”, Stefano Squartini, Francesco Piazza, Björn Schuller, 9th International Symposium on Neural Networks (ISNN 2012), LNCS, Springer, Shenyang, China, 11.-14.07.2012.
  38. Organisation and Chairing Special Event “INTERSPEECH 2011 Speaker State Challenge”, Björn Schuller, Anton Batliner, Stefan Steidl, Florian Schiel, Jarek Krajewski, INTERSPEECH 2011, Florence, Italy, 28.-31.08.2011.
  39. Organisation and Chairing Special Session “Audio/Visual Detection of Non-Linguistic Vocal Outbursts”, Björn Schuller, Maja Pantic, International Conference on Acoustics Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP) 2011, Prague, IEEE, Czech Republic, 22.-27.05.2011.
  40. Organisation and Chairing Special Session “Computational Intelligence Algorithms for Advanced Human-Machine Interaction”, Jianhua Tao, Stefano Squartini, Björn Schuller, 8th International Symposium on Neural Networks (ISNN 2011), IEEE Computational Intelligence Society, Springer LNCS, Guilin, China, 29.05.-01.06.2011.
  41. Organisation and Chairing Special Session “Conventional, Online, and Robotic Government 2011 (CORG 2011)” with Chaudhary Imran Sarwar, 4th International Conference on Human System Interaction (HSI 2011), IEEE, Yokohama, Japan, 19.-21.05.2011.
  42. Organisation and Chairing Special Session “Conventional, Online, and Robot-Based Information Leadership” with Chaudhary Imran Sarwar, Tariq Mehmood Chaudhry, Adrian Cheok, 3rd Asian Conference on Intelligent Information and Database Systems (ACIIDS 2011), Springer LNAI, Daegu, Korea, 20.-22.04.2011.
  43. Organisation and Chairing Special Session and Challenge “INTERSPEECH 2010 Paralinguistic Challenge”, Björn Schuller, Stefan Steidl, Anton Batliner, Felix Burkhardt, Laurence Devillers, Christian Müller, Shrikanth Narayanan, INTERSPEECH 2010, ISCA, Makuhari, Japan, 26.-30.09.2010.
  44. Organisation and Chairing Special Session “Recognition of Non-Prototypical Emotion from Speech – The final frontier?”, Björn Schuller, Anton Batliner, Stefan Steidl, Dino Seppi, 4th International HUMAINE Association Conference on Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction 2009 (ACII 2009), IEEE, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 10.-12.09.2009.
  45. Organisation and Chairing Special Session and Challenge “INTERSPEECH 2009 Emotion Challenge”, Björn Schuller, Stefan Steidl, Anton Batliner, INTERSPEECH 2009, ISCA, Brighton, UK, 06.-10.09.2009.
  46. Organisation Structured Session “Music Processing”, DAGA 2010, 36. Deutsche Jahrestagung für Akustik, DEGA, Berlin, Germany, 15.-18.03.2010.
  47. Organisation and Chairing Structured Session “Music Processing”, Björn Schuller, Armin Kohlrausch, International Conference on Acoustics (NAG/DAGA 2009), including the 35th German Annual Conference on Acoustics, Acoustical Society of the Netherlands (Nederlands Akoestisch Genootschap, NAG), DEGA, Rotterdam, The Netherlands, 23.-26.03.2009.
  48. Organisation and Chairing Structured Session “Music Processing”, DAGA 2008, 34. Deutsche Jahrestagung für Akustik, DEGA, Dresden, Germany, 10.-13.03.2008.
  49. Organisation and Chairing Structured Session “Music Processing”, DAGA 2007, 33. Deutsche Jahrestagung für Akustik, DEGA, Stuttgart, Germany, 19.-22.03.2007.
  50. Organisation and Chairing Structured Session “Music Processing”, Björn Schuller, Meinard Müller, Frank Kurth, Michael Clausen, DAGA 2006, 32. Deutsche Jahrestagung für Akustik, DEGA, Braunschweig, Germany, 20.-23.03.2006.
  51. Organisation and Chairing Structured Session “Music Processing”, Björn Schuller, DAGA 2005, 31. Deutsche Jahrestagung für Akustik, DEGA, München, Germany, 14.-17.03.2005.

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