Indian Institute of Technology Mandi (IIT Mandi), is hosting the 15th Winter School on Speech and Audio Processing (WiSSAP) 2020. The winter school is being hosted by IIT Mandi from January 8 to 10, 2020. The event will host invited talks and tutorials by eminent researchers in the field of machine perception, soundscape analysis and deep learning.
What is Machine listening?
Machine listening deals with creating algorithms which can perform tasks based on the human ability to make sense of surroundings using sound, through computer simulations. Machine listening can aid researchers in developing intelligent assistive devices, self-driving cars, enhanced human-computer interactions, and so on.
“WiSSAP 2020 is an important step to leadership in Data Science for IIT Mandi. Fields like Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning and Signal Processing are seeing rapid growth in a world where computing technology is growing exponentially. This School will provide participants from diverse backgrounds, an exposure to different models and tools of machine listening”, said, Prof. Timothy A. Gonsalves, Director, IIT Mandi, In his welcome address.
In addition to these, there will be two lab sessions where participants will be involved in building machine listening algorithms.
WiSSAP 2020’s International Speakers
Jointly sponsored by IEEE Signal Processing Society, National Mission on Himalayan Studies, Samsung, Amazon Alexa, ZAPR Media Labs and Pindrop, WiSSAP 2020 is hosting a number of international speakers including Dr Paris Smaragdis from University of Illinois, Urbana – Champaign, Dr Dan Stowell from Queen Mary University of London and Sharath Adavanne from Tampere University, Finland. Over the next three days, the invited international experts will discuss in-depth the latest research and the new research directions in the area of machine listening.