Afeka Conference for Speech Processing

Networking & Registration

Welcome Remarks

• Prof. Ami Moyal, President, Afeka
• Dr. Irit Opher, Conference Chairman, Afeka

Keynote

• 
  Prof. Li Deng
  Research Manager and Chief Scientist of AI,
  Microsoft Research, USA
  “Deep Learning Revolution: Speech Recognition and Beyond”

Technology Session

• "Uncovering the Information Capacity of Bat Vocalizations"
  Yosef Prat, Department of Zoology, Tel Aviv University, Israel

• "A Hybrid Approach for Speech Enhancement Using MoG Model and Neural Network Phoneme Classifier"

  Shlomo Chazan,  Bar-Ilan University

• "Data Driven Engine Fusion for Keyword Spotting"
  Noam Lotner, ACLP, Afeka

Keynote

• 
  Prof. Haizhou Li
  Research Director, Institute for Infocomm Research (I²R), A*STAR, Singapore
  “Speech Synthesis Perfects Everyone’s Singing”

Industry Perspective

• 
  Jeff Adams
  CEO & Founder of Cobalt Speech and Language
  “How Market-driven Speech Research Led to a Breakthrough in Noisy ASR”

Panel Discussion

Moderator: Prof. Ami Moyal

Panel members: Prof. Li Deng, Prof. Haizhou Li,  Jeff Adams, Dr. Christian Hennig

Satellite Event - Unsupervised Machine Learning Seminar

Welcome Remarks

• Dr. Itshak Lapidot, Satellite Event Chairman, Afeka

Keynote

• 
  Dr. Christian Hennig
  Department of Statistical Science,
  University College London
  “Cluster Validation: How to Think and What to Do?”

Short Lectures:

• "Sparse Signal Processing of Intracardiac Electrocardiograms"
  Dr. Tom Trigano, Sami Shamoon College of Engineering

• "A perception – action cycle approach to understanding eye gazing distributions"
  Ron M. Hecht, General Motors & The Hebrew University
  

• "Recursive inference of important sub-scenes in a user generated video"
  Raanan Y. Yehezkel Rohekar, Intel