ICASSP 2008

ICASSP 2008
Name	ICASSP 2008
Date	March 31 – April 4, 2008
Location	Las Vegas, Nevada, United States
Organizer	IEEE Signal Processing Society

ICASSP 2008 ICASSP 2008 was the 2008 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing held in Las Vegas, Nevada, bringing together researchers from institutions, companies, and laboratories worldwide. The conference featured plenary sessions, tutorials, technical papers, workshops, and exhibitions that connected participants from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Stanford University, University of California, Berkeley, Carnegie Mellon University, Georgia Institute of Technology, University of Illinois Urbana–Champaign, and industrial research groups such as Microsoft Research, Google Research, IBM Research, AT&T Labs Research, and Bell Labs.

Overview

ICASSP 2008 convened scientists and engineers across areas represented by the IEEE Signal Processing Society, the Acoustical Society of America, the International Speech Communication Association, and sponsors including National Science Foundation, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, European Research Council, Sony Corporation, and Nokia. Attendees included delegates from University of Cambridge, University of Oxford, ETH Zurich, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Imperial College London, Tsinghua University, Peking University, University of Tokyo, University of Sydney, and Australian National University. The program highlighted contributions from researchers at Princeton University, Yale University, Columbia University, University of Michigan, Johns Hopkins University, University of Pennsylvania, University of Toronto, McGill University, University of Waterloo, and University of British Columbia.

Technical Program

The technical program comprised sessions on speech processing, audio analysis, image processing, multimedia retrieval, and machine learning featuring papers from teams at Cornell University, Harvard University, Duke University, Brown University, Rice University, University of Maryland, University of Minnesota, Northwestern University, University of California, Los Angeles, and University of California, San Diego. Topics intersected work from research centers such as Bell Labs, Siemens Corporate Technology, Toshiba Research, Fujitsu Laboratories, Samsung Research, Intel Labs, Qualcomm Research, Adobe Research, and Canon Research. Presentations referenced datasets and benchmarks used by groups at Yahoo! Research, Facebook AI Research, Twitter Research, LinkedIn Research, Huawei Noah's Ark Lab, Alibaba DAMO Academy, Baidu Research, Tencent AI Lab, and Naver Labs. Sessions included contributions from authors affiliated with Los Alamos National Laboratory, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Sandia National Laboratories, Argonne National Laboratory, and Oak Ridge National Laboratory.

Keynote Speakers and Tutorials

Keynote and tutorial speakers included distinguished investigators affiliated with Nokia Research Center, Ericsson Research, National Institute of Standards and Technology, French National Centre for Scientific Research, Max Planck Society, and Fraunhofer Society. Renowned academics from University of California, Santa Barbara, New York University, University of Washington, Brown University, Northwestern University, University of Chicago, Rutgers University, University of Southern California, and Indiana University Bloomington delivered invited talks. Tutorials were presented by teams from Adobe Systems, NVIDIA Research, Xerox PARC, Roxbury Research, Siemens Research, and Hitachi Global Storage Technologies, offering training for participants from NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory and European Space Agency delegates.

Special Sessions and Workshops

Special sessions addressed topics such as robust speech recognition, audio-visual processing, biomedical signal processing, and sensor networks with organizers from Boston University, University of Massachusetts Amherst, University of Arizona, Arizona State University, University of Colorado Boulder, Colorado State University, Texas A&M University, University of Texas at Austin, Rice University, and Purdue University. Workshops were co-located with initiatives from International Telecommunication Union, World Health Organization, IEEE Robotics and Automation Society, ACM SIGGRAPH, ACM Multimedia, NeurIPS, ICML, CVPR, and ACL affiliates. Sessions featured contributions from industry labs such as Motorola Labs, Honeywell, Siemens Healthcare, GE Global Research, Philips Research, Roche Diagnostics, and Medtronic.

Awards and Best Paper Recipients

Awards recognized outstanding contributions from research groups and individuals at institutions including KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Chalmers University of Technology, University of Groningen, Delft University of Technology, Leiden University, Politecnico di Milano, Sapienza University of Rome, Technical University of Munich, RWTH Aachen University, and University of Stuttgart. Best Paper and Best Student Paper distinctions honored authors with affiliations to University of Helsinki, Aalto University, University of Edinburgh, University of Manchester, King's College London, Queen Mary University of London, University College London, Imperial College London, and London School of Economics and Political Science collaborators.

Venue and Organization

The conference took place in Las Vegas, with venues that connected local organizing committees including representatives from University of Nevada, Las Vegas, Nevada System of Higher Education, Clark County, Las Vegas Convention Center Authority, and event partners such as MGM Resorts International, Caesars Entertainment, Las Vegas Sands Corporation, Boyd Gaming Corporation, and Wynn Resorts. The organizing committee worked with sponsors and exhibitors from IEEE, SPIE, OSA, SIAM, ACM, ANS, IET, and corporate partners like Texas Instruments, Analog Devices, National Instruments, Rohde & Schwarz, Keysight Technologies, Fujitsu, Hitachi, NEC Corporation, and LG Electronics.

Impact and Legacy

Proceedings and presentations influenced subsequent research at major centers including DeepMind, OpenAI, Google DeepMind, Microsoft Research Cambridge, Facebook AI Research Paris, Baidu Research Silicon Valley, Amazon Lab126, Apple Machine Learning Research, Uber ATG, and academic programs at MIT Media Lab, Stanford AI Lab, Berkeley AI Research Lab, Princeton Neuroscience Institute, Salk Institute for Biological Studies, Weizmann Institute of Science, Riken Center for Advanced Intelligence Project, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, and Indian Institute of Science. The conference catalyzed collaborations that later contributed to advances celebrated at forums like NeurIPS, ICLR, ICASSP 2010, ICASSP 2012, ICIP, EUSIPCO, ICASSP 2014, and in journals such as IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, IEEE Signal Processing Letters, IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing, Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, and Pattern Recognition Letters.

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