Call For Participation: Lectures on Digital Signal Processing

Note: The following call for participation was forwarded to me today by my colleague, Dr. Caslon L. Chua, Dean of the College of Computer Studies of De La Salle University, Manila. Caslon is currently the Vice-President of the Computing Society of the Philippines.

INVITATION TO LECTURES ON:

"Can Computers Now Understand Sites and Sounds? Cutting Edge Researches in Digital Signal Processing"

Date: November 12, 2007
Venue: College of Computer Studies, De La Salle University, Taft Avenue, Manila

Speaker: Prof Chin-Hui Lee will give lectures on Automatic Speech Recognition in two Asian countries to promote speech and language science, technology and research. He has been appointed as one of the two Distinguished Lecturers for the year 2007 by the International Speech Communication Association (ISCA, the international academic organization in speech and language technology). For details of ISCA and its Distinguished Lecturers Program, you can visit http://www.isca-speech.org/DistinguishedLec.html.


Prof Chin-Hui Lee’s research areas include Human Computer Interface, Multimedia Communication, Multimedia Signal Processing, Speech and Audio Processing, Machine Learning, Pattern Recognition and Verification. Dr. Lee is a Fellow of the IEEE. He has published more than 250 papers and 25 patents on the subject of automatic speech and speaker recognition. He received the SPS Senior Award in 1994 and the SPS Best Paper Award in 1997 and 1999, respectively. In 1997, he was awarded the prestigious Bell Labs President's Gold Award for his contributions to the Lucent Speech Processing Solutions product.

Distinguished talks will also be rendered to us by experts in Philippine languages, Dr. Rowena Cristina Guevara of UP-Diliman and Dr. Vladimir Mariano from UP Los Banos. Dr. Guevara will talk about their work in language analysis through speech recognition, and Dr. Mariano will talk about other applications of DSP in image processing. Ms. Jocelyn Cu will also present DSP researches conducted at DLSU-Manila.


PROGRAM (Tentative)

November 12, 2007 (Monday)

Registration

9:00 – 9:10 Opening Ceremonies
Prayer National Anthem Opening Remarks

9:10 – 10:30 Dr. Chin-Hui Lee Statistical Natural Language Processing: Lessons from Automatic Speech Recognition

10:40 – 12:00 Dr. Rowena Cristina Guevara, UP-Diliman Speech Research at the UP Signal Processing Laboratory

LUNCH BREAK

1:00 – 2:20 Dr. Vladimir Mariano UP at Los Banos Digital Signal Processing Applications

2:30 – 3:30 Ms. Jocelyn Cu DSP Researches at DLSU-M

3:30 - 4:00 Closing Ceremonies

Registration:

There is no registration fee to attend the Lectures on DSP, so materials and meals will not be provided. There are limited slots; so please pre-register as soon as you can. Initially, we have to limit the number of participants to five from each institution.

Pre-registration Information:

Please provide the organizers with the following pre-registration information:

Name, Institutional Affiliation, Email Address, Contact Number


Organizers:

These lectures are organized by the Natural Language Processing Academic Area (NLP-AA) and the Computer Technology Department of the College of Computer Studies of De La Salle University-Manila. We support and promote research in the field, and we organize this event to cultivate awareness of the current trends in Digital Signal Processing focusing on Speech Recognition and Image Processing applications.

Contact Details:

For inquiries, please contact the program chair, Dr. Rachel Roxas (roxasr@dlsu.edu.ph), Mr. Clement Ong ( ongc@dlsu.edu.ph) or Ms. Sheng Mejia at (02) 524-0402 or (02)-536 0277/78.