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Subject: IEEE Workshop on Speech Coding for Telecommunications
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Organization: Telecommunications and Signal Processing (TSP) Lab., McGill University
Date: Tue, 21 Sep 1993 19:23:11 GMT
IEEE Workshop on Speech Coding for Telecommunications
"SPEECH CODING FOR THE NETWORK OF THE FUTURE"
Hotel Le Chantecler, Sainte-Adele, Quebec, Canada
October 13-15, 1993
(REGISTRATION INFORMATION FOLLOWS THIS ADVANCE PROGRAM)
*** ADVANCE PROGRAM ***
*** Wednesday, October 13, 1993
++ Variable Rate Speech Coding
Session Chairman: P. Kabal
2:00 PM Variable rate speech coding for UMTS
L. Cellario & D. Sereno
2:20 PM Evolution of variable rate speech coders
T. Eriksson & J. Sjoberg
2:40 PM QCELP: The North American CDMA digital cellular variable rate speech coding standard
A. DeJaco, W. Gardner, P. Jacobs & C. Lee
3:00 PM Break
++ Wideband Speech/Audio coding
Session Chairman: W.-Y. Chan
3:30 PM Extending MPEG-audio layer III to wideband speech coding
K. Brandenburg, M. Dietz, E. Eberlein & R. Bitto
3:50 PM Audio coding using masking-threshold adapted perceptual filter
W.-W. Chang & C.-T. Wang
4:10 PM Feasibility study of 32 kb/s wideband speech and music coding with a low-delay filterbank
F. Wuppermann & F. de Bont
4:30 PM High quality coding of wideband speech at 24 kbit/s
J. Paulus, C. Antweiler & C. G. Gerlach
4:50 PM Embedded wideband VSELP speech coding with optimized codebooks
A. LeGuyader & E. Boursicaut
5:10 PM End of session
6:15 PM RECEPTION
7:30 PM DINNER
*** Thursday, October 14, 1993
8:30 AM Keynote Address: Speech coding: A historical perspective
Ben Gold
++ Pitch Coding in CELP
Session Chairman: P. Mermelstein
9:10 AM Improved pitch prediction
W. B. Kleijn
9:30 AM Design of a PSI-CELP coder for mobile communications
K. Mano, T. Moriya, S. Miki & H. Ohmuro
10:00 AM Break
++ High-Quality - Medium Rate Coding
Session Chairman: A. Gersho
10:30 AM ACELP speech coding at 8 kbit/s with a 10 ms frame: A candidate for CCITT standardization
R. Salami, C. Laflamme & J.-P. Adoul
10:50 AM Conjugate structure CELP coder for the CCITT 8-kbit/s standardization candidate
A. Kataoka, T. Moriya & S. Hayashi
11:10 AM A toll-quality 8 kb/s speech coder for PCS applications
D. W. Lin
11:30 AM A variable bit rate audio coder for videoconferencing
A. Crossman
11:50 AM End of session
12:00 PM LUNCH
++ Poster Session A
Session Chairman: T. P. Barnwell III
1:30 PM Analysis-by-synthesis algorithms for low bit rate coding
G. Riccardi & G. A. Milan
Analysis-by-synthesis speech coding with extended approximation interval
C. G. Gerlach
Performance of noise excitation for unvoiced speech
G. Kubin, B. S. Atal & W. B. Kleijn
A 1200 b/s voice coder based on split vector quantization of line spectral frequencies
C. Ravishankar, B. R. U. Bhaskar & S. Dimolitsas
Smooth speech reconstruction using prototype waveform interpolation
M. Leong & P. Kabal
A new government standard 2400 bps speech coder
V. C. Welch & T. E. Tremain
A 5600 bps VSELP speech coder candidate for half-rate GSM
I. A. Gerson & M. A. Jasiuk
++ Poster Session B
Session Chairman: J. D. Gibson
1:30 PM High quality 2400 bps vocoder research
B. Fette, C. Bergstrom, S. You & C. Jaskie
M-LCELP speech coding at bit-rates below 4 kbps
M. Serizawa, K. Ozawa, T. Miyano & T. Nomura
Stochastic tree voice coding for wireless channels
D. E. Veeneman, S. Gringeri & B. Mazor
Mixed excitation prototype waveform interpolation for low bit rate speech coding
A. V. McCree & W. B. Kleijn
Sinewave amplitude coding using line spectral frequencies
R. J. McAulay, T. Champion & T. F. Quatieri
Pitch filtering in CELP using a time scaling approach
G. Chahine & P. Kabal
3:00 PM Break
++ Poster Session C
Session Chairman: W. B. Kleijn
3:30 PM Application of optimal LSP quantization in 5 kb/s speech coding
H. B. Hansen, H. T. Jensen, H. Nielsen & K. B. Mikkelsen
Low complexity LPC quantization using the structured vector quantizer
M. Yong & V. Eyuboglu
Spectral coding by fast vector quantization
E. Agrell
Coding of LSP parameters using interframe moving average prediction and multi-stage vector quantization
H. Ohmuro, T. Moriya, K. Mano & S. Miki
Fast search algorithms with applications to split and multi-stage vector quantization of speech LSP parameters
S. Arya, N. Phamdo, N. Farvardin & D. Mount
A robust single-stage VQ for spectral coding
R. Hagen & P. Hedelin
Anomalous behavior associated with vector quantizing code books
J. S. Collura & T. E. Tremain
Tree-structured vector quantization of speech LSF parameters
D. Chemla, S.-W. Soong & W.-Y. Chan
++ Poster Session D
Session Chairman: V. Cuperman
3:30 PM Subjective test methodology: MOS vs. DMOS in evaluation of speech coding algorithms
L. A. Thorpe & R. Shelton
Speech coding over frame relay networks
T. W. Leung, W. P. LeBlanc & S. A. Mahmoud
A speech packet recovery technique using a model based tree search interpolator
W. E. Erhart & J. D. Gibson
A multimedia CELP/subband coder for ATM networks
R. E. Van Dyck, J. Patel, E. Simota & Q. Lin
Real-time implementation of a wideband speech coder
E. Harborg, J. E. Knudsen, A. Fuldseth & F. T. Johansen
Convergence and numerical sensitivity of backward-adaptive LPC predictor
J.-H. Chen & R. Cox
Voice activity detection for digital cellular networks
K. Srinivasan & A. Gersho
Structured codebook for variable-rate CELP coding
T. Taniguchi, Y. Ohta & J. Yao
5:00 PM End of session
7:30 PM DINNER
*** Friday, October 15, 1993
++ Standardization and Evaluation
Session Chairman: R. Cox
8:30 AM Speech coding requirements from the perspective of the future mobile systems
M. Delprat, A. Urie & C. Evci
8:50 AM Future objectives in low-rate speech coding technology standardization
S. Dimolitsas & C. Ravishankar
9:10 AM Testing speech coders for usage in wireless communications systems
V. K. Varma
9:30 AM Selection phase of GSM half rate channel
R. Montagna
9:50 AM Evaluating the quality of wide-band music signals degraded by cell loss in ATM networks
C. Morioka, A. Takahashi & H. Nagabuchi
10:10 AM Break
++ Topics in CELP
Session Chairman: J.-P. Adoul
10:40 AM Soft decision vector quantization for noisy channels
V. Cuperman, F.-H. Liu & P. Ho
11:00 AM PERCELP - Perceptually enhanced random codebook excited linear prediction
D. Sen & W. H. Holmes
11:20 AM On reducing the complexity and storage of CELP speech coding using self-orthogonal codebook
K. W. Law, W. F. Leung & C. F. Chan
11:40 AM On the use of band-passed excitation codebooks for CELP coding of speech
P. Zheng & P. Mermelstein
12:00 PM LUNCH
++ New Directions in Speech Coding
Session Chairman: B. S. Atal
1:20 PM Speech coding at 2.4 kbps and below via time-frequency interpolation
Y. Shoham
1:40 PM A variable rate speech coding algorithm for cellular networks
E. Paksoy & A. Gersho
2:00 PM SUMMARY DISCUSSION
3:00 PM END OF WORKSHOP
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VENUE
The 1993 IEEE Workshop on Speech Coding for Telecommunications will
be held at Hotel Le Chantecler in Sainte-Adele, Quebec,
about 70 kilometers northwest of Montreal in the Laurentian Mountains.
Sainte-Adele is within an hour of driving time from Montreal, and
approximately two and a half hours from Ottawa, the capital of Canada.
The Workshop will be held at a time when the mountains will be clothed
in splendid fall colors. Outdoor recreational activities, besides fall
foliage viewing, include water sports on the lake, tennis, golf, hiking,
mountain biking, and horseback riding. Indoor facilities available
include fitness equipment, swimming and whirlpool, sauna, and courts for
squash, racquetball, and badminton.
WORKSHOP REGISTRATION
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Registrar by mail or fax. Authors who have already registered may
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service. Your payment may be remitted by a cheque or money order in
Canadian dollars, payable to 1993 IEEE Workshop on Speech Coding. You
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Flights from Canadian and U.S. locations arrive at Dorval Airport,
and flights from elsewhere arrive at Mirabel Airport. Mirabel
Airport is located in between Montreal and Sainte-Adele. Delegates
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>From Montreal, Dorval, or Mirabel, it is necessary to get on Autoroute 15
(Autoroute des Laurentides) and head north (northwest geographically) to
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approximately Cdn $40. You may choose to take a bus from Dorval or
downtown to Mirabel (see bus information above) and then take a taxi to
Sainte-Adele.
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obtain Canadian or U.S. dollars prior to departure for Canada.
INQUIRIES
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via anonymous ftp from aldebaran.ee.mcgill.ca in directory pub/workshop93.
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Inquiries concerning Workshop registration and payments should be addressed
to the Workshop Registrar and Treasurer:
1993 IEEE Speech Coding Workshop
c/o Lynn-Marie Holland
Canadian Institute for Telecommunications Research
McGill University
3480 University Street
Room 633
Montreal, Quebec
Canada H3A 2A7
Fax: (514) 398-4470
Inquiries concerning accommodation and meals should be directed to:
Le Chantecler
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Sainte-Adele, Quebec
Canada J0R 1L0
Tel: (514) 229-3555
(800) 363-2420 (Toll-free in Eastern Canada and USA)
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