{"id":13003,"date":"2022-06-14T20:21:05","date_gmt":"2022-06-14T12:21:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/old-cde.nus.edu.sg\/ece\/?p=13003"},"modified":"2023-03-08T14:32:57","modified_gmt":"2023-03-08T06:32:57","slug":"news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cde.nus.edu.sg\/ece\/news\/","title":{"rendered":"News"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2>\n\t\tNews\n\t<\/h2>\n\t<ul>\n<li>[15 July 2021]\u00a0A long paper &#8220;Is Someone Speaking? Exploring Long-term Temporal Features for Audio-visual Active Speaker Detection&#8221; by Ruijie Tao, Zexu Pan, Rohan Kumar Das, Xinyuan Qian, Mike Zheng Shou, and Haizhou Li has been accepted by ACM Multimedia (MM), Chengdu China, Oct 2021. Please visit the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/pdf\/2107.06592.pdf\" data-auth=\"NotApplicable\" data-linkindex=\"0\">link<\/a>\u00a0for more details.<\/li>\n<li>HLT-NUS team achieved good results\u00a0in\u00a0<strong>ActivityNet\u00a0Challenge at\u00a0<\/strong><strong>CVPR workshop 2021<\/strong>.\u00a0Congratulations\u00a0to the HLT-NUS team (Ruijie Tao, Zexu Pan, Rohan Kumar Das, Xinyuan Qian, Mike Zheng Shou and Haizhou Li), ranked 3rd place in the\u00a0AVA-ActiveSpeaker\u00a0Challenge. Please visit the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/research.google.com\/ava\/challenge.html\">link<\/a>\u00a0for more details.<\/li>\n<li>HLT-NUS team achieved good results in\u00a0<strong>Diagnosing COVID-19 using Acoustics (DiCOVA) 2021 Challenge<\/strong>.\u00a0Congratulations to the HLT-NUS (Rohan Kumar Das, Maulik Madhavi and Haizhou Li), ranked 6th place (29 teams in total) in the Cough Sound Task. Please visit the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/dicova2021.github.io\/\">link<\/a>\u00a0for more details.<\/li>\n<li>HLT Lab received a visit from Prof. Kar-Ann TOH, School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea on 08 February 2021. Please check out the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/ece.nus.edu.sg\/hlt\/professor-kar-ann-toh\/\">photos<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>HLT team has 9 papers accepted at\u00a0<strong>ICASSP 2021<\/strong>. Please check out the\u00a0&#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/ece.nus.edu.sg\/hlt\/conference-papers\">Publications<\/a>&#8221; page for our newly accepted papers at ICASSP 2021.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Professor Haizhou Li<\/strong>\u00a0has been elected as a\u00a0<strong>Member of the IEEE Signal Processing Society&#8217;s Awards Board<\/strong>\u00a0for the term January 2021 through 31\u00a0December 2023.\u00a0Please visit the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/cde.nus.edu.sg\/ece\/news\/elected-as-a-member-of-the-ieee-signal-processing-societys-awards-board_professor-li-haizhou\/\" data-auth=\"NotApplicable\">link<\/a>\u00a0for more details.<\/li>\n<li>HLT Lab is pleased to co-organize\u00a0the ICASSP2021 Signal Processing Grand Challenge:\u00a0<strong>The<\/strong>\u00a0<strong>Multi-Speaker Multi-Style Voice Cloning Challenge (M2VoC)<\/strong>. Organizers: Lei Xie, Hai Li, Song Shi, Haizhou Li, Zhiyong Wu, Xiaohai Tian, Fen Hong, and Hui Bu. Please visit the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/challenge.ai.iqiyi.com\/detail?raceId=5fb2688224954e0b48431fe0\" data-auth=\"NotApplicable\">link<\/a>\u00a0for more details.<\/li>\n<li>HLT-NUS team has won top position in both tasks (Automatic Lyrics-to-Audio Alignment and Automatic Lyrics Transcription) in\u00a0<strong>MIREX International Benchmarking 2020<\/strong>\u00a0and has been ranked first for automatic lyrics-to-audio alignment task two years in a row. Congratulations to Ph.D. candidate Ms. Xiaoxue Gao and Research Fellow Dr. Chitralekha Gupta supervised by Professor Haizhou Li. Please visit the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/cde.nus.edu.sg\/ece\/news\/aligning-lyrics-to-singing-vocal-top-results-in-the-mirex-international-benchmarking-2020\/\" data-auth=\"NotApplicable\">link<\/a>\u00a0for more details.<\/li>\n<li>HLT-NUS team achieved good results in The\u00a0<strong>Blizzard Challenge 2020<\/strong>. Congratulations to the HLT-NUS (Xiaohai Tian, Xuehao Zhou, Mingyang Zhang, Yi Zhou, Grandee Lee, Rui Liu, Berrak Sisman, Haizhou Li) has ranked 2nd place (8 teams in total) in the Shanghainese Synthesis Task, and the 6th place (16 teams in total) in the Mandarin Synthesis Task. Please visit the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.synsig.org\/index.php\/Blizzard_Challenge_2020\" data-auth=\"NotApplicable\">link<\/a>\u00a0for more details.<\/li>\n<li>TOP 5 position in The\u00a0<strong>Voice Conversion Challenge 2020<\/strong>. Congratulations to the HLT-NUS and ASLP-NWPU joint team (Xiaohai Tian, Zhichao Wang, Shan Yang, Xinyong Zhou, Hongqiang Du, Yi Zhou, Mingyang Zhang, Kun Zhou, Berrak Sisman, Lei Xie, Haizhou Li) who participated in Voice Conversion Challenge 2020 has ranked TOP 5 in both Intra-lingual Conversion (31 teams in total) and Cross-lingual Conversion (28 teams in total) tasks. Please visit the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.vc-challenge.org\/\" data-auth=\"NotApplicable\">link<\/a>\u00a0for more details.<\/li>\n<li>HLT team has 15 papers accepted at INTERSPEECH 2020. Please check out the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/ece.nus.edu.sg\/hlt\/conference-papers\" data-auth=\"NotApplicable\">publications<\/a>\u00a0page for our newly accepted papers at INTERSPEECH 2020.<\/li>\n<li>HLT Lab is pleased to co-organize\u00a0<strong>Voice Conversion Challenge 2020<\/strong>\u00a0and a satellite workshop of Interspeech 2020 entitled &#8220;<strong>Joint Workshop for the Blizzard Challenge and Voice Conversion Challenge 2020<\/strong>&#8221; on 30th October 2020. Organizers: Tomoki Toda, Wen-Chin Huang, Junichi Yamagishi, Yi Zhao, Tomi Kinnunen, Zhenhua Ling, Rohan Kumar Das and Xiaohai Tian.\u00a0Please visit the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.vc-challenge.org\/\" data-auth=\"NotApplicable\">link<\/a>\u00a0for more details.<\/li>\n<li>[9 April 2020] HLT Lab is pleased to co-organize a special session challenge on &#8220;Far Field Speaker Verification Challenge 2020&#8221; for upcoming Interspeech 2020. Organizers: Ming Li, Haizhou Li, Shrikanth Narayanan, Rohan Kumar Das, Wei Rao\u00a0and Hui Bu.\u00a0Please visit the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/2020.ffsvc.org\/\">link<\/a>\u00a0for more details.<\/li>\n<li>[4 April 2020] A Long Paper &#8216;Modeling Code-Switch Languages Using Bilingual Parallel Corpus&#8217; by Grandee Lee and Haizhou Li has been accepted by the 58th annual meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2020).<\/li>\n<li>HLT team has 5 papers accepted at Speaker Odyssey 2020. Please check out\u00a0the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/ece.nus.edu.sg\/hlt\/conference-papers\" data-auth=\"NotApplicable\">publications<\/a>\u00a0page for our newly accepted papers at Speaker Odyssey 2020.<\/li>\n<li>HLT team has 6 papers accepted at IEEE ICASSP 2020. Please check out\u00a0the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/ece.nus.edu.sg\/hlt\/conference-papers\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-auth=\"NotApplicable\">publications<\/a>\u00a0page for our newly accepted papers at ICASSP 2020.<\/li>\n<li>HLT Lab is pleased to organize a special session on &#8220;The Attacker&#8217;s Perspective on Automatic Speaker Verification&#8221; for upcoming Interspeech 2020. Organizers: Rohan Kumar Das, Xiaohai Tian, Tomi Kinnunen and Haizhou Li. Please visit the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/sites.google.com\/view\/attackers-perspective-on-asv\/\">link<\/a>\u00a0for more details.<\/li>\n<li>HLT Lab received a visit from Prof. Murat Sara\u00e7lar, Bo\u011fazi\u00e7i University, Electrical and Electronics Eng. Dept., Istanbul, Turkey and Dr. Ebru Arisoy, Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, MEF University, Turkey on 20 January 2020.\u00a0Please check out the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/ece.nus.edu.sg\/hlt\/expert-visit-20-01-2020\/\">photos<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>HLT Lab received a visit from Prof Eric Fosler-Lussier, The Ohio State University, USA, Prof Tomoki Toda, Information Technology Center, Nagoya University, Japan, Prof. Hemant A. Patil, Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of Information and Communication Technology (DA-IICT), Gandhinagar, Gujarat, India and Prof. Hermann Ney, RWTH Aachen University, Department of Computer Science, Aachen, Germany on 13 December 2019. Please check out the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/ece.nus.edu.sg\/hlt\/expert-visit-12-12-2019\/\">photos<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>HLT Lab received a visit from Prof. Tomi H. Kinnunen, Associate Professor, University of Eastern Finland, Finland on 11 December 2019. Please check out the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/ece.nus.edu.sg\/hlt\/expert-visit-prof-tomi\/\">photos<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>First position in MIREX challenge<\/strong>: The &#8220;Automatic Lyrics-to-Audio Alignment&#8221; system by the team from HLT-NUS (Chitralekha\u00a0Gupta, Emre Yilmaz, Haizhou Li) has outperformed all other systems\u00a0in the International Music Information Retrieval Evaluation eXchange platform MIREX 2019.\u00a0(<a href=\"http:\/\/ece.nus.edu.sg\/hlt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/MIREX2019_POSTER_v2.pdf\">Poster link<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.music-ir.org\/mirex\/wiki\/2019:Automatic_Lyrics-to-Audio_Alignment_Results\">MirexResults<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>The HLT lab is organizing a Winter Seminar Series on Human Language Technology. Please click\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/ece.nus.edu.sg\/hlt\/elementor-1747\">here<\/a>\u00a0for more details.<\/li>\n<li><strong>ECE post-graduate student won the second prize in 2019 International Collegiate Competition for Brain-Inspired Computing<\/strong>: The joint team from Human Language Technology Laboratory (NUS), and Multimedia and Interactive Computing Laboratory (NTU) emerged as one of the Second Prize winners in the 2019 International Collegiate Competition for Brain-Inspired Computing. The winning team is led by post-graduate student Wu Jibin supervised by Prof Li Haizhou from ECE Department.<br \/>\nThey received a certificate, as well as prize money of RMB 60,000.0. The award recognises the latest technology breakthrough in the learning algorithm for biologically plausible spiking neural networks. The highlight of the research includes the successful neuromorphic implementation of several large-scale pattern recognition tasks, such as image classification, automatic speech recognition and speech separation.<br \/>\nMore than 200 international teams participated in the competition held on the 19<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0and 20<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0October 2019 in Tsinghua University, China. The participating entries covered hardware, software, and applications in the area of brain-inspired computing for artificial general intelligence. Please check out the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/ece.nus.edu.sg\/hlt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/New-Image.jpg\">photo<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Xiaoxue Gao received the<strong>\u00a0Best Poster Award Runner Up Prize 2019<\/strong>, for the poster of &#8220;<em>Speech-to-Singing Conversion and Synthesis<\/em>&#8221; in the 4<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0Workshop for Young Female Researchers in Speech Science and Technology of the Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, September 14<sup>th<\/sup>, 2019, Graz, Austria.<\/li>\n<li>Mr. Jibin Wu\u00a0received the &#8220;<strong>Zhejiang Lab&#8217;s International Talent Fund for Young Professionals<\/strong>&#8221; (Zhejiang, China) on 06 September 2019, for the project proposal of &#8220;Large-scale Automatic Speech Recognition with Deep Spiking Neural Networks&#8221;.<\/li>\n<li>HLT Lab received a visit from Prof. Eliathamby Ambikairajah, Head of School of Electrical Engineering and Telecommunications, University of New South Wales (UNSW), Australia on 03 September 2019. Please check out the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/ece.nus.edu.sg\/hlt\/expert-visit-prof-ambi\/\">photos<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Dr. Emre Yilmaz and HLT lab conducted &#8220;Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR)&#8221; training workshop on 16 July &#8211; 30 August 2019. Please check out the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/ece.nus.edu.sg\/hlt\/asrworkshop\/\">photos<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>HLT Lab received a visit from Prof. Gordon Cheng, Founder and Director of Institute for Cognitive Systems, Faculty of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Technical University of Munich, Munich, Germany on 15 August 2019. Please check out the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/ece.nus.edu.sg\/hlt\/expert-visit-15-08-19\/\">photos<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Ms. Yi Zhou, received the\u00a0<strong>Best Student Poster Award 2019<\/strong>, for the poster of &#8220;<em>Cross-lingual Voice Conversion with Bilingual Phonetic PosterioGram and Average Modeling<\/em>&#8220;, in the Conversational Speech Synthesis: From Design to Evaluation Workshop, 22-26 July 2019, University of Crete, Heraklion, Crete, Greece.<\/li>\n<li>Mr. Jibin Wu, as nominated by the National University of Singapore,\u00a0is\u00a0selected by the organizing committee with full travel sponsorship to\u00a0attend\u00a0the second edition of the\u00a0<strong>EPFL Engineering PhD Summit, Switzerland<\/strong>. Jibin will present our latest research achievements\u00a0in the Neuromorphic Computing\u00a0among other selected attendees from top engineering schools\u00a0at the summit.<\/li>\n<li>HLT Lab received a visit from Dr. Giorgio Metta, the Scientific Director at the Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia (IIT), Italy, and Director of the iCub Facility Department at the same institute on 25 June 2019. Please check out the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/ece.nus.edu.sg\/hlt\/expertvisit25-06\/\">photos<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Professor Li Haizhou received the\u00a02019 IEEE\u00a0Computational Intelligence Magazine\u00a0Outstanding Paper\u00a0Award at\u00a0IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation, 12 June 2019, New Zealand,\u00a0for the paper entitled &#8220;How the Brain Formulates Memory: A Spatio-Temporal Model,&#8221; by\u00a0Jun Hu,\u00a0Huajin Tang,\u00a0Kay Chen Tan\u00a0and\u00a0Haizhou Li, in IEEE Computational Intelligence Magazine, vol. 11, no. 4, pp. 56-68, May 2016.\u00a0Please visit the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/cis.ieee.org\/getting-involved\/awards\/2019-cis-award-recipients\">link<\/a>\u00a0for more details.<\/li>\n<li>HLT team has 18 papers accepted at INTERSPEECH 2019. Check out\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/ece.nus.edu.sg\/hlt\/conference-papers\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-auth=\"NotApplicable\">publications<\/a>\u00a0page for our newly accepted papers at INTERSPEECH 2019.<\/li>\n<li>HLT Lab received a visit from Professors Jan Maciejowski (Cambridge University), Vincent Poor (Princeton University) and William Sanders (UIUC) on 9 April 2019. Please check out the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/ece.nus.edu.sg\/hlt\/events_visit9-04-2019\/\">photos<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>We are hosting ASRU 2019 &#8211; one of the most prestigious events in speech signal processing! Visit http:\/\/www.asru2019.org for more info. HLT members (Haizhou Li, Emre Y\u0131lmaz, Rohan Kumar Das, Maulik Madhavi, Karthika Vijayan, Chitralekha Gupta, Berrak Sisman, Bidisha Sharma and Wei Rao) are appointed in the organizing committee. Please visit <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/RrP41i34vy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">http:\/\/www.asru2019.org<\/a>\u00a0for more information.<\/li>\n<li>HLT team has three newly accepted papers at ICASSP 2019! Check out\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/ece.nus.edu.sg\/hlt\/conference-papers\">publications<\/a>\u00a0page for our newly accepted papers at ICASSP 2019.<\/li>\n<li>HLT team has three newly accepted papers at IJCNN 2019! Check out\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/ece.nus.edu.sg\/hlt\/conference-papers\">publications<\/a>\u00a0page for our newly accepted papers at IJCNN 2019.<\/li>\n<li>Prof Haizhou Li was appointed as Member of IEEE Signal Processing Society Fellow Evaluation Committee (2019). Please visit\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/old-cde.nus.edu.sg\/ece\/news\/prof-li-haizhou-appointed-as-member-of-ieee-signal-processing-society-fellow-evaluation-committee\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">NUS ECE news\u00a0page<\/a>\u00a0for more information.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/cde.nus.edu.sg\/ece\/hlt\/\" target=\"_self\" role=\"button\" rel=\"noopener\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tReturn to HTL Main Page\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News [15 July 2021]\u00a0A long paper &#8220;Is Someone Speaking? Exploring Long-term Temporal Features for Audio-visual Active Speaker Detection&#8221; by Ruijie Tao, Zexu Pan, Rohan Kumar Das, Xinyuan Qian, Mike Zheng Shou, and Haizhou Li has been accepted by ACM Multimedia (MM), Chengdu China, Oct 2021. Please visit the\u00a0link\u00a0for more details. 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