2021 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing
6-11 June 2021 • Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Extracting Knowledge from Information
We’re a diverse collective of thinkers and doers, continually reimagining what’s possible. And every new product, service, or feature we invent is the result of people working together to make each other’s ideas stronger.
Sony's Purpose: Fill the world with emotion, through the power of creativity and technology.
Amazon Science gives you insight into the company’s approach to customer-obsessed scientific innovation. Amazon fundamentally believes that scientific innovation is essential to being the most customer-centric company in the world. It’s the company’s ability to have an impact at scale that allows us to attract some of the brightest minds in artificial intelligence and related fields.
Tencent is an Internet company using technology to enrich the lives of Internet users and assist the digital upgrade of enterprises. Our mission is "Value for Users, Tech for Good".
Facebook AI focuses on connecting people to what they care about, powering meaningful and safe experiences, advancing ML, and conducting open research.
Research across Google provides new ways of looking at old problems and helps transform how we all work and live, and we think the biggest impact comes when everyone in the world can access it. To that end, we use state-of-the-art computer science techniques to solve problems for our users, our customers and the world, making it easier for you to do things every day, whether it’s searching for photos of people you love, breaking down language barriers, or helping you get things done with your own personal digital assistant.
Founded in 2012, ByteDance is a technology company operating a range of content platforms that inform, educate, entertain, and inspire people across language, culture. Dedicated to building global platforms of creation and interaction, ByteDance now has over 60,000 global employees and a portfolio of applications available in over 150 markets and 75 languages, including Toutiao, Douyin, Xigua Video, TikTok, Helo, Lark, and more. Our mission: To Inspire Creativity and Enrich Life.
As the world’s leading Chinese language Internet search provider, Baidu responds to billions of search queries from more than 100 countries and regions every day, serving as the most important way for netizens to access Chinese language information. With its mission to “make the complicated world simpler through technology”, Baidu promotes constant technological innovation, and is committed to being a top global technology company which best understands users’ needs and enables their growth.
Adobe Research is re-imagining the next generation of creative audio technology with AI. Our work spans a number of audio research areas from speech enhancement and music information retrieval to topics that don’t quite fit into a traditional research area. We also work on problems at the intersection of audio with video, augmented reality, and natural language processing. To advance all of these areas, we develop new machine learning models, novel signal processing algorithms, and new human computer interaction paradigms. We publish extensively and collaborate closely with academia, while having a real-world impact through Adobe products.
Researchers at Microsoft work every day to accelerate scientific discovery and deliver technology innovation that empowers every person and organization on the planet to achieve more. They operate across a wide range of scientific and technical disciplines to advance the state of the art, make a substantial impact on the company’s products and services, and benefit society at large. And they do this within an open, diverse and interdisciplinary research culture, powered by the freedom to think big, take risks and try new things.
Mitsubishi Electric Research Labs (MERL) conducts both fundamental and applied research in artificial intelligence, signal processing, control, optimization and multi-physics modeling. We are an open lab, publishing our results, collaborating with the world-wide research community, and measuring our performance by the impact we have on Mitsubishi Electric and the world. MERL researchers have the freedom to explore their scientific passions more fully. With an emphasis on the future, both the scientists and the management team take a long-term view of the research.
ALIBABA GROUP’S MISSION IS TO MAKE IT EASY TO DO BUSINESS ANYWHERE. We enable businesses to transform the way they market, sell and operate and improve their efficiencies. We provide the technology infrastructure and marketing reach to help merchants, brands and other businesses to leverage the power of new technology to engage with their users and customers and operate in a more efficient way.
Beijing Magic Data Technology Company Limited is one of the leading artificial intelligence data service providers in the world. We are committed to assisting companies to accelerate their AI initiatives by providing different types of data services in the fields of automatic speech recognition (ASR), text to speech (TTS), natural language processing (NLP), and computer vision (CV). We have data processing centers within China and a wholly owned subsidiary in Hong Kong. Through our unique features such as large-scalable data solution capability with quality-focused methodology, cost optimization and committed to meet customer’s schedule, we have been serving top AI companies and Fortune 500 companies around the world.
The Linguistic Data Consortium is a non-profit organization hosted by the University of Pennsylvania whose mission is to support language-related education, research and technology development by creating and sharing linguistic resources. After almost 30 years as the leader in language resource development and distribution, LDC continues to provide to the community large quantities of diverse data, research support and high quality membership services. Human language technology development, artificial intelligence and related fields are changing rapidly and need effective digital resource delivery, greater language coverage, new data genres, fast, cost-efficient annotation processes and flexible tools. The Consortium successfully meets those challenges and will continue to do so with the support of members, licensees, sponsors and collaborators.
The Human Language Technology Center of Excellence was founded in January of 2007 at Johns Hopkins University to focus on research in all aspects of speech and language technologies. Research at the center is exciting; our mission is to explore highly innovative technologies that could have a significant impact on challenging real-world problems. The center’s research focuses on advanced technology for automatically analyzing a wide range of speech, text, and document data in multiple languages. Our research addresses key issues in extracting information from massive sources of text and speech.
The IEEE Signal Processing Society is the leading professional association for signal processing and data science professionals, serving a diverse community of more than 18,000 academics, industry professionals, students, and more. SPS provides ist members with leading-edge research, world-class events, dynamic networking and collaboration opportunities, continuing education, career resources, recognition, and more. Feel free to stop by our booth or visit our website to learn more!
There is no AI without algorithms. In our pursuit of fluid intelligence, we are continuing to advance our work in deep learning, and putting significant investment into neurosymbolic AI. In parallel, we’re delivering secure, trusted AI with work focused on governance, explainability, fairness, and bias reduction, and empowering AI creators with AI engineering tools and capabilities that simplify and automate key tasks like data preparation, training and lifecycle management. Finally, we’re developing a new class of AI hardware that is inherently energy-sufficient, increasing compute power by orders of magnitude without the demand for increased energy. Visit IBM Research: http://ibm.biz/ai-research
Researcher (www.researcher-app.com) is a mobile and web platform that aims to make sure academics never miss important research. Users can follow the latest papers from over 17,000 journals and Researcher combines them into one personalised social media style feed. Over 2 million academics are already using Researcher to stay up to date with the most recent and relevant publications. To learn more about Researcher, you can watch this video: https://youtu.be/MuWOXv58aYY Download the app for free by searching for “researcher” in your smartphone’s app store.
Appen collects and labels images, text, speech, audio, video, and other data used to build and continuously improve the world’s most innovative artificial intelligence systems. Our expertise includes having a global crowd of over 1 million skilled contractors who speak over 235 languages, in over 70,000 locations and 170 countries, and the industry’s most advanced AI-assisted data annotation platform. Our reliable training data gives leaders in technology, automotive, financial services, retail, healthcare, and governments the confidence to deploy world-class AI products. Founded in 1996, Appen has customers and offices globally.
Wiley-IEEE Press combines IEEE’s prestige with Wiley’s book publishing prowess to publish high quality books, which serve the global engineering and computer science community. Written by leading experts in the field, the books are authoritative, cutting-edge and cover in-demand topics. The imprint primarily publishes professional books (monographs, edited volumes), textbooks, and major reference works geared for electrical engineering and computer science researchers, professionals, and students. Books are published either as standalones or as part of our many book series.
Mitsubishi Electric Research Labs (MERL) conducts both fundamental and applied research in artificial intelligence, signal processing, control, optimization and multi-physics modeling. We are an open lab, publishing our results, collaborating with the world-wide research community, and measuring our performance by the impact we have on Mitsubishi Electric and the world. MERL researchers have the freedom to explore their scientific passions more fully. With an emphasis on the future, both the scientists and the management team take a long-term view of the research.
Hitachi is contributing to the expansion of social innovation business through R&D on digital technologies such as data science, media processing, AI, service computing, and computing architecture to achieve safety and support efficient societal infrastructure.
Our media processing technologies for video, speech, and language processing are connecting the real world to cyberspace and expanding human activities to contribute to creating a safe, secure, and comfortable society.
For more than 100 years since the Company’s foundation, Hitachi’s R&D has been putting the Hitachi Mission – “Contribute to society though the development of superior, original technology and products” into practice, developing the most cutting-edge technologies and fostering innovations that ushered in the future.
Create a better future for yourself and the society by joining our group of top notch researchers in generating innovative solutions to overcome the current challenges in the world.
Philips has a long history of breakthrough innovation. The company began in lighting and founded its first research lab in 1914. Applying its technical knowledge to healthcare, Philips introduced a medical X-ray tube in 1918. Along the way, we've been responsible for some truly ground-breaking discoveries and standards, such as the Rotalix X-ray tube, the high-pressure mercury lamp, the triple-headed dry electric razor, the Compact Cassette, the Brilliance 40-slice CT scanner, CD, DVD, Ambilight TV, and more recent innovations such as the AirFloss, Lumify portable ultrasound, and the all-digital Vereos PET/CT scanner.