Tuesday, April 21, 13:20 - 14:20, Location: 4F VIP, TICC
LTE Release 8 and Mobile WiMAX Wave 2 are being trialed or deployed at the moment, but their evolution has already started in the form of LTE-Advanced and IEEE 802.16m. The panel of this session represents players from the wireless industry, including mobile operators, wireless infrastructure manufacturers, chipset manufacturers and from the startup community. Among the questions are
Prof. Dr. Holger Boche, Technische Universität Berlin and Director, Fraunhofer Heinrich Hertz-Institut, Berlin, Germany
Wednesday, April 22, 11:50 - 12:50, Location: 4F VIP, TICC
Nowadays, higher engineering education extends traditional domains of universities and colleges. Textbooks, lectures and laboratories are not the only way of acquiring state of the art knowledge.
Rapid developments in the domain of the Internet during the last decade have provided new educational resources such as virtual and real experimentation facilities, new ways of publishing and sharing materials are being developed.
The panel will discuss which are the educational resources appropriate for different situations, how books expect to be published and distributed in the future, how software and hardware vendor/publishers will develop strategies to sell material they create, how strong Web-based courses compete with other means and novel approaches. Among them, Connexions project is intended for virtual collaborative educational content, with Signal Processing focus among other higher education subjects.
Prof. Roxana Saint-Nom, Buenos Aires Institute of Technology (ITBA)
Thursday, April 23, 12:20 - 13:20, Location: 4F VIP, TICC
This panel aims to discuss technologies that aim to process communication among humans and either other humans or robots and computers. We will address the present issues about these technologies and promising future directions. Our discussion points include how to best combine speech, audio, language, image, video, and other SP features for a given task, how to move beyond unsupervised learning for data hungry tasks without any manual annotation, how to compute the quality of the systems in terms of communication performance, how to build models robust to various environment conditions and genre, and what is next for human/computer interaction (HCI), that is, should HCI be anthropomorphic or non-anthropomorphic.
The panel does not aim to present any technical work of the panelists or any technical overview of the technologies, instead to have a lively and productive debate between the panelists themselves and the audience about these major discussion points. We will try to keep it at a very high level with participants from speech, language, image, and multimedia information processing background to attract more ICASSP participants.
Gokhan Tur, SRI
Mari Ostendorf, U. Washington
Friday, April 24, 12:20 - 13:20, Location: 4F VIP, TICC
Recently, many exciting media search applications have been introduced that take advantage of smart phones' audiovisual capture capabilities and their being always on and connected. These applications address a real pain point for most mobile users and allow them to search with minimal text entry, if any. Is the mobile platform an ideal fit for media search? Are audio and visual signal processing technologies sufficiently accurate to support most mobile search applications? What are the killer applications of mobile media search? In this panel, we will discuss the challenges and potentials of mobile media search.
Berna Erol, Senior Research Scientist, Ricoh Innovations, California Research Center