SANE 2016, a one-day event gathering researchers and students in speech and audio from the Northeast of the American continent, will be held on Friday October 21, 2016 at MIT, in Cambridge, MA.

It is a follow-up to SANE 2012 (Mitsubishi Electric Research Labs - MERL), SANE 2013 (Columbia University), SANE 2014 (MIT CSAIL), and SANE 2015 (Google NY). Since the first edition, the audience has steadily grown, gathering 140 researchers and students in 2015.

SANE 2016 will feature invited talks by leading researchers from the Northeast, as well as from the international community. It will also feature a lively poster session during lunch time, open to both students and researchers.

More info at saneworkshop.org

-- Confirmed Speakers --

Juan P. Bello (NYU) - "Towards multiple source identification in environmental audio streams"
William T. Freeman (MIT/Google) - "Visually indicated sounds"
Nima Mesgarani (Columbia University) - "Reverse engineering the neural mechanisms involved in robust speech processing"
Dan Ellis (Google) - "Sound event recognition at Google"
Shinji Watanabe (MERL) - "Pushing the envelope at both ends — beamforming acoustic models and joint CTC/Attention schemes for end-to-end ASR"
Jesse Engel (Google) - "Understanding music with deep generative models of sound"

-- Poster Session (Deadline extended to 10/14) --

If you would like to submit a poster, please send an email to poster@saneworkshop.org with a brief abstract describing what you plan to present. Poster submission deadline is October 14.
Note that SANE is not a peer-reviewed workshop, and you can present work that has been or will be submitted elsewhere (if the other venue does not explicitly forbids it). As SANE participants will be a mix of audio signal processing, speech, and machine learning researchers, the poster session will be a great opportunity to foster discussion as well as get feedback and comments from various perspectives on your most recent work.

-- Registration --

Registration is free but required.
We can only accommodate a limited number of participants, so we encourage those interested in attending this event to register as soon as possible by sending an email to rsvp@saneworkshop.org with your name and affiliation.

-- Directions --

The workshop will be hosted by MIT's Brain and Cognitive Sciences Department, at the McGovern Institute for Brain Research, in Cambridge, MA.

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We look forward to seeing you there!

The organizers,
    Jonathan Le Roux (MERL)
    Josh McDermott (MIT - BCS)
    Jim Glass (MIT - CSAIL/SLS)
    John R. Hershey (MERL)

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