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<span style="margin: 0px; background-color: white;"><span class="ContentPasted0" style="font-size:10pt; margin:0px"><span class="ContentPasted7" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: inline !important;"><b>Call for Papers: The first 2023 IEEE
ICASSP Workshop on Advances in Multi-modal Hearing Assistive Technologies (AMHAT): <b class="ContentPasted11" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="https://cogmhear.org/amhat2023/" id="LPlnk209445">https://cogmhear.org/amhat2023/</a> - Deadline
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AMHAT papers<b> </b>will appear in<b> IEEE Xplore. </b> <span style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: inline !important;"> Paper submissions
and the reviewing process will be conducted through the ICASSP-2023 paper management system (Microsoft CMT) - please submit via the paper submission link on the AMHAT website and indicate whether you prefer an oral or poster presentation at the time of submission </span><a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://cogmhear.org/amhat2023/" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"></a><span style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: inline !important;"> </span></span></span></div>
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<b>About AMHAT 2023</b></div>
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<div class="ContentPasted2">Hearing loss affects 1.5 billion people globally and is associated with poorer health and social outcomes. Recent technological advances have enabled low-latency, high data-rate wireless solutions for in-ear hearing assistive devices,
which have primarily reformed the current innovation direction of the hearing industry.</div>
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<div class="ContentPasted2">Nevertheless, even sophisticated commercial hearing aids and cochlear-implant devices are based on audio-only processing, and remain ineffective in restoring speech intelligibility in overwhelmingly noisy environments. Human performance
in such situations is known to be dependent upon input from both the aural and visual senses that are then combined by sophisticated multi-level integration strategies in the brain. </div>
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<div class="ContentPasted2">Due to advances in miniaturized sensors and embedded low-power technology, we now have the potential to monitor not only sound but also many parameters such as visuals to improve speech intelligibility. Creating future transformative
multimodal hearing assistive technologies that draw on cognitive principles of normal (visually-assisted) hearing, raises a range of formidable technical, privacy and usability challenges which need to be holistically overcome.</div>
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<div class="ContentPasted2">The AMHAT Workshop aims to provide an interdisciplinary forum for the wider speech signal processing, artificial intelligence, wireless sensing and communications and hearing technology communities to discuss the latest advances
in this emerging field, and stimulate innovative research directions, including future challenges and opportunities.</div>
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<div class="ContentPasted3">The Workshop invites authors to submit short (2-page) and long (4-page) papers presenting novel research related to all aspects of multi-modal hearing assistive technologies, including, but not limited to the following:</div>
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<div>-Novel explainable and privacy-preserving machine learning and statistical model-based approaches to multi-modal speech-in-noise processing<br>
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<div class="ContentPasted3">-End-to-end real-time, low-latency and energy-efficient audio-visual speech enhancement and separation methods</div>
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<div class="ContentPasted3">-Demonstrators of multi-modal speech-enabled hearing assistive technology use cases (e.g. multi-modal listening and communication devices)</div>
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<div class="ContentPasted3">-Innovative applications of multi-modal hearing assistive technologies (e.g. diagnostics, therapeutics, human-robot interaction, sign-language recognition for aided communication)</div>
<div class="ContentPasted3">-Live demonstrators of multi-modal speech-enabled hearing assistive technology use cases (e.g. multi-modal cochlear implants and listening and communication devices)</div>
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<div class="ContentPasted3"><b>Important Dates</b></div>
<div class="ContentPasted3" dir="auto">Workshop Paper Submission Deadline: Extended to 19 March 2023</div>
<div class="ContentPasted3">Workshop Paper Acceptance Notification: 14 April 2023</div>
<div class="ContentPasted3">Workshop Camera Ready Paper Deadline: 28 April 2023</div>
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Oral presentations and posters (with or without demonstrations) have equal status, and authors are encouraged to suggest the presentation format best suited to communicate their ideas.</p>
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Papers should contain a description of ideas and applicable research results in a minimum of 2 pages (for short papers) and maximum of 4 pages (for long papers) for technical content including figures and possible references, An additional optional 5th page
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All AMHAT workshop papers will appear in IEEE Xplore, paper submissions and the reviewing process will be conducted through the ICASSP-2023 paper management system (Microsoft CMT) (<span class="elementToProof" dir="auto" style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px; color: black; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="margin: 0px; background-color: white;"><span class="ContentPasted0 ContentPasted2 ContentPasted4 ContentPasted5 ContentPasted6 ContentPasted10" style="font-size:10pt; margin:0px"><span style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: inline !important;">Paper
submissions and the reviewing process will be conducted through the ICASSP-2023 paper management system (Microsoft CMT) - please submit directly via the paper submission link on the AMHAT website and indicate whether you prefer an oral or poster presentation: </span><a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://cogmhear.org/amhat2023/" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">https://cogmhear.org/amhat2023/</a><span style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: inline !important;"> )</span></span></span></span><br>
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<div class="ContentPasted2"><b>Workshop Chairs</b></div>
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