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Original Call for Contributions (closed)
Tuesday, June 18
8:00 - 8:45 |
Registration |
8:45 - 9:10 |
Opening Remarks |
9:10 - 10:10 |
Keynote 1: Lossy compression in digital evidence: Easier or more difficult? Karlheinz Brandenburg |
10:10 - 10:50 |
Paper Session 1: GUNSHOT ANALYSIS 1 - Overview of Forensic Audio Gunshot Analysis Techniques (Begault, et al) - A Short-Time Cross Correlation with Application to Forensic Gunshot Analysis (Beck) |
10:50 - 11:15 |
Coffee Break & Exhibition |
11:15 - 12:15 |
Paper Session 2: GUNSHOT ANALYSIS 2 - Shot-to-shot variation in gunshot acoustics experiments (Maher) - Who Fired When: Associating Multiple Audio Events from Uncalibrated Receivers (Beck) - Improved gunshot classification by using artificial data (Busse, et al) |
12:30 - 14:00 |
Lunch & Exhibition |
14:00 - 15:00 |
Tutorial 1: Forensic Audio Authentication Catalin Grigoras |
15:00 - 15:40 |
Paper Session 3: AUTHENTICATION 1 - Inverse decoding of PCM A-law and µ-law (Cuccovillo & Aichroth) - Copy-Move Forgery Detection and Localization via Partial Audio Matching (Maksimović, et al) |
15:45 - 16:15 |
Coffee Break & Exhibition |
16:15 - 17:15 |
Paper Session 4: AUTHENTICATION 2 - Forensic Authenticity Analyses of the Metadata in Re-Encoded M4A iPhone iOS 12.1.2 Voice Memos Files (Koenig & Lacey) - Detection of In-App Apple Voice Memo Edits through Interpolation Artefacts (Zjalic) - Forensic Analysis of AAC Encoding on Apple iPhone Voice Memo Recordings (Grigoras & Smith) |
17:15 - 18:00 |
Workshop 1: Forensic Audio - The Perspective from within a UK Police Force Chris Smith |
18:00 |
Cocktail Reception |
Wednesday, June 19
9:00 - 10:00 |
Keynote 2: Source-Filter Processing for Audio Forensics Udo Zölzer |
10:00 - 10:40 |
Paper Session 5: SPEAKER RECOGNITION/ANALYSIS 1 - Premature Overspecialization in Emotion Recognition Systems (Assunção, et al) - Fighting AI with AI: Fake Speech Detection using Deep Learning (Malik & Changalvala) |
10:45 - 11:15 |
Coffee Break & Exhibition |
11:15 - 12:15 |
Platinum talks - Narrowing the gap between live surveillance and the forensic laboratory (Gordon Reid, CEDAR) |
12:30 - 14:00 |
Lunch & Exhibition |
14:00 - 15:00 |
Tutorial 2: Automatic Speaker Recognition Eliud Bonilla |
15:00 - 15:40 |
Paper Session 6: SPEAKER RECOGNITION/ANALYSIS 2 - Deep neural network based forensic automatic speaker recognition in VOCALISE using x-vectors (Kelly, et al) - Phonetic-oriented identification of twin speakers using 4-second vowel sounds and a combination of a shift-invariant phase feature (NRD), MFCCs and F0 information (Ferreira) |
15:45 - 16:15 |
Coffee Break & Exhibition |
16:15 - 17:15 |
Workshop 2: Gunshot Analysis Begault, Maher, Beck |
17:30 |
Social Event departure |
Thursday, June 20
9:00 - 10:00 |
Tutorial 3: Deep Learning for Audio Synthesis, Separation and Enhancement Andy Sarroff |
10:00 - 10:40 |
Paper Session 7: SCENE/MICROPHONE CLASSIFICATION & STEGANOGRAPHY 1 - Bag-of-Features Models Based on C-DNN Network for Acoustic Scene Classification (Pham, et al) - Beyond Equal-Length Snippets: How Long is Sufficient to Recognize an Audio Scene? (Phan, et al) |
10:45 - 11:15 |
Coffee Break & Exhibition |
11:15 - 12:15 |
Paper Session 8: SCENE/MICROPHONE CLASSIFICATION & STEGANOGRAPHY 2 - Exploiting Frequency Response for the Identification of Microphone Using Artificial Neural Networks (Hafeez, et al) - Directivity and Sensitivity of Cell Phones: iPhone 7 (Brixen) - Steganography for Indoor Location (Moutinho, et al) |
12:15 – 14:00 |
Conference closure and Lunch |
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