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Thursday, June 17th 2010
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08.30 |
Registration is open |
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10.00 - 10.15 |
Opening |
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10.15 - 12.00 |
Exhibitors presentations |
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12.00 - 13.30 |
Lunch |
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13.00 |
Exhibitions open |
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Session: Authentication |
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13.30 - 14.00 |
Detecting butt-spliced edits in forensic digital audio recordings Alan Cooper, Metropolitan Police, United Kingdom |
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14.00 - 14.30 |
Visualisation of magnetic features on analogue audiotapes is still an important task Dagmar Boss, Bayerisches Landeskriminalamt, Germany |
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14.30 - 15.00 |
Statistical Tools for Multimedia Forensics: Compression Effects Analysis Catalin Grigoras, Forensic Science Center, Romania |
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15.00 - 15.30 |
Coffee |
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Session: Speech and Forensics - Voice Identification |
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15.30 - 16.00 |
Digitally Disguised Voices Eddy B. Brixen, EBB-consult, Denmark |
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16.00 - 16.30 |
Characterising Formant Tracks in Viennese Diphthongs for Forensic Speaker Comparison Ewald Enzinger, Acoustics Research Institute, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Austria |
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16.30 - 17.00 |
Channel compensation for forensic speaker identification using inverse processing Andrey Barinov, Speech Technology Center Ltd., Russian Federation |
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17.00 - 17.30 |
Importance of the relative delay of glottal source harmonics in speaker identification and voice register classification Aníbal Ferreira, University of Porto, Portugal |
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18.00 - 20.00 |
Dinner |
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20.00 - 21.30 |
Workshop: Frontiers of Forensic Audio Investigation ISO17025 Accreditation in Forensic Audio Audio winnowing: Finding whom or what you want to hear from a recording Time, tide and technological changes wait for no person |
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21.30 - |
The bar is open |
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Friday, June 18th 2010
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07.00 - 08.30 |
Buffet breakfast |
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08.30 - 10.00 |
Tutorial : The likelihood-ratio framework for the evaluation of forensic-comparison evidence Geoffrey Stewart Morrison 1,2 1 School of Language Studies, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia 2 School of Electrical Engineering & Telecommunications, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia This tutorial provides an introduction to the forensic comparison of audio recordings in the likelihood-ratio framework. Examples are drawn from audio recordings of human voices, but the principles and techniques can be applied to audio recordings of any source. The tutorial covers the topics essential for an understanding of the likelihood-ratio framework and its application to the forensic comparison of audio recordings including: What is a forensic likelihood ratio? Why is the likelihood-ratio framework the logically correct way to evaluate forensic evidence? How is a forensic likelihood ratio calculated? How is the validity and reliability of the likelihood-ratio output of a forensic-comparison system evaluated? What factors affect the validity and reliability of a forensic comparison system and how might validity and reliability be improved? |
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10.00 - 10.30 |
Coffee (and exhibition) |
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10.30 - 11.00 |
Session: Enhancement of Noisy Recordings : Corrupted speech intelligibility improvement using an adaptive filtering based algorithm Damian Ellwart, Gdansk University of Technology, Poland |
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11.00 - 11.30 |
Adjusting a commercial speech enhancement system to optimize intelligibility Gaston Hilkhuysen, University College London. United Kingdom |
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11.30 - 12.00 |
Speech Enhancement by Adaptive Noise Cancellation: Problems, Algorithms and Limits Joerg Bitzer, Fachhochschule Wilhelmshaven/Oldenburg/Elsfleth, Germany |
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12.00 - 13.30 |
Buffet Lunch |
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Session: Acoustical Forensics |
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13.30 - 14.00 |
Performance of closed-form acoustic scene decomposition for forensic analysis Banu Gunel, University of Surrey, United Kingdom |
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14.00 - 14.30 |
Directional aspects of forensic gunshot recordings Robert Maher, Montana State University, United States |
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Session: Laboratory Procedures |
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14.30 - 15.00 |
The Modern Forensic Audio Laboratory - a public sector perspective Robin How, Metropolitan Police, United Kingdom |
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15.00 - 15.30 |
Computer Forensics for the Forensic Audio Professional Jeff Smith, National Center for Media Forensics, University of Colorado Denver, United States |
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15.30 - 15.45 |
Coffee (and exhibition) |
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15.45 - 17.15 |
Workshop: Overview of Digital Audio Authentication Chairman: Catalin Grigoras, Forensic Science Center, Romania This session will emphasize some of the latest developments in forensic authentication of digital recordings, like Electric Network Frequency (ENF) and lossy compression analysis. It will also present the most common source or errors, the nowadays technological limits and the need for quality assurance. The presentations will be interactive, in a lecture-discussion format with images, case studies and relevant research results.
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17.15 - 19.45 |
Excursion to Frederiksborg Castle |
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20.00 |
Banquet |
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Saturday, June 19th 2010
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07.00 - 08.30 |
Buffet breakfast |
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08.30 - 10.00 |
Tutorial : SWGDE and Forensic Audio Standards Michael Piper1, 4, David Hallimore2, 4, and John Powell3, 4 1 U.S. Secret Service, Washington, D.C., USA 2 Houston Police Department, Houston, TX, USA 3 Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department, USA 4 Scientific Working Group for Digital Evidence, USA The Scientific Working Group on Digital Evidence (SWGDE) recently published a position paper on the U.S. National Research Council’s February 18, 2009 report to Congress entitled “Strengthening Forensic Science in the United States: A Path Forward” in which the Council set forth a broad overview of the state of forensic science in the United States along with several recommendations for improvement. An overview of The Report, SWGDE’s response, and its Audio Committee’s current projects will be presented. In each of the topics we intend to touch on (Forensic Audio Best Practices, minimum standards, accreditation/certification, training, ENF, etc.), there will be many points suitable for audience input and discussion. One of the key purposes of this presentation is to solicit input from the forensic audio community for the work we are undertaking at SWGDE.
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10.00 - 10.30 |
Coffee (and exhibition) |
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Session: Speech and Forensics - Automated Systems |
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10.30 - 11.00 |
Voice carving in Police Dialogue: Forensic application of Automatic Speaker Segmentation Anil Alexander, Griff Comm Ltd, United Kingdom |
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11.00- 11.30 |
Automatic Forensic Voice Comparison Using Recording Adapted Background Models Timo Becker, Federal Criminal Police Office, Germany |
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Session: Speech quality and intelligibility assessment - 1 |
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11.30 - 12.00 |
Bayesian Adaptive Method for Estimating Speech Intelligibility in Noise Nikolay Gaubitch, Imperial College London, United Kingdom |
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12.00 - 13.30 |
Lunch |
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Session: Speech quality and intelligibility assessment - 2 |
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13.30 - 14.00 |
C-QUAL - A Validitation of PESQ Using Degradations Encountered in Forensic and Law Enforcement Audio Dushyant Sharma, Imperial College London, United Kingdom |
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14.00 - 14.30 |
Objective measures of speech intelligibility in forensic applications Andrea Paoloni, Fondazione Ugo Bordoni, Italy |
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14.30 - 15.00 |
Measuring the Effect of Noise Reduction on Listening Effort Mark Huckvale, University College London, United Kingdom |
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15.00 - 15.30 |
Intelligibility Testing as an Engineering Tool Robert Fellows, HMGCC, United Kingdom |
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15.30 - 16.00 |
Closing of conference |
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16.00 |
Coffee |
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