Thank you to the following supporters of ICASSP 2007
Organized by Dr. Mazin Gilbert (Executive Director, AT&T Labs - Research, USA)
Panelists:
Send your questions for the panelists to mazin_at_research_dot_att_com
Over the past decade, the World Wide Web has been evolving into a central communication hub for consumers and businesses to efficiently access and deliver multimedia information containing text, speech, graphics, audio and video. In this booming era of the internet, communication is evolving at an extraordinary pace, changing from voice over traditional landline phones to multimedia data across multiple multimodal devices, services and networks. Technological breakthroughs, which are making it possible for people to communicate more seamlessly and rapidly acquire information more efficiently from the web, are revolutionizing the fields of speech, language and video processing and providing new research challenges and lucrative business opportunities in areas of communication, marketing, information mining, and entertainments that did not exist before.
Riding the internet highway is the subject of this panel, which will host key researchers from the speech, language, and video communities. The panelists will discuss the technical challenges and opportunities resulting from the integration of these technologies with the internet. They will also address how technological advances in such areas as speech and speaker recognition, natural language processing, web mining, document understanding, and search are changing the way people and businesses communicate over the web. These advances are facilitating the birth of new applications and services for multimodal and multimedia information mining, web-based interactive virtual agents, and surveillance and intelligence gathering of information from blogs and web multimedia contents.