Program

Afeka Conference for Speech Processing

08:30 - 09:15

Networking & Registration

09:15 - 09:30

Welcome Remarks

  • Prof. Ami Moyal, President, Afeka
  • Dr. Irit Opher, Conference Chairman, Afeka
09:30 - 10:30

Keynote

10:30 - 11:00 --- Coffee Break ---
11:00 - 12:00

First Session

  • "Text dependent speaker recognition"
    Dr. Hagai Aronowitz, Biometric Research Team, IBM, Israel
    Presentation
    Video
  • "Encoding and decoding of human speech by single neurons"
    Dr. Ariel Tankus, Department of Neurology and Neurosurgery, Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel-Aviv University
  • "Voice conversion using grid-based approximation in low resource environment"
    Dr. Hadas Benisty, Electrical Engineering Faculty, Technion
    Presentation
    Video
12:00 - 13:30 --- Lunch ---
13:30 - 14:30

Keynote

14:30 - 15:30

Second Session

  • "Sound processing in smart home devices -  the system approach"
    Dr. Alexander Goldin, Alango
    Presentation
    Video
  • "Vid2speech: speech reconstruction from silent video"
    Mr. Ariel Ephrat, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
    Presentation
    Video
  • "Towards natural voices created from very short recordings: new developments in NN parametric TTS and voice conversion"
    Mr. Darko Pekar, Speech Morphing Inc.
    Presentation
    Video
15:30 - 16:00   Open Discussion
16:00 - 16:30 --- Coffee Break ---

Satellite Event - Unsupervised Machine Learning Seminar

16:30 - 16:45

Welcome Remarks

  • Dr. Itshak Lapidot, Seminar Chairman, Afeka
16:45 - 17:45

Keynote

17:45 - 18:45

Short Lectures

  • "Diffusion methods for aligning medical datasets: location prediction in CT scan images"
    Dr. Neta Rabin, Unit of Mathematics, Afeka
    Presentation
    Video
  • "Intra-cluster training strategy for deep learning with applications to language identification"
    Mr. Alan Bekker, Faculty of Engineering, Bar-Ilan University
    Presentation
    Video
  • "Learning human behaviors and lifestyle by capturing temporal relations in mobility patterns"
    Mr. Eyal Ben Zion, Department of Industrial Engineering and Management, Faculty of Engineering, Ben-Gurion University
    Presentation
    Video

Silver Sponsor

      

Professional Association Sponsor

Afeka Tel Aviv Academic College of EngineeringACLP - Afeka Center for Language Processing