Call for Papers

Special Issue of
The IEEE Transactions on Speech and Audio Processing
Objective Quality Assessment of Speech and Audio

Objective Quality Assessment of Speech and Audio is an interdisciplinary research area to build computational models that aim to achieve human performance in quality estimation of speech and audio. The estimation of quality is becoming more important especially in telecommunication applications, where Quality of Service is one of the key considerations.

The goal of this special issue is to present recent progress and advances in this area as well as remaining challenges. We invite original, previously unpublished research works in all areas relevant to the field. In particular, paper submissions are encouraged on the following topics:

• Subjective basis for objective quality assessment
• Waveform models - based on waveforms of speech and audio
• Parametric models - based on telecommunication or broadcast network parameters
• Intrusive models
• Non-intrusive (single-ended or output-based) models
• Objective diagnosis of quality impairment
• Objective and subjective assessment of conversational quality
• Issues and applications relevant to real-world problems

Prospective authors should prepare manuscripts according to the Information for Authors as published in any recent issue of the Transactions and as available on the web at http://www.ieee.org/organizations/society/sp/infotsa.html. Note that all rules will apply with regard to submission lengths, mandatory overlength page charges, and color charges.

Manuscripts should be submitted electronically through the online IEEE manuscript submission system at http://sps-ieee.manuscriptcentral.com/. When selecting a manuscript type, authors must click on "Special Issue of T-SA on Objective Quality Assessment of Speech and Audio." Authors should follow the instructions for the IEEE Transactions on Speech and Audio Processing and indicate in the Comments to the Editor-in-Chief that the manuscript is submitted for publication in the Special Issue on Objective Quality Assessment of Speech and Audio. We require a completed copyright form to be signed and faxed to 1-732-562-8905 at the time of submission. Please indicate the manuscript number on the top of the page.

Schedule:

Submission deadline:	February 1, 2006
Notification of acceptance:	July 31, 2006
Final manuscript due:	September 30, 2006
Tentative publication date:	January 2007

Guest Editors:

Dr. Doh-Suk Kim	Lucent Technologies, Whippany, USA	dsk@lucent.com
Dr. John Beerends	TNO Telecom, Delft, The Netherlands	j.g.beerends@telecom.tno.nl
Dr. Oded Ghitza	Sensimetrics Corporation, Somerville, MA, USA	oded@sens.com
Dr. Peter Kroon	Agere Systems, Allentown, PA, USA	kroon@agere.com
Dr. Antony Rix	The Technology Partnership,Cambridge, UK	antonix.rix@ttp.com