Meeting on Voice Forensics
Agenda
Date: 22 June 2015
Venue: GHC 6501, Gates Hillman Center for Future Generation Technologies, Carnegie Mellon university, 5000 Forbes Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15213
Time: 7:30 AM - 1:45 PM
Breakfast, non-alcoholic beverages and lunch will be provided.
| Time | Topic | Presenter | Institution | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7:30 | Registration and breakfast | |||
| 8:00 | Welcome and introduction | Eduard Hovy | CMU | |
| 8:10 | Introducing CMU and LTI | Jaime Carbonell | CMU | |
| 8:25 | Opening remarks | Matt Clark | DHS | |
| 8:30 | Goals and workplan for hoax calls | Fred Roberts | CCICADA | |
| 8:40 | Nature of hoax calls in America | Joseph DiRenzo, David Boyd | USCG | |
| 9:00 | Address to the meeting | VADM Lee (on phone) | USCG | |
| 9:10 | Coffee break | |||
| 9:25 | Discussion: The nature of Hoax calls investigation: What does CGIS need? What does the US Attorney General need for probable cause? | S/A Martinez | USCG | |
| 10:00 | D5 hoax : an example case | LCDR Lee Stenson, Tom Botzenhart | USCG | |
| 10:35 | RDC hoax | Alan Arsenault | USCG | |
| 10:40 | Hoax call problems in other agencies; Swatting | TBD | ||
| 10:50 | Open for TSA or other new visitors, or break | TBD | ||
| 11:00 | Technical briefings by CMU | |||
| 1. What can your voice reveal? A scientific overview | Rita Singh | |||
| 2. Cues from general audio: environmental sounds and other signatures | Bhiksha Raj | |||
| 3. Physiological signatures in human voice | Richard Stern | |||
| 4. Style, accent and other signatures | Alex Rudnicky | |||
| 5. Extracting information from scientific literature on human voice | Eduard Hovy | |||
| 6. Representing knowledge for inference | Scott Fahlman | |||
| 7. Automatic face profiling in the wild | Louis-Philippe Morency | |||
| 12:30 | Working lunch: Topic: Way forward, plan of action and milestones, data needs | |||
| 13:30 | Closing comments | Ed Hovy | CMU | |
| 13:45 | Adjourn |