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