NIST I-VECTOR CHALLENGE
NIST SPECIAL SESSIONS: I-VECTOR CHALLENGE & NIST SRE-2012 FOLLOW-UP
In addition to regular and industry paper submissions, Odyssey 2014
features two special sessions co-organized with National Institute of
Standards and Technologies (NIST). NIST SRE-2012 special session
focuses on extended analyses on the latest, NIST 2012 speaker
recognition evaluation (SRE) benchmark, and is targeted for the
participants of NIST SRE 2012.
The i-vector challenge is a new type of challenge targeted for anyone
interested for a 'quick start-up' in speaker recognition. Building
modern speaker and language recognition systems requires a lot of
preprocessing, corpus engineering and computations, making it
challenging for newcomers to enter the field. This prohibits piloting
of possibly promising modeling ideas developed outside of speaker
recognition community (e.g. machine learning and image processing
communities). To bridge this gap, NIST organizes a new type of
benchmark, i-vector challenge, synchronized with Odyssey 2014.
Preliminary due-date for paper submissions to both special sessions is
February 2014. Submissions by this deadline will undergo review both
by NIST and by the scientific review committee, and will be included
to the conference proceedings if accepted. Late challenge submissions
(without a paper) are also encouraged; they can be presented as
posters, but will not undergo peer review nor will be included to the
conference proceedings.
To ensure smooth organization, early (non-binding) preliminary sign-up
is required. More details and registration for the i-vector challenge
will be available in November 2013.
