This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Speech and Computer, SPECOM 2013, held in Pilsen, Czech Republic. The 48 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 90 initial submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on speech recognition and understanding, spoken language processing, spoken dialogue systems, speaker identification and diarization, speech forensics and security, language identification, text-to-speech systems, speech perception and speech disorders, multimodal analysis and synthesis,...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Speech and Computer, SPECOM 2014, held in Novi Sad, Serbia. The 56 revised full papers presented together with 3 invited talks were carefully reviewed and selected from 100 initial submissions. It is a conference with long tradition that attracts researchers in the area of computer speech processing (recognition, synthesis, understanding etc.) and related domains (including signal processing, language and text processing, multi-modal speech processing or human-computer interaction for instance).

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Speech and Computer, SPECOM 2015, held in Athens, Greece, in September 2015. The 59 revised full papers presented together with 2 invited talks were carefully reviewed and selected from 104 initial submissions. The papers cover a wide range of topics in the area of computer speech processing such as recognition, synthesis, and understanding and related domains including signal processing, language and text processing, multi-modal speech processing or human-computer interaction.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 13th International Symposium on Neural Networks, ISNN 2016, held in St. Petersburg, Russia in July 2016. The 84 revised full papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 104 submissions. The papers cover many topics of neural network-related research including signal and image processing; dynamical behaviors of recurrent neural networks; intelligent control; clustering, classification, modeling, and forecasting; evolutionary computation; and cognition computation and spiking neural networks.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Speech and Computer, SPECOM 2016, held in Budapest, Hungary, in August 2016. The 85 papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 154 submissions.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the First International Conference on Interactive Collaborative Robotics, ICR 2016, held in Budapest, Hungary, in August 2016.The 29 papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 48 submissions.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the Second International Conference on Interactive Collaborative Robotics, ICR 2017, held in Hatfield, UK, in September 2017, as a satellite event of the 19th International Conference on Speech and Computer, SPECOM 2017.
The 30 papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 51 submissions. This new conference invites researchers in the area of social robotics and collaborative robotics to share experience in human-machine interaction research and development of robotic and cyberphysical systems. Topics addressed are:...