The 12th International Conference on Auditory-Visual Speech Processing (AVSP2013) will be held in Annecy, France, from August 29th to September 1st, 2013. AVSP is a satellite workshop of INTERSPEECH 2013, one of the largest conferences on speech communication.

Annecy is a charming town in South-eastern France, known for its lake, "Europe's cleanest lake". Annecy is about 35km/22miles south of Geneva.

AVSP is a uniquely interdisciplinary conference, focusing on the effects of auditory and visual speech information on human perception, machine recognition, and human-machine interaction. AVSP conferences attract many researchers from various fields, such as psychology, computer engineering, neuroscience, linguistics, and robotic engineering.

Conference Topics
Submission of papers are invited in all areas of auditory-visual speech processing including but not limited to:
Human recognition of audio-visual speech
Machine recognition of audio-visual speech
Human and machine models of multimodal integration
Multimodal processing of spoken events
Cross-linguistic studies
Developmental studies
Role of gestures accompanying speech
Modeling, synthesis and recognition of facial gestures
Audio-visual speech synthesis
Audio-visual prosody
Neuropsychology and neurophysiology of audio-visual speech processing
Scene analysis using audio and visual speech information

Important Dates
Paper Submission Deadline: May 5, 2013
Notification of Acceptance: June 8, 2013
Camera-ready Paper: June 15, 2013
Early registration deadline: June 28, 2013
Registration deadline: July 31, 2013
Conference Dates: Aug 29 - Sep 1, 2013