Saturday, August 7

5:00 pm - Welcome and Registration

6:00 pm - Dinner

8:00 pm - Plenary Talk

Maximized modality or constrained consistency?
C. Nass & L. Gong

9:00 pm - Reception

Sunday, August 8

9:00 am - Plenary Talk

Cross-Modal Integration: Bringing Coherence to the Sensory World
B. Stein

10:15 am - Coffee Break

10:30 am - 12:10 pm Session

Auditory/Visual Speech Perception I (Dedicated to Kerry P. Green)

Visual context effects on the perception of /r/ and /l/: varying F1 and F2 acoustic characteristics
L. W. Norrix & K. P. Green

The contribution of visual information to on-line sentence processing: evidence from phoneme monitoring
E. A. Cox, L. W. Norrix & K. P. Green

Lateralized event-related cortical potentials in discriminating images of facial speech
M. de Haan & R. Campbell

Activation in auditory cortex by speechreading in hearing people: fMRI studies
R. Campbell, G. Calvert, M. Brammer M. MacSweeney, S. Surguladze, P. McGuire, B. Woll, S. Williams, E. Amaro & A. S. David

Effect of facial brightness reversal on visual and audiovisual speech perception
R. Kanzaki & R. Campbell

12:30 - 2:00 pm Lunch

2:00 - 3:40 pm Session

Auditory/Visual Speech Perception II

An analysis of the effects of clear speech on the visual-speech intelligibility of consonants
J.-P. Gagne, M.J. Charest & A.-J. Rochette

Modality, perceptual encoding speed, and time-course of phonetic information
P. F. Seitz & K. W. Grant

Lexical Influences on the McGurk effect
L. Brancazio

Perception of clearly presented foreign language sounds: the effects of visible speech
C. Davis & J. Kim

The integration of auditory and visual speech information with foreign speakers: the role of expectancy
D. Burnham & S. Lau

3:40 - 4:00 pm Coffee Break

4:00 - 5:00 Session

Psychological Phenomena

Demonstrations

Commercial Applications

New Technologies

4:40 - 5:40 Session: The Future of AVSP

6:00 pm - Dinner

7:30 Shakespeare Santa Cruz Performance

Monday, August 9

Perception of the audio-visual attributes of talking faces in human infants
D. Lewkowicz

10:15 am - Coffee Break

10:30 am - 12:10 pm Session

Speech Analysis and Recognition by Machine

Automatic computer lip-reading using fuzzy set theory
J. F. Baldwin, T. P. Martin & M. Saeed

A diffusion network approach to visual speech recognition
J. R. Movellan & P. Mineiro

Feature based representation for audio-visual speech recognition
P. Niyogi, E. Petajan & J. Zhong

Audio-visual sensorfusion with neural architectures
B. Talle & A. Wichert

On the use of visual information for improving audio-based speaker recognition
A. Senior, C. V. Neti & B. Maison

12:30 - 2:00 pm Lunch

2:00 - 3:40 pm Session

Correspondences between Auditory and Visual Speech and Auditory Speech to Visual Speech (AStVS) Synthesis

Estimation of speech acoustics from visual speech features: a comparison of linear and non-linear models
J. P. Barker & F. Berthommier

Facial deformation parameters for audiovisual synthesis
E. Vatikiotis-Bateson, T. Kuratate, M. Kamachi & H. Yehia

Synthetic visual speech driven from auditory speech
E. Agelfors, J. Beskow, B. Granstrom, M. Lundeberg, G. Salvi, K.-E. Spens & T. Ohman

A text-speech synchronization technique with applications to talking heads
F. Vignoli & C. Braccini

Picture my voice: audio to visual speech synthesis using artificial neural networks
D. W. Massaro, J. Beskow, M. M. Cohen, C. L. Fry & T. Rodgriguez

3:40 - 4:00 pm Coffee Break

4:00 - 5:40 pm Session

Communicating Characters

A symbolic system for multi-purpose description of mouth shapes
K. Imaizumi, S. Hiki & Y. Fukuda

A tool for designing MPEG-4 compliant expressions and animations on VRML cartoon-faces
G. Fries, A. Paradiso, F. Nack & K. Shuhmacher

Developing a 3D-agent for the August dialogue system
M. Lundeberg & J. Beskow

Audio-visual speech synthesis for Finnish
J.-L. Olives, R. Mottonen, J. Kulju & M. Sams

Face translation: a multimodal translation agent
M. Ritter, U. Meier, J. Yang & A. Waibel

6:00 pm - Barbecue Dinner

Tuesday, August 10