Well, hello Vienna! The 12th International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR) was held at the massive Messe Wien Exhibition Congress Center in the heart of Vienna, Austria just last week and I had the pleasure to attend in person.
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Bye year 12,023 of the Human Era, and welcome 12,024. Before the pandemic things were going way too fast and months basically felt like weeks.
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ISMIR is back in full swing with over 400 registrations, most of them in-person attendees in the beautiful city of Milan.
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TL;DR: we present efficient models for the task of Spoken Language Recognition plus an effective strategy to gracefully handle unsupported languages via multilabel classification.
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The beautiful Island of Rhodes welcomed the most prestigious signal processing conference in the world this past week.
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TL;DR: we thoroughly analyzed state-of-the-art audio-text multimodal models and they do not fully leverage natural language.
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And there you go, the year 12022 of the Human Era gets to an end.
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And finally, after 2 years with virtual-only ISMIRs, this year we had the first post-pandemic in-person ISMIR.
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