AVSP Workshop 2026 (download PDF)
2 Oct 2026 (Fri) | 9:30am to 5:30pm
Anne Cutler Seminar Room, Level 4, Innovation Quarter
(Address: 160 Hawkesbury Road, Westmead, NSW 2145)
| Time | Activity |
| 9:30am | Registration and Coffee |
| 9:40am | Welcome and Introduction By: Chris Davis & Denis Burnham |
| Session 1: Health data | |
| 10:00am | Investigating Conversational Speech Latency as a Marker of Cognitive and Temporal Processing During Picture Description Tasks in Schizophrenia, Depression and Mild Cognitive Impairment Speaker: Vikram Ramanarayanan (et al) |
| 10:20am | Speech2Lesion: Multi-Head Inference of Brain Lesion Characteristics from Overt Speech Speaker: Giulia Sanguedolce (et al) |
| Session 2: Development | |
| 10:40am | Tracking acoustic and visible articulatory vowel modification in infant-directed speech across the first year Speaker: Eylem Altuntas (et al) |
| 11:00am | Do children show the ‘pip and pop’ effect? A pilot study of Audiovisual Attentional Facilitation in children Speaker: Smriti Khadka (Jeesun Kim) |
| 11:20am | Is Auditory-visual speech perception in pre-reading children at-risk for dyslexia enhanced or impaired? Speaker: Denis Burnham (Marina Kalashnikova, Usha Goswami) |
| 11:40am | Tea/coffee Break |
| Session 3: Data and Processing | |
| 12:00pm | Speech Synthesis with Color-based Emotion Representation Speaker: Ryotaro Nagase (Ryoichi Takashima, Yoichi Yamashita) |
| 12:20pm | A Shared Data Processing Workflow for Benchmarking Audio-Visual Speech Recognition Beyond LRS Datasets Speaker: Rishabh Jain (Naomi Harte) |
| 12:40pm | From AV Recordings to Acoustic Measurements: An Open-Source Pipeline for Automatic Analysis in Spontaneous Conversation Speaker: Sara R. Martin (et al) |
| 1:00pm | Conversation in Noise: Lessons in measuring auditory and visual signals Speaker: Chris Davis (et al) |
| 1.20pm | Lunch |
| 2:00pm | Process, Not Product: Agentic AI for Multimodal Research, Learning, and Teaming Keynote Speaker: Michael Richardson School of Psychological Sciences – Performance and Expertise Research Centre – Frontier AI Research Centre – Lifespan Health and Wellbeing Research Centre Macquarie University |
| Session 4: Gesture | |
| 3:00pm | Natural Asynchrony in Audio-Visual Speech Recognition: A Feature, Not a Flaw Speaker: Zhaofeng Lin (Naomi Harte) |
| 3:20pm | Do Cantonese non-manual gestures track prosodic focus location? Evidence from a picture-correction task – Speaker: Tong Shu (Peggy Mok) |
| 3:40pm | Afternoon Tea & “50 Years of McGurk” by Chris Davis |
| 4:00pm | Distinctive Face and Head Movements in the Production of Lexical Tones in Cantonese, Mandarin, and Thai Speaker: Denis Burnham (Menezes, et al) |
| 4:20pm | [via Zoom] The rhythm of your hands can change how listeners segment the speech stream Speaker: Hans Rutger Bosker |
| 4:40pm | Light refreshments & Lip-Reading Contest |
| 5:30pm | End of program |
AVSP Workshop 2026
2 Oct 2026 (Fri) | 9:30am to 5:30pm
Anne Cutler Seminar Room, Level 4, Innovation Quarter
(Address: 160 Hawkesbury Road, Westmead, NSW 2145)