"Acoustical Intelligence in the Wild: Advancing Acoustic Signal Understanding in Open Environments"

Call for Papers-"Acoustical Intelligence in the Wild: Advancing Acoustic Signal Understanding in Open Environments"

Journal: Computer Speech & Language

Publisher: Elsevier

Submission Deadline: 31 May 2027

Key Requirements:

• Continual/Life-long Learning for dynamic acoustic environments

• Transition from static inference to dynamic adaptation

• Edge deployment, privacy-preserving solutions

Overview

State-of-the-art speech/audio models fail in real-world dynamic environments. Seeks solutions for "living" acoustic systems that incrementally learn new patterns (OOD data, novel sounds, non-stationary noise) without catastrophic forgetting—critical for voice assistants, environmental monitoring, adaptive hearing aids.

Key Research Themes

• Class-Incremental Learning: New sound events/spoken languages

• Online Domain Adaptation: Speech enhancement in non-stationary noise

• Catastrophic Forgetting Mitigation: Large-scale audio pre-trained models

• Open-set Detection: Active learning for unlabeled acoustic streams

• Memory-efficient CL: Edge audio devices

• Privacy-preserving LL: Personalized speech interfaces

Submission Details

• Opens: 15 April 2026

• Closes: 31 May 2027

• MANDATORY: Select "VSI: Acoustical Intelligence in the Wild"

• Acceptance: 30 June 2027

Guest Editor Team

• Prof. Kele Xu (Executive), National University of Defense Technology, China (kele.xu@ieee.org)

• Dr. Boqing Zhu, National University of Defense Technology, China (zhuboqing@outlook.com)

• Prof. Qian Kun, Beijing Institute of Technology, China (qian@bit.edu.cn)

• Prof. Zixing Zhang, Hunan University, China (zixingzhang@hnu.edu.cn)

Why This Issue Matters

Bridges continual ML + audio processing gap. Enables acoustic systems that evolve with real-world soundscapes vs. static lab models. Foundation for next-gen always-learning audio AI.

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