RTC Conference and Expo 2025 – 7-8 October 2025 The IIT RTC Conference and Expo is a globally recognized collaborative event, where industry and academia connect. Leveraging its unique academic setting, this annual conference brings together software developers, network engineers, entrepreneurs, business executives, students, and academic educators and researchers to promote an open exchange of ideas to lead future development in the rapidly changing field of real-time communications. Conference Co-Hosts: (https://ieeechicago.org/) & (http://cs.iit.edu/~rtc/) Co-sponsored by: IEEE REAL-TIME COMMUNICATIONS LAB Agenda: The presentations and demonstrations are organized into the following tracks: - (https://www.rtc-conference.com/2025/program/#researchtrack) - (https://www.rtc-conference.com/2025/program/#programmabletelecomapplications) - (https://www.rtc-conference.com/2025/program/#voicetech) - (https://www.rtc-conference.com/2025/program/#webrtc) - (https://www.rtc-conference.com/2025/program/#nextgen) - (https://www.rtc-conference.com/2025/program/#emergingtech) - (https://www.rtc-conference.com/2025/program/#cqr) Bldg: Hermann Hall, 3241 S Federal St , Chicago, Illinois, United States, 60616

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Title: Approaching General to Super Computer Audition From understanding human speech and music to perceiving complex soundscapes, the field of computer audition is rapidly evolving toward a new frontier: systems that approach general listening intelligence and even exceed human auditory capabilities. In this Distinguished IEEE SPS lecture, we will trace the journey from today’s specialized audio recognition systems to tomorrow’s general-purpose and “super” computer audition—AI that can listen, interpret, and act across a vast range of acoustic environments. Building on decades of research in speech and audio processing, affective and paralinguistic computing, and multimodal machine learning, the talk will showcase how advances in large-scale models, self-supervised learning, and cross-modal integration are reshaping what machines can hear and understand breaking audio down into its sources and richly attributing states and traits to these. Applications range from voice biomarkers in healthcare and emotion-aware assistants to advanced hearing technologies—areas directly relevant to industry leaders such as Starkey. Yet, the move toward general and superhuman audition also raises critical questions. How do we ensure robustness, interpretability, and fairness in AI that listens to—and learns from—our most personal signals? How can we balance technical progress with ethical responsibility and user trust? And what are the implications of AI systems that may one day surpass human hearing in scope and precision? This talk will offer a forward-looking perspective on the science and impact of tomorrow’s computer audition, highlighting both the opportunities and challenges of designing AI that truly listens. Co-sponsored by: Starkey Speaker(s): Prof. Björn W. Schuller Agenda: 9:30 – 10:00 a.m. Meet and Greet 10:00 – 10:05 a.m. Welcome Remarks by Dr. Wenyu Jin 10:05 – 11:00 a.m. Approaching General to Super Computer Audition by Prof. Björn W. Schuller Room: Hopkins Room, Bldg: WFA Education Center, 6425 Flying Cloud Dr, Eden Prairie, Minnesota, United States, 55344, Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/500345

The University of Michigan Radiation Lab and Trident Chapter are pleased to host Professor Maurizio Migliaccio from the Università di Napoli Parthenope in Italy. Prof. Migliaccio will give a seminar, "Synthetic Aperture Radar Oil Spill Monitoring: a Physical Approach (Does Electromagnetics still count in the era of AI?)" at 3:30 am ET on Wednesday, September 24. This talk is part of the Radlab Seminar Series. The in-person seminar is free and open to the public and will be held in room DOW 1206 on the University of Michigan North Campus in Ann Arbor, MI. UM Radiation Laboratory (https://radlab.engin.umich.edu/) SEM Trident Chapter (AP03/ED15/MTT17/PHO36) (https://r4.ieee.org/sem/chapter-iv-trident/) Speaker(s): Prof. Maurizio Migliaccio Agenda: Welcome: 3:30 pm Presentation Q&A Closing Synthetic Aperture Radar oil spill monitoring: a physical approach (Does Electromagnetics still count in the era of AI ?) Radlab Seminar Series Prof. Maurizio Migliaccio (M’91-SM’00-F’17) Professore di Campi Elettromagnetici Università degli Studi di Napoli Parthenope Centro Direzionale, isola C4 80143 Napoli - Italy URL: https://emrslab.uniparthenope.it/ Abstract: The Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) is an imaging microwave coherent sensor that can be operated from space to monitor marine and maritime activities. One of the most important operational services that is in place is related to the observation of oil spills at sea. The presence of an oil spill changes the backscattering behavior that is manifested by a dark area in the SAR image plane. Image analysis suggests “natural” recipes to detect dark areas and classify as oil spills. Human experts and nowadays AI can be employed on such a track. Is this the end of the Story? The end of Electromagnetics? In the seminar it will be shown another approach, the “physical processing” that is able to effectively detect oil spills by means of polarimetric SAR measurements and proper backscattering modelling. Bio: Maurizio Migliaccio (M’91-SM’00-F’17) is Full professor of Electromagnetics at Università di Napoli Parthenope (Italy) and is also associated to CNR-ISMAR and INGV, Italy. He was Affiliated Full Professor at NOVA Southeastern University, Fort Lauderdale, FL (USA). He has been teaching Microwave Remote Sensing since 1994. He was visiting scientist at Deutsche Forschungsanstalt fur Lüft und Raumfahrt (DLR), Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany. He was member of the Italian Space Agency (ASI) scientific committee. He was member of the ASI CosmoSkyMed second generation panel. He was e-geos AdCom member. He was Italian delegate of the ESA PB-EO board. He was Member of South Africa Expert Review Panel for Space Exploration. He serves as reviewer for the UE, Italian Research Ministry (MIUR), NCST, Kazakhstan and Hong Kong Research board. He lectured in USA, Australia, Canada, Brazil, China, Hong Kong, South Korea, Singapore, Ecuador, Germany, Spain, Czech Republic, Switzerland, Hungary and Italy. He was Italian delegate at UE COST SMOS Mode Action. He is listed in the Italian Top Scientists and TOP 2% world scientist. He is an IEEE Trans. Geoscience and Remote Sensing AE, International Journal of Remote Sensing AE. and of the. He was IEEE Journal of Oceanic Engineering “IEEE Metrosea23”, “IEEE MetroSea25”and “Radar for Marine and Maritime Remote Sensing“ Special Issues, IEEE JSTARS AE of the Special Issue on CosmoSKyMed, Member of the Indian Journal of Radio & Space Physics Editorial board. Starting from 2024 he serves as IEEE OES Chapters Coordinator. He was an IEEE OES Distinguished Lecturer. He is IEEE OES Chapters’ Coordinator. He is IEEE OES AdCom member (2025-28 term). His H index is 52 with 10150 citations. His main current scientific interests cover SAR sea oil slick and man-made target monitoring, remote sensing for marine and coastal applications, remote sensing for agriculture monitoring, polarimetry, inverse problems for resolution enhancement, reverberating chambers and bio electromagnetism. He published 200 peer-reviewed journal papers. Room: 1206 DOW, Bldg: Dow Building, 2300 HAYWARD ST, University of Michigan North Campus, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States, 48109