Calls and Submissions
Call for Papers
The 19th International Workshop on Acoustic Signal Enhancement (IWAENC 2026) will be held in Cremona, Italy from Sept. 7 to Sept. 10, 2026. Since its first edition held in Berlin, Germany, in September 1989, it evolved into one of the leading workshops for theoretical and practical aspects related to speech and acoustic signal acquisition and processing. At its technical core, the three-day program offers keynote lectures, oral and poster presentations, and demonstrations.
IWAENC's
Scope
This workshop focuses on new methods and systems for enhancing and processing speech and audio signals. Applications include mobile and ambient communication, audio-visual conferencing systems, voice control systems, hearing devices, interactive TV, robot audition, smart acoustic environments, and emerging applications in audio and acoustic signal processing.
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Topics
For all topics listed below, both model-based and data-driven methods and algorithms are welcome.
Acoustic echo and feedback suppression
Noise reduction
Microphone array processing
Source localization and tracking
Speaker separation, extraction and diarization
Dereverberation
Active noise control
Robot audition
Speech and audio coding
Acoustic sensor networks
Acoustic event detection and scene classification
Spatial audio recording and reproduction
Modelling, analysis and synthesis of acoustic environments
Auditory modelling and hearing instruments
Datasets for speech and audio
Quality and intelligibility assessment
New and emerging topics in speech and audio processing
Multimodal speech and audio processing, including audio-video, audio-EEG, etc.
Speech analysis: activity detection, overlapping speech detection, emotion recognition, etc.
Speech intelligibility enhancement
More on
IWAENC 2026
The Organizing Committee solicits proposals for special sessions within the technical scope of the workshop. Special session proposals should include the session title, rationale, titles and abstracts of at least 6 invited papers as well as a short biography of the special session organizer(s), including the affiliation, address, and email.
Besides the regular paper presentations, a separate demonstration session is planned. For a contribution to this session, a brief description of the demonstration should be submitted via the call for demonstrations page. The description will not be included in the workshop proceedings.
The IWAENC Technical Committee will award a “Best Student Paper Award”. The selection will be based on originality, scientific merit, and quality of writing and presentation. The paper must be presented by the candidate student to qualify for the award.
Note down the
Important Deadlines
Feb. 27, 2026: special session proposals
Mar. 9, 2026: submission system opens
Apr. 24, 2026: regular papers submission
Apr. 30, 2026: revision of uploaded papers
Jul. 3, 2026: notification of acceptance
Jul. 24, 2026: upload of camera-ready papers
Jul. 24, 2026: early registration
