HUTB Students Win Championship at NCMMSC 2025 vTAD Challenge
2025-10-23
Recently, the 20th National Conference on Human-Computer Speech Communication (NCMMSC 2025) is held in Zhenjiang, Jiangsu Province. Students from the HUTB’s Hong Class have won the championship in the Voice Timbre Attribute Detection (vTAD) Challenge, marking another outstanding achievement in the university's cultivation of exceptional innovative talent.
The team, mentored by Professor Jiang Lin from the School of Artificial Intelligence and Advanced Computing and leveraging the innovative platform and research projects of Xiangjiang Laboratory, consisted of Deng Sainan, Chen Yingchao, Peng Bo, and Peng Cheng from the 2023 Hong Class. Competing against over 30 teams from institutions including The Chinese University of Hong Kong and Beijing Institute of Technology, they ultimately distinguished themselves to claim the top prize. The competing team innovatively proposed a KAFusion integration scheme targeting fine-grained features of speaker timbre attributes. This feature fusion model, based on the KA representation theorem, demonstrates exceptional performance across various feature integrations. The innovative solution was presented by student Peng Cheng at the vTAD Seminar, fully showcasing the outstanding effectiveness of the university's talent cultivation in the field of artificial intelligence.
The NCMMSC is a top-tier academic conference in China's speech and language science field. Jointly organized by the China Computer Federation (CCF) and the Chinese Information Processing Society of China, it serves as the annual academic conference of the CCF Technical Committee on Speech Dialogue and Auditory Processing. With national-level authority and industry influence, this conference series has successfully held 19 sessions since its inception in 1990. The vTAD Challenge is a special session competition within the conference. Jointly initiated by the University of Science and Technology of China and The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, it aims to promote research on speaker timbre attributes in speech and advance development in related fields.
Winning the championship in this academic challenge reflects the high importance and strong promotion of exceptional innovative talent cultivation by the CPC HUTB Committee. It represents an attempt by Hong Class students to excel in both disciplinary and academic competitions, marking positive progress in the university's efforts to foster outstanding innovative talent.
(Reported by Xie Cuihua from the School of Artificial Intelligence and Advanced Computing)
