Workshop "Computational Audition"

October 24 - 26, 2011

Venue:

Hanse-Wissenschaftskolleg
Lehmkuhlenbusch 4
27753 Delmenhorst

Organizers:

PD Dr. Volker Hohmann and Dr. Karin Klink
Carl von Ossietzky University Oldenburg

Chairs:

PD Dr. Volker Hohmann, Dr. Jörn Anemüller, Prof. Dr. Steven van de Par, Prof. Dr. Georg Klump, Prof. Dr. Dr. Birger Kollmeier, Prof. Dr. Andrej Kral

Scientific committee:

Dr. Josh McDermott, Dr. Maneesh Sahani

Funding:

Coordinated research project "The active auditory system" (SFB/TRR31) and Centre for Hearing Research Oldenburg/Hannover, and Hanse-Wissenschaftskolleg

Workshop "Computational Audition"

October 24 - 26, 2011

Venue:

Hanse-Wissenschaftskolleg
Lehmkuhlenbusch 4
27753 Delmenhorst

Organizers:

PD Dr. Volker Hohmann and Dr. Karin Klink
Carl von Ossietzky University Oldenburg

Chairs:

PD Dr. Volker Hohmann, Dr. Jörn Anemüller, Prof. Dr. Steven van de Par, Prof. Dr. Georg Klump, Prof. Dr. Dr. Birger Kollmeier, Prof. Dr. Andrej Kral

Scientific committee:

Dr. Josh McDermott, Dr. Maneesh Sahani

Funding:

Coordinated research project "The active auditory system" (SFB/TRR31) and Centre for Hearing Research Oldenburg/Hannover, and Hanse-Wissenschaftskolleg

Programme

Monday, October 24, 2011

                                         Session 1: Chair Maneesh Sahani
10:00 – 10:30                Welcome (plus tea and coffee)
10:30 – 11:15                B. Shinn-Cunningham - Segregating and selecting objects from
                                         auditory scenes
11:15 – 12:00                M. Heckmann - Hierarchical spectro-temporal speech features
12:00 – 13:30                Lunch
                                         Session 2: Chair Andrej Kral
13:30 – 14:15                S. Denham - Auditory scene analysis: A competition between
                                         auditory proto-objects?
14:15 – 15:00                C. Stecker - Temporal weighting of auditory spatial cues
15:00 – 15:30                Coffee break
                                         Session 3: Chair Birger Kollmeier
15:30 – 16:15                J. Barker - Probabilistic models of auditory scene analysis for
                                         robust speech recognition
16:15 – 17:00                P. Smaragdis - "Exemplary" cocktail-party listening
17:00 – 18:00                Discussion
18:30                              Welcome Dinner

Tuesday, October 25, 2011

                                         Session 4: Chair Georg Klump
10:00 – 10:45                D. Tollin - Neural sensitivity to interaural level differences 
                                         determines virtual acoustic space minimum audible angles
                                         for single neurons in the lateral superior olive
10:45 – 11:15                Coffee break
11:15 – 12:00                E. Vincent - A general flexible probabilistic framework for audio
                                         source separation                              
12:00 – 13:30                Lunch                
                                         Session 5: Chair Josh McDermott
13:30 – 14:15                N. Lesica - The resolution and complexity of the neural code
                                         for speech
14:15 – 15:00                R. Turner - Decomposing signals into a sum of amplitude and
                                         frequency modulated sinusoids using probabilistic inference
15:00 – 15:30                Coffee break
                                         Session 6: Chair Jörn Anemüller
15:30 – 17:30                Poster session
17:30 – 18:00                Discussion
18:30                               Dinner

Wednesday, October 26, 2011

                                         Session 7: Chair Steven van de Par
10:00 – 10:45                T. Andringa - Pleasurable and annoying sounds and
                                         their impact on quality of life
10:45 – 11:30                R. Meddis - A computer model of the benefits of
                                         auditory efferent feedback
11:30 – 12:00                Coffee break
                                         Session 8: Chair Volker Hohmann
12:00 – 13:00                Discussion
13:00 – 14:00                Lunch
14:00                               End of workshop

Programme

Monday, October 24, 2011

                                         Session 1: Chair Maneesh Sahani
10:00 – 10:30                Welcome (plus tea and coffee)
10:30 – 11:15                B. Shinn-Cunningham - Segregating and selecting objects from
                                         auditory scenes
11:15 – 12:00                M. Heckmann - Hierarchical spectro-temporal speech features
12:00 – 13:30                Lunch
                                         Session 2: Chair Andrej Kral
13:30 – 14:15                S. Denham - Auditory scene analysis: A competition between
                                         auditory proto-objects?
14:15 – 15:00                C. Stecker - Temporal weighting of auditory spatial cues
15:00 – 15:30                Coffee break
                                         Session 3: Chair Birger Kollmeier
15:30 – 16:15                J. Barker - Probabilistic models of auditory scene analysis for
                                         robust speech recognition
16:15 – 17:00                P. Smaragdis - "Exemplary" cocktail-party listening
17:00 – 18:00                Discussion
18:30                              Welcome Dinner

Tuesday, October 25, 2011

                                         Session 4: Chair Georg Klump
10:00 – 10:45                D. Tollin - Neural sensitivity to interaural level differences 
                                         determines virtual acoustic space minimum audible angles
                                         for single neurons in the lateral superior olive
10:45 – 11:15                Coffee break
11:15 – 12:00                E. Vincent - A general flexible probabilistic framework for audio
                                         source separation
12:00 – 13:30                Lunch
                                         Session 5: Chair Josh McDermott
13:30 – 14:15                N. Lesica - The resolution and complexity of the neural code 
                                         for speech
14:15 – 15:00                R. Turner - Decomposing signals into a sum of amplitude and
                                         frequency modulated sinusoids using probabilistic inference
15:00 – 15:30                Coffee break
                                         Session 6: Chair Jörn Anemüller
15:30 – 17:30                Poster session
17:30 – 18:00                Discussion
18:30                               Dinner

Wednesday, October 26, 2011

                                         Session 7: Chair Steven van de Par
10:00 – 10:45                T. Andringa - Pleasurable and annoying sounds and
                                         their impact on quality of life
10:45 – 11:30                R. Meddis - A computer model of the benefits of
                                         auditory efferent feedback
11:30 – 12:00                Coffee break
                                         Session 8: Chair Volker Hohmann
12:00 – 13:00                Discussion
13:00 – 14:00                Lunch
14:00                               End of workshop