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