June 21 - 24, 2017
Venue:
Hanse-Wissenschaftskolleg
lehmkuhlenbusch 4
27753 Delmenhorst
Organizers:
Doz. Dr. Bernhard Laback
Prof. Dr. Dr. Birger Kollmeier
June 21 - 24, 2017
Venue:
Hanse-Wissenschaftskolleg
lehmkuhlenbusch 4
27753 Delmenhorst
Organizers:
Doz. Dr. Bernhard Laback
Prof. Dr. Dr. Birger Kollmeier
Program
Sunday, June 21
12:30 – 14:00 Lunch
Introduction
14:00 – 14:30 Bernhard Laback
Physiology
14:30 – 15:15 John Middlebrooks
Temporal Fine Structure for Binaural Hearing
15:15 – 16:00 Philip Joris
Elemental Neural Properties in Sensitivity to Binaural Temporal Differences
16:00 – 16:30 Break
16:30 – 17:15 Mitchell Day
Neural Encoding of Sound Source Location with or without
an Additional Concurrent Source
Challenges in Binaural Compensation
17:15 – 18:00 Birger Kollmeier
18:00 Dinner
Monday, June 22
Virtual Acoustics/Presentation Techniques
09:30 – 10:15 Jens Ahrens (Sascha Spors)
Sound Field Synthesis Using Loudspeaker Arrays
10:15 – 11:00 Giso Grimm
Rendering Vitual Acoustic Environments for Human and
MachineListening: Plausibility Versus Authenticity
11:00 – 11:30 Break
Signal Processing
11:30 – 12:15 Volker Hohmann
Modeling Cocktail Party Processing in a Multitalker Mixture
using Harmonicity and Binaural Features
12:15 – 13:00 Simon Doclo
Binaural Cue Preservation in Noise Reduction Algorithms for
Binaural Hearing Aids
13:00 – 14:00 Lunch
Perception & Psychophysics
14:00 – 14:45 Ruth Litovsky
Processing Binaural Cues through Cochlear Implants:
The Conundrum of Maximizing Speech Understanding and
Sound Localization
14:45 – 15:30 Bernhard Seeber
Improving Sound Localization with Cochlear Implants by
Reliable Coding of Binaural Cues
15:30 – 16:00 Break
16:00 – 16:30 Bernhard Laback
Perception and Coding of Binaural Timing Cues in Electric Hearing
Clinical Aspects
16:30 – 17:00 Hubert Löwenheim
Personalized Medicine and Cochlear Implantation
17:00 – 18:00 Discussion
19:00 – 22:30 Dinner at restaurant "Graftwerk" in Delmenhorst
Tuesday, June 23
Bimodal Spatial Hearing
09:30 – 10:15 Tom Francart
Effect of Stimulus Parameters on Interaural Time Difference Sensitivity
with Bilateral CI and Bimodal Stimulation
Binaural Modeling
10:15 – 11:00 Mathias Dietz
Auditory Model Based Sound Direction Estimation with Bilateral
Cochlear Implants
11:00 – 11:30 Break
11:30 – 12:15 Thomas Brand
Modelling Binaural Speech Intelligibility
12:15 – 13:00 Discussion & Closing of Structured Part of Workshop
13:00 – 14:00 Lunch
15:30 Guided tour at Becks Brewery in Bremen
Wednesday, June 24
09:30 Informal Discussions
13:00 – 14:30 Lunch
Program
Sunday, June 21
12:30 – 14:00 Lunch
Introduction
14:00 – 14:30 Bernhard Laback
Physiology
14:30 – 15:15 John Middlebrooks
Temporal Fine Structure for Binaural Hearing
15:15 – 16:00 Philip Joris
Elemental Neural Properties in Sensitivity to Binaural Temporal Differences
16:00 – 16:30 Break
16:30 – 17:15 Mitchell Day
Neural Encoding of Sound Source Location with or without
an Additional Concurrent Source
Challenges in Binaural Compensation
17:15 – 18:00 Birger Kollmeier
18:00 Dinner
Monday, June 22
Virtual Acoustics/Presentation Techniques
09:30 – 10:15 Jens Ahrens (Sascha Spors)
Sound Field Synthesis Using Loudspeaker Arrays
10:15 – 11:00 Giso Grimm
Rendering Vitual Acoustic Environments for Human and
MachineListening: Plausibility Versus Authenticity
11:00 – 11:30 Break
Signal Processing
11:30 – 12:15 Volker Hohmann
Modeling Cocktail Party Processing in a Multitalker Mixture
using Harmonicity and Binaural Features
12:15 – 13:00 Simon Doclo
Binaural Cue Preservation in Noise Reduction Algorithms for
Binaural Hearing Aids
13:00 – 14:00 Lunch
Perception & Psychophysics
14:00 – 14:45 Ruth Litovsky
Processing Binaural Cues through Cochlear Implants:
The Conundrum of Maximizing Speech Understanding and
Sound Localization
14:45 – 15:30 Bernhard Seeber
Improving Sound Localization with Cochlear Implants by
Reliable Coding of Binaural Cues
15:30 – 16:00 Break
16:00 – 16:30 Bernhard Laback
Perception and Coding of Binaural Timing Cues in Electric Hearing
Clinical Aspects
16:30 – 17:00 Hubert Löwenheim
Personalized Medicine and Cochlear Implantation
16:30 – 17:30 Discussion
19:00 – 22:30 Dinner at restaurant "Graftwerk" in Delmenhorst
Tuesday, June 23
Bimodal Spatial Hearing
09:30 – 10:15 Tom Francart
Effect of Stimulus Parameters on Interaural Time Difference Sensitivity
with Bilateral CI and Bimodal Stimulation
Binaural Modeling
10:15 – 11:00 Mathias Dietz
Auditory Model Based Sound Direction Estimation with Bilateral
Cochlear Implants
11:00 – 11:30 Break
11:30 – 12:15 Thomas Brand
Modelling Binaural Speech Intelligibility
12:15 – 13:00 Discussion & Closing of Structured Part of Workshop
13:00 – 14:00 Lunch
15:30 Guided tour at Becks Brewery in Bremen
Wednesday, June 24
09:30 Informal Discussions
13:00 – 14:30 Lunch