GATSBY COMPUTATIONAL NEUROSCIENCE UNIT
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Computational Audition

12 - 14 May 2010

By invitation only

Venue: B10 Seminar Room, Alexandra House, 17 Queen Square, London, WC1N 3AR

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Supported by the Gatsby Charitable Foundation


PROGRAMME  

 

 

Wednesday 12 May

 

10.00 – 10.30

Tea, coffee and Welcome (Josh McDermott, Maneesh Sahani)

10.30 – 11.15

Alain de Cheveigne – Cancellation and correlation

11.15 – 12.00

Dan Ellis – History of machine listening

12.00 – 13.30

Lunch (4 th Floor Seminar Room)

13.30 – 14.15

Eli Nelken – Neurons and auditory scene analysis

14.15 – 15.00

Volker Hohmann – Modeling auditory scene analysis by multidimensional statistical filtering: azimuthal localization of concurrent speakers using a binaural auditory model

15.00 – 15.30

Tea and Coffee

15.30 – 16.15

Rich Turner – Primitive probabilistic auditory scene analysis

16.15 – 17.00

John Hershey – Graphic models for single-channel multi-talker speech recognition

17.00 – 18.00

Discussion and informal talks

 

 

Thursday 13 May

 

10.00 – 10.45

Shihab Shamma – Cortical analysis of complex acoustic environments

10.45 – 11.30

Josh McDermott – Sound texture perception via filter statistics

11.30 – 12.00

Tea and Coffee

12.00 – 12.45

Hynek Hermansky – Seeking information about sounds

12.45 – 14.00

Lunch (4 th Floor Seminar Room)

14.00 – 14.45

Christophe Micheyl – On the relative importance of frequency selectivity, temporal fine structure, and cross-channels correlations in the perception of pitch, speech, and auditory scenes

14.45 – 15.30

Georg Klump – Processing of harmonic stimuli in auditory scene analysis - studies in model systems

15.30 – 16.00

Tea and Coffee

16.00 – 16.45

Daniel Pressnitzer – The learning of noise as a tool to probe the formation of new auditory memories

16.45 – 17.30

Discussion and informal talks

19.00 finish

Dinner - Tas, 22 Bloomsbury Street, London WC1B 3QJ

 

 

Friday 14 May

 

10.00 – 10.45

Guy Brown – Compensation for the effects of reverberation in human and machine listeners

10.45 – 11.30

John Culling – Mapping speech intelligibility in noisy rooms

11.30 – 13.00

Tea and Coffee, discussion, informal talks and conclusions

13.00 – 14.00

Lunch (4 th Floor Seminar Room)

14.00

FINISH

 

 

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