Date: Oct. 24, 2011 – Oct. 26, 2011

Location: HWK - Institute for Advanced Study, Northern Germany

Format: Workshop with about 50 attendants, 12 invited speakers

Funding: Coordinated research project "The active auditory system" (SFB/TRR31) and the
Centre for Hearing Research Oldenburg/Hannover

Chairs: V. Hohmann, J. Anemüller, S. van de Par, G. Klump, B. Kollmeier, A. Kral

Scientific comittee: J. McDermott, M. Sahani

Organizational details:

Venue: www.h-w-k.de/1a.html?&L=1

Contact: Volker Hohmann (volker.hohmann_AT_uni-oldenburg.de)

Practical information (traveling etc.): Karin Klink (karin.klink_AT_uni-oldenburg.de)

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As a follow-up to the workshop held in 2010 at the UCL Gatsby computational neuroscience
unit, this workshop further promotes and facilitates interaction between researchers in
Psychoacoustics, Auditory Physiology and Machine Audition to stimulate joint efforts
towards a better understanding of acoustic information processing in challenging conditions
characterized by noise and reverberation. We believe that a breakthrough in the understanding
of human Auditory Scene Analysis (ASA) and Computational Auditory Scene Analysis
(CASA) can only be expected by multidisciplinary collaboration.

- Physiological and psychological basis of Auditory Scene Analysis (ASA)
- Models of ASA: Computational Auditory Scene Analysis (CASA)
- Perceptual aspects of automatic Speech Recognition (ASR)
- Machine learning approaches to CASA
- Music information retrieval
- Models of speech (e.g., as used in Speech Synthesis)
- Language modeling

T. Andringa, Sensory Cognition Group, University of Groningen, NL
J. Barker, Speech and Hearing Research Group, University of Sheffield, UK
S. Denham, Theoretical & Computational Neuroscience, University of Plymouth, UK
M. Heckmann, Honda Research Institute Europe, D
N. Lesica, UCL Ear Institute, UK
R. Meddis, Hearing Research Laboratory, Essex University, UK
B. Shinn-Cunningham, Auditory Neuroscience Laboratory, Boston University, USA
P. Smaragdis, University of Illinois, USA
C. Stecker, Dept. of Speech and Hearing Sciences, University Washington, USA
D. Tollin, Dept. of Physiology and Biophysics, Colorado, USA
R. Turner, Computational and Biological Learning, Cambridge University, UK
E. Vincent, INRIA Rennes, F

Monday, October 24, 2011

Tuesday, October 25, 2011

Wednesday, October 26, 2011