Hearing Seminars
CCRMA hosts a weekly Hearing seminar (aka Music 319). All areas related to perception are discussed, but the group emphasizes topics that will help us understand how the auditory system works. Speakers are drawn from the group and visitors to the Stanford area. Most attendees are graduate students, faculty, or local researchers interested in psychology, music, engineering, neurophysiology, and linguistics. Stanford students can (optionally) receive credit to attend, by enrolling in Music 319 "Research Seminar on Computational Models of Sound Perception." Meetings are usually from 10:30AM to 12:20 (or so, depending on questions) on Friday mornings in the CCRMA Seminar Room.
The current schedule is announced via a mailing list. To subscribe yourself to the mailing list, please visit https://cm-mail.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/hearing-seminar If you have any questions, please contact Malcolm Slaney at hearing-seminar-admin@ccrma.stanford.edu.
Upcoming Hearing Seminars
Lloyd May on Audio Processing Strategies to Enhance Cochlear Implant Users' Music Enjoyment
Date:Fri, 05/10/2024 - 10:30am - 12:00pmLocation:CCRMA Seminar RoomEvent Type:Hearing Seminar
Cochlear implants are a brutal solution to a hard problem. How do you electrically stimulate the auditory system to convey sound to people who are otherwise deaf? They work well enough to allow people to understand speech. It's really quite remarkable. But what about music? What might we do to encode music so that people with cochlear implants can enjoy it?
Who: Lloyd May (CCRMA)
What: Designing Audio Processing Strategies to Enhance Cochlear Implant Users' Music EnjoymentFREEOpen to the PublicRobert L. White's Cochlear Implants
Date:Fri, 05/31/2024 - 10:30am - 12:00pmLocation:Fee Library, 801 Welch Road, Stanford, CAEvent Type:Hearing SeminarFREEOpen to the Public
Recent Hearing Seminars
Christine Evers on Embodied Audio
Date:Tue, 04/09/2024 - 10:30am - 12:00pmLocation:CCRMA Seminar RoomEvent Type:Hearing Seminar
At next **Tuesday’s** Hearing Seminar, Prof. Christine Evers from Southhampton will be talking about embodied audio, or how to teach (noisy) robots how to hear. The last time I saw Dr. Evers, she won a best presentation award, and I’m looking forward to hearing her perspective on how to help our machine (overloads :-) hear better.FREEOpen to the PublicA Bayesian model of auditory performance
Date:Fri, 03/15/2024 - 10:30am - 12:00pmLocation:CCRMA Stage (New location this week)Event Type:Hearing SeminarFreeOpen to the PublicA Tour of the Auditory System Courtesy of Eric Young
Date:Fri, 02/23/2024 - 10:30am - 12:00pmLocation:CCRMA Seminar RoomEvent Type:Hearing SeminarFREEOpen to the PublicVarsha Mysore Athreya on Age Effects on Auditory Temporal Processing and it's Relationship to Speech Perception in Noise
Date:Fri, 02/16/2024 - 10:30am - 12:00pmLocation:CCRMA Seminar RoomEvent Type:Hearing SeminarFREEOpen to the PublicMalcolm Slaney on AI for Better Hearing
Date:Fri, 02/02/2024 - 10:30am - 12:00pmLocation:CCRMA Seminar RoomEvent Type:Hearing SeminarFREEOpen to the PublicDiana Deutsch on Two Perceptual Puzzles: Audio Illusions and Perfect Pitch
Date:Fri, 01/19/2024 - 10:30am - 12:00pmLocation:CCRMA Seminar RoomEvent Type:Hearing Seminar
Who: Dr. Diana Deutsch (CCRMA and UCSD)
What: Two Perceptual Puzzles: Audio Illusions and Perfect Pitch
When: 10:30AM on Friday January 19, 2024
Where: CCRMA Seminar Room (Behind the elevator on the top floor)FREEOpen to the PublicRobotic Hearing Systems for Autonomous Vehicles
Date:Fri, 10/27/2023 - 10:30am - 12:00pmLocation:CCRMA Seminar RoomEvent Type:Hearing Seminar
Dr. Xuan Zhong is trained in hearing science and has been working for self-driving car companies for several years.
Who: Dr. Xuan Zhong
What: Building Ears for Robots: Machine Hearing in the Age of Autonomy
When: Friday October 27 at 10:30AM
Where: CCRMA Seminar Room
Why: We will have self-driving cars someday, and we want them to hear usFREEOpen to the PublicKarlheinz Brandenberg - Spatial Sound - HRTFs vs. Room Reverb
Date:Fri, 10/20/2023 - 1:30pm - 3:00pmLocation:CCRMA Stage (Next to the Seminar Room)Event Type:Hearing Seminar
New data from Karlheinz Brandenburg suggests that matching the room reverb is more important than the user's custom HRTFs. Karlheinz Brandenburg and his colleagues will lead the discussion, illustrated with new data. Could this be true? What do you think?
Who: Karlheinz Brandenburg
What: Spatial sound - HRTFs vs. Room Reverb
When: Friday October 20th at 1:30PM <<< Note special timeFREEOpen to the PublicJosh McDermott (MIT) on New Models of Human Hearing via Machine Learning
Date:Thu, 10/12/2023 - 10:30am - 12:00pmLocation:CCRMA Seminar RoomEvent Type:Hearing Seminar
But perhaps we can do better by ignoring the details and modeling the auditory system as a black box, via a deep neural network (DNN). We can train the model using data from psychoacoustic tests. Ignoring details like the basilar membrane transmission line, and inner and outer hair cells, and all sorts of brain structures, can a DNN provide a good enough model? Can we use these models to design auditory prosthetics?FREEOpen to the PublicLaura Gwilliams on Computational architecture of speech comprehension
Date:Fri, 10/06/2023 - 10:30am - 12:00pmLocation:CCRMA Seminar RoomEvent Type:Hearing Seminar
I'm really happy to welcome Prof. Laura Gwilliams to Stanford and the Hearing Seminar.FREEOpen to the Public
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