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
Robert L. White's Cochlear Implants
Date:Fri, 05/31/2024 - 10:30am - 12:00pmLocation:Biomedical Innovations Building, BMI 1021, 240 Pasteur Drive, Stanford, CAEvent Type:Hearing Seminar
Join us for a special Stanford Hearing Seminar on the invention of the cochlear implant speech processor. May 31st at 10:30AM in Stanford BMI 1021FREEOpen to the Public
Recent Hearing Seminars
Karlheinz 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 PublicAlicia Zuckerman on emotion without audio
Date:Fri, 06/02/2023 - 10:30am - 12:00pmLocation:CCRMA Seminar RoomEvent Type:Hearing Seminar
But not everybody hears audio the same way. We at CCRMA have an amazing collection of experience about how to convey audio emotion. What can you do without the audio? What are you trying to convey and what would you like to convey to people who are hard of hearing? How might you do that?FREEOpen to the PublicProf. Daibhid O Maoileidigh on Making sense of the sensory hearing cells
Date:Fri, 05/26/2023 - 10:30am - 12:00pmLocation:Seminar RoomEvent Type:Hearing Seminar
Who: Dáibhid Ó Maoiléidigh, Stanford Otolaryngology
What: Making Sense of the Sensory Hearing Cells
When: Friday May 26th at 10:30AM
Where: CCRMA Seminar Room (Top Floor at The Knoll)
Why It all starts at the cochlea and hair cellsFREEOpen to the PublicSamuel J. Yang (Google) - ML meets hearing - Clarity Enhancement Challenge
Date:Fri, 05/19/2023 - 10:30am - 12:00pmLocation:CCRMA Seminar RoomEvent Type:Hearing Seminar
The Clarity Enhancement Challenge is a (successful) attempt to harness machine-learning technology to make our hearing better. The Clarity team provides data and benchmarks, and all of us get to apply our best technology to solve the problem. In past years they have offered competitions to improve hearing and to measure speech intelligibility.FreeOpen to the PublicAntje Ihlefeld - Predicting spatial audio quality for AR/VR
Date:Fri, 05/12/2023 - 10:30am - 12:00pmLocation:CCRMA Seminar RoomEvent Type:Hearing SeminarFREEOpen to the PublicAaron Master (Dolby) - DeepSpace: Dynamic Spatial and Source Cue Based Source Separation for Dialog Enhancement
Date:Fri, 04/28/2023 - 10:30am - 12:00pmLocation:CCRMA Seminar RoomEvent Type:Hearing Seminar
Who: Aaron Master (Dolby)
What: DeepSpace: Dynamic Spatial and Source Cue Based Source Separation for Dialog Enhancement
When: Friday April 28th, 2023 at 10:30AM
Where: CCRMA Seminar Room (Top Floor of the Knoll at Stanford)
Why: How can we improve our listening environment?FREEOpen to the PublicPrateek Verma - Fourier Transforms and Filter-Banks in the Era of Transformers and GPT
Date:Fri, 04/07/2023 - 10:30am - 12:00pmLocation:CCRMA Seminar RoomEvent Type:Hearing Seminar
Prateek Verma has done a large number of interesting audio ML experiments, from speech to music and many other problem areas. He’ll be talking about learning a basis for the front end.
Who: Prateek VermaFREEOpen to the PublicAI for Sound - Mark Plumbley (Surrey)
Date:Fri, 03/17/2023 - 10:30am - 12:00pmLocation:CCRMA Seminar RoomEvent Type:Hearing Seminar
Who: Prof. Mark Plumbley (Surrey)
What: AI for Sound
When: Fri, 03/17/2023 - 10:30am - 12:00pm
Where: CCRMA Seminar Room
Why: AI is good for sound!FREEOpen to the Public