Hearing Seminars
CCRMA hosts a weekly Hearing seminar. 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. 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 be added to the mailing list, send email to hearing-seminar-request@ccrma.stanford.edu. If you have any questions, please contact Malcolm Slaney at hearing-seminar-admin@ccrma.stanford.edu.
Recent Hearing Seminars
Jérémie Voix on In-ear Wearable Technologies and Musical Applications
Date:Tue, 02/23/2016 - 5:00pm - 6:15pmLocation:CCRMA Seminar RoomEvent Type:Hearing SeminarWearables are everywhere. But not in the ears (yet). The CRITIAS research team has been actively developing various in-ear technologies designed to complement the human ear, from “intelligent” protection for professional musicians, to advanced inter-individual communication systems, to otoacoustic emission (OAE) monitoring devices or in-ear EEG Brain Computer Interface (BCI). More fundamental research has also been conducted, particularly on the micro-harvesting of electrical power from inside the earcanal to power future auditory wearables. One recent development, the Auditory Research Platform, will be presented to the CCRMA community who may take benefit from its versatility and portability for immersive in-ear audio processing applications.
FREEOpen to the PublicDaniel Strauss on Objective Estimation of Listening Effort with EEG
Date:Wed, 01/13/2016 - 10:30am - 12:00pmLocation:CCRMA Seminar RoomEvent Type:Hearing Seminar
We have analyzed the attentional dimension of listening effort using electroencephalographic methods and quantitative neurofunctional modeling in recent years. In particular, we have developed a neurophysical corticothalamic feedback model for listening effort correlates in event-related potentials (ERP) which allowed us to compare simulated and measured data. However, the resulting ERP paradigms are restricted to a certain class of stimulation protocols, limiting their applications, e.g., EEG-aided hearing instrument fitting.
FREEOpen to the PublicHideki Kawahara on STRAIGHT (high resolution speech modifications)
Date:Fri, 11/20/2015 - 10:30am - 12:00pmLocation:CCRMA Seminar RoomEvent Type:Hearing Seminar
Prof. Kawahara has spent many years building STRAIGHT, an ultra-high resolution approach to analyzing and modifying speech signals, that is the basis of many speech manipulation experiments and products. He will be at CCRMA to discuss STRAIGHT, its history, its approach, and current status.
FREEOpen to the PublicProf. Takako Fujioka on Neural correlates for prediction of musical structures and learning-related functional plasticity
Date:Fri, 11/13/2015 - 10:30am - 12:00pmLocation:CCRMA Seminar RoomEvent Type:Hearing Seminar
What can EEG (and MEG) tell us about how we perceive polyphony, syntax, and longer-scale relationships? How does our perception of time develop as we listen to a musical piece? I think this work is important because we know precious little about how we music perception works, at the neural level. EEG and MEG give us tools to help us understand how we represent music internally, and how our perception develops over time. I’m very happy to announce that Prof. Takako Fujioka will be at the Hearing Seminar to update us with her latest work.
Who: Prof. Takako Fujioka (Stanford CCRMA)FREEOpen to the PublicTowards decoding EEG and Auditory Attention: Progress at 2015 Telluride Neuromorphic Workshop
Date:Fri, 10/30/2015 - 10:30am - 12:00pmLocation:CCRMA Seminar RoomEvent Type:Hearing SeminarImagine an auditory device that knows whether you trying to listen to the speaker behind you or the music in the background. This is the auditory equivalent of an eye-gaze detector. We would like to know to what users are listening or even better to which of the sounds in the environment is the user attending. This will help us tune our auditory devices to better service our user's needs. We do this work by collecting EEG signals (electroencephalogram) as a subject or user listens to audio signals.
FREEOpen to the PublicConnecting Neuroimaging with Music Information Retrieval
Date:Fri, 10/16/2015 - 10:30am - 12:00pmLocation:CCRMA Seminar RoomEvent Type:Hearing SeminarBlair Kaneshiro and Jacek Dmochowski will be at CCRMA on Friday to talk about the possible connections between neuroimaging and music information retrieval.
There are a multitude of brain-measurement tools that have yet to be (seriously) applied to music-information retrieval. Most of the services we depend on for our music consumption make do with simple thumbs-up and thumbs-down signals, or maybe a star rating. What might you do if you have a better understanding of musical consumers? What signals might be useful, either as a consumer or provider of music?
Neuroimaging Methods for Music Information Retrieval: Current Findings and Future Prospects
Speakers: Blair Kaneshiro and Jacek P. DmochowskiFREEOpen to the PublicLearning the Structure of Spoken Language
Date:Fri, 10/09/2015 - 10:30am - 12:00pmLocation:CCRMA Seminar RoomEvent Type:Hearing SeminarHow is it that we make sense of the auditory world around us? We are born with no innate knowledge of what it means to be a sound, or how to form words, let alone what a language is. I'm happy to introduce Aren Jansen to the community. While he was at Johns Hopkins he has developed new techniques to learn language from unlabeled audio, just like a baby. He'll be at CCRMA to talk about this work and we can talk about how it might explain audio perception.
Automatically Learning the Structure of Spoken Language Without Supervision
Aren Jansen, Google Machine Hearing Group
Abstract:FREEOpen to the PublicProf. Ed Large on Networks of Oscillators for Sound Perception
Date:Fri, 10/02/2015 - 10:30am - 12:00pmLocation:CCRMA Seminar RoomEvent Type:Hearing Seminar
Signal Processing, Plasticity and Pattern Formation in Networks of Neural Oscillators
FREEOpen to the PublicSimilarity and Feature Learning for EEG Recordings of Music Perception and Imagination
Date:Mon, 08/31/2015 - 10:00am - 11:00amLocation:CCRMA Seminar RoomEvent Type:Hearing SeminarAs we’ve measured more data, and have better algorithms, we can move past looking at the positive and negative peaks in an EEG signal, and start decoding them. Decoding means finding the hidden meaning in a signal, and that is now possible for many situations. We’ve talked about linear decoders applied to measuring attention, based on our work in Telluride. Sebastian Strober will be talking about non-linear methods, using non-linear deep neural networks. Stober, a post-doctoral fellow from the University of Western Ontario, will be speaking about his recent research combining deep learning with EEG.
Similarity and Feature Learning for EEG Recordings of Music Perception and Imagination
Sebastian StoberFREEOpen to the PublicFrom simulation to auralization to virtual auditory displays
Date:Fri, 07/24/2015 - 11:00am - 12:30pmLocation:CCRMA Seminar RoomEvent Type:Hearing Seminar
From simulation to auralization to virtual auditory displays
Michael VorländerFREEOpen to the Public
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