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.
Recent Hearing Seminars
Purnima Kamath on Generative Models for Sound Design
Date:Fri, 09/13/2024 - 10:30am - 12:00pmLocation:CCRMA Seminar RoomEvent Type:Hearing SeminarLarge language models (LLM) such as ChatGPT are making striking changes to how we think about words and intelligence. Generative models (https://developers.google.com/machine-learning/gan/generative) take these ideas a step further by creating new data from a text prompt. Can an LLM and a generative model create new kinds of sounds? It is easy to imagine a system that lets you generate dog sounds, for example. But how would you build a system that lets you ask for a dog sound with a touch of wolf? With steerability or morphing the sound landscapes become much more interesting. Can we control a generative model to make both big and small changes to the sound we generate?FREEOpen to the PublicDemo of Personalized 3d Sound System
Date:Fri, 08/16/2024 - 12:00pm - 6:00pmLocation:DoubleTree Hotel, 275 South Airport Blvd, South San Francisco, CaliforniaEvent Type:Hearing SeminarFREEOpen to the PublicLeslie Famularo on Differentiating and Optimizing an Auditory Model
Date:Fri, 08/09/2024 - 12:00am - 12:00pmLocation:CCRMA Seminar RoomEvent Type:Hearing SeminarOne of the shortcomings of current AI work is the inability to tie the results back to known physics. This is useful both to help explain the results, but also to constrain the optimal solution to known physical properties of the system. Neural networks are hard. They are big, often times the result is inscruttable. What can be done?
New software paradigms such as JAX and PyTorch allow one to specify arbitrary computations in a way that can be differentiated. And if we can differentiate a function we can optimize it. Hurray. How can we express an auditory model in a differentiable fashion?FREEOpen to the PublicRobert L. White's Cochlear Implants - Repeat Seminar
Date:Tue, 07/02/2024 - 4:00pm - 5:30pmEvent Type:Hearing SeminarCochlear implants (CI) are amazing. Squirt a little current into a cochlea and you hear a buzzing sound. It is even more amazing that the right currents sound like speech. What was it like to first convey speech to new cochlear implant users?
This is a repeat of the May 31 seminar, for those wishing to join from another time zone. It will be online only and recorded. The recording is avaialble on YouTube at ths URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9hoY24bVTZwFREEOpen to the PublicRobert 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 PublicSenyuan Fan will Exploring Implicit Neural Audio Representation
Date:Fri, 05/24/2024 - 10:30am - 12:00pmLocation:CCRMA Seminar RoomEvent Type:Hearing SeminarFREEOpen to the PublicExploring Neural Audio Coding Methods
Date:Fri, 05/24/2024 - 10:30am - 12:00pmLocation:CCRMA Seminar RoomEvent Type:Hearing Seminar
This week at the CCRMA Hearing Seminar Senyuan Fan and Prof. Marina Bosi claim that these implicit methods require less training data and achieve higher compression rates than other approaches. How do they do that?
Who: Senyuan Fan and Marina Bosi
What: Exploring Neural Audio Coding MethodsFREEOpen to the PublicLloyd 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
Who: Lloyd May (CCRMA)
What: Designing Audio Processing Strategies to Enhance Cochlear Implant Users' Music Enjoyment
When: Fri, 05/10/2024 - 10:30am - 12:00pm
Where: CCRMA Seminar Room, Top Floor of The Knoll at Stanford
Why: How do we stimulate our brains with electricity.
FREEOpen to the PublicChristine 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 Public
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