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
Rohit Prabhavalkar on Modern DNN Speech Recogntion
Date:Fri, 05/24/2019 - 10:30am - 12:00pmLocation:CCRMA Seminar RoomEvent Type:Hearing SeminarFREEOpen to the PublicTao Zhang on joint attention decoding *and* speech enhancement
Date:Fri, 05/10/2019 - 10:30am - 12:00pmLocation:CCRMA Seminar RoomEvent Type:Hearing Seminar
Who: Tao Zhang (Starkey Laboratories)
What: A Joint Attention Decoding and Adaptive Beamforming Optimization Approach to the Cocktail Party Problem
When: Friday, May 10th at 10:30AM
Where: CCRMA Seminar Room, Top Floor of the Knoll at Stanford
Why: Cool technologies to let us hear what we want to hearFREEOpen to the PublicGerald R Popelka on Wearable Hearing Devices (Hearables)
Date:Fri, 04/26/2019 - 10:30am - 12:00pmLocation:CCRMA Seminar RoomEvent Type:Hearing Seminar
Gerald Popelka is a professor in Otolaryngology here at Stanford and has been thinking about what might be possible around the ear. Many efforts towards better hearables have started here in Silicon Valley, and this will be a good opportunity to hear what has been done, what people are thinking about, and what is missing.Open to the PublicAnna Huang on Deep Learning for Music Composition: Generation, Recommendation and Control
Date:Fri, 04/19/2019 - 10:30am - 12:00pmLocation:CCRMA Seminar RoomEvent Type:Hearing SeminarFREEOpen to the PublicShihab Shamma on Neuroplasticity and the Musical Experience
Date:Fri, 04/12/2019 - 10:30am - 12:00pmLocation:CCRMA Seminar RoomEvent Type:Hearing Seminar
Shihab has been studying auditory perception for many decades, and has thought broadly and deeply about many areas of perception. In the past Shihab has helped popularize the spatial-temporal receptive field (STRF) as a measure of cortical activity, and has spearheaded the efforts to do neural decoding, reconstructing audio from neural spikes. Most recently he has been thinking about how music affects our cortex.
Who: Shihab Shamma (University of Maryland and École Normale Supériere)
What: Neuroplasticity and the Musical Experience
When: Friday April 12, 2019 at 10:30AMFREEOpen to the PublicDecoding Spatial Auditory Attention Using a Vestigial Pinna-Orienting System in Humans
Date:Fri, 03/22/2019 - 10:30am - 12:00pmLocation:CCRMA Seminar RoomEvent Type:Hearing Seminar
But Daniel J. Strauss will be at CCRMA on Friday to talk about "Decoding Spatial Auditory Attention Using a Vestigial Pinna-Orienting System in Humans.” Decoding auditory perception from brain signals is certainly one of the more interesting directions for auditory research. At ARO earlier this year in Baltimore, there was some interesting research showing that movements of the eyes showed up as a movement in the ear drum. And now Daniel Strauss is visiting from the University of Saarland, and will be talking about how our pinna might reflect our listening intent. Cool!
Who: Daniel J. Strauss (Saarland University)Open to the PublicCamille Noufi on detecting traumatic brain injury from speech
Date:Fri, 03/15/2019 - 10:30am - 12:00pmLocation:CCRMA Seminar RoomEvent Type:Hearing SeminarFREEOpen to the PublicChas Pavlovic on an Open Portable Platform for Heaing Aid Research
Date:Fri, 03/08/2019 - 10:30am - 12:00pmLocation:CCRMA Seminar RoomEvent Type:Hearing SeminarFREEOpen to the PublicScott Bressler on Differentiating sensory and cognitive auditory processing deficits
Date:Fri, 02/22/2019 - 10:30am - 12:00pmLocation:CCRMA Seminar RoomEvent Type:Hearing SeminarFREEOpen to the PublicLauren Fink (UCDavis) on modeling pupillary entrainment to music and absorptive music listening experiences
Date:Fri, 02/01/2019 - 10:30am - 12:00pmLocation:CCRMA Seminar RoomEvent Type:Hearing SeminarWhat can our eyes tell us about how we hear music? Lauren Fink from UC Davis will talk about how the pupils of our eyes respond to music. Her work shows that the pupil diameter reflects the musical rhythm and whether we are engaged with the music. This is cool, not only because it shows our eyes "listen" to music, but also ties into recent work investigating the connection between auditory salience and eye responses. The eyes have it!
AbstractFREEOpen to the Public