Mathematics of the Ear and Sound Signal Processing - IPAM

Mathematics of the Ear and Sound Signal Processing

January 31 - February 2, 2005

Schedule

All times in this Schedule are Pacific Time (PT)

Monday, January 31, 2005

Morning Session

Session Chair: Jack Xin
08:30-09:15
Check-In/Light Breakfast (Hosted by IPAM)
09:15-09:30
Welcome and Opening Remarks: Mark Green, IPAM Director
09:30-10:30
Mario Ruggero (Northwestern University)
Cochlear mechanics: what we think we know and what we may or may not know
10:30-11:00
Break
11:00-12:00
Charles Steele (Stanford University)
Simulation for the organ of Corti and excitation of inner hair cell cilia

Afternoon Session

12:00-14:00
Lunch (on your own)
Session Chair: Li Deng
14:00-15:00
Christopher Shera (Harvard University/School of Medicine)
Emergent Phenomena in Cochlear Mechanics
15:00-15:15
Break
15:15-16:15
Laurel Carney (Syracuse University)
Quantitative Studies of Information Coding in the Auditory Nerve
16:15-16:30
Break
16:30-17:30
DeLiang Wang (Ohio State University)
An Auditory Scene Analysis Approach to Speech Segregation
17:30-19:00
Wine/Cheese Reception (Hosted by IPAM)

Tuesday, February 1, 2005

Morning Session

Session Chair: Stanley Osher
08:30-09:00
Continental Breakfast
09:00-10:00
Abeer Alwan (UCLA)
Toward quantitative models of human speech perception and the application to noise-robust automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems
10:00-10:10
Break
10:10-11:10
Elvir Causevic (Yale University / Everest)
FAST WAVELET ESTIMATION OF WEAK ABR SIGNALS
11:10-11:30
Break
11:30-12:30
Joseph Keller (Stanford University)
A sound source location mechanism and its development

Afternoon Session

12:30-14:00
Lunch (on your own)
Session Chair: Jack Xin
14:00-15:00
Jont Allen (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
Cochlear modeling and its role in human speech recognition
15:00-15:10
Break
15:10-16:10
Richard Chadwick (National Institute of Health)
Cochlear wave propagation and micromechanics
16:10-16:30
Break
16:30-17:30
Karl Grosh (University of Michigan)
Mechanical-Electrical-Acoustical Modeling of the Cochlea

Wednesday, February 2, 2005

Morning Session

Session Chair: Yingyong Qi
08:30-09:00
Continental Breakfast
09:00-10:00
Li Deng (Microsoft Research)
Computer Speech Recognition: Mimicking the Human System
10:00-10:30
Break
10:30-11:30
Fred Juang (Georgia Institute of Technology)
Cognitive modeling and processing for speech recognition - ears and beyond
11:30-13:30
Lunch (on your own)

Afternoon Session

Session Chair: Jack Xin
13:30-14:30
Yingyong Qi (Qualcomm)
An Invertible Discrete Auditory Transform
14:30-14:45
Break
14:45-15:45
Sigfrid Soli (House Ear Institute)
A model for prediction of functional hearing abilities in real-world noise environments
15:45-16:00
Break
16:00-17:00
Fan-Gang Zeng (University of California at Irvine)
Speech recognition with amplitude and frequency modulations: Implication for cochlear implants.
17:00
Conclusion
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