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6 Sep
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* NATO Advanced Study Institute *
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* COMPUTATIONAL HEARING *
* July 1 - July 12 1998 *
* Il Ciocco (Tuscany), Italy *
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* This Advanced Study Institute (ASI) will focus on integrating recent *
* advances in computational modeling and analysis with more traditional *
* perspectives on hearing, with the intent of fostering a more computational *
* approach towards studies of auditory function, physiology and anatomy, as *
* well as defining emerging fields of inquiry derived from these innovative *
* methods. *
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* Although our sense of hearing has long been the subject of intensive *
* scientific inquiry, computational methods have only recently been *
* applied to this intellectual domain with the degree of sophistication *
* and systematic development required for achieving significant gains in *
* scientific understanding. The complexity of the physiological and *
* anatomical substrates of auditory function, in concert with the highly *
* mathematical nature of hearing's physical bases, provide an ideal *
* scientific application for the newly emergent techniques pertaining to *
* scientific visualization and auralization. *
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* Further progress in hearing science requires the sort of computational *
* techniques now being developed at various sites around the world for *
* modeling and visualization of complex auditory phenomena. The design of *
* future-generation hearing prostheses, speech recognition systems and *
* audio technologies all vitally depend on such methodology and the *
* understanding resulting from its intelligent application. *
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* The ASI will survey the traditional domains of hearing research, *
* including anatomy, physiology, psychoacoustics, speech and music, but *
* from a largely computational perspective. Several topics, such as *
* auditory scene analysis, speech recognition and auditory processing *
* under adverse acoustic conditions are inherently computational in *
* nature. Other subjects, such as the physiology of the auditory *
* periphery, have witnessed a significant amount of computational effort *
* over the past decade and a half. The goal is to provide a coherent and *
* comprehensive perspective on hearing that is integrated with state-of- *
* the-art computational modeling and visualization techniques that can *
* serve as the basis for a new generation of auditory research. *
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* ASI Faculty will include: Jont Allen (AT&T Research, USA), Jens Blauert *
* (Bochum, Germany), Martin Cooke (Sheffield, UK), Ted Evans (Keele, UK), *
* Steven Greenberg (ICSI, USA), Gerald Langner (Darmstadt, Germany), *
* Stephen McAdams (Paris V, IRCAM, France), Roy Patterson (CNBH, *
* Cambridge, UK), Christoph Schreiner (UC-San Francisco, USA), Shihab *
* Shamma (Maryland, USA), James Simmons (Brown, USA), Malcolm Slaney *
* (Interval Research & Stanford, USA), Quentin Summerfield (MRC IHC, *
* Nottingham, UK), Marianne Vater (Potsdam, Germany), Jeffrey Winer (UC- *
* Berkeley, USA), Eric Young (Johns Hopkins, USA) *
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* Organizing Committee: Martin Cooke, Steven Greenberg, *
* Gerald Langner, Malcolm Slaney *
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* IMPORTANT DATES (1998) *
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* January 15 Poster Presentation Abstracts and Preliminary Registration *
* Application for Financial Subsidy *
* (principally for junior scientists and students) *
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* March 1 Participant Registration (final deadline) *
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* April 15 4-page, camera-ready paper (based on poster presentation) *
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* For further information contact: *
* Steven Greenberg, International Computer Science Institute, *
* 1947 Center Street, Berkeley, CA 94704, USA *
* FAX: (510) 643-7684 (ATT: Computational Hearing ASI) *
* Internet: ComHear(a)icsi.berkeley.edu *
* WWW: http://www.icsi.berkeley.edu/real/ComHear98 *
* web site contains additional information, including *
* an application form and the provisional program *
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