*************************************************************************** ***************************************************************************** * * * NATO Advanced Study Institute * * * * COMPUTATIONAL HEARING * * July 1 - July 12 1998 * * Il Ciocco (Tuscany), Italy * * * * * * 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. * * * * 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. * * * * 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. * * * * 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. * * ________________________________________________________________________ * * * * 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) * * * * Organizing Committee: Martin Cooke, Steven Greenberg, * * Gerald Langner, Malcolm Slaney * * * * ======================================================================== * * * * IMPORTANT DATES (1998) * * * * January 15 Poster Presentation Abstracts and Preliminary Registration * * Application for Financial Subsidy * * (principally for junior scientists and students) * * * * March 1 Participant Registration (final deadline) * * * * April 15 4-page, camera-ready paper (based on poster presentation) * * * * 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 * * * ***************************************************************************** ***************************************************************************