BINAURAL HEARING - SIGNAL PROCESSING MODELS

12/05/2014

 

May 15, 2014 - Seminar Room AM2
Via Castelnuovo 7 - Como
10:30am - 11:30am

BINAURAL HEARING - SIGNAL PROCESSING MODELS

Joshua Atkins - Head of signal processing research at Beats Audio - Santa Monica, CA, USA
Joshua Atkins received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Johns Hopkins
University, Baltimore, Maryland in 2011 under the direction of James West. His
research interests include microphone and loudspeaker array design and signal
processing, statistical and adaptive signal processing for speech and audio,
models of human auditory perception, and musical and architectural
acoustics. He currently leads the audio and speech signal processing research
group at Beats by Dr. Dre in Santa Monica, CA.

Abstract:
The remarkable ability of humans to localize, segregate, and recognize sounds
in three dimensions has inspired many engineers to build signal processing
models that attempt to reach the performance of human listeners in these
tasks. These systems, and our understanding of binaural hearing, have
advanced well beyond the duplex theory of sound localization formulated over
a century ago by Lord Rayleigh. This talk will introduce the current state of the
art in binaural signal processing models, and discuss application areas such as
virtual reality, sound quality evaluation, multi-microphone speech
enhancement and recognition systems, and spatial audio coding.

 

Organized by the Sound and Music Computing Lab
Sound and Music Engineering track of the Politecnico di Milano
http://suono.como.polimi.it/