February Meeting Notice

 

February 2006 Meeting Notice

 Subject: Auditory Scene Analysis and Audio Signal Processing Applications
 Speaker:

Brett Crockett, Dolby Laboratories

 Place: Dolby Labs, San Francisco
 Time and Date: Feb 21st, 7:30 PM (refreshments at 7:00 PM)

Auditory Scene Analysis (ASA) addresses the central problem of audition, or how the brain deals with mixtures of sounds. The sensory components that arise from distinct environmental events are segregated into separate perceptual representations. The separation of a sound signal into components that correspond to the different sound sources is a fundamental task of the auditory system. By performing an auditory scene analysis on audio signals, the auditory event boundaries, which may exist in both the frequency and temporal or time domain and between channels, can be identified and the audio processed accordingly.

This talk will present a brief overview of auditory scene analysis including an overview of methods to perform the analysis for use in audio signal processing. In addition, methods for using auditory scene analysis of audio signals in conjunction with high quality multi-channel time scaling and pitch shifting, improved transient pre-noise performance of low bit rate audio coders and audio identification will also be presented.


 Directions
 http://www.dolby.com/company/directions_sf.html

From Peninsula/S.F. Airport/Silicon Valley (Hwy. 101 North) Take Vermont Street Exit. Make immediate left onto Vermont Street. Go 5 blocks and turn left onto Alameda Street. Three blocks up is Potrero Avenue. Dolby is the large, red, 3-story brick building on the corner of Potrero and Alameda.

From Bay Bridge (Hwy. 80 West) Take 9th Street/Civic Center exit. Go to the south onto Harrison Street. Follow Harrison to 10th Street. Turn left onto 10th Street and proceed under freeway overpass onto Potrero Avenue. Dolby is the large, red, 3-story brick building on the corner of Potrero and Alameda.

From Golden Gate Bridge (Hwy. 101 South) Cross Golden Gate Bridge, take the Lombard Street (Hwy. 101) Exit. Follow Hwy. 101 signs up Lombard to Van Ness Avenue. Turn right. Proceed on Van Ness to Fell Street and turn left. Proceed on Fell until it crosses Market Street and becomes 10th Street. Continue on 10th under freeway overpass and bear right onto Potrero Avenue. Dolby is the large, red, 3-story brick building on the corner of Potrero and Alameda.

Address:
Dolby Laboratories
100 Potrero Avenue
San Francisco, CA 94103-4813
415-558-0200