Call for Participation: Machine Listening Workshop, 20th December 2010, Queen Mary University of London

[Matthew Davies <matthew.davies@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Dear Auditory List,

We would like to bring to your attention a one-day workshop on the topic 
of machine listening which will take place on Monday 20th December 2010 
at Queen Mary University of London.

The workshop is free to attend and has an exciting programme of talks 
from distinguished invited speakers covering the following topics: 
computational auditory scene analysis, musical audio analysis, 
bioacoustics, cochlear implants and the analysis of medical sounds.

There are a limited number of places available which will be allocated 
on a first-come-first-served basis up until the registration deadline of 
Thursday 11th November 2010.

For further information on the workshop, including details on how to 
register, please see the workshop website:
http://www.eecs.qmul.ac.uk/events/mlw/mlw2010

We hope to see you in London in December.

Best wishes,

Matthew Davies and Mark Plumbley


Invited speakers and talks:

Guy Brown (University of Sheffield)
Machine listening systems for noise-robust and reverberation-robust 
automatic speech recognition

Miguel Coimbra (Universidade do Porto)
Listen to your heart

Simon Godsill (University of Cambridge)
A survey of recent probabilistic approaches in musical audio modelling 
and transcription

Mark Lutman (University of Southampton)
Less is more: sparse approach to speech recognition in noise for 
cochlear implants

David Reby (University of Sussex)
Tools for understanding mammal vocal communication: recording, 
re-synthesis and playback