[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]

[AUDITORY] Book Anouncement: The Technology of Binaural Understanding

Dear colleagues;

We would like to announce a new book we edited with 25 author chapters:

https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9783030003852

*The Technology of Binaural Understanding**
*Editors: Blauert, Jens, Braasch, Jonas (Eds.)
1st ed. 2020, XI, 815 p. 213 illus., 152 illus. in color.
Series: Modern Acoustics and Signal Processing

We hope it will find an audience among-auditory list members.

Best,

Jonas Braasch and Jens Blauert

*Scope of the Book:*
Sound, devoid of meaning, would not matter to us. It is the information sound conveys that helps the brain to understand its environment. Sound and its underlying meaning are always associated with time and space. There is no sound without spatial properties, and the brain always organizes this information within a temporal–spatial framework. This book is devoted to understanding the importance of meaning for spatial and related further aspects of hearing, including cross-modal inference. People, when exposed to acoustic stimuli, do not react directly to what theyhear but rather to what they hear means to them. This semiotic maxim may not always apply, for instance, when the reactions are reflexive. But, where it does apply, it poses a major challenge to the builders of models of the auditory system. Take, for example, an auditory model that is meant to be implemented on a robotic agent for autonomous search-&-rescue actions. Or think of a system that can perform judgments on the sound quality ofmultimedia-reproduction systems. It becomes immediately clear that such a system needs 
•Cognitive capabilities, including substantial inherent knowledge
• The ability to integrate information across different sensory modalities
To realize these functions, the auditory system provides a pair of sensory organs, the two ears, and the means to perform adequate preprocessing of the signals provided by the ears. This is realized in the subcortical parts of the auditory system. In the title of a prior book, the term Binaural Listening is used to indicate a focus on sub-cortical functions. Psychoacoustics and auditory signal processing contribute substantially to this area. 

*Table of contents (25 chapters)*
1. Blauert, Jens (et al.): Reflexive and Reflective Auditory Feedback
2. Sutojo, Sarinah (et al.): Auditory Gestalt Rules and Their Application
3. Fels, Janina (et al.): Selective Binaural Attention and Attention Switching 
4. Schymura, Christopher (et al.): Blackboard Systems for Cognitive Audition
5. Majdak, Piotr (et al.): Formation of Three-Dimensional Auditory Space
6. Pecka, Michael (et al.): Biological Aspects of Perceptual Space Formation
7. Lokki, Tapio (et al.): Auditory Spatial Impression in Concert Halls
8. Seeber, Bernhard U. (et al.): Auditory Room Learning and Adaptation to Sound Reflections 
9. Kob, Malte (et al.): Room Effect on Musicians’ Performance
10. Braasch, Jonas: Binaural Modeling from an Evolving-Habitat Perspective
11. Mendonça, Catarina: Psychophysical Models of Sound Localisation with Audiovisual Interactions 12. Pastore, M. Torben (et al.): Cross-Modal and Cognitive Processes in Sound Localization 13. Cohen, Michael (et al.): Spatial Soundscape Superposition and Multimodal Interaction 14. Raake, Alexander (et al.): Binaural Evaluation of Sound Quality and Quality of Experience 15. Weinzierl, Stefan (et al.): The Language of Rooms: From Perception to Cognition to Aesthetic Judgment 
16. Mourjopoulos, John: Modeling the Aesthetics of Audio-Scene Reproduction
17. Blauert, Jens: A Virtual Testbed for Binaural Agents
18. Stern, Richard M. (et al.): Binaural Technology for Machine Speech Recognition and Understanding 19. Lavandier, Mathieu (et al.): Modeling Binaural Speech Understanding in Complex Situations 20. Nicol, Rozenn: Creating Auditory Illusions with Spatial-Audio Technologies 21. Brandenburg, Karlheinz (et al.): Creating Auditory Illusions with Binaural Technology 
22. Suzuki, Yôiti (et al.): Toward Cognitive Usage of Binaural Displays
23. Cohen-Lhyver, Benjamin (et al.): Audition as a Trigger of Head Movements
24. Georganti, Eleftheria (et al.): Intelligent Hearing Instruments—Trends and Challenges 25. May, Tobias (et al.): Scene-Aware Dynamic-Range Compression in Hearing Aids