Auditory Attention: From Saliency to Models to Applications - 2017

Explore the complexities of auditory attention in this comprehensive lecture by Dr. Malcolm Slaney from Google. Delve into various aspects of attention used to understand human auditory processing in daily life, covering top-down and bottom-up models for solving the cocktail party problem, and the utilization of eye-gaze and face-pose information in speech processing systems. Examine algorithms and results related to speech recognition, understanding, addressee detection, and selective speech processing in complex auditory environments. Gain insights into auditory attention and saliency models, their applications, and their significance in human-machine and human-human-machine interactions. Learn from Dr. Slaney's extensive experience in the field of auditory research and machine hearing, spanning his work at various prestigious institutions and his contributions to IEEE publications and books on computerized tomographic imaging and computational models of auditory function.