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Computational auditory scene analysis as causal inference| old_uid | 18204 |
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| title | Computational auditory scene analysis as causal inference |
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| start_date | 2019/12/02 |
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| schedule | 10h-12h |
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| online | no |
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| location_info | salle U205 |
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| summary | A central computational challenge of everyday hearing is the need to separate the distinct causes of sound in the world. The most commonly discussed version of this problem occurs with concurrent sound sources, often termed the ‘cocktail party problem’. However, analogous problems are posed by reverberation, in which the sound from a source interacts with the environment (via reflections) on its way to the ears, as well as by sound-generating object interactions, in which the physical properties of multiple objects jointly determine the sound. Dating back to Helmholtz, perceptual judgments have been considered the result of unconscious inference, in which our perceptual systems determine the most likely causes of sensory stimuli in terms of structures and events in the world. Despite the conceptual appeal of this view, perceptual inference has historically been difficult to instantiate in working computational systems for all but the simplest perceptual judgments. In this talk I will revisit the notion of scene analysis as inference, leveraging recent computational developments that make inference newly feasible and exploring neglected classes of everyday scene analysis problems along with classical auditory scene analysis. |
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| responsibles | Mamassian |
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