ITR:HCI Personalized spatial audio via Scientific Computing and Computer Vision

Kick off meeting: Thursday, October 12, 2000

Location: Room 2120 A.V. Williams Building, University of Maryland, College Park.

Parking: Just past A.V. Williams there is a visitor's lot on the left (Paint Branch Visitors lot). Please park in the lot. Bring your parking ticket up for validation by our secretary.

Titles of talks are tentative.

Agenda

8:30 a.m.	Coffee and Continental Breakfast
9:00 a.m.	Welcome	Joseph Ja’Ja’, Director UMIACS
9:10 a.m.	An overview of the ITR project	Ramani Duraiswami, UMIACS
9:45 a.m.	An introduction to human spatial hearing	Richard O. Duda, UC Davis
10:20 a.m.	Break
10:30 a.m.	An introduction to the COMET Acoustics package	S.T. Raveendra, Automated Analysis Corporation
11:00 a.m.	Finite Difference and Multipole Methods for calculating the HRTF	Qing-Huo Liu, Duke University
11:30 a.m.	Overview and Discussion  of Goals	V. Ralph Algazi, UC Davis
12:00 p.m.	Lunch	box lunch provided for attendees
1:00 p.m.	Physics based approaches to modeling the HRTF	Nail Gumerov, UMIACS
1:25 p.m.	Computational localization using HRTF data	Elena Grassi and Shihab Shamma, ISR, U Md
1:50 p.m.	Tracking for dynamic sound synthesis	Dmitry Zotkin, U MD
2:10 p.m.	Shape encoded tracking using nonlinear filtering	Hankyu Moon, U MD
2:20 p.m.	Break
2:30 p.m.	Three Dimensional Reconstruction	Jan Neumann
2:50 p.m.	Elastic matching methods for studying the HRTF and ear geometries	Kexue Liu
3:00 p.m.	Hierarchical meshes for speeding up computations	Zhihui Tang
3:10 p.m.	Other students introduce themselves.	Ankur Mohan, Nitin Anand
3:20 p.m.	Break
3:30 p.m.	General discussion and planning	(investigators meeting)
4:30 p.m.	Close