Preliminary Program 2019

Optional pre-meeting session in the House of Hearing: Company Showcase & Barbecue 2019.

10.00 - 10.30	Welcome, Introduction (E. Lopez-Poveda, L. Bramsløw, B. Kollmeier)
10.30	Enrique Lopez-Poveda: Better hearing with binaural sound processing inspired by the contralateral medial olivocochlear reflex
11.15	Discussion
11.30	Coffee break
12.00	Bernd Meyer: Geoffrey prefers three deep models: Deep learning for perception prediction and speech audiometry
12.45	Discussion
13.00	Lunch break
14.00 - 17.00	Discussion sessions: - Hearing devices using sensors beyond acoustics - Evaluation of hearing devices using smartphones and cloud services - New ideas on hearing aid processing
15.15 - 15.45	Coffee break
17.15	Plenary discussion
18.15	Evening event

09.00 - 09.45	Nick Zacharov: Modern sensory evaluation of audio
09.45 - 10.00	Coffee Break
10.00 - 13.00	Discussion sessions: - Comparing hearing aids and personal sound amplifiers - Hearing aid performance assessment in real life as compared to the lab - Using software tools and models for objective evaluation
11.30 - 11.45	Coffee Break
13.00 - 13.30	Final Plenary meeting & Roundup
13.30 - 14.15	Lunch Break
14.15	End of meeting
Afternoon	Free for small meetings and consortial

Discussion sessions (one session from each of the three areas is included in the Thursday afternoon or Friday morning time slot):

Area I) Hardware & Acoustics
Area II) Psychophysics & Evaluation
Area III) Algorithms & Software

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