TOMORROW March DL Talk! Augmented/Mixed Reality Audio for Hearables
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March DL Talk Tomorrow! Augmented/Mixed Reality Audio for Hearables: Sensing, Control and Rendering
IEEE Distinguished Lecturer Prof. Woo Seng-Gan will be visiting from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore to deliver a talk to the Southern Minnesota IEEE section.
Augmented and Mixed Reality (AR/MR) is considered to be one of the most promising technologies for the future of computing, and audio cues play a crucial role in enhancing realism, social connection, and spatial awareness in various AR/MR applications. These applications range from education and training, gaming, remote work, to virtual social gatherings.
In this talk, we will explore the integration of fundamental and advanced signal processing techniques for AR/MR audio. The speaker will draw from a recent feature article in IEEE Signal Processing Magazine to provide researchers and engineers in the signal processing community with a comprehensive understanding of the needs required for the next wave of AR/MR.
The talk will focus on the major signal processing and machine learning techniques for intelligent sensing, real sound control, and virtual sound rendering for Spatial Augmented Reality Audio (SARA). These techniques play a critical role in ensuring that audio cues in AR/MR applications are accurate, realistic, and enhance the overall user experience.
The presentation will provide a comprehensive overview of the current state of the art in AR/MR audio and inspire the development of new and innovative applications in this exciting field. By highlighting the challenges and opportunities in AR/MR audio, we want to encourage further research and development in this area, helping to drive innovation and push the boundaries of what is possible in AR/MR technology.
Date and Time
- Date: 07 Mar 2024
- Time: 06:30 PM to 08:00 PM
- All times are (UTC-06:00) Central Time (US & Canada)
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Location
For virtual attendees, livestreaming on our Section YouTube will be available at the beginning of the talk (7:00 pm CST), and a recording of the event will be made available after the event.
For in-person attendees, parking may be available as street parking along the east side of the Medical Sciences Building and in the consultants parking lot immediately east of the Medical Sciences Building. Please enter the building from the north or east entrance, as this is where our IEEE volunteers will be letting attendees in.
- 300 3rd Ave SW
- Rochester, Minnesota
- United States 55902
- Building: Medical Sciences Building
- Room Number: Mann Hall
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Registration
- Starts 08 February 2024 05:00 PM
- Ends 07 March 2024 01:00 PM
- All times are (UTC-06:00) Central Time (US & Canada)
- No Admission Charge
Speakers
Prof. Woon-Seng Gan of Nanyang Technological University
Woon-Seng Gan (SM) is Professor of Audio Processing and Director of the Smart Nation Lab in the School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering at Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore. He received his BEng (1st Class Hons) and Ph.D. degrees, both in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from the University of Strathclyde, UK in 1989 and 1993, respectively, and joined the faculty of Nanyang Technological University as a lecturer in 1993. He also served as the Head of the Information Engineering Division (2011-2014), and Director of the Centre for Infocomm Technology (2016-2019) at NTU.
Prof. Gan served as Technical Program Chair, IEEE International Conference on Acoustic, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP 2022); Member, IEEE Signal Processing Society Technical Directions Board (2021-2023); Member, Applied Signal Processing Systems Technical Committee (2021-2022); President-elect, Asia Pacific Signal and Information Processing Association (APSIPA) (2023-2024); and General Chair, Asia Pacific of Signal and Information Processing Association Annual Summit and Conference (APSIPA ASC) (2017).
Prof. Gan is a Fellow of the Audio Engineering Society (AES), and Fellow of the Institute of Engineering and Technology (IET). He is currently serving as Senior Area Editor, IEEE Signal Processing Letters (2019-); Associate Technical Editor, Journal of Audio Engineering Society (JAES; 2013-); Senior Editorial Member, APSIPA Transactions on Signal and Information Processing (ATSIP; 2011-); and Associate Editor, EURASIP Journal on Audio, Speech, and Music Processing (EJASMP; 2007-). He served as Associate Editor, IEEE Signal Processing Letters (SPL; 2015-19); Associate Editor, IEEE/ACM Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing (TASLP; 2012-15); and was presented with an Outstanding TASLP Editorial Board Service Award in 2016. He was also a recipient of the 2017 APSIPA Sadoaki Furui Prize Paper Award.
Prof. Gan’s research has been concerned with the connections between the physical world, signal processing and machine learning, and sound control, which resulted in the practical demonstration and licensing of spatial audio algorithms, psychoacoustic signal processing applied to the soundscape evaluation, audio intelligence monitoring at the edge, and active noise control for headphones and open apertures.
Agenda
6:30 - 7:00 Social half hour to network, grab food and beverages
7:00 - 8:00 Technical talk and questions
