Hearnet meeting in Paris, 10/11 September 2001

"Spatial hearing and sound organization, with emphasis on musical as well as speech issues".

• Talks
• Participants
• Hotels
• Travel
• What is Hearnet?

Talks

• Jeroen Breebart, 30', A time-domain Equalization-Cancellation model applied to binaural signal detection. (Jeroen's thesis, check also the 3 papers in August JASA)
• David McAlpine, 30', Binaural 4-channel model with EE and EI neurons
• John Culling, 45', The mE-C model of binaural unmasking and the nature of the 'binaural display'
• Shiro Ikeda, 60', Independent Component Analysis (ICA) in the frequency domain based on source modulation patterns. (more info)
• Christian Lorenzi, 30', Second-order temporal modulation transfer functions.
• Guy Brown, 30', Linking Computational Auditory Scene Analysis with 'Missing Data' Speech Recognition.
• Michael Akeroyd, 45', Equalization-Cancellation-based models of dichotic pitches.
• Bernhard Gaese, 45', Spatial orienting of auditory attention in rats and barn owls. (more info)
• Thierry Aubin, 30', Individual acoustic vocal recognition in penguin colonies.
• Hideki Kawahara, 30', STRAIGHT analysis/synthesis system. Demo of STRAIGHT.
• Olivier Warusfel, 60', Spat, a tool for creating and manipulating sound scenes. Demo of Spat and Timée.

  + satellite PECA talk on tuesday afternoon after Hearnet:

• Bob Carlyon, abstract.

Expected participants

Michael Akeroyd (maa@biols.susx.ac.uk)
Thierry Aubin (thierry.aubin@ibaic.u-psud.fr)
Jeroen Breebart (jeroen.breebaart@philips.com)
Guy Brown (g.brown@dcs.shef.ac.uk)
Bob Carlyon (bob.carlyon@mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk)
John Culling (jfc@brentwood.psyc.cf.ac.uk)
Chris Darwin (cjd@biols.susx.ac.uk)
Bernhard Gaese (gaese@bio2.rwth-aachen.de)
Melvyn Hunt (mhunt@phoneticsystems.com)
Hideki Kawahara (hideki.kawahara@nifty.com)
Christian Lorenzi (christian.lorenzi@psycho.univ-paris5.fr)
Yves Laprie (Yves.Laprie@loria.fr)
David McAlpine (d.mcalpine@ucl.ac.uk)
Erik McDermott (mcd@cslab.kecl.ntt.co.jp)
Chris Plack (cplack@essex.ac.uk)
Ian Winter (imw1001@cam.ac.uk)
Shiro Ikeda (shiro@brain.kyutech.ac.jp)
Sylvain Baillet 
Mathieu Delescluse (matthieudelescluse@hotmail.com)

plus a number of IRCAM people among whom:
Alexis Baskind (baskind@ircam.fr)
Alain de Cheveigné (cheveign@ircam.fr)
Stephen McAdams (smc@ircam.fr)
Daniel Pressnitzer (pressnit@ircam.fr)
Olivier Warusfel (warusfel@ircam.fr)

Hotels

A few hotels near Ircam:

Hospitel Hotel-Dieu, +33 (1).44.32.01.00 (522 - 592 FF, in a hospital
   across the street from Notre Dame!)
Hotel Andrea Rivoli, +33 (1).42.78.43.93 (470 FF)
Hotel Sansonnet, +33 (1).48.87.96.14 (420 - 480 FF)
Hotel des Chevaliers,  +33 (1).42.72.73.47 (780 FF)
Hotel Saint Paul le Marais, +33 (1).48.04.97.27 (720 - 820 FF)
Grand Hotel Jeanne d'Arc, +33 (1).48.87.62.11 (420 - 800 FF)
Grand Hotel Mahler, +33 (1).42.72.60.92 (730 - 840 FF)
Hotel Sevigné, +33 (1).42.72.76.17 (387 - 440 FF)
Hotel des Fontaines, +33 (1).42.72.25.53 (195 - 210 FF)
Hotel Picard, +33 (1).48.87.53.82 (260 - 410 FF)
Relais Paris Republique, +33 (1).42.72.78.88 (550 - 650 FF)
Hôtel du Vieux Saule, +33 (1) 42 72 01 14 (590 - 690 FF)
(1 FF = 0.152 euro = 0.093 pounds = 0.130 $)

Another option is a little hotel near my place, 20 minutes walk from Ircam: Hotel les Sans-Culottes, +33 1 49 23 85 80 (best call in the morning on a weekday) single: 350 FF twin: 400 FF, possibly less.

Otherwise try the Paris tourism office, or chain hotels such as Timhotel (+33 1 53 38 37 36, web site).

Travel tips

Eurostar from Waterloo to Gare du Nord is 70 pounds round trip if you stay Saturday or two nights in Paris and purchase 14 days in advance.

From CDG take the RER train to Gare du Nord or Chatelet les Halles (closest to Ircam). To figure out where things are, try the Paris Metro site (maps and routes). If you want to see a photo of your moth-eaten hotel, try looking it up at Pages Jaunes.

Address: Ircam, 1 place Igor Stravinsky, Paris 75004 (map). Phone: +33 1 44 78 48 43 (entrance) +33 1 44 78 48 46 (alain)