The project is designed to answer specific questions regarding listeners' ability to integrate information within and across stimulus dimensions, to extract information contained in the pattern of the acoustic signal, and to perform under conditions of stimulus uncertainty. The data are also used to determine how listeners weigh the information provided by different components of the signal, and how best to package the acoustic information in frequency and/or time so that it is processed most effectively by thE listener. Finally, work is undertaken to develop a computational model to summarize and predict the results of these and future experiments. Keywords: Auditory perception, Pattern recognition, Information processing, Discrimination, Mathematical models. (aw).

Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Study Institute on Computational Models of Speech Pattern Processing, held in St. Helier, Jersey, UK, July 7-18, 1997

We are surrounded by noise; to separate the signals we want to hear from those we do not we have developed various strategies. Giving computers similar abilities would help develop devices such as intelligent hearing aids. This book reviews new and recent work on the modelling of auditory processes.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 25th Symposium of the German Association for Pattern Recognition, DAGM 2003, held in Magdeburg, Germany in September 2003. The 74 revised papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from more than 140 submissions. The papers address all current issues in pattern recognition and are organized in sections on image analyses, callibration and 3D shape, recognition, motion, biomedical applications, and applications.