3 day intensive course
Interaction between humans and machines could be greatly enhanced through communication using human sensory signals such as speech. Knowledge of human information processing is critical in the design of such human-machine interfaces. The course covers concept of signal as a carrier of information, basic principles of processing of cognitive signals, and introduces selected phenomena in auditory and visual perception. Students learn how to interpret empirical data, how to incorporate these data in models, and how to apply these models to engineering problems. Emphasis is on active research in auditory modeling that exploits special properties of speech.