Prof. Dr.-Ing. Bernhard U. Seeber

• Auditory scene analysis with normal and impaired hearing

• Cochlear implants: Perception and modeling of electric stimulation of the auditory nerve

• Signal processing for cochlear implants and hearing aids and its perceptual impact

• Binaural hearing for sound localization and speech understanding in reverberant and noisy spaces

• Room simulation methods, sound field synthesis

• Psychophysical studies of auditory perception and the auditory system

• Simulation of realistic acoustic spaces via loudspeakers of the Simulated Open Field Environment (SOFE)

• Cross-comparison between different degrees of hearing loss: normal hearing, hearing impairment, cochlear implants

• Simulations of information reduction in the auditory system, e.g. with vocoders

• Computational models of the auditory system

• Virtual acoustics and room simulation techniques

• Direct stimulation technique with cochlear implants

Project B-T2 – Learning the reflection characteristics of rooms. Bernhard U Seeber (TUM) and Martin Kleinsteuber (TUM)

Project C1 – Direct approach to study temporal processing in the auditory system: electrical stimulation of the auditory nerve in cochlear implant patients, Werner Hemmert (TUM), Lutz Wiegrebe (LMU), and Bernhard U. Seeber (TUM)

Project C2 – Novel coding strategies for cochlear implants: from fine time structures to sparse neural representations, Ingeborg Hochmair (MED-EL), Lutz Wiegrebe(LMU), Werner Hemmert (TUM), and Bernhard U. Seeber (TUM)

Project C5 - Auditory scene analysis in normal hearing listeners and users of cochlear implants. Bernhard U. Seeber (TUM) and Werner Hemmert (TUM)

Selected Publications

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