The Bremen Big Data Challenge is an annual programming competition on the subject of data analysis in which students from Bremen and the surrounding area can compete against each other. In this year's task, the students had to correctly recognize acoustic events, such as the meowing of a cat or the ringing of a bell, and correctly determine the start and end times. Various background noises in the audio recordings made the task even more difficult.
We would like to honor the five best teams of this year's challenge on 28.05.2021. Thanks to the commitment of our sponsors "neuland, Büro für Informatik" and "die Sparkasse Bremen", we will be awarding a total of 1500 euros in prize money. The award ceremony starts at 10:30 a.m. with an introduction by the hosts and greetings from our Dean, Prof. Rolf Drechsler, and sponsors. Afterwards, Prof. Haizhou Li will give us an insight into his research. The crowning finale will be the presentation of prizes to the winners. The event will end at around 12:00.
The keynote lecture entitled "Auditory attention by humans and machines" will be given by Prof. Haizhou Li. Prof. Li teaches and conducts research at the National University Singapore (NUS) and is U Bremen Excellence Chair in the research area "Minds, Media, Machines". In his lecture "Auditory attention by humans and machines", he will talk about his current work on selective perception and the cocktail party effect. A biography, title and abstract of his talk are attached below.
We would like to thank all teams for their participation and the great interest in the BBDC 2021 and look forward to seeing you at the award ceremony!
Your BBDC team
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Lecture
Title: Auditory attention by humans and machines
Abstract: Humans have a remarkable ability to pay their auditory attention only to a sound source of interest in a multi-talker environment, i.e., cocktail party. However, auditory attention in multi-talker environment remains a challenge for machines. In this talk, we discuss the recent studies where we apply machine learning techniques to interpret listening activities in human brains, and to implement machine auditory attention.
Biography: Haizhou Li is currently a Professor at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, National University of Singapore (NUS). Prof. Li's research interests include speech information processing, natural language processing, and human-machine interface. Prof. Li has served as the Editor-in-Chief of IEEE/ACM Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing (2015-2018), the President of the International Speech Communication Association (2015-2017), the President of Asia Pacific Signal and Information Processing Association (2015-2016). Prof. Li is a Fellow of the IEEE, and a Fellow of ISCA. He was named a U Bremen Excellence Chair Professor in 2019 by Bremen University.
Further information
Bremen Big Data Challenge: https://bbdc.csl.uni-bremen.de
Research focus "Minds, Media, Machines ": https://uni-bremen.de/minds-media-machines
Cognitive Systems Lab: https://csl.uni-bremen.de
Contact us
Yale Hartmann
Cognitive Systems Lab
FB 03 University of Bremen
E-mail: bbdcuni-bremen.de
