First virtual conference on Computational Audiology (vcca2020)

June 19th 2020

Purpose:

bringing Audiology and AI experts together

let young researchers present their work and ideas, feedback from peers and mentored by senior researchers

social interaction, in times of social distancing

Mission (of promoting computational audiology):

Improve access to hearing healthcare (>450 million hearing impaired people)

Topics:

Computational models

Machine learning for audiology

AI for auditory implants

e-Audiology (connected hearing health care)

AI & Music (for hearing impaired)

Target audience:

100 participants (especially young scientists from all over the world)

No participation fee

We will reach out to research groups in AI and Audiology worldwide.

We will provide a young scientist award to the best contribution

All presentations and discussions will be recorded and together with the submitted abstracts made freely accessible via our website:

https://computationalaudiology.com/

Scientific Committee (Please notice that we are still contacting some experts to join the scientific committee)

Prof De Wet Swanepoel

Prof Dennis Barbour

Prof David Moore

Dr Yagmur Güçlütürk

Dr Cris Lanting

Prof Johan Frijns  

Preliminary Schedule (distributed webinars during a day)

3 clustered sessions

Morning: Welcome session 10:00-12:00 (GMT+1)

Lunch break / chat sessions (discord)

Afternoon: 16:00-18:00

Dinner break

Evening Session 20:00-22:00

Closing down ceremony

After party?

Abstract call for abstract & selection

We will follow up on that soon.

Important dates (preliminary)

22 April Call for abstracts (deadline to submit abstracts 31 May) + save the date

2-31 May upload abstracts (We do this on the fly)

1-5 June abstract voting/ election period

5 June abstracts selected

19 June Conference!

1 September submission deadline for special issue

More details, the save-the-date and call-for-abstracts will be posted soon on

https://computationalaudiology.com/event/virtual-conference-on-computational-audiology/

We will use discord to create chatrooms (this is what our students tell us…)

https://discordapp.com/invite/7jhKk2j