Prof. Dr.-Ing. Bernhard U. Seeber

Principal Investigator

Address

TUM - Department of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology 
Theresienstrasse 90 
80333 München

Phone

Fax

+49-89-289-28535

Email

seeber[at]tum.de

Homepage

Research topics

• 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

Scientific Approach

• 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

Bernstein Projects

• 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)

Related Publications

• Whitmer, W.M. and Seeber, B.U. and Akeroyd, M.A., 2014. The perception of apparent auditory source width in hearing-impaired adults, In: J Acoust Soc Am 135(6): 3548-3559,doi: 10.1121/1.4875575

• Pierzycki, Robert H. and Seeber, B. U., 2014. Comodulation Masking Release In Electric Hearing, In: Journal of the Association for Research in Otolaryngology, April 2014, Volume 15, Issue 2, pp 279-291, doi: 10.1007/s10162-013-0433-9 

• Monaghan, J.J., Krumbholz, K., Seeber, B.U. 2013. Factors affecting the use of envelope interaural time differences in reverberation. J Acoust Soc Am 133, 2288-2300; doi: 10.1121/1.479327 

• Wiggins, I.M., Seeber, B. 2013. Linking dynamic-range compression across the ears can improve speech intelligibility in spatially separated noise. J Acoust Soc Am 133, 1004-1016; doi: 10.1121/1.4773862 

•  Kerber, S., Seeber, B.U. 2012. Sound localization in noise by normal-hearing listeners and cochlear implant users. Ear Hear 33, 445-57; doi: 10.1097/AUD.0b013e318257607b 

• Wiggins, I.M., Seeber, B.U. 2012. Effects of dynamic-range compression on the spatial attributes of sounds in normal-hearing listeners. Ear Hear 33, 399-410; doi: 10.1097/AUD.0b013e31823d78fd 

•  Seeber, B.U., Kerber, S., Hafter, E.R. 2010. A system to simulate and reproduce audio-visual environments for spatial hearing research. Hear Res 260, 1-10; doi: 10.1016/j.heares.2009.11.004, http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19909802. 

• Seeber, B.U., Fastl, H. 2008. Localization cues with bilateral cochlear implants. J Acoust Soc Am 123, 1030-42; doi: 10.1121/1.2821965, http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18247905. 

• Seeber, B.U., Baumann, U., Fastl, H. 2004. Localization ability with bimodal hearing aids and bilateral cochlear implants. J Acoust Soc Am 116, 1698-709; doi, http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15478437. 

•  Seeber, B. 2002. A New Method for Localization Studies. Acta Acustica - Acustica 88, 446-450.

 For further publications see here.

Group Members Associated with BCCN

• Aswin Wijetillake (Postdoc)
• Marko Takanen (Postdoc)
• Sam Clapp (Postdoc)