Fernanda De La Torre

Excited about this new paper from our lab, by Andrew Francl: rdcu.be/cFPWc Shows that deep neural networks trained to localize sounds reproduce the key features of human spatial hearing, but only if trained in naturalistic environments. (1/n)

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New paper from our lab, led by @vin_agarwal. Vin figured out how to synthesize sounds of scraping and rolling from physical descriptors of objects. Substantially more realistic than previous methods! Demos here: mcdermottlab.mit.edu/scraping_rolli… Paper here: dafx2020.mdw.ac.at/proceedings/pa…