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Overview

Birger Kollmeier is affiliated with the Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg in Germany. Their research spans several interdisciplinary fields, primarily focusing on neuroscience and computer science. Within these broader areas, they have contributed significantly to subfields including cognitive neuroscience, signal processing, speech and hearing, sensory systems, and biomedical engineering.

The scientist's work addresses various topics related to hearing and auditory processes. Key themes in their research include:

  • Hearing Loss and Rehabilitation
  • Noise Effects and Management
  • Speech and Audio Processing
  • Hearing, Cochlea, Tinnitus, Genetics
  • Music and Audio Processing
  • Acoustic Wave Phenomena Research
  • Phonetics and Phonology Research

Birger Kollmeier has co-authored publications with a number of researchers repeatedly, indicating ongoing collaborative efforts in their field. Frequent co-authors include Florian Denk, Anna Warzybok, Mareike Buhl, Stephan D. Ewert, and Josep Llorca-Bofí.

Their publication record includes papers in a variety of scientific journals, with frequent contributions to venues such as:

  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • International Journal of Audiology
  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Trends in Hearing
  • The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Representative recent papers authored or co-authored by Birger Kollmeier include:

  • "Effect of reverberation and noise type on speech intelligibility in real complex acoustic scenarios" (2021) published in Building and Environment
  • "Prediction of speech intelligibility with DNN-based performance measures" (2021) published in Computer Speech & Language
  • "Individual Aided Speech-Recognition Performance and Predictions of Benefit for Listeners With Impaired Hearing Employing FADE" (2020) published in Trends in Hearing
  • "Speech Audiometry at Home: Automated Listening Tests via Smart Speakers With Normal-Hearing and Hearing-Impaired Listeners" (2020) published in Trends in Hearing
  • "Evaluation of Italian Simplified Matrix Test for Speech-Recognition Measurements in Noise" (2021) published in Audiology Research

Best Publications

  • Modeling auditory processing of amplitude modulation I. Detection and masking with narrow-band carriers

    Torsten Dau;Birger Kollmeier;Armin Kohlrausch

  • Efficient adaptive procedures for threshold and concurrent slope estimates for psychophysics and speech intelligibility tests.

    Thomas Brand;Birger Kollmeier

  • Development and analysis of an International Speech Test Signal (ISTS)

    Inga Holube;Stefan Fredelake;Marcel Vlaming;Birger Kollmeier

  • PEMO-Q—A New Method for Objective Audio Quality Assessment Using a Model of Auditory Perception

    R. Huber;B. Kollmeier

  • Auditory brainstem responses with optimized chirp signals compensating basilar-membrane dispersion

    Torsten Dau;Oliver Wegner;Volker Mellert;Birger Kollmeier

  • Database of multichannel in-ear and behind-the-ear head-related and binaural room impulse responses

    H. Kayser;S. D. Ewert;J. Anemüller;T. Rohdenburg

  • Development and evaluation of a German sentence test for objective and subjective speech intelligibility assessment

    Birger Kollmeier;Matthias Wesselkamp

  • Modeling auditory processing of amplitude modulation II. Spectral and temporal integration

    Torsten Dau;Birger Kollmeier;Armin Kohlrausch

  • Speech pause detection for noise spectrum estimation by tracking power envelope dynamics

    M. Marzinzik;B. Kollmeier

  • Directivity of binaural noise reduction in spatial multiple noise-source arrangements for normal and impaired listeners

    Jürgen Peissig;Birger Kollmeier

  • Speech intelligibility prediction in hearing‐impaired listeners based on a psychoacoustically motivated perception model

    Inga Holube;Birger Kollmeier

  • Revision, extension, and evaluation of a binaural speech intelligibility model.

    Rainer Beutelmann;Thomas Brand;Birger Kollmeier

  • Speech enhancement based on physiological and psychoacoustical models of modulation perception and binaural interaction

    Birger Kollmeier;René Koch

  • Comparison of three types of French speech-in-noise tests: A multi-center study

    Sofie Jansen;Heleen Luts;Kirsten Carola Wagener;Birger Kollmeier

  • A model of auditory perception as front end for automatic speech recognition.

    Jürgen Tchorz;Birger Kollmeier

  • Spectro-temporal modulation subspace-spanning filter bank features for robust automatic speech recognition.

    Marc René Schädler;Bernd T. Meyer;Birger Kollmeier

  • Binaural forward and backward masking: evidence for sluggishness in binaural detection.

    Birger Kollmeier;Robert H. Gilkey

  • SNR estimation based on amplitude modulation analysis with applications to noise suppression

    J. Tchorz;B. Kollmeier

  • Adaptive staircase techniques in psychoacoustics: A comparison of human data and a mathematical model

    Birger Kollmeier;Robert H. Gilkey;Ulrich K. Sieben

  • Within-channel cues in comodulation masking release (CMR): experiments and model predictions using a modulation-filterbank model.

    Jesko L. Verhey;Torsten Dau;Birger Kollmeier

  • Machine learning for decoding listeners' attention from electroencephalography evoked by continuous speech.

    Tobias de Taillez;Birger Kollmeier;Bernd T Meyer

  • Masking patterns for sinusoidal and narrow-band noise maskers.

    Brian C. J. Moore;Joseph I. Alcántara;Torsten Dau

Frequent Co-Authors

Torsten Dau
Torsten Dau Technical University of Denmark
Simon Doclo
Simon Doclo Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg
Stefan Debener
Stefan Debener Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg
Jan Wouters
Jan Wouters KU Leuven
Alfred Mertins
Alfred Mertins University of Lübeck
Barbara Canlon
Barbara Canlon Karolinska Institute
Emanuel A. P. Habets
Emanuel A. P. Habets University of Erlangen-Nuremberg
Christiane M. Thiel
Christiane M. Thiel Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg
Marc Moonen
Marc Moonen KU Leuven

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