VCCA2025 – Full Conference Program
| Day 1 (Thursday 26th June, 2025) | |||||
| Sydney (UTC+10) 26/27th June | Amsterdam (UTC+2) 26th June | Miami (UTC-4) 26th June | Main Room | Room B | Room C |
| 10:00 PM | 2:00 PM | 8:00 AM | Intro and Kick-off | ||
| 10:15 PM | 2:15 PM | 8:15 AM | Keynote 1: Investigating auditory cognition with natural speech and music – Dr. Giovanni Di Liberto | ||
| 10:55 PM | 2:55 PM | 8:55 AM | Featured talk 1: Audiology meets Virtual Reality: The BEARS (Both EARS) project is widening the scope of assessment and training of spatial listening abilities for children and young people with bilateral cochlear implants – Marina Salorio Corbetto | ||
| 11:15 PM | 3:15 PM | 9:15 AM | Break | ||
| 11:30 PM | 3:30 PM | 9:30 AM | Session 1-A: Spatial Hearing & Listening in Complex Acoustic Environments | Session 1-B: Cognitive & Neuro‑Audiology: Neural Correlates, Learning, and Comorbid Influences | Session 1-C: From Big Data to Better Care: Predictive Audiometry & Family‑Centred Rehabilitation |
| 11:35 PM | 3:35 PM | 9:35 AM | Effects of Stimulus Type, Duration, and Level on the Minimum Audible Angle – Arunachalam A S | Perceptual and sensorimotor learning with noise vocoded speech – Abbie Bradshaw | Audiometrically Normal, but Attending an Audiology Clinic: Using Machine Learning to Learn More About These Clients – Robert Eikelboom |
| 11:47 PM | 3:47 PM | 9:47 AM | Profiling Individual Differences in Vertical Localization: Insights from Three Virtual Test Paradigms – Harshada Mali | Neuroanatomical changes in gray and white matter due to tinnitus and hearing loss in a Military Population – Emilia Kaniewska | Exploring the standard Hughston-Westlake protocol in tone audiometry using Gaussian process regression: a virtual patient framework – Mériem Jaïdane |
| 11:59 PM | 3:59 PM | 9:59 AM | Spatial Acuity in Reverberation for Bilateral Cochlear Implant Users – Darby Durbin | Assessment of comorbid conditions in school-going children with central auditory processing disorders – Mekhala V G | Evaluating the Predictive Value of audiometric, electroacoustic, and psychoacoustic measurements for Aided Speech Perception in Noise – Yan Jiang |
| 12:11 AM | 4:11 PM | 10:11 AM | Effect of SNR and Reverberation on Speech Perception of School-age children – Ananya Kanigalpula | Neural-Behavioural Correlates of Audiovisual Speech-in-Noise Processing at the Fundamental Frequency of Speech – Jonas Auernheimer | Linking Data-Driven Audiometric Phenotypes to Speech Perception in Quiet and Noise – Varsha Mysore Athreya |
| 12:23 AM | 4:23 PM | 10:23 AM | Identifying Hearing Difficulty Moments in Conversational Audio – Chris Collier | A definition of lyric intelligibility by hearing aid users: A focus group study – Alinka Greasley | Distortion Product Otoacoustic Emissions in Screening for Early Stages of High-frequency Hearing Loss in Young Adults – Angeline Meerkerk-Meijer |
| 12:35 AM | 4:35 PM | 10:35 AM | Noise Pollution in Children and Adolescents with Autism Spectrum Disorder – Matheus Phellipe Santos Felix da Silva | Enhancing family interaction and self-efficacy through televideofeedback in pediatric auditory rehabilitation: a quasi-experimental study – Ingrid Santos | |
| 12:47 AM | 4:47 PM | 10:47 AM | Break | ||
| 1:00 AM | 5:00 PM | 11:00 AM | Special Session 1: Implementation of AI into clinical practice: Some global perspectives (Internet & Audiology) | ||
| 2:15 AM | 6:15 PM | 12:15 PM | Lunch / Dinner Break | ||
| 3:45 AM | 7:45 PM | 1:45 PM | Session 2-A: Innovations in Hearing‑Aid Technology: Devices, Algorithms & Performance Assessment | Session 2-B: AI‑Powered Tele‑Audiology: Automated Testing, Monitoring & Remote Hearing Care | |
| 3:50 AM | 7:50 PM | 1:50 PM | Evaluating the Efficacy of Nuance Audio Glasses for Individuals with Mild-to-Moderate Hearing Loss – Tami Harel-Arbeli | Development of an Internet-based system to guide and telemonitor hearing aid users – Andrea Soares | |
| 4:02 AM | 8:02 PM | 2:02 PM | A Hearing Aid Development Platform for Simplified Algorithm Development – João Victor Carlet | Automated scoring of speech audiometry for cochlear implant listeners using artificial intelligence and flexible grading methods – Erdem Baha Topbas | |
| 4:14 AM | 8:14 PM | 2:14 PM | Speech Test Results with Different Presentation Methods in Hearing Aid Users – BUSE ÇÖLLÜ | A Multicenter Validity Study of Four Smartphone Hearing Test Apps in Optimized and Home Environments – Kim Hui LIM | |
| 4:26 AM | 8:26 PM | 2:26 PM | Enhance, Remix, Compress: Comodulation Effects of Dynamic Range Compression in Speech Enhancement pipelines – Iordanis Thoidis | AICAS: AI-Powered Clinical Audiometry Simulation Platform Powered by LLaMA Models for Enhanced Audiology Education – Nazlı Tokatlı | |
| 4:38 AM | 8:38 PM | 2:38 PM | The Third Clarity Prediction Challenge (CPC3) – Simone Graetzer | An Efficient Algorithm for 2AFC Tasks: Monte Carlo Simulation Results of Pure Tone Audiometry – Jason Lien | |
| 4:50 AM | 8:50 PM | 2:50 PM | Environmental Sound Scene Recognition for Assistive Hearing Applications – Vagner Figueira | Covert Measurement of Adaptive Directionality in Hearing Aid Microphone Systems – Zi Kei Addison Kwong | |
| 5:02 AM | 9:02 PM | 3:02 PM | Break | ||
| “Brew‑and‑Chat” (Break-out Rooms) | |||||
| 5:30 AM | 9:30 PM | 3:30 PM | Session 3-A: Computational Models & Intelligent Signal Processing | Session 3-B: AI‑Driven Assessment & Clinical Training Tools | |
| 5:35 AM | 9:35 PM | 3:35 PM | Scene Recognition of Audiologically Relevant Environments for Hearing Aids Using AHEAD‑DS and YAMNet+ – Henry Zhong | Training Clinician Communication Skills Using Generative AI‑Driven Virtual Patients – Nicky Chong‑White | |
| 5:47 AM | 9:47 PM | 3:47 PM | Tuning a Version of CARFAC Cochlear Model That Includes Different Spontaneous‑Rate Classes of Auditory Nerve Fibers – Jason Mikiel‑Hunter | An Easy, Language‑Agnostic Speech Test for Equitable Hearing Assessment – David Meng | |
| 5:59 AM | 9:59 PM | 3:59 PM | Modulating Auditory Feedback Loops: Does TMS Induce Changes in Efferent Function? – Sarah Steele | A Physiologically Explainable Machine‑Learning Framework for Hearing‑Aid Development – Nima Salimi | |
| 6:11 AM | 10:11 PM | 4:11 PM | Biomimetic Cochlear‑Implant Coding: A Strategy Employing a Cochlear Model and Deep Neural Network – Maryam Hosseini | ||
| 6:23 AM | 10:23 PM | 4:23 PM | Break | ||
| 6:40 AM | 10:40 PM | 4:40 PM | Intro | ||
| 6:45 AM | 10:45 PM | 4:45 PM | Featured talk 2: Auditory Frequency-Following Responses (FFR) and Cortical Auditory Evoked Potentials (CAEPs) at Conventional and High Stimulation Rates using Deconvolution (CLAD) – Sheila Templado | ||
| 7:05 AM | 11:05 PM | 5:05 PM | Keynote 2: Exploring the social connections of adults with acquired hearing loss. – Dr. Louise Hickson | ||
| 7:45 AM | 11:45 PM | 5:45 PM | Close First Day | ||
| Day 2 (Friday 27th June, 2025) | |||||
| Sydney (GMT+10) 27/28th June | Amsterdam (GMT+2) 27th June | Miami (GMT-4) 27th June | Main Room | Room B | Room C |
| 10:00 PM | 2:00 PM | 8:00 AM | Intro and Kick-off | ||
| 10:15 PM | 2:15 PM | 8:15 AM | Keynote 3: Audio-visual technologies for inclusion: Bringing speech intelligibility beyond the limits of hearing – Dr. Dorothea Kolossa | ||
| 10:55 PM | 2:55 PM | 8:55 AM | Featured talk 3: Assessing the neural sensitivity in cochlear implant stimulation – Dietmar M. Wohlbauer | ||
| 11:15 PM | 3:15 PM | 9:15 AM | Break | ||
| 11:30 PM | 3:30 PM | 9:30 AM | Special Session 2: Towards data standards in audiology – best practice examples in extracting and assembling information in big datasets | ||
| 12:45 AM | 4:45 PM | 10:45 AM | Featured talk 4: Potential Impact of Real-time Auditory Scene Analysis on Hearing Aid Research – Caleb Rascón | ||
| 1:05 AM | 5:05 PM | 11:05 AM | Break | ||
| 1:15 AM | 5:15 PM | 11:15 AM | Session 4-A: Advances in Cochlear‑Implant Signal Processing & Personalised Stimulation | Session 4-B: Neuro‑Cognitive Markers of Auditory Processing: From Brain Connectivity to Behaviour | Session 4-C: Vestibular & Balance Earables / Middle‑Ear Diagnostics & Bone‑Conduction Innovation |
| 1:20 AM | 5:20 PM | 11:20 AM | Adversarial Training for Efficient End-to-End Speech Denoising in Cochlear Implants – Tom Gajecki | Neural Processing of Emotional Sounds in Misophonia and Hyperacusis: An fMRI Study – Namitha Jain | Improving the Epley manoeuvre – developing an earable device to provide anatomically accurate visualisation of the semicircular canals during the particle repositioning manoeuvre – Henry Dunne |
| 1:32 AM | 5:32 PM | 11:32 AM | A Comparative Analysis of Timbre Feature Preservation in Cochlear Implant Processing Strategies – Öğütnaz Çoban | Pupil dilation tracks ongoing auditory belief updating across perceptual domains – Roman Fleischmann | Earable to ‘Adding to the bigger picture of falls and balance assessments’ a qualitative analysis of clinicians perspectives. – Henry Dunne |
| 1:44 AM | 5:44 PM | 11:44 AM | Does the efficacy of channel selection in cochlear implant processing strategies depend on the background noise? – An investigation with typical hearing individuals and vocoding – Lidea Shahidi | Decoding the infant brain: Neural predictors of language and learning difficulties in neurodiverse population – Farhin Ahmed | Geospatial mapping of otitis media and social determinants in remote NT communities – Prasha Sooful |
| 1:56 AM | 5:56 PM | 11:56 AM | Using electrical stimulation patterns to assess the effect of cochlear implant processing on vocal-tract-length perception – Sil Zoest | Cortical benefits of DNN-based noise management in experienced hearing aid users measured using functional near infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) – Jonathan Vaisberg | Results of Extended Pressure Tympanometry in Children with Middle Ear Pathology – Beste Yalçın |
| 2:08 AM | 6:08 PM | 12:08 PM | Mapping Cortical Hemodynamics via fNIRS in Bimodal Hearing Children: A Case Study on Optimizing Cortical Development during Transition to Bilateral Implants – Larissa Fernandes Gomes | Bone Conduction Threshold Estimation with Sofi® using Rapid-CAEP® – Rohit Vijayakumar | |
| 2:20 AM | 6:20 PM | 12:20 PM | Finite Element Modeling, Evolutionary Optimization, and Clinical Data for Personalized Cochlear Implant Stimulation Strategies. – Angel Ramos de Miguel | Design and evaluation of a novel piezoelectric actuator for eardrum direct-drive hearing device – Yinxin Kou | |
| 2:32 AM | 6:32 PM | 12:32 PM | Lunch / Dinner Break | ||
| 3:00 AM | 7:00 PM | 1:00 PM | CAN-SIG members Meeting | ||
| 4:00 AM | 8:00 PM | 2:00 PM | Session 5-A: Computational Modelling of Hearing: From Peripheral Dynamics to Speech Perception | Session 5-B: Next‑Generation Digital Audiology: Remote Assessment, AI Automation & Smart Hearing‑Aid Measurement | |
| 4:05 AM | 8:05 PM | 2:05 PM | Machine learning models of hearing demonstrate the limits of attentional selection of speech heard through cochlear implants – Annesya Banerjee | Investigating Individual Aspects of Innovativeness and Attitudes Towards Artificial Intelligence in Audiology Students and Graduates – Cennet Akyol | |
| 4:17 AM | 8:17 PM | 2:17 PM | A computational loudness model for electric and acoustic stimulation based on peripheral neural activity – Franklin Alvarez Cardinale | Validity, Reliability, and Readability of Artificial Intelligence Chatbots as Public Sources of Information on Hearing Loss: A Comparative Evaluation of ChatGPT, Bing, Gemini, and Perplexity – Amin Pourhoseingholi | |
| 4:29 AM | 8:29 PM | 2:29 PM | Computational modeling of human auditory evoked potentials – Miguel Temboury | Wikipedia’s Influence on the Readability of AI-Generated Hearing-Health Responses in English and Brazilian Portuguese – Hector Gabriel Corrale de Matos | |
| 4:41 AM | 8:41 PM | 2:41 PM | A Model of Continuous Speech Recognition Reveals the Role of Context in Human Speech Perception – Gasser Elbanna | Can AI Chatbots Contribute to the Spread of Misinformation in Audiology? – Wiktor Jedrzejczak | |
| 4:53 AM | 8:53 PM | 2:53 PM | Neural health and activation in the human auditory periphery: Insights from a computational model for cochlear implant (CI) and auditory nerve implant (ANI) stimulation – Yixuan Zhang | From data to decisions: AI-supported self-monitoring in hearing health – Małgorzata Pastucha | |
| 5:05 AM | 9:05 PM | 3:05 PM | Accurate Methods for the Design of Auditory Filters Based on Bandwidth and Delay Specifications – Samiya Alkhairy | Digital Technologies for Community Health Worker-Facilitated Hearing Assessment in Low Resource Settings: A Feasibility Study – Caitlin Frisby | |
| 5:17 AM | 9:17 PM | 3:17 PM | Break | ||
| 5:30 AM | 9:30 PM | 3:30 PM | Featured talk 5: The different ML/AI techniques being used to model the auditory system – Malcolm Slaney | ||
| 5:50 AM | 9:50 PM | 3:50 PM | Featured talk 6: Modelling neural coding in the auditory brain through large-scale electrophysiology and deep learning – Fotios Drakopoulos | ||
| 6:10 AM | 10:10 PM | 4:10 PM | Break | ||
| 6:15 AM | 10:15 PM | 4:15 PM | Keynote 4: Revolutionizing Audiological Care with AI – Brent Edwards | ||
| 6:55 AM | 10:55 PM | 4:55 PM | Prize giving & closing ceremony | ||
| Fin | |||||