As devices that produce audio become more commonplace and increasingly portable, situations in which two competing audio programmes are present occur more regularly. In order to support the design of systems intended to mitigate the effects of interfering audio (including sound field control, noise cancellation or source separation systems), it is desirable to model the perceived distraction in...

Recent electrophysiological studies have provided evidence that changes in multisensory processing in auditory cortex cannot only be observed following extensive hearing loss, but also in moderately hearing-impaired subjects. How the reduced auditory input affects audio-visual interactions is however largely unknown. Here we used a cross-modal distraction paradigm to investigate multisensory pr...

: This study investigated the impact of audio-visual input enhancement teaching techniques on improving English as Foreign Language (EFL) learnersˈ collocation learning as well as their accuracy concerning collocation use in narrative writing. In addition, it compared the impact and efficiency of audio-visual input enhancement in two learning contexts, namely traditional and mo...

Driver errors related to visual and cognitive distraction were studied in the context of the Lane Change Test (LCT). New performance metrics were developed in order to capture the specific effects of visual and cognitive distraction. In line with previous research, it was found that the two types of distraction impaired driving in different ways. Visual, but not cognitive, distraction led to re...

We propose to explore a new problem called audio-visual segmentation (AVS), in which the goal is output pixel-level map of object(s) that produce sound at time image frame. To facilitate this research, we construct first benchmark (AVSBench), providing pixel-wise annotations for sounding objects audible videos. Two settings are studied with benchmark: 1) semi-supervised single source and 2) ful...

This project aimed to derive fundamental knowledge about driver exposure to technology-based distracting activities and the conditions in which distraction is experienced. An Internet survey of 287 Victorian drivers was conducted to: determine the extent to which drivers reportedly are exposed to technology-based sources of distraction; factors that influence willingness to engage in distractin...

We investigate the neural basis of two routes to visual distraction: salient stimuli capture attention in a bottom-up fashion, and the reappearance of task-irrelevant items that are being actively maintained in working memory can lead to distraction via top-down, but automatic, guidance of attention. Bottom-up, stimulus-driven distraction has typically been associated with a ventral network inc...