Hladek, Dr. Lubos

Academic Background

Ľuboš Hládek studied Artificial Intelligence at the Technical University of Košice, Slovakia and completed his doctoral degree on the topic: ‘Learning auditory distance perception: experimental studies and computational models‘ in the laboratory of Norbert Kopčo at the Pavol Jozef Šafárik University in Košice, Slovakia. Later, Ľuboš joined the Institute of Hearing Research – Scottish Section at the University of Nottingham for research on speech perception and gaze-steered hearing aids. After three years in Glasgow, he joined the Audio Information Processing group at the Technical University of Munich for research on speech perception and behavior in complex and virtual acoustic environments.  

Current Research

Ľuboš is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow investigating attention, cognitive fatigue, and listening effort in face-to-face communication in noisy environments. He joined the ARI in April 2024 working on project RELCOM.

Peer reviewed publications

Hládek, Ľuboš; Seeber, Bernhard U.; 2023. Speech Intelligibility in Reverberation is Reduced During Self-Rotation. Trends in Hearing, 27, DOI: 10.1177/23312165231188619

van de Par, Steven; Ewert, Stephan D.; Hládek, Ľuboš; Kirsch, Christoph; Schütze, Julia; Llorca-Bofí, Josep; Grimm, Giso; Hendrikse, Martie M. E.; Kollmeier, Birger; Seeber, Bernhard U.; 2022. Auditory-visual scenes for hearing research. Acta Acoustica 6, 55, DOI: 10.1051/aacus/2022032 

Hládek, Ľuboš; Seitz, Aaron. R.; Kopčo, Norbert; 2021. Audio-visual interactions in egocentric distance perception: Ventriloquism effect and aftereffect. Journal of Acoustical Society of America, 150, 3593, DOI: 10.1121/10.0007066

Hládek, Ľuboš; Porr, Bernd; Graham, Naylor; Thomas, Lunner; Brimijoin, W. Owen; 2019. On the Interaction of Head and Gaze Control with Acoustic Beam Width of a Simulated Beamformer in a Two-Talker Scenario. Trends in Hearing, 23, DOI: 10.1177/2331216519876795

Hládek, Ľuboš; Porr, Bernd; Brimijoin, W. Owen; 2018. Real-time estimation of horizontal gaze angle by saccade integration using in-ear electrooculography: PLOS ONE. 13, e0190420, DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0190420

Hládek, Ľuboš; Tomoriová, Beáta; Kopčo, Norbert; 2017. Temporal characteristics of contextual effects in sound localization: The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 142, 3288-3296, DOI: 10.1121/1.5012746

Kopčo, Norbert; Marcinek, Ľuboš; Tomoriová, Beáta; Hládek, Ľuboš; 2015. Contextual plasticity, top-down, and non-auditory factors in sound localization with a distractor): The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 137, EL281-EL287, DOI: 10.1121/1.4914999

Peer-reviewed conference publications

Hládek, Ľuboš; Ewert, Stefan D; Seeber, Bernhard U., 2021. Communication conditions in virtual acoustic scenes in an underground station, Proc. of International Conference on Immersive and 3D Audio, September 5-8, Bologna, Italy, DOI: 10.1109/I3DA48870.2021.9610843

Pulella, Paola.; Hladek, Ľuboš.; Croce, P.; Seeber, Bernhard U.; 2021. Auralization of acoustic design in primary school classrooms. 2021 IEEE International Conference on Environment and Electrical Engineering and 2021 IEEE Industrial and Commercial Power Systems Europe (EEEIC / I&CPS Europe), IEEE. DOI: 10.1109/EEEIC/ICPSEurope51590.2021.9584677

Textbooks

Kopčo, Norbert; Gallun, Frederick; Tomoriová, Beáta; Hládek Ľuboš; 2017. Cognitive neuroscience of auditory and cross-modal perception: Lectures and assignments, Publisher: Pavol Jozef Šafárik University in Košice.

Datasets

Hládek, Ľuboš; Seeber, B.U.; 2022. Underground station environment. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5532643

Conference papers, talks, posters, abstracts

Hládek, Ľuboš; Kopčo N., 2024. Other topics in SAV: Attention and distance in real and virtual environments. 2 parts: (Sebena R, Ahveninen J, Best V, Kopco N “The reference frame of the electrophysiological correlates of attentional cueing in auditory spatial discrimination”, Hladek L, Seitz A, Kopco N “Reverberation and level cues for auditory distance perception in real environments”), The 5th workshop on Cognitive neuroscience of auditory and cross-modal perception 15-17 April 2024, Košice, Slovakia

Hládek, Ľuboš; Seeber, B.U.; 2024. On speech-hand synchrony during conversations in a virtual underground station, Fortschritte der Akustik – DAGA '24, Deutsche Gesellschaft für Akustik e.V. (DEGA), 2024, 1230-1232

Hládek, Ľuboš; Jiao, Yang; Seeber, Bernahrd U., 2024. Co-speech and listening gestures during casual conversation in a noisy situation. The 15th Speech in Noise Workshop (SPIN2024), 11-12 January 2024, Potsdam, Germany

Hládek, Ľuboš; Seeber, Bernhard U.; 2023. Behavior in triadic conversations in conditions with varying positions of noise distractors. Fortschritte der Akustik – DAGA '23, Deutsche Gesellschaft für Akustik e.V. (DEGA), 2023, 916-918

Hládek, Ľuboš; Seeber, Bernhard U.; 2022. Behavior during free conversations in a realistic audio-visual simulation of an underground station. Computational Audiology VCCA2022 June 30 and July 1, 2022

Hládek, Ľuboš; Seeber, Bernhard U.; 2022. Audiovisual models for virtual reality: Underground station. Fortschritte der Akustik – DAGA '22, 2022, 274-277

Hládek, Ľuboš; Seeber, Bernhard U.; 2021. Self-rotation behavior during a spatialized speech test in reverberation. Fortschritte der Akustik -- DAGA '21, 2021

Enghofer, Felix; Hládek, Ľuboš; Seeber, Bernhard U.; 2021. An 'Unreal' Framework for Creating and Controlling Audio-Visual Scenes for the rtSOFE. Fortschritte der Akustik -- DAGA '21, 2021

Hládek, Ľuboš; Seeber, Bernhard U.; 2020. The effect of self-orienting on speech perception in an acoustically complex audiovisual scene. Fortschritte der Akustik -- DAGA '20, 2020, 91-94

Ewert, Stefan D., Hládek, Ľuboš, Enghofer, Felix; Schutte M.; Fichna S.; Seeber Bernhard U., 2020. Description and implementation of audiovisual scenes for hearing research and beyond, DAGA, Hannover, Germany, 16.-19.9.2020

Hládek, Ľuboš; Seeber, Bernhard U.; 2020. The effect of self-motion cues on speech perception in an acoustically complex scene, Forum Acousticum, Lyon, France, December 7-11.12.2020

Hládek, Ľuboš; Seeber, Bernhard U.; 2020. The effect of self-orienting on speech perception in an acoustically complex audiovisual scene, DAGA, Hannover, Germany, 16.-19.9.2020,

Hládek, Ľuboš; Seeber, Bernhard U.; 2020. Speech perception during self-rotation. Joint Conference on Binaural and Spatial Hearing.

Hládek, Ľuboš; Seeber, Bernhard U.; 2019. Behavior and Speech Intelligibility in a Changing Multi-talker Environment. In: Proceedings of the 23rd International Congress on Acoustics, Sept. 09-13, 2019 integrating 4th EAA Euroregio 2019, Aachen, Germany.

Hládek, Ľuboš; Porr, Bernd; Lunner, Thomas; Naylor, Graham; 2019. Effect of switch onset cues and visual distractors when listening with gaze and head controlled simulated beamformers. In: Proceedings of the DAGA 2019, March 18-21, Rostock, Germany.

Hládek, Ľuboš; Porr, Bernd; Brimijoin, W. Owen; 2018. The Effect of Eye-controlled Beamforming on Speech Intelligibility in a Dynamic ‘Cocktail Party In: Proceedings of 41st Annual Midwinter Meeting of Association of Research in Otolaryngology, February 10-14, San Diego, USA.

Hládek, Ľuboš; Porr, Bernd; Brimijoin, W. Owen; 2017. Effect of width of acoustic beam in eye-controlled beamforming in a dynamic 'cocktail party' In: Proceedings of BSA Basic Auditory Science, September 4-5, Nottingham

Hládek Ľuboš; Porr, Bernd; Brimijoin, W. Owen; 2017. Electro-oculography based horizontal gaze tracking: A perspective for attention-driven hearing aids. Presented at 73rd Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America and the 8th Forum Acusticum, June 25-29, Boston, USA

Hládek, Ľuboš;Seitz, Aaron R.; Kopčo, Norbert; 2017. Adaptation in distance perception induced by audio-visual stimuli with spatial disparity. (ASA meeting 2017, Boston).

Hládek, Ľuboš; Seitz, Aaron R.; Kopčo, Norbert;  2016. Modeling the Integration of Audio-Visual Distance Information. Presented at the 39th MidWinter meeting of the Association for Research in Otolaryngology, 20 – 24 February, San Diego, CA.

Hládek, Ľuboš; Seitz, Aaron R.; Kopčo, Norbert; 2015. Learning of intensity and reverberation cues for auditory distance perception in rooms. Presented at Neural processing in humans, animals, and machines 10 – 12 June 2015, Boston University, Boston, MA, USA.

Hládek, Ľuboš; Seitz, Aaron R.; Kopčo, Norbert,  2015. “Learning of auditory distance with intensity and reverberation cues” presented on the Second Workshop and Lecture Series on “Cognitive neuroscience of auditory and cross-modal perception” 20 – 24 April 2015, Košice, Slovakia.

Tomoriová, Beáta; Marcinek, Ľuboš; Hládek, Ľuboš; Kopčo, Norbert; 2014. Contextual plasticity in sound localization: characterization of spatial properties and neural locus" In: Proceedings of the Forum Acusticum 2014 conference, Sept 7 – 12, Krakow, Poland.

Hládek, Ľuboš; Tomoriová, Beáta; Kopčo, Norbert; 2014. Mechanisms of contextual plasticity in localization of click sounds with a preceding distractor. Presented at Moving Sound Moving Listener workshop, Glasgow, UK.

Hládek, Ľuboš; Tomoriová, Beáta; Kopčo, Norbert; 2014. Variance in Localization of Click Sounds with a Preceding Distractor In: Proceedings of the DAGA 2014, March 10-13, Oldenburg, Germany.

Tomoriova Beáta, Marcinek, Ľuboš; Hladek, Ľuboš; Kopčo, Norbert; 2014. Contextual plasticity in sound localization: characterization of spatial properties and neural locus. In: Proceedings of the Forum Acusticum 2014 conference, Krakow, Poland, Sept 7 – 12, 2014.

Hládek, Ľuboš; Le Dantec, Claude; Seitz, Aaron R.; Kopčo, Norbert; 2014. Visual calibration of auditory distance perception” Presented at the 37th MidWinter meeting of the Association for Research in Otolaryngology, San Diego, CA.

Hládek, Ľuboš; Le Dantec, Claude; Kopčo, Norbert; Seitz, Aaron R.; 2013. Ventriloquism effect and aftereffect in the distance dimension. Presented at the ICA 2013, 165th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, 52nd Meeting of the Canadian Acoustical Association and the 21st International Congress on Acoustics, Montreal, June 2-7, Quebec, Canada.

Hládek, Ľuboš; Tomoriová, Beáta; Seitz, Aaron R.; Kopčo, Norbert; 2013. Rapid recalibration of auditory distance perception in reverberant environments. Presented at the 36th MidWinter meeting of the Association for Research in Otolaryngology, Baltimore, MD.

Hládek, Ľuboš; Tomoriová, Beáta, Kopčo Norbert, Seitz, Aaron R.; 2012. Short-term adaptation of auditory distance perception in a reverberant room. Presented at the Making sense of Sound workshop, Plymouth, UK.

Tomoriová, Beáta; Hládek, Ľuboš; Kopčo, Norbert; 2012. Absolute and relative localization strategies in expectation of a distractor sound. Presented at the 35th MidWinter meeting of the Association for Research in Otolaryngology, San Diego, CA.

Tomoriová, Beáta; Hládek, Ľuboš; Andoga, Rudolf; Kopčo, Norbert; 2011. Spatial Aspects of Contextual Plasticity in Sound Localization. In: Proceedings of the Forum Acusticum 2011 conference, Aalborg, Denmark, 21 Jun - 1 Jul 2011.