MariaNiessen

Maria Niessen is a post-doctoral researcher in the Cognitive Sensor Group. The focus of her work is on the categorization of sound events by cognitive sensor systems. One of her research goals is the development of semi-automatic methodology for analyzing text corpora.

Maria’s research project is part of a collaboration between INCAS³ and the LAM (Lutheries-Acoustique-Musique) group of the Institute Jean le Rond d’Alembert in Paris. LAM belongs to the National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS).

Her research is a continuation of the work she did during her Ph.D. at the University of Groningen. Her thesis Context-based Sound Event Recognition dealt with the effect of context on sound event recognition, both for human listeners and for an automatic system. Her supervisors were Dr. Tjeerd Andringa and Prof. Dr. Lambert Schomaker.

During her Ph.D., Maria took part in a research project at the Sony Computer Science Lab in Paris. This three-month project focused on sound quality perception in a city environment.

In 2004, Maria graduated in Artificial Intelligence from Groningen University. The title of her master’s thesis was ‘Speaker Specific Features in Vowels’.

Maria’s research interests include cognitive psychology, artificial intelligence, information retrieval, and acoustics.