Audio Experience Design

Greetings from CherISH doctoral network meeting in Leuven 👋

The second paper explores the augmentation of interaural cues in individual HRTFs to improve speech intelligibility.

doi.org/10.1016/j.he...

Effects of Geometrical Acoustics Model Simplification on Binaural Reverberation Virtual reverberation rendering typically requires detailed information about room geometry and surface acoustic characteristics. While comprehensive modeling approaches can account for all aspects of...

The first paper investigates the perceptual impact of simplifying geometrical acoustics models for binaural reverberation.

doi.org/10.1109/TASL...

It’s been a productive few months for our team! We’re excited to share two more recently published works: 🧵👇

Listener Acoustic Personalization Challenge - LAP24: Head-Related Transfer Function Upsampling Head-related transfer functions (HRTFs) often play a crucial role in spatial hearing, immersive audio applications for virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR), and help in improving hearing as...

Task 2: Upsampling HRTFs from a sparse set of measurements:

🔗 doi.org/10.1109/OJSP...

Listener Acoustic Personalization Challenge—LAP24: Head-Related Transfer Function Dataset Harmonization Big data analysis and collation for data-driven head-related transfer function (HRTF) personalization methods are often hindered by systematic differences between HRTF datasets. To address this issue,...

Task 1: Harmonising Head-Related Transfer Function (HRTF) datasets:

🔗 doi.org/10.1109/OJSP...

Last year, we co-organised the first Listener Acoustic Personalisation (LAP) Challenge, sponsored by IEEE Signal Processing Society and @sonicom.bsky.social

Now, we’re excited to share two new publications that present the challenge outcomes! 🧵👇

Listener Acoustic Personalisation Challenge - LAP24: Head-Related Transfer Function Upsampling Head-related transfer functions (HRTFs) often play a crucial role in spatial hearing, immersive audio applications for virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR), and help in improving hearing as...

🚨 New SONICOM Publication Alert! 🚨

Our latest paper relates to the 1st Listener Acoustic Personalisation (LAP) Challenge and officially opens the LAP24 Special Topic in the IEEE Open Journal of Signal Processing, dedicated to the 2024 LAP Challenge 🔊

📖 Read it here: 👉 bit.ly/4nIf4RU

...and virtual room acoustics

...head-related transfer functions...

...to psychoacoustics...

Some of the highlights, from ecoacoustics...

The AXD team had a great time in Málaga last week presenting our work at Forum Acusticum Euronoise 2025, including the @sonicom.bsky.social and Cherish projects. We enjoyed engaging discussions, fostered old friendships, and made exciting new connections! ☀️

Our postdoc Katarina Poole also presented her work on synthetic @sonicom.bsky.social HRTFs at ISH 2025!

🎉 Big congrats to Nils on winning $200 for 3rd place in the Best Poster Awards!

Nicola La Magna, PhD student with @Cherish_MSCA, presented his poster on spatial release from masking and listening effort in binaural vs. free-field listening at the International Symposium on Hearing (ISH 2025) in Vienna. Great to see this work shared at an international forum!

👋 Greetings from the International Congress of Acoustics (ICA) in New Orleans, where our PhD student Nils presented his work on enhancing spatial release from masking through individual head-related transfer function augmentation.

Assessing Behavioral and Neural Correlates of Change Detection in Spatialized Acoustic Scenes The ability to detect changes in complex auditory scenes is crucial for human survival, yet the neural mechanisms underlying this process remain elusi…

Read more about our latest ANTHEA paper, where we explore the neural correlates (EEG) of spatialised sound detection in complex acoustic scenes:

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

On the generalization of accommodation to head-related transfer functions To date, there is strong evidence indicating that humans with normal hearing can adapt to non-individual head-related transfer functions (HRTFs). However, less

📄We have a new publication on the generalization of accommodation to head-related transfer functions! Give it a read 👇

#SpatialAudio #HRTF #Hearing

pubs.aip.org/asa/jasa/art...

SONICOM at Imperial Lates: Senses - Sonicom The SONICOM team exhibited at the Lates in what was the last engagement activity of 2024

SONICOM exhibited at @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social Senses Lates a few weeks ago!

On the night visitors had the opportunity to listen to some audio demos, learn about the project and go on a tour of the Turret Lab 🔊

Read more 👉 bit.ly/3ZUNg2T

@axdimperial.bsky.social @imperialspark.bsky.social

New SONICOM toolbox to analyse spatial audio  - Sonicom

📢 New SONICOM toolbox

Introducing Spatial Audio Metrics (SAM) – an open-source software platform to compare and visualise Head-Related Transfer Functions (HRTFs) which helps enhance the listening experience 🔊

Learn more 👇 bit.ly/49s7zYL

Today, we were visited by David Lou Alon from Meta Reality Labs and Boaz Rafaely from Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. We had great discussions about our research in the spatial audio domain.

Come say hello to the SONICOM team at #ImperialLates: Senses 🔊

We’ll also be running tours of the Turret Lab so make sure you get your name on the list before we run out of space!

See you from 6pm at @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social

Towards using virtual acoustics for evaluating spatial ecoacoustic monitoring technologies Small microphone arrays and sound-source localisation algorithms are increasingly prevalent in the passive acoustic monitoring (PAM) of ecosystems. These technologies enable analysis of natural so...

📃 Have a read of our latest article, which focuses on using virtual acoustics for assessing ecoacoustic monitoring devices (our 6-channel autonomous #MAARU recorder)👇

doi.org/10.1111/2041...

Imperial Lates: Senses Join the Imperial Lates for a free evening of sensory stimulating activities to explore science.

Hello #BlueSky 🦋 world!

You can meet us in person at #ImperialLates: Senses tonight to explore the wonderful world of 3D audio. 🔊🎧

🗓️ 5 December, 6-9 pm

📍South Kensington
@imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social

Register here: ow.ly/Sxvl50U9320