Celebrating SONICOM's 2025 Research Successes - Sonicom
January is nearly over, and before we well and truly jump into 2026, hereβs a moment to celebrate everything that made the last one count π
The 2025 SONICOM Year in Review is now live π tinyurl.com/kmv6j5ze
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In profile: Meet Jessica Lou
Meet one of the fantastic women in the SONICOM consortium
A few years ago, we had the pleasure of showcasing some of the remarkable women driving innovation within the SONICOM consortium π
Today, we're excited to relaunch that series and introduce a new face on the team!
Meet Jessica Luo π sonicom.eu/in-profile-j...
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Curious about whatβs going on in this clip?
SONICOM researcher Kathi Pollack breaks it down in her guest article, 'Decoding the Shape of Our Ears'
Read all about it now π bit.ly/4fOxaOL
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Trust Your Ears? SONICOMβs Immersive Sound Lab puts visitors to the test at London Festival - Sonicom
SONICOM partners recently launched an interactive experience at the Great Exhibition Road Festival πͺ
Participants spent 10 minutes in the 'Immersive Sound Lab', with just one challenge: Can you trust your ears?
Read more π bit.ly/4lQDc3G
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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...
π¨ New SONICOM Publication Alert! π¨
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 π
π Read it here: π bit.ly/4nIf4RU
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Congratulations to Arcadio Reyes-Lecuona on presenting the first (of many) SONICOM presentations at Forum Acusticum 2025 π
Stay tuned!
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Let us also introduce you to Dr Katarina Poole π bit.ly/45BKSBA
Dr Poole works as a Research Associate at the Audio Experience Design team in Imperial College London, UK
We will be sharing more profiles of the women in SONICOM in the near future, so keep your eye out!
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Next up, meet PhD student, Kathi Pollack π bit.ly/4k8VY4t
Kathi works at the Acoustics Research Institute within the Austrian Academy of Sciences in Vienna, Austria
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Happy International Women in Engineering Day!
Weβre proud to spotlight some of the amazing women behind SONICOM today π
Meet Prof Areti Andreopoulou, an Assistant Professor at the Music Technology Laboratory (LabMAT) at NKUA in Athens, Greeceπ bit.ly/4kXRWNy
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The SONICOM consortium met in Milan, Italy for a jam-packed annual meeting π
Things unofficially kicked off Tuesday evening with a relaxed aperitivo, the perfect warm-up for the following 2.5 days of sharing key updates from the past 12 months and mapping out plans for the final year of SONICOM!
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Our postdoc Katarina Poole also presented her work on synthetic @sonicom.bsky.social HRTFs at ISH 2025!
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Congratulations to Dr. Kat Poole from the @axdimperial.bsky.social team at @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social for presenting her research for SONICOM on synthetic HRTFs at the International Symposium on Hearing in Vienna!
Discover more about Katβs work here π bit.ly/43wp88K
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Enhancing Virtual Reality with BeRTA: A Modular Spatial Audio Renderer - Sonicom
Discover BeRTA - a highly configurable application that allows users to design a wide range of virtual sound scenarios, including immersive auditory scenes for experiments, virtual environments, or artistic projects.
Read more: www.sonicom.eu/enhancing-vi...
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Dreamwaves' involvement in SONICOM allows them to refine their 3D audio navigation technology by integrating cutting-edge spatial audio research and AI-driven sound processing, helping them enhance accuracy, improve user experience, and develop more inclusive navigation solutions
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Dreamwaves: intuitive navigation using your ears (and your phone) - Sonicom
Imagine navigating through an unknown city without even glancing at a map...
@dreamwavesio.bsky.social, a SONICOM partner, is pioneering audio-based navigation that directs you through 3D AR sound cues
Learn more about their 3D audio navigation journey: sonicom.eu/dreamwaves-i...
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SONICOM's 2024 Research Successes - Sonicom
But all this is just a taste of what we got up to in 2024 - read our full research highlights on our website: www.sonicom.eu/sonicoms-202...
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Is Distance a Modality? Multi-Label Learning for Speech-Based Joint Prediction of Attributed Traits and Perceived Distances in 3D Audio Immersive Environments - Enlighten Publications
Our research also uncovered new insights showing that there is a relationship between the distance of a speaker and their perceived personality traits, which we couldn't have explored without the help of 3D immersive environments.
Read the research: eprints.gla.ac.uk/341008/
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The Winners of the SONICOM LAP Challenge - Sonicom
We also ran our first Listener Acoustic Personalisation (LAP) Challenge, which invited members of the auditory research community to tackle key challenges facing immersive audio technology.
Learn more about the Challenge and the winners: www.sonicom.eu/the-winners-...
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GitHub - GrupoDiana/BRTLibrary
Contribute to GrupoDiana/BRTLibrary development by creating an account on GitHub.
Some of our highlights include the launch of the latest version of the Binaural Rendering Toolbox, designed as a virtual laboratory for psychoacoustic experimentation.
Access the BRT Repository here: github.com/GrupoDiana/B...
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SONICOM's 2024 Research Successes - Sonicom
Spring is in the air, and it's making us reflect upon our research successes from the past year πͺ
Our 2024 included publications advancing our understanding of spatial hearing mechanisms to new research tools.
Read more about our research progress: www.sonicom.eu/sonicoms-202...
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The analysis shows that BezierPPM can accurately represent human pinnae, meaning that it has high potential for a range of applications, including:
πͺͺ Biometric identification
π Design of ear prostheses
π Personalisation of spatial hearing
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βIn contrast to other PPMs, BezierPPM is inspired by the biological structure of the human pinna aiming at providing parameters directly related to the complex pinna geometry,β says Felix Perfler, PhD student and first author of the research.
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BezierPPM: a new parametric model of the human pinna - Sonicom
Discover BezierPPM - a new parametric model of the human pinna created by SONICOM researchers at @isf-oeaw.bsky.social π
This model represents the biological structure of the human pinna and enables its parametric modelling in many degrees of freedom.
Learn more π
www.sonicom.eu/bezierppm-a-...
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βWe hope that the toolbox will foster reproducible research in psychoacoustics and auditory neuroscience," says Dr Roberto Barumerli, the publicationβs lead author based at @isf-oeaw.bsky.social and the University of Verona.
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The Auditory Modeling Toolbox
FrAMBI is integrated into the widely used and SONICOM-supported auditory modelling toolbox (AMT), allowing it to be maintained long-term and expanded accordingly: amtoolbox.org
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FrAMBI applies Bayesian inference to model auditory perception and behaviour.
By structuring models around the perception-action cycle, FrAMBI simulates how listeners dynamically engage with sound sources, enabling hypothesis testing and computational statistical analysis.
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Introducing FrAMBI: A new framework for auditory modelling - Sonicom
Learn about FrAMBI, a MATLAB/Octave framework that applies Bayesian inference to model auditory perception and behaviour.
π New SONICOM research
Discover FrAMBI, a new MATLAB/Octave framework for implementing and evaluating auditory models, ensuring consistency across studies.
Learn more: www.sonicom.eu/introducing-...
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βWe hope that this survey will provide other researchers with a clear overview of the state of the art and encourage future standardization actions in the field of HRTF individualisation based on machine learning,β says @davide1.bsky.social, lead author of the paper based at the University of Milan.
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