@sonicom.bsky.social
Horizon 2020 project using AI to revolutionise immersive audio for augmented and virtual reality.
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
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
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
Last week, the University of Malaga team presented on the recently released v2.0 of the Binaural Rendering Toolbox (BRT) at Forum Acusticum Euronoise 2025!
Some of the team worked on a piece about the toolbox for the SONICOM website. Check it out π bit.ly/45LzYsZ
Congratulations to Arcadio Reyes-Lecuona on presenting the first (of many) SONICOM presentations at Forum Acusticum 2025 π
Stay tuned!
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!
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
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
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!
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
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...
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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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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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...
14.03.2025 11:05 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Our 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/
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-...
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...
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...
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
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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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-...
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.
20.02.2025 12:48 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0FrAMBI 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
20.02.2025 12:48 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0FrAMBI 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.
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-...
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.
06.02.2025 16:12 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0In addition to categorising the works of the existing literature, this survey discusses their achievements, identifies their limitations, and outlines aspects that require further investigation at the crossroads of research communities in acoustics, audio signal processing, and machine learning.
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π New SONICOM research
This work surveys machine learning-based approaches for HRTF personalisation in the literature, organising them according to the processing steps involved in the machine learning workflow.
Read more on our website:
www.sonicom.eu/assessing-ma...
