Sound Event Localization and Detection (SELD) integrates Sound Event Detection (SED) and Direction-of-Arrival Estimation (DOAE) to recognize and localize sound events in various applications, including urban sound sensing, wildlife monitoring, and ho...
This study presents a new technique for creating spatial sounds based on a convolution processor. The main objective of this research was to propose a new method for generating a set of impulse responses that guarantee a realistic spatial experience...
As a carrier of cultural characteristics of historic districts, the soundscape has unique advantages in shaping regional cultural personality, and mastering its spatiotemporal characteristics is crucial for preserving soundscape heritage with natural...
Early and accurate diagnosis of heart conditions is pivotal for effective treatment. Phonocardiography (PCG) has become a standard diagnostic tool for evaluating and detecting cardiac abnormalities. While traditional cardiac auscultation remains wide...
Accurate spatial sound localization is critical in flight simulators for enhancing situational awareness and pilot training effectiveness, particularly for diagnosing severe faults like engine surge which emit directional sound cues. However, existin...
In recent years, with the popularization of intelligent scene monitoring, sound source localization (SSL) has become a major means for indoor monitoring and target positioning. However, existing sound source localization solutions are difficult to ex...
A technology to search for victims in disaster areas by localizing human-related sound sources, such as voices and emergency whistles, using a drone-embedded microphone array was researched. One of the challenges is the development of sound source lo...
Marine researchers rely heavily on ocean sound velocity, a crucial hydroacoustic environmental metric that exhibits large geographical and temporal changes. Nowadays, spatio-temporal series prediction algorithms are emerging, but their prediction acc...
Low-frequency noise absorbers often require large structural dimensions, constraining their development in practical applications. In order to improve space utilization, an acoustic metamaterial with a spatial double helix, called a spatial double he...
The Yellow Sea Bottom Cold Water (YSBCW) refers to seawater with a water temperature of 10 °C or less found at the bottom of the center of the Yellow Sea. The spatiotemporal variability of the YSBCW directly affects the distribution of organisms...
In this article, a systematic overview of various recording and reproduction techniques for spatial audio is presented. While binaural recording and rendering is designed to resemble the human two-ear auditory system and reproduce sounds specifically...
As sound speed is a fundamental parameter of ocean acoustic characteristics, its prediction is a central focus of underwater acoustics research. Traditional numerical and statistical forecasting methods often exhibit suboptimal performance under comp...
In multi-speaker environments, cochlear implant (CI) users may attend to a target sound source in a different manner from normal hearing (NH) individuals during a conversation. This study attempted to investigate the effect of conversational sound le...
Sound event localization and detection (SELD) aims to identify active sound event classes and estimate their spatial locations from audio signals. Stereo SELD remains challenging because two-channel recordings provide limited directional and distance...
Background: Firefighters search for survivors in low-visibility environments and have documented expertise in spatial orientation and wayfinding. No studies so far have investigated their ability to make use of auditory spatial cues. Methods: The per...
This paper discusses the results of an experimental study of the spatial structure of a scalar-vector sound field formed during towing of a low-frequency acoustic source on the continental shelf of the Sea of Japan. Methodologically, the experiment w...
In this paper, a novel semi-analytical collocation solver, the spatial–temporal radial Trefftz collocation method (STRTCM) is proposed to solve 3D transient wave equations with specified sound source excitations. Unlike the traditional time dis...
Urban forest parks improve the environment by reducing noise, which can promote the development of physical and mental health. This study aimed to investigate the soundscape preferences of visitors in different spaces. It also provides practical sugg...
An acoustic metamaterial superlattice is used for the spatial and spectral deconvolution of a broadband acoustic pulse into narrowband signals with different central frequencies. The operating frequency range is located on the second transmission ban...
Auditory spatial cues contribute to two distinct functions, of which one leads to explicit localization of sound sources and the other provides a location-linked representation of sound objects. Behavioral and imaging studies demonstrated right-hemis...
Assessing preferences for heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) sounds is important for improving comfort in living spaces. Recently, preference assessments using neurophysiological measurements have gained attention. However, association...
The acoustic environments of Han Chinese Buddhist temples have long played an important role in the development of Buddhism. This study explored the effects of layouts and spatial elements of Han Chinese Buddhist temples on courtyard sound fields. Fi...
Sound has an important role in how users perceive their environment. Under this context, a soundscape approach was followed for the evaluation of indoor spatial experience of university architecture studios. A tailored framework of factors affecting...
We explored the spatial and temporal characteristics of the urban forest area soundscape by setting up monitoring points (70 × 70 m grid) covering the study area, recorded a total of 52 sound sources, and the results showed that: (1) The sounds...
Sound event localization and detection (SELD) is a crucial component of machine listening that aims to simultaneously identify and localize sound events in multichannel audio recordings. This task demands an integrated analysis of spatial, temporal,...
Prolonged exposure to high sound pressure levels (SPLs) in agricultural tractors, especially when the power take-off (PTO) is engaged, poses serious health risks to operators. While machine learning has been applied in agriculture, little progress ha...
The use of headphones in reproducing spatial sound is becoming more and more popular. For instance, virtual reality applications often use head-tracking to keep the binaurally reproduced auditory environment stable and to improve externalization. Her...
Room-scale virtual reality (VR) affordance in movement and interactivity causes new challenges in creating virtual acoustic environments for VR experiences. Such environments are typically constructed from virtual interactive objects that are accompa...
In the last few years, the immersive theater has become a new trend for modern performances. Venues increasingly utilize widely available computer technologies, such as virtual/augmented reality and spatial sound, to help facilitate the realization o...
Generally, ultrasound receive beamformers calculate the focusing time delays of fixed sound speeds in human tissue (e.g., 1540 m/s). However, phase distortions occur due to variations of sound speeds in soft tissues, resulting in degradation of image...
As an important marine environmental parameter, sound velocity greatly affects the sound propagation characteristics in the ocean. In marine surveying work, prompt and low-cost acquisition of accurate sound speed profiles (SSP) is of immense signific...
This contribution investigates the correlation between street noise levels and the spatial configuration of the street network in four different types of neighbourhoods in the Algerian city of Biskra. Space syntax methods are used to analyse spatial...
If we can understand dialogue activities, it will be possible to know the role of each person in the discussion, and it will be possible to provide basic materials for formulating facilitation strategies. This understanding can be expected to be used...
High quality headphones can generate a realistic sound immersion reproducing binaural recordings. However, most people commonly use consumer headphones of inferior quality, as the ones provided with smartphones or music players. Factors, such as weak...
Background/Objectives: Unilateral hearing loss (UHL), particularly single-sided deafness (SSD), disrupts spatial hearing in children, leading to academic and social challenges. This study aimed to (1) compare azimuthal sound-localization accuracy and...
To reduce environmental noise pollution and to safeguard people’s well-being, it is urgently necessary to move towards sustainable urban development and reconcile demographic and economic growth with the protection and restoration of the environment...
“Smart city”, driven by digital technology is not only a technological but also a social, cultural and political project. A socially and culturally significant new urban ideal is born. This research paper is based on the narrative that the city appea...
In this paper, we propose a method for extracting emotional factors through audiovisual quantitative feature analysis from images of the surrounding environment. Nine features were extracted such as time complexity, spatial complexity (horizontal and...
Passive multiple sound source localization is a challenging problem in underwater acoustics, especially for a short hydrophone array in the deep ocean. Several attempts have been made to solve this problem by applying compressive sensing (CS) techniq...
3D audio spatializers for Virtual Reality (VR) can use the acoustic properties of the surfaces of a visualised game space to calculate a matching reverb. However, this approach could lead to reverbs that impair the tasks performed in such a space, su...
Sound source localization in dynamic environments with multiple moving speakers presents significant challenges due to reverberation, noise, and unknown source counts. To address these issues, this paper proposes an integrated deep-learning framework...
Concurrent auditory stimuli have been shown to enhance detection of abstract visual targets in experimental setups with little ecological validity. We presented 11 participants, wearing an eye-tracking device, with a visual detection task in an immer...
Although the focus of Virtual Reality (VR) lies predominantly on the visual world, acoustic components enhance the functionality of a 3D environment. To study the interaction between visual and auditory modalities in a 3D environment, we investigated...
Sound event localization and detection (SELD) is a fundamental task in spatial audio processing that involves identifying both the type and location of sound events in acoustic scenes. Current SELD models often struggle with low signal-to-noise ratio...
In this work, the high-resolution spatial and temporal variability of precipitable water (PW) over Poland is presented. PW is one of the key parameters of the atmosphere taken into account in thermodynamic and radiation models. The daily PW values fr...
Studies of vocal communication often focus on the messages that calls and songs convey related to reproductive activities, foraging, predator avoidance, social bonding, individual recognition, and conflict resolution. We consider ways in which vocali...
Precise and timely evaluation of an individual’s hearing loss plays an important role in determining appropriate treatment strategies, including medication and aural rehabilitation. However, currently available hearing assessment systems do not...
Background: Real-time Sound Event Localization and Detection (SELD) is important for enabling spatial-audio perception in resource-constrained environments. Edge and mobile platforms—including smartphones, wearables, embedded processors, microc...
The study of high-pressure sound velocity is an important part of shock wave physics, and the study of ultra-high pressure sound velocity of iron is of great significance to many research fields such as geophysics, solid state physics, and crystallog...
Sound reproduction is the electro-mechanical re-creation of sound waves using analogue and digital audio equipment. Although sound reproduction implies that repeated acoustical events are close to identical, numerous fixed and variable conditions aff...
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