SONICOM at Forum Acusticum 2023

Last month, members of the SONICOM team from Imperial College London, the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Sorbonne University and the University of Malaga attended the 10th Convention of the European Acoustics Association – Forum Acusticum 2023 – in Torino, Italy.

Team members presented a variety of work being undertaken as part of SONICOM, including the new Spatially Oriented Format for Acoustics (SOFA) release, as well as research on HRTF individualisation, accommodation and upsampling.

“It was great to be able to showcase the variety of work going on within SONICOM,” said Dr Lorenzo Picinali, SONICOM lead investigator. “The SONICOM team continues to go from strength to strength, and the work we presented at Forum Acusticum is just a taste of what’s to come.”

SONICOM researcher, Dr Aidan Hogg, presenting at Forum Acusticum 2023

Explore some of the research presented:

• Exploring the impact of transfer learning on GAN-based HRTF upsampling
• Comparison of deep-neural-network architectures for the prediction of head-related transfer functions using a parametric pinna model
• An experiment replication on dynamic 3D sound localisation using auditory virtual reality
• Initial evaluation of an auditory-model-aided selection procedure for non-individual HRTFs

Explore the full conference proceedings on the Forum Acusticum website.