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Acoustic room modelling using a spherical camera for reverberant spatial audio objects
Presentation / Conference
Hansung, K., Hughes, R., Remaggi, L., Jackson, P., Hilton, A., Cox, T., & Shirley, B. Acoustic room modelling using a spherical camera for reverberant spatial audio objects. Poster presented at 142nd AES Convention, Berlin, Germany

The ability to predict the acoustics of a room without acoustical measurements is a useful capability. The motivation here stems from spatial audio reproduction, where knowledge of the acoustics of a space could allow for more accurate reproduction o... Read More about Acoustic room modelling using a spherical camera for reverberant spatial audio objects.

Multi-zone personalisation for hard of hearing listeners using object-based audio
Presentation / Conference
Galvez, M., Laghidze, I., Ward, L., Franck, A., Shirley, B., & Fazi, F. Multi-zone personalisation for hard of hearing listeners using object-based audio. Presented at Reproduced Sound 2018 : putting sound in its place, Bristol, UK

Television plays an important social role, especially the communal experience of watching tele-vision together. Therefore ensuring accessibility of broadcast content for all is vital. The advent of object-based audio makes it possible to personalise... Read More about Multi-zone personalisation for hard of hearing listeners using object-based audio.

Accessible object-based audio using hierarchical narrative importance metadata
Presentation / Conference
Ward, L., Shirley, B., & Francombe, J. Accessible object-based audio using hierarchical narrative importance metadata. Presented at 145th Audio Engineering Society Convention, New York, USA

Object-based audio has great capacity for production and delivery of adaptive and personalizable content. This can be used to improve the accessibility of complex content for listeners with hearing impairments. An adaptive object-based audio system w... Read More about Accessible object-based audio using hierarchical narrative importance metadata.

Casualty accessible and enhanced (A&E) audio : trialling object-based accessible TV audio
Presentation / Conference
Ward, L., Paradis, M., Shirley, B., Russon, L., Moore, R., & Davies, R. Casualty accessible and enhanced (A&E) audio : trialling object-based accessible TV audio. Presented at 147th Audio Engineering Society (AES) Convention, New York, USA

Casualty Accessible and Enhanced (A&E) Audio is the first public trial of accessible audio technology using a narrative importance approach. This trial allows viewers to personalize the audio of an episode of the BBC’s "Casualty" drama series based o... Read More about Casualty accessible and enhanced (A&E) audio : trialling object-based accessible TV audio.

Personalization of object-based audio for accessibility using narrative importance
Presentation / Conference
Shirley, B., Ward, L., & Chourdakis, E. Personalization of object-based audio for accessibility using narrative importance. Presented at TVX 2019 - ACM International Conference on Interactive Experiences for Television and Online Video, Media City, Salford UK

An increasing incidence of hearing impairment and of re- ported problems with broadcast audio is leading to an in- creased demand for personalized audio services. Previous research has treated these issues as a ‘speech in noise’ prob- lem; sounds are... Read More about Personalization of object-based audio for accessibility using narrative importance.

Automatic mixing and tracking of on-pitch football action for television broadcasts
Presentation / Conference
Oldfield, R., & Shirley, B. Automatic mixing and tracking of on-pitch football action for television broadcasts. Presented at 130th AES Convention

For the television broadcast of football in Europe, the sound engineer will typically have an arrangement of 12 shotgun microphones around the pitch to pick up on-pitch sounds such as whistle blows, players talking and ball kicks etc. Typically, duri... Read More about Automatic mixing and tracking of on-pitch football action for television broadcasts.

VoIPText: Voice chat for deaf and hard of hearing people
Presentation / Conference
Shirley, B., Thomas, J., & Roche, P. VoIPText: Voice chat for deaf and hard of hearing people. Presented at Consumer Electronics - Berlin (ICCE-Berlin), 2012 IEEE International Conference on, 3-5 Sept. 2012

The spread of Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) services, equipment and clients is transforming telephony worldwide. In addition to providing inexpensive, or even free, international telephone calls there is potentially additional benefit in using... Read More about VoIPText: Voice chat for deaf and hard of hearing people.

In-Programme Personalization for Broadcast : IPP4B
Presentation / Conference
Foss, J., Shirley, B., Malheiro, B., Kepplinger, S., Ulisses, A., & Armstrong, M. In-Programme Personalization for Broadcast : IPP4B. Presented at TVX '17: ACM International Conference on Interactive Experiences for TV and Online Video, Hilversum, The Netherlands

The IPP4B workshop assembled a group of researchers from academia and industry -- BBC R&D, Ericsson and MOG Technologies to discuss the state of the art and together envisage future directions for in programme personalisation in broadcasting. The wor... Read More about In-Programme Personalization for Broadcast : IPP4B.

The room-in-room effect and its influence on perceived room size in spatial audio reproduction
Presentation / Conference
Hughes, R., Cox, T., Shirley, B., & Power, P. The room-in-room effect and its influence on perceived room size in spatial audio reproduction. Presented at 141st Convention of the Audio Engineering Society, Los Angeles, USA

In spatial audio it can be desirable to give the impression of a target space (e.g. a church). Often the reproduction environment is assumed acoustically dead; in practice most listening spaces (e.g. domestic living rooms) introduce significant refle... Read More about The room-in-room effect and its influence on perceived room size in spatial audio reproduction.