Outputs (111)

Towards bio-responsive control for music (2017)
Presentation / Conference
Williams, D., Murphy, D., & Fazenda, B. (2017, December). Towards bio-responsive control for music. Presented at DMRN+12 : Digital Music Research Network, Queen Mary University London

Music and audio applications are well suited to tactile control. In sound and music computing there can be a disconnect between design of human-computer interfacing and application congruent design. A categorical approach is proposed, considering act... Read More about Towards bio-responsive control for music.

Exposing the Luxury Effect (2017)
Presentation / Conference
Scaletta, K., Dennis, M., Hardman, M., Griffiths, A., & James, P. (2017, December). Exposing the Luxury Effect. Poster presented at British Ecological Society Annual Meeting, Ghent

Exploring cross-domain data dependencies for smart homes to improve energy efficiency (2017)
Presentation / Conference
Iram, S., Fernando, T., & Bassanino, M. (2017, December). Exploring cross-domain data dependencies for smart homes to improve energy efficiency. Presented at 10th International Conference on Utility and Cloud Computing, Austin, Texas, USA

Over the past decade, the idea of smart homes has been conceived as a potential solution to counter energy crises or to at least mitigate its intensive destructive consequences in the residential building sector. Smart homes have emerged as one of th... Read More about Exploring cross-domain data dependencies for smart homes to improve energy efficiency.

Microphone wind noise reduction using singular spectrum analysis techniques (2017)
Presentation / Conference
Eldwaik, O., & Li, F. (2017, November). Microphone wind noise reduction using singular spectrum analysis techniques. Presented at 33nd Annual Conference And Exhibition. Reproduced Sound 2017 : Sound Quality By Design, Nottingham, UK

Wind noise is a known problem that contaminates microphone signals in many field measurement and audio recording scenarios. A recently completed EPSRC project has led to the development of a tool to detect such noise; this paper takes a step further... Read More about Microphone wind noise reduction using singular spectrum analysis techniques.

Big pictures and small screens; how television sound research can work with, and for, hard of hearing viewers (2017)
Presentation / Conference
Ward, L., Shirley, B., & Davies, W. (2017, November). Big pictures and small screens; how television sound research can work with, and for, hard of hearing viewers. Presented at Reproduced Sound 2017, Nottingham, UK

Hearing loss affects one in six people in the United Kingdom and, given an ageing population, this figure is increasing.1 Numerous studies highlight that improvements in the intelligibility of television sound are required to increase television’s... Read More about Big pictures and small screens; how television sound research can work with, and for, hard of hearing viewers.

A Correlation Analysis of Factors Influencing Cooling Energy Demand of Condominiums in Sri Lanka (2017)
Presentation / Conference
Geekiyanage, D., & Ramachandra, T. (2017, November). A Correlation Analysis of Factors Influencing Cooling Energy Demand of Condominiums in Sri Lanka. Paper presented at Vidulka National Energy Symposium, Colombo, Sri Lanka

Often, energy use for Heating, Ventilation and Air Conditioning is the key contributor to operational energy demand which varies between 50-70% in most of the developed countries. Surprisingly, in Sri Lanka, the energy consumption of space cooling ac... Read More about A Correlation Analysis of Factors Influencing Cooling Energy Demand of Condominiums in Sri Lanka.

Turning up the background noise; The effects of salient non-speech audio elements on dialogue intelligibility in complex acoustic scenes (2017)
Presentation / Conference
Ward, L., Shirley, B., & Davies, W. (2017, November). Turning up the background noise; The effects of salient non-speech audio elements on dialogue intelligibility in complex acoustic scenes. Presented at Reproduced Sound, Southampton, UK

As an acoustic scene becomes more complex listeners increasingly rely on complementary intelligibility cues, such as context and language structure, to understand speech. Despite the role salient non-speech audio elements, like sound effects, play in... Read More about Turning up the background noise; The effects of salient non-speech audio elements on dialogue intelligibility in complex acoustic scenes.

Enhancing new user cold-start based on decision trees active learning by using past warm-users predictions (2017)
Presentation / Conference
Pozo, M., Chiky, R., Meziane, F., & Metais, E. (2017, November). Enhancing new user cold-start based on decision trees active learning by using past warm-users predictions. Presented at 33ème conférence sur la Gestion de Données — Principes, Technologies et Applications, Nancy, France

The cold-start is the situation in which the recommender system has no or not enough information about the (new) users/items i.e. their ratings/feedback; hence, the recommendations are not well performed. This issue is commonly encountered in techniq... Read More about Enhancing new user cold-start based on decision trees active learning by using past warm-users predictions.

Enhanced gas recovery by CO2 injection and sequestration : effect of connate water salinity on displacement efficiency (2017)
Presentation / Conference
Abba, M., Abbas, A., & Nasr, G. (2017, November). Enhanced gas recovery by CO2 injection and sequestration : effect of connate water salinity on displacement efficiency. Poster presented at Abu Dhabi International Petroleum Exhibition and Conference, Abu Dhabi, UAE

As natural gas continues to gain widespread usage as a source of cleaner and efficient fossil fuel, while greenhouse gas emission is attracting environmental consequences, the need for a viable method to enhance gas recovery and curtail greenhouse ga... Read More about Enhanced gas recovery by CO2 injection and sequestration : effect of connate water salinity on displacement efficiency.

The impact of gas flare on oil fields' enviornments (2017)
Presentation / Conference
Ogbonda, U., Ji, Y., Coates, S., & Bichard, E. (2017, October). The impact of gas flare on oil fields' enviornments. Presented at Academic 10th International Conference, Ottawa, Canada

Nigeria, Africa’s most populous nation and leading oil producer with the second-largest natural gas reserves in sub-Saharan Africa, is faced with energy deficiency. Despite efforts to diversify, the economy remains heavily dependent on oil accounti... Read More about The impact of gas flare on oil fields' enviornments.