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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.

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.

DataTV 2019 : 1st international workshop on data-driven personalisation of television
Presentation / Conference
Foss, J., Shirley, B., Malheiro, B., Kepplinger, S., Nixon, L., Philipp, B., …Ulisses, A. DataTV 2019 : 1st international workshop on data-driven personalisation of television. Presented at ACM TVX 2019, Salford, United Kingdom

The first international workshop on Data-driven Personalisation of Television aims to highlight the significantly growing importance of data in the support of new television content consumption experiences. This includes automatic video summarization... Read More about DataTV 2019 : 1st international workshop on data-driven personalisation of television.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Television dialogue; balancing audibility, attention and accessibility
Presentation / Conference
Ward, L., & Shirley, B. Television dialogue; balancing audibility, attention and accessibility. Presented at Conference on Accessibility in Film, Television and Interactive Media, Department of Theatre, Film and Television, University of York, United Kingdom

Sound effects and other non-speech broadcast elements play many roles within television and radio content, including progressing the narrative. However, accessibility strategies for hard of hearing listeners tend to reduce all non-speech elements e... Read More about Television dialogue; balancing audibility, attention and accessibility.

The effect of early impulse response length and visual environment on externalization of binaural virtual sources
Presentation / Conference
Sinker, J., & Shirley, B. The effect of early impulse response length and visual environment on externalization of binaural virtual sources. Presented at 140th AES Convention, Paris, France

When designing an audio-augmented-reality (AAR) system capable of rendering acoustic “overlays” to real environments, it is advantageous to create externalized virtual sources with minimal computational complexity. This paper describes experiments de... Read More about The effect of early impulse response length and visual environment on externalization of binaural virtual sources.

Format-agnostic approach for production, delivery and rendering of immersive media
Presentation / Conference
Thallinger, G., Shirley, B., Schreer, O., Thomas, G., Niamut, O., Macq, J., …Oldfield, R. Format-agnostic approach for production, delivery and rendering of immersive media. Presented at Networked and Electronic Media Summit 2011

The media industry is currently being pulled in the often-opposing directions of increased realism (high resolution, stereoscopic, large screen) and personalisation (selection and control of content, availability on many devices). A capture, producti... Read More about Format-agnostic approach for production, delivery and rendering of immersive media.

FascinatE D3. 1.1 Survey of metadata and knowledge for automated scripting
Report
Thomas, G., Schreer, O., Oldfield, R., Shirley, B., Niamut, O., Poggi, A., …Verzijp, N. FascinatE D3. 1.1 Survey of metadata and knowledge for automated scripting

This document defines the various types of metadata in the FascinatE system and discusses representation requirements and candidate formats. The document considers various types of metadata describing capture, production, context, content, scripts, n... Read More about FascinatE D3. 1.1 Survey of metadata and knowledge for automated scripting.

Up-mixing and localisation-localisation performance of up-mixed consumer multichannel formats
Presentation / Conference
Chaffey, R., & Shirley, B. Up-mixing and localisation-localisation performance of up-mixed consumer multichannel formats. Presented at 122nd AES Convention, Vienna, Austria

A number of listening tests were carried out to assess localisation of sound in derived surround sound fields. Two up-mixed consumer multichannel formats that use matrix decoding of 3/2 multichannel surround channels to increase the surround channel... Read More about Up-mixing and localisation-localisation performance of up-mixed consumer multichannel formats.

Measurement of speech intelligibility in noise : a comparison of a stereo image source and a central loudspeaker source
Presentation / Conference
Kendrick, P., & Shirley, B. Measurement of speech intelligibility in noise : a comparison of a stereo image source and a central loudspeaker source. Presented at 118th AES Convention, Barcelona, Spain

Surround sound television is being taken up by broadcasters around the world and it is important to assess the impact of this for viewers, particularly those who struggle to understand speech on TV soundtracks. This research assesses the effect on in... Read More about Measurement of speech intelligibility in noise : a comparison of a stereo image source and a central loudspeaker source.

ITC clean audio project
Presentation / Conference
Shirley, B., & Kendrick, P. ITC clean audio project. Presented at 116th AES Convention, Berlin, Germany

In this paper a hybrid architecture is presented, that combines linear and switching topology, in order to obtain an audio amplifier featuring high efficiency, low distortion and high bandwidth. The intrinsic structure of the switching stage allows a... Read More about ITC clean audio project.

Development and preliminary results of the University of Salford media Accessibility and hearing Impairment Database (U-SAID)
Presentation / Conference
Ward, L., Shirley, B., & Davies, W. Development and preliminary results of the University of Salford media Accessibility and hearing Impairment Database (U-SAID). Presented at Reproduced Sound 2018 : putting sound in its place, Bristol, UK

Recent technological advances in object-based broadcasting present the opportunity to improve broadcast accessibility, particularly for the 11 million people in the UK with hearing impairment. Taking advantage of this opportunity is important given t... Read More about Development and preliminary results of the University of Salford media Accessibility and hearing Impairment Database (U-SAID).

Object-based audio for live sports audio
Presentation / Conference
Oldfield, R., & Shirley, B. Object-based audio for live sports audio. Presented at Reproduced Sound 2018 : putting sound in its place, Bristol, UK