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Adding the room to the mix : perceptual aspects of modal resonance in live audio (2019)
Presentation / Conference
Fazenda, B., Bolla, C., & Palladini, A. (2019, September). Adding the room to the mix : perceptual aspects of modal resonance in live audio. Presented at 5th Workshop on Intelligent Music Production, Birmingham, UK

The problem of room acoustics correction in live sound is still an open one. In particular, the audible artefacts caused by low frequency resonances are still a major factor in determining the perceived quality of a live show.
Despite many years of... Read More about Adding the room to the mix : perceptual aspects of modal resonance in live audio.

Connecting design, emotion, and behaviour in urban soundscape (2019)
Presentation / Conference
Carvalho, M., Davies, W., & Fazenda, B. (2019, July). Connecting design, emotion, and behaviour in urban soundscape. Poster presented at SPARC 2019 Fake News and Home Truths, MediaCity UK, Salford

With the purpose of assisting developments in urban soundscape design, the present research investigates how soundscapes can influence emotions and behaviours in public spaces aiming to find healthy reactions to “exciting” sonic environments. In the... Read More about Connecting design, emotion, and behaviour in urban soundscape.

Testing spatial aspects of auditory salience (2019)
Presentation / Conference
Podwinska, Z., Fazenda, B., & Davies, W. (2019, June). Testing spatial aspects of auditory salience. Presented at The 25th International Conference on Auditory Display (ICAD 2019), Northumbria University, UK

Auditory salience describes the extent to which sounds attract the listener’s attention. So far, there have not been any published studies testing if the location of sound relative to the listener influences its salience. In fact, not many experiment... Read More about Testing spatial aspects of auditory salience.

Background adaptation for improved listening experience in broadcasting (2019)
Presentation / Conference
Tang, Y., Cox, T., Fazenda, B., Liu, Q., & Wang, W. (2019, May). Background adaptation for improved listening experience in broadcasting. Presented at 44th International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, ICASSP 2019, Brighton, UK

The intelligibility of speech in noise can be improved by modifying the speech. But with object-based audio, there is the possibility of altering the background sound while leaving the speech unaltered. This may prove a less intrusive approach, affor... Read More about Background adaptation for improved listening experience in broadcasting.

Acoustic Event Detection from Weakly Labeled Data Using Auditory Salience (2019)
Presentation / Conference
Podwinska, Z., Sobieraj, I., Fazenda, B., Davies, W., & Plumbley, M. (2019, May). Acoustic Event Detection from Weakly Labeled Data Using Auditory Salience. Presented at 2019 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Brighton, UK

Acoustic Event Detection (AED) is an important task of machine listening which, in recent years, has been addressed using common machine learning methods like Non-negative Matrix Factorization (NMF) or deep learning. However, most of these approaches... Read More about Acoustic Event Detection from Weakly Labeled Data Using Auditory Salience.

Data relating to the ICA publication "Pupil dilation reveals changes in listening effort due to energetic and informational masking" (2019)
Data

This repository contains the results and analysis script for the experiment described in:

J Woodcock, BM Fazenda, TJ Cox and WJ Davies (2019). "Pupil dilation reveals changes in listening effort due to energetic and informational masking". In Proc... Read More about Data relating to the ICA publication "Pupil dilation reveals changes in listening effort due to energetic and informational masking".

A hybrid intelligent agent for notification of users distracted by mobile phones in an urban environment (2019)
Presentation / Conference
Gelaim, T., Langer, G., Santos, E., Silveira, R., O'Hare, J., Kendrick, P., & Fazenda, B. (2019, February). A hybrid intelligent agent for notification of users distracted by mobile phones in an urban environment. Presented at 11th International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence (ICAART), Prague, Czech Republic

Mobile devices are now ubiquitous in daily life and the number of activities that can be performed using them
is continually growing. This implies increased attention being placed on the device and diverted away from
events taking place in the surr... Read More about A hybrid intelligent agent for notification of users distracted by mobile phones in an urban environment.

Personality and listening sensitivity correlates of the subjective response to real and simulated sound sources in virtual reality (2018)
Presentation / Conference
Bailey, W., & Fazenda, B. (2018, August). Personality and listening sensitivity correlates of the subjective response to real and simulated sound sources in virtual reality. Presented at 2018 AES International Conference on Spatial Reproduction - Aesthetics and Science, Tokyo, Japan

It has been reported that personality traits, such as empathy and the tendency to become immersed in tasks, correlate with increased experience of presence in virtual reality. However, it is not clear whether this translates directly to the experienc... Read More about Personality and listening sensitivity correlates of the subjective response to real and simulated sound sources in virtual reality.

The effect of visual cues and binaural rendering method on plausibility in virtual environments (2018)
Presentation / Conference
plausibility in virtual environments. Presented at 144th International Pro Audio Convention, Milan, Italy

Immersive virtual reality is by its nature a multimodal medium and the use of spatial audio renderers for VR
development is widespread. The aim of this study is to assess the performance of two common audio rendering
methods and the effect of the p... Read More about The effect of visual cues and binaural rendering method on plausibility in virtual environments.

Speech-to-screen : spatial separation of dialogue from noise towards improved speech intelligibility for the small screen (2018)
Presentation / Conference
Demonte, P., Tang, Y., Hughes, R., Cox, T., Fazenda, B., & Shirley, B. (2018, May). Speech-to-screen : spatial separation of dialogue from noise towards improved speech intelligibility for the small screen. Presented at 144th International Pro Audio Convention (AES Milan 2018), Milan, Italy

Can externalizing dialogue when in the presence of stereo background noise improve speech intelligibility? This has been investigated for audio over headphones using head-tracking in order to explore potential future developments for small-screen dev... Read More about Speech-to-screen : spatial separation of dialogue from noise towards improved speech intelligibility for the small screen.

Automatic speech-to-background ratio selection to maintain speech intelligibility in broadcasts using an objective intelligibility metric (2018)
Journal Article

While mixing, sound producers and audio professionals empirically set the speech-to-background ratio (SBR) based on rules of thumb and their own perception of sounds. There is no guarantee that the speech content will be intelligible for the general... Read More about Automatic speech-to-background ratio selection to maintain speech intelligibility in broadcasts using an objective intelligibility metric.

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.

On the suitability of evolutionary computing to developing tools for intelligent music production (2017)
Presentation / Conference
Wilson, A., Loughran, R., & Fazenda, B. (2017, September). On the suitability of evolutionary computing to developing tools for intelligent music production. Presented at 3rd Workshop on Intelligent Music Production (WIMP 2017), Salford, UK

Intelligent music production tools aim to assist the user by automating music production tasks. Many previous systems sought to create the best possible mix based on technical parameters but rarely has subjectivity been directly incorporated. This pa... Read More about On the suitability of evolutionary computing to developing tools for intelligent music production.

Cave acoustics in prehistory : exploring the association of Palaeolithic visual motifs and acoustic response (2017)
Journal Article

During the 1980s, acoustic studies of Upper Palaeolithic imagery in French caves—using the technology then available—suggested a relationship between acoustic response and the location of visual motifs. This paper presents an investigation, using mod... Read More about Cave acoustics in prehistory : exploring the association of Palaeolithic visual motifs and acoustic response.

Influence of source location and temporal structure on spatial auditory saliency (2017)
Journal Article
Podwinska, Z., Fazenda, B., & Davies, W. (2017). Influence of source location and temporal structure on spatial auditory saliency. ˜The œJournal of the Acoustical Society of America (Online), 141(5), 3639-3639. https://doi.org/10.1121/1.4987852

Hitherto, not many studies have dealt with spatial auditory saliency. Auditory attention studies concerned with spatial aspects generally concentrate on top-down selective or divided attention, e.g., where subjects are asked to attend to one source a... Read More about Influence of source location and temporal structure on spatial auditory saliency.

A metric for predicting binaural speech intelligibility in stationary noise and competing speech maskers (2016)
Journal Article

One criterion in the design of binaural sound scenes in audio production is the extent to which the intended speech message is correctly understood. Object-based audio broadcasting systems have permitted sound editors to gain more access to the metad... Read More about A metric for predicting binaural speech intelligibility in stationary noise and competing speech maskers.

An evolutionary computation approach to intelligent music production informed by experimentally gathered domain knowledge (2016)
Presentation / Conference
Wilson, A., & Fazenda, B. (2016, September). An evolutionary computation approach to intelligent music production informed by experimentally gathered domain knowledge. Presented at 2nd AES Workshop on Intelligent Music Production (WIMP), London, UK

A novel methodology for intelligent music production has been developed using evolutionary computation. Mixes are generated by exploration of a “mix-space”, which consists of a series of inter-channel volume ratios, allowing efficient generation of r... Read More about An evolutionary computation approach to intelligent music production informed by experimentally gathered domain knowledge.