All Outputs (114)

EVALUATING THE PERFORMANCE OF OBJECTIVE AUDIO QUALITY METRICS IN RESPONSE TO COMMON AUDIO DEGRADATIONS (2025)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

This study evaluates the performance of five objective audio quality metrics-PEAQ Basic, PEAQ Advanced, PEMO-Q, ViSQOL, and HAAQI-in the context of digital music production. Unlike previous comparisons, we focus on their suitability for production en... Read More about EVALUATING THE PERFORMANCE OF OBJECTIVE AUDIO QUALITY METRICS IN RESPONSE TO COMMON AUDIO DEGRADATIONS.

AUDITORY DISCRIMINATION OF EARLY REFLECTIONS IN VIRTUAL ROOMS (2025)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

This study investigates the perceptual sensitivity to early reflection changes across different spatial directions in a virtual reality (VR) environment. Using an ABX discrimination paradigm , participants evaluated speech stimuli convolved with thir... Read More about AUDITORY DISCRIMINATION OF EARLY REFLECTIONS IN VIRTUAL ROOMS.

The cadenza woodwind dataset: Synthesised quartets for music information retrieval and machine learning. (2024)
Journal Article

This paper presents the Cadenza Woodwind Dataset. This publicly available data is synthesised audio for woodwind quartets including renderings of each instrument in isolation. The data was created to be used as training data within Cadenza's second o... Read More about The cadenza woodwind dataset: Synthesised quartets for music information retrieval and machine learning..

The ICASSP SP Cadenza Challenge: Music Demixing/Remixing for Hearing Aids (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

This paper reports on the design and results of the 2024 ICASSP SP Cadenza Challenge: Music Demixing/Remixing for Hearing Aids. The Cadenza project is working to enhance the audio quality of music for those with a hearing loss. The scenario for the c... Read More about The ICASSP SP Cadenza Challenge: Music Demixing/Remixing for Hearing Aids.

Associations between urban soundscape perception and emotional states (2024)
Thesis

Urban soundscape design represents a research area still in development, with gaps, such as influences on human response and practical application. Research on natural soundscapes, such as urban parks has demonstrated their benefits to society, howev... Read More about Associations between urban soundscape perception and emotional states.

Muddy, muddled, or muffled? Understanding the perception of audio quality in music by hearing aid users (2024)
Journal Article

Introduction: Previous work on audio quality evaluation has demonstrated a developing convergence of the key perceptual attributes underlying judgments of quality, such as timbral, spatial and technical attributes. However, across existing research t... Read More about Muddy, muddled, or muffled? Understanding the perception of audio quality in music by hearing aid users.

The First Cadenza Signal Processing Challenge: Improving Music for Those With a Hearing Loss (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

The Cadenza project aims to improve the audio quality of music for those who have a hearing loss. This is being done through a series of signal processing challenges, to foster better and more inclusive technologies. In the first round, two common li... Read More about The First Cadenza Signal Processing Challenge: Improving Music for Those With a Hearing Loss.

Stress Detection And Alleviation Via Electrodermal Activity And Generative Music (2023)
Thesis

Accurate psychological stress detection systems have been created using a variety of methodologies and can provide users with real-time stress monitoring. Such systems can aid with providing early intervention and therapies for alleviation on order t... Read More about Stress Detection And Alleviation Via Electrodermal Activity And Generative Music.

Speech-To-Screen collated correct word percentages (2022)
Data

.txt file containing results from the 'Speech-To-Screen listening experiment collated as correct word percentages.

20 x participants (s1-s20)
16 x combination of conditions tested per participant:
- 2 x masking noise types: SSN and SMN
- 2 x vi... Read More about Speech-To-Screen collated correct word percentages.

Read Me info for Speech-To-Screen raw data zip file (2022)
Data

.txt file with information relating to the S2S Raw Data zip file.


Note that:

INT: Speech internalised; Noise internalised.

SN: Speech internalised; Noise externalised (at screen).

NS: Speech externalised (at screen); Noise internalised.... Read More about Read Me info for Speech-To-Screen raw data zip file.

Speech-To-Screen raw data zip file (2022)
Data

Speech-To-Screen listening experiment - raw data
Zip file containing 100 x .mat files (Matlab)
See also separate ReadMe text file for further details

20 participants, 5 files each:
* 1 x practice session
* 4 x actual sessions: SMN_0; SMN_1; SS... Read More about Speech-To-Screen raw data zip file.

Spatial aspects of auditory salience (2020)
Thesis
Podwinska, Z. Spatial aspects of auditory salience. (Thesis). University of Salford

Models of auditory salience aim to predict which sounds attract people’s attention, and their proposed applications range from soundscape design to machine listening systems and object-based broadcasting. A few different types of models have been pro... Read More about Spatial aspects of auditory salience.

Modelling the perception of percussive low frequency instruments in rooms (2020)
Thesis
Howard, M. Modelling the perception of percussive low frequency instruments in rooms. (Dissertation). University of Salford

Throughout the study of room acoustics, adverse effects and methods of controlling
and mitigating modal behaviour are a well researched topic. However, despite this, a
gap between objective metrics and subjective results is still prevalent, thus re... Read More about Modelling the perception of percussive low frequency instruments in rooms.

Stonehenge impulse response measurements (2020)
Data

This is measurement data from the first application of acoustic scale modelling to prehistoric stone circles. The measurements were made in a 1:12 acoustic scale model of Stonehenge. These gave novel insights into how speech and musical sounds were a... Read More about Stonehenge impulse response measurements.

Using scale modelling to assess the prehistoric acoustics of stonehenge (2020)
Journal Article
Cox, T., Fazenda, B., & Greaney, S. (2020). Using scale modelling to assess the prehistoric acoustics of stonehenge. Journal of Archaeological Science, 122, 105218. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2020.105218

With social rituals usually involving sound, an archaeological understanding of a site requires the acoustics to be assessed. This paper demonstrates how this can be done with acoustic scale models. Scale modelling is an established method in archite... Read More about Using scale modelling to assess the prehistoric acoustics of stonehenge.

On performance and perceived effort in trail runners using sensor control to generate biosynchronous music (2020)
Journal Article
Williams, D., Fazenda, B., Williamson, V., & Fazekas, G. (2020). On performance and perceived effort in trail runners using sensor control to generate biosynchronous music. Sensors, 20(16), e4528. https://doi.org/10.3390/s20164528

Music has been shown to be capable of improving runners’ performance in treadmill and laboratory-based experiments. This paper evaluates a generative music system, namely HEARTBEATS, designed to create biosignal synchronous music in real-time accordi... Read More about On performance and perceived effort in trail runners using sensor control to generate biosynchronous music.

Misleading description of first and second order ambisonic systems (2020)
Journal Article
Fazenda, B. (2020). Misleading description of first and second order ambisonic systems. Building and Environment, 179, 106981. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.buildenv.2020.106981

With regards to the paper Llopis, H. S., Pind, F., & Jeong, C. H. (2020). Development of an auditory virtual reality system based on pre-computed B-format impulse responses for building design evaluation. Building and Environment, 169, 106553. (https... Read More about Misleading description of first and second order ambisonic systems.

Personality and cognitive factors in the assessment of multimodal stimuli in immersive virtual environments (2019)
Thesis
Bailey, J. Personality and cognitive factors in the assessment of multimodal stimuli in immersive virtual environments. (Thesis). University of Salford

Literature in the study of human response to immersive virtual reality systems often deals with the phenomenon of presence. It can be shown that audio and imagery with spatial information can interact to affect presence in users of immersive virtual... Read More about Personality and cognitive factors in the assessment of multimodal stimuli in immersive virtual environments.

Pupil dilation reveals changes in listening effort due to energetic and informational masking (2019)
Presentation / Conference
Woodcock, J., Fazenda, B., Cox, T., & Davies, W. (2019, September). Pupil dilation reveals changes in listening effort due to energetic and informational masking. Presented at ICA 2019, Aachen, Germany

Pupil dilation has previously been shown to be a useful involuntary marker of listening effort. An inverse relationship between pupil diameter and signal to noise ratio has been shown when speech is energetically masked by noise. The work reported he... Read More about Pupil dilation reveals changes in listening effort due to energetic and informational masking.

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.