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Using blind signal processing algorithms to remove wind noise from environmental noise assessments : a wind turbine amplitude modulation case study
Journal Article
Kendrick, P., von Hünerbein, S., & Cox, T. Using blind signal processing algorithms to remove wind noise from environmental noise assessments : a wind turbine amplitude modulation case study. ˜The œJournal of the Acoustical Society of America (Online), 138(3), 1731-1732. https://doi.org/10.1121/1.4933451

Microphone
wind noise can corrupt outdoor measurements and recordings. It is a particular problem for wind turbine
measurements because these cannot be carried out when the wind speed is low. Wind shields can be used, but often the sound level from... Read More about Using blind signal processing algorithms to remove wind noise from environmental noise assessments : a wind turbine amplitude modulation case study.

Precision measurements of wind turbine noise using a large aperture microphone array
Presentation / Conference
Bradley, S., Mikkelsen, T., von Hünerbein, S., & Legg, M. Precision measurements of wind turbine noise using a large aperture microphone array. Presented at 6th Berlin Beamforming Conference, Berlin

Experiments are described with a large microphone array (40 m scale) recording wind turbine noise. The array comprised 42 purpose-designed low-noise microphones simultaneously sampled at 20 kHz. Very high quality, fast, meteorological profile data wa... Read More about Precision measurements of wind turbine noise using a large aperture microphone array.

The acuity of colouration perception using non-individualised dynamic binaural synthesis
Presentation / Conference
Satongar, D., Lam, Y., & Pike, C. The acuity of colouration perception using non-individualised dynamic binaural synthesis. Presented at 22nd International Congress on Sound and Vibration (ICSV22), Florence, Italy

Spectral inaccuracies in binaural synthesis caused by factors such as non-individualised HRTFs and headphone compensation filters can induce colouration artifacts; changing the perception of an intended auditory event. Detection thresholds for induce... Read More about The acuity of colouration perception using non-individualised dynamic binaural synthesis.

From macroscopic to microscopic glimpse-based models of intelligibility prediction
Journal Article
Cooke, M., Tang, Y., & Toth, M. (in press). From macroscopic to microscopic glimpse-based models of intelligibility prediction. ˜The œJournal of the Acoustical Society of America (Online), 139(4), 2187-2187. https://doi.org/10.1121/1.4950509

Miller and Licklider's explorations of the intelligibility of temporally interrupted speech, and later studies extending their findings to the spectro-temporal plane, have shown how the twin factors of sparseness and redundancy confer a high degree o... Read More about From macroscopic to microscopic glimpse-based models of intelligibility prediction.

The psychoacoustic effects of stimuli plausibility on headphone externalisation
Presentation / Conference
Fazenda, B., & Newton, J. The psychoacoustic effects of stimuli plausibility on headphone externalisation. Presented at Reproduced Sound 2014, NEC, Birmingham

In the world we live in, sound events are typically associated with a physical event happening within our surroundings. In this case, the event carries a degree of plausibility in that it exists in the physical world and should therefore have associa... Read More about The psychoacoustic effects of stimuli plausibility on headphone externalisation.

A hybrid method for impulse response measurements with synthesized musical tones and Masked-MLS Stimuli
Thesis
Serafini, M. (in press). A hybrid method for impulse response measurements with synthesized musical tones and Masked-MLS Stimuli. (Thesis). University of Salford

Impulse responses or transfer functions are descriptions of acoustic and audio transmission channels, which completely characterise point-to-point propagation of sound in room acoustics or input-output relationships of linear systems in electroacoust... Read More about A hybrid method for impulse response measurements with synthesized musical tones and Masked-MLS Stimuli.

Estimation of intelligibility from received arbitrary speech signals with support vector machine
Presentation / Conference
Li, F. Estimation of intelligibility from received arbitrary speech signals with support vector machine. Presented at 2005 International Conference on Machine Learning and Cybernetics, Guangzhou, China

Intelligibility, a vital concern of a speech transmission channel, is quantified using speech transmission index (STI). The standard STI method relies on noisy test signals and thus hinders in-use measurements. Alternative methods to accurately estim... Read More about Estimation of intelligibility from received arbitrary speech signals with support vector machine.

Speech intelligibility of VoIP to PSTN interworking - a key index for the QoS
Presentation / Conference
Li, F. Speech intelligibility of VoIP to PSTN interworking - a key index for the QoS. Presented at Telecommunications Quality of Services: The Business of Success, 2004. QoS 2004. IEE

Intelligibility is an important concern of speech transmission channels. The paper addresses speech intelligibility issues in the VoIP to PSTN interworking context, discusses the complexity of quantifying speech intelligibility, and advocates speech... Read More about Speech intelligibility of VoIP to PSTN interworking - a key index for the QoS.

EMC of power suppliers for telecommunications by design - a computational approach
Presentation / Conference
Li, F. EMC of power suppliers for telecommunications by design - a computational approach. Presented at Telecommunications Energy Conference, 2001. INTELEC 2001. Twenty-Third International

This paper proposes a simplified computational method for estimating radiated electromagnetic interference (EMI) from power supply units (PSUs) and then inversely applies it to design problems. Practical considerations are centered on PSUs used in mo... Read More about EMC of power suppliers for telecommunications by design - a computational approach.

A system for semantic information extraction from mixed soundtracks deploying MARSYAS framework
Book Chapter
Mohammed, D., Duncan, P., Al-Maathidi, M., & Li, F. A system for semantic information extraction from mixed soundtracks deploying MARSYAS framework. In 2015 IEEE 13th International Conference on Industrial Informatics (INDIN) (1084-1089). IEEE. https://doi.org/10.1109/INDIN.2015.7281886

Ever increasing volumes of media content and the desire to extract information from media archives motivate the studies into semantic audio information mining. Much research in this filed concerns development of bespoke systems, in which sound tracks... Read More about A system for semantic information extraction from mixed soundtracks deploying MARSYAS framework.

Object-based radio : effects on production and audience experience
Thesis
Churnside, A. (in press). Object-based radio : effects on production and audience experience. (Thesis). The University of Salford

This thesis analyses the benefits of using object-based audio as a production and delivery format in order to enable new audience experiences. This is achieved though a series of case studies, each focusing on a different user experience enabled by t... Read More about Object-based radio : effects on production and audience experience.