Room acoustics simulation: perceptual approximation of physical models Seminar
- Time:
- 16:00
- Date:
- 31 January 2017
- Venue:
- Highfield Campus, 13/3017
For more information regarding this seminar, please email Rameen Mustafa at R.Mustafa@soton.ac.uk .
Event details
EngEnv - ISVR Seminar Series
Room acoustic simulation methods can be classified on a scale that goes from very high computational complexity and high physical accuracy to low computational complexity and accuracy. At the former end of the scale are methods based on the time and space discretisation of the wave equation, followed by geometrical acoustics models, which make the simplifying assumption that sound travels as rays.
On the other end of the scale are inexact models that do not render the acoustics of a specific room but rather render certain desirable perceptual qualities of reverberated sound. This talk will focus on methods that aim at bridging the gap between physical and perceptual models, with the objective of achieving reasonably accurate perceptual rendering with a low computational complexity.
Speaker information
Enzo De Sena , Università degli Studi di Napoli "Federico II” in Telecommunication Engineering. . Enzo De Sena received the B.Sc. in 2007 and M.Sc. (cum laude) in 2009, both from the Università degli Studi di Napoli "Federico II” in Telecommunication Engineering. In 2013, he received the Ph.D. degree in Electronic Engineering from King’s College London, where he was also a Teaching Fellow from 2012 to 2013. Between 2013 and 2016 he was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven. Since September 2016 he is a Lecturer in Audio at the Institute of Sound Recording at the University of Surrey. He held visiting positions at Stanford University, Aalborg University and Imperial College London. He recently co-presented a Tutorial at ICASSP (2015) and he was part of the organising committee of the 60th International Conference of the Audio Engineering Society (2016). He is a former Marie Curie Fellow. His current research interests include room acoustics modelling, surround sound, microphone beam forming and binaural modelling.