Kategorie: ‘Conferences’
Studienpreis der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Akustik 2023 an Julia Seitz
Im Rahmen der DAGA 2023 in Hamburg wurde der DEGA Studienpreis an M.Sc. Julia Seitz für Ihre herausragende Masterarbeit „Intentional Switching of Spatial Auditory Selective Attention in Preschool Children“ verliehen. Wir gratulieren!
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- Übergabe des Studienpreises an Julia Seitz (Foto: Janina Fels)
DAGA 2023 in Hamburg – 49th Annual Conference on Acoustics
The 49th Annual Conference on Acoustics DAGA took place from March 6th to March 9th 2023, in Hamburg. The IHTA was represented there with 22 presentations and seven posters. The researchers presented their work in eleven different subject areas. This shows the broad range of topics the Institute covers in hearing technology and acoustics.
During the conference, the technical committees of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Akustik e.V. (DEGA) met. In the technical committee Hörtechnik (Hearing Acoustics) Professor Janina Fels handed over the chair position after six years. Besides, the technical group Junge DEGA selected Simon Kersten as its new chairman. Jonas Heck, who was elected as deputy, supports him in this position.
After the dinner at the social evening on Wednesday, the IHTA Band performed two songs from their repertoire. On Thursday, a small group took the opportunity to participate in an excursion to the Elbphilharmonie. Not only the grand hall was visited, but also the rooftop was climbed.
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- IHTA group picture (Foto: Janina Fels)
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- Performance of the IHTA Band at the social evening (Foto: Lara Stürenburg)
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- On the roof of the Elbphilharmonie (Foto: Lara Stürenburg)
DAGA 2023 – 49. Jahrestagung für Akustik
Again, IHTA is joining DAGA in Hamburg with interesting contributions from March, 6th, to March, 8th, 2023. We are delighted to invite to our presentations and posters. In total, IHTA members will be represented with 27 contributions (22 presentations and 5 posters):
| Presentations | ||||
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| Tuesday, March 7th | ||||
| Jonas Heck, Josep Llorca-Bofí, Aakriti Jain, Michael Vorländer |
Text mining of audio-visual descriptors for concert halls | Raumakustik 1 – Qualitätsfragen und Fallstudien A | 14:00 | Saal X 1-2 |
| Lukas Vollmer, Elisabeta Balla, Björn Kampa, Janina Fels | The Auditory Mismatch Negativity as an EEG-derived Measure of Predictive Coding | Psychoakustik | 14:20 | Saal X 7-8 |
| Lukas Aspöck, Michael Vorländer, Anne Heimes, Andreas Herweg, Olivier Dazel |
An online course about acoustic simulations and auralization | Lehre der Akustik | 15:00 | Saal Y 4 |
| Shaimaa Doma, Cosima Ermert, Janina Fels |
On the monaural contribution to HRTF discrimination | Perceptual Optimization of Dynamic Binaural Rendering 2 | 16:40 | Saal Y 9 |
| Lara Stürenburg, Hark Braren, Lukas Aspöck, Janina Fels | Akustische Vermessung einer Wärmepumpe für Hörexperimente und Simulationen | Strömungsakustik in der Energiewende | 17:20 | Saal X 9-10 |
| Wednesday, March 8th | ||||
| Marco Berzborn, Michael Vorländer | Analytic Model Based Analysis of Modal Sound Field Decay | Raumakustik 2 – Messung und Simulation A | 09:00 | Saal X 1-2 |
| Thomas Deutsch, Janina Fels | Evaluating Models for the Simulation of Cochlear Hearing Loss | Audiologische Akustik 3 – Charakterisierung des Hörsystems | 10:00 | Saal Y 5 |
| Pascal Palenda, Michael Kohnen, Michael Vorländer |
Influence of Position Mismatch on the Perception of Early Reflections of One’s Own Voice | Virtuelle Akustik 1 | 10:40 | Saal X 11-12 |
| Karin Loh, Edina Fintor, Sophie Nolden, Janina Fels | Comparing Children’s and Adults’ Intentional Switching of Auditory Selective Attention in Spatial and Noisy Acoustic Environments | Psychoakustik | 14:00 | Saal X 7-8 |
| Julia Seitz, Karin Loh, Sophie Nolden, Janina Fels | Investigating Intentional Switching of Spatial Auditory Selective Attention in an Experiment with Preschool Children | Psychoakustik | 14:20 | Saal X 7-8 |
| Hark Braren, Janina Fels | Individualized Head-related Transfer Functions for Children | Virtuelle Akustik 3 | 16:40 | Saal X 11-12 |
| Mark Müller-Giebeler, Michael Vorländer | Präzise Modellierung diffuser Schallfelder zur inversen Bestimmung akustischer Materialparameter | Raumakustik 2 – Messung und Simulation B | 17:40 | Saal X 1-2 |
| Anne Heimes, Michael Vorländer |
Measurement setup design for scattering patterns based on numerical simulations | Raumakustik 2 – Messung und Simulation B | 18:20 | Saal X 1-2 |
| Ingo Witew, Michael Vorländer | Wie genau müssen Messpositionen für reproduzierbare Klarheitsmaß Messungen definiert werden? | Raumakustik 2 – Messung und Simulation B | Saal X 1-2 | |
| Thursday, March 9th | ||||
| Chinthusa Mohanathasan, Jonathan Ehret, Cosima A. Ermert, Janina Fels, Torsten W. Kuhle, Sabine J. Schlittmeiers |
Towards More Realistic Listening Research in Virtual Environments: The Effect of Spatial Position of Two Talkers in Conversations on Memory and Listening Effort | SPP2236 – Auditory Cognition in Interactive Virtual Environments 1 | 09:20 | Saal Y 5 |
| Josep Llorca-Bofí, Jonas Heck, Michael Vorländer |
Reproducibility Exploration of Individual Vocabulary Profiles on Urban Soundscapes: Driescher Hof, Aachen | Soundscape | 09:40 | Saal X 5-6 |
| Cosima A. Ermert, Jonathan Ehret, Torsten W. Kuhlen, Chinthusa Mohanathasan, Sabine J. Schlittmeier, Janina Fels |
Audio-visual content mismatches in the serial recall paradigm | SPP2236 – Auditory Cognition in Interactive Virtual Environments 1 | 09:50 | Saal Y 5 |
| Chalotorn Möhlmann, Simon Kersten, Michael Vorländer |
Finite Element Simulation of the Occlusion Effect in the Ear Canal | Assisted Hearing – Testing, Models, Quality 1 | 10:00 | Saal X 11-12 |
| Lukas Aspöck, Stefan Morent, Michael Vorländer | Simulated reverberation for choir recordings in virtual churches | Raumakustik | 10:20 | Plenarsaal |
| Simon Kersten, Henning Taschke, Michael Vorländer | Fluid Motion and Pressure Distribution in the Human Inner Ear during Bone Conduction Hearing | Assisted Hearing – Testing, Models, Quality 1 | 10:20 | Saal X 11-12 |
| Carolin Breuer, Stephan Fremerey, Larissa Leist, Maria Klatte, Alexander Raake, Janina Fels |
Investigating the Influence of Visual Distractors on the Voluntary Switchtig of Auditory Selective Attention in Virtual Reality | SPP2236 – Auditory Cognition in Interactive Virtual Environments 1 | 10:40 | Saal Y 5 |
| Elie Abi Raad, Jose Maria Gomez Belmonte, Michael Vorländer |
Frequency response characterization of the welding process in Ultrasonic Metal Welding | Structure-borne sound | 16:00 | Saa Y6 |
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| Wednesday, March 8th | ||||
| Stefan Winkelmann, Lara Stürenburg, Isabel S. Schiller, Janina Fels, Sabine J. Schlittmeier |
Subjektiver akustischer Komfort von Luftdurchlässen für Gebäudelüftungen | Psychoakustik | 15:40-16:20 |
Foyer Z, Posterinsel H |
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Marco Wegener, Jonas Heck, Josep Llorca-Bofí, Rouben Rehman, Christian Dreier, Philipp Schäfer, Michael Vorländer |
Introducing an Unreal Engine toolkit for audio-visual perception studies in the virtual lab IHTApark | Virtuelle Akustik (Late Poster) |
15:40-16:20 |
Foyer Z, Posterinsel Q |
| Thursday, March 9th | ||||
| Frederike Rust, Karin Loh, Lukas Aspöck, Janina Fels | Auswirkung akustischer Maßnahmen auf das Lärmempfinden im Klassenraum | Raumakustik (Late Poster) |
11:00-11:40 | Foyer Z, Posterinsel R |
| Jianliang Gao, Ingo Witew, Lukas Aspöck, Michael Vorländer, S. K. Tang | Global sound field estimation of a theatre using an efficient multi-channel room acoustic measurement system | Raumakustik (Late Poster) |
11:00-11:40 |
Foyer Z, Posterinsel R |
| Lili Pan, Jianliang Gao, Yuezhe Zhao | An optimized procedure for random-incidence scattering coefficient measurement in 1:10 scaled reverberation room | Raumakustik (Late Poster) |
11:00-11:40 |
Foyer Z, Posterinsel R |
An overview of all contributions and updated information can be found in the DAGA 2023 App.
We are looking forward to seeing you at DAGA 2023!
DAGA 2023 Travel Grants
Die Gesellschaft für Technische Akustik (GfTA e.V.) möchte Studierende des IHTAs unterstützen an der kommenden Jahrestagung für Akustik (DAGA 2023) teilzunehmen. Diese findet vom 6. bis zum 9. März 2022 in Hamburg statt und bietet eine sehr gute Möglichkeit, erste Erfahrungen bei wissenschaftlichen Konferenzen zu sammeln.
Die GfTA fördert in diesem Jahr bis zu drei Studierende durch einen Reisezuschuss (Travel grant) in Höhe von jeweils 250€. Kandidat*innen müssen keinen wissenschaftlichen Beitrag bei der Konferenz einreichen, sollten aber zuvor noch keine DAGA-Konferenz besucht haben und an einer Lehrveranstaltung am IHTA teilgenommen haben.
Um Dich für den Travel grant zu bewerben, schreibe eine Email an Lukas Aspöck und erkläre in ein oder zwei Sätzen, warum Du motiviert bist an einer Akustik-Konferenz teilzunehmen. Die Deadline für Bewerbungen ist der 2.12.2022.
International Congress on Acoustics ICA 2022
The Institute for Hearing Technology and Acoustics looks back on a very enjoyable and successful 24th International Congress on Acoustics ICA 2022 in Gyeongju, South Korea. IHTA was present with a total of 10 delegates and actively contributed to the program with two theme organizers, five special session organizers, 10 oral presentations, and one plenary lecture. The conference was an excellent event to meet the international acoustic community in real life again.
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- Entrance of the congress venue (Foto: Janina Fels)
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- IHTA group picture with Alumnus Bruno Masiero (Foto: Janina Fels)
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- Plenary talk by Janina Fels (Foto: Jamilla Balint)
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- Janina Fels at her plenary talk (Foto: Cheol-Ho Jeong)
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- ICA-ASA Young Scientist Conference Attendance Grant for Cosima Ermert (Foto: ICA)
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- Poster and interactive IHTApark Demo (Foto: Josep Llorca-Bofi)
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- Presentation by Josep Llorca-Bofi (Foto: Josep Llorca-Bofi)
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- Presentation by Jonas Heck (Foto: Josep Llorca-Bofi)
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- Presentation by Christian Dreier (Foto: Josep Llorca-Bofi)
The full proceedings of the conference are available for download on the ICA 2022 website.
IHTA at the BauSIM conference in Weimar
From the 20th to the 22nd September 2022, the BauSIM conference took place. The scientific core topic of the conference is traditionally the energetic simulation in the building sector and offers an ideal discussion forum for experts from science and industry for mutual exchange. The conference is organized by the and IBSPA Germany-Austria, member of the International Building and Performance Simulation Association (IBPSA) This year’s conference introduced a new session on acoustic simulation topics, and our institute was present.
In particular, our Junior Principal Investigator Dr. Josep Llorca-Bofí, from the PAAD group was invited as key-note speaker, talking about The city – A machine for noise? Virtual acoustics in architectural design research. Together with our PhD student M. Sc. Jonas Heck and Professor Michael Vorländer, the following research paper was presented: 3D photogrammetry for auralization – An approach for geometry simplification and material categorization.
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- Key-note talk Dr. Josep Llorca-Bofí
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- Bauhaus-Universtät Weimar
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- BauSIM lecture hall
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- IHTApark demonstrator
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- Immersive audio and visuals
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- Portable research laboratory using head-mounted display and equalized headphones
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- Visit to the acoustic laboratory at the chair of Building Physics
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- Visit to the acoustic laboratory at the chair of Building Physics
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- Optic visualization of thermal air movement
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- Visit to the optics laboratory at the chair of Building Physics
junge DEGA Workshop 2022 in Stuttgart
From 2nd to 4th September 2022, after a three-years break due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the “junge DEGA Herbstworkshop” took place in Stuttgart, like the DAGA conference earlier this year. Junge DEGA is a sub-group of the German Acoustical Society with the mission to connect students, PhDs and young professionals in the domain of acoustics. It organizes special sessions and panel discussions during the Annual German Conference on Acoustics (DAGA), providing information on research funding opportunities and job entry. Furthermore, junge DEGA offers a mentoring program with active participation from industry and academia.
Two PhD students of the Institute for Hearing Technology and Acoustics, Simon Kersten and Jonas Heck, as well as Nils Rummler, recently graduated bachelor student, participated in this year’s workshop. The program started with visits at the Fraunhofer Institute for Building Physics IBP and the Center for Building Physics (ZfB, Hochschule für Technik Stuttgart). Furthermore, it consisted of short presentations given by the participants, a plenary meeting of the junge DEGA group to plan the following year’s activities and a guided visit of the new main station construction site (known as Stuttgart 21) with a focus on noise and vibration control. The weekend was concluded with a hands-on workshop on building a loudspeaker from residual materials and competing for the highest sound pressure level.
Pictures from the workshop can be found in the gallery below.
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- Participants of the junge DEGA Herbstworkshop 2022
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- Loudspeaker competition
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- Loudspeaker competition
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- Loudspeaker competition
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- Visit of the Stuttgart21 construction site
Inter-noise 2022 in Glasgow
This year’s inter-noise conference took place from August 21st to 24th in Glasgow, Scotland. More than 1000 delegates participated in this conference and presented interesting research in the field of acoustics and noise. Highlights of the conference included key note talks by Lily Wang (University of Nebraska–Lincoln) on indoor acoustic conditions and by the Salford Group (Andy Moorhouse, Andy Elliott and Josh Meggitt) on virtual acoustic prototypes.
Four researchers of the Institute for Hearing Technology and Acoustics travelled to the conference and presented the following research papers:
- Eli Abi Raad: Experimental setup for laser vibrometry measurements of the vibrating horn in Ultrasonic Metal Welding
- Lukas Aspöck: Differences between measured and simulated room impulse responses
- Christian Dreier: Vehicle pass-by noise auralization in a virtual urban environment
- Lara Stürenburg: Acoustic Measurements and Psychoacoustic Analyses of Ventilation Diffusers
The full conference proceedings are also available for download here.
The interesting scientific program was accompanied by an entertaining social program as well as various early career events, which helped many of the younger participants to connect with each other. The International Institute of Noise Control Engineering (i-ince) also supported young researchers by providing travel grants, one of which was received by Elie Abi Raad. Congratulations, Elie, to this grant.
Pictures from the conference including the grant ceremony can be found in the gallery below.
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- Impressions of the presentations
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- Impressions of the presentations
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- Impressions of the presentations
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- Travel grant ceremony Elie Abi Raad
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- All travel grant recipients
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- Entry to the social event of the conference
IHTA at the POSTER 2022 Conference
After a break of three years due to the pandemic, this year in May, the 26th International Student Conference on Electrical Engineering POSTER 2022 was held in Prague, Czech Republic. This annual event in Czech’s capital city is an excellent opportunity for undergraduate and postgraduate students to gain first experiences at an international conference and strengthens the relationship between CTU Prague and RWTH Aachen University.
Three Phd students of the Institute for Hearing Technology and Acoustics presented scientific work in Prague:
- Anne Heimes: Virtual reality environments for soundscape research
- Carolin Reimers: Investigating the Auditory Selective Attention Switch in Virtual Reality
- Lukas Vollmer: Evaluating Spatial Audio for Hearing Aid Applications
We are happy to report that the work by Anne Heimes was selected by a jury as the best paper in the category Informatics and Cybernetics. Congratulations to Anne for this award!
Pictures of the event can be found on the conference’s website.
Early Career Presenter Award at the 182nd ASA Meeting
The 182nd Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America (ASA) was held in Denver, Colorado, from 23- 27 May 2022. At the conference, our PhD student Simon Kersten was honored with the Early Career Presenter Award by the Computational Acoustics Technical Committee of the ASA for his presentation on “Influence of the Model Parameters for the Finite Element Simulation of Bone Conduction in the Human Head”.
In this work, the influence of the various material parameters that are to be determined for finite-element models of human heads in bone conduction research was illustrated using a simple ellipsoid model. This research is part of the CRC 1330 HAPPAA funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG).
Congratulations to Simon for this award!
Euronoise 2021 – EAA e-Congress
EURONOISE 2021 has started today and of course IHTA is also represented with interesting talks!
Unfortunately it was not possible to meet in person on Madeira and we are faced with a nicely organized online event. You can find a list of all IHTA’s talks below (The time zone of the program is UTC/GMT+0, Lisbon time zone):
Monday, October 25th, 2021
- 15.40, Room PORTO MONIZ (room 5) – Investigating noise disturbance in open-plan offices using measurements of the room acoustics, and of the sound environment during occupancy – Manuj Yadav; Densil Cabrera; Jungsoo Kim; James Love; Jonothan Holmes; Janina Fels; Richard de Dear;[SS5]
Tuesday, October 26th, 2021
- 9.20, Room PORTO SANTO (room 3) – Challenges in interactive sound insulation auralization – Michael Vorländer;[SS17]
- 11.20, Room PORTO SANTO (room 3) – Voice support from acoustically retroreflective surfaces – Densil Cabrera; Jonothan Holmes1; Shuai Lu1; Mary Rapp1; Manuj Yadav; [SS22]
- 17.20, Room PORTO MONIZ (room 5) – Combined assessment of cognitive and physiological parameters in child-appropriate listening experiments – Karin Loh; Christoph Hoog Antink; Sophie Nolden; Janina Fels;[SS21]
Wednesday, October 27th, 2021
- 14:20, Room FUNCHAL (room 2) – On the Estimation of Directional Decay Times in Reverberation Rooms – Marco Berzborn; Jamilla Balint; Michael Vorländer;[SS9]
- 14:40, Room FUNCHAL (room 2) – Modeling the edge effect for inverse determination of porous absorbers using feed forward neural networks – Mark Müller-Giebeler; Michael Vorländer;[SS9]
- 15:20, Room PORTO MONIZ (room 5) – Eigenfrequency analysis of the vibrating horn in Ultrasonic Metal Welding – Elie Abi Raad; Jose Maria Uribe; Michael Vorländer;[GS29]
More information can be found here: http://www.spacustica.pt/euronoise2021/
BASH 2021 – Joint Conference on Binaural and Spatial Hearing
The 2nd joint conference on binaural and spatial hearing (BASH) was held on October 7th and 8th, 2021. The meeting took place virtually, featuring talks on behavior, modeling, physiology and virtual reality. On Friday, October 8th, Janina Fels and Carolin Reimers gave a presentation on a paradigm investigating auditory selective attention in a virtual classroom, which has been developed in the context of the project “Evaluating cognitive performance in classroom scenarios using audiovisual virtual reality – ECoClass-VR” . This project is part of the priority program SPP2236 – AUDICTIVE: Auditory Cognition in interactive virtual Environments funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) – German Research Foundation. Next to exciting projects, AUDICTIVE also organizes workshops for the participating researchers, such as a visualization workshop offered by Martina Grigoleit, which has already been made use of during the BASH.
Young Professionals Grant at inter-noise 2021
From August 1st, 2021 until August 5th, 2021, the 50th International Congress and Exposition on Noise Control Engineering (inter-noise 2021) was held in online mode (originally it was planned to take place in Washington, DC).
Our PhD student Christian Dreier participated in this event and presented the paper Sound source modelling by nonnegative matrix factorisation for virtual reality applications. Related to this contribution, he was selected as a winner of the Young Professionals Grant Competition by the Institute of Noise Control Engineering (I-INCE) – congratulations to Christian for this award!
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- Remote sensing of aircraft noise
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- Source separation
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- Certificate of the award
Annual Meeting of the Priority Program AUDICTIVE
On September 16th, 2021 we met online for our annual meeting of our priority program SPP2236 – AUDICTIVE (www.spp2236-audictive.de): Auditory Cognition in interactive virtual Environments funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) – German Research Foundation.
The day was very inspiring and the basis for special interests groups and lab visits could be established! Special thanks go to our moderator Ellen Gürtler.
We are looking forward to the upcoming months full of exciting collaborations!
Screenshot of the Zoom Meeting
DAGA 2021 poster award
At the DAGA Acoustics Annual Conference 2021, one of the poster awards has been given to the work presented by Jonas Heck, Josep Llorca-Bofí and Michael Vorländer, with the title: Hearing Architecture and Seeing Soundscapes: Methodological Approach of Individual Vocabulary Profiling to Evaluate Audiovisual Perception.
Congratulations!
DAGA 2021 – Die Jahrestagung für Akustik
Nachdem im Jahr 2020 die in Hannover geplante DAGA-Tagung ausfallen musste, wurde die DAGA 2021 in den Monat August geschoben. Die Hoffnung, dass die Pandemie die Tagungsdurchführung nichtmehr beeinflusst, hat sich nicht erfüllt, aber immerhin kann die in Wien, vom 15. August bis zum 18. August 2021, stattfindene Konferenz als Hybrid-Veranstaltung durchgeführt werden, d.h. eine Teilnahme ist sowohl vor Ort, als auch Online möglich. Aufgrund der Anweisung der RWTH Aachen, Dienstreisen soweit es geht zu vermeiden, nehmen alle IHTA-Beschäftigten online an der Tagung teil und verzichten somit auf die Reise nach Wien.
Die Tagung beginnt am Sonntag mit drei Vorkolloquien, die meisten Sitzungen finden jedoch an den drei Haupttagen von Montag bis Mittwoch statt. Insgesamt ist das Institut für Hörtechnik und Akustik an 27 wissenschaftlichen Beiträgen beteiligt (21 Vorträge und 6 Poster).
Vortrag am Montag:
| Jonathan Ehret, Lukas Aspöck, Andrea Bönsch, Janina Fels, Torsten W. Kuhlen | Speech Source Directivity for Embodied Conversational Agents |
Vorträge am Dienstag:
Vorträge am Mittwoch:
Poster:
| Marco Berzborn, Fabian Brinkmann, Simon Kersten, Kai Jurgeit | pyfar: Python Packages for Acoustics Research |
| Anne Heimes, Michael Vorländer | A framework to conduct psychoacoustic experiments in virtual reality |
| Jonas Heck, Josep Llorca-Bofí, Michael Vorländer | Hearing Architecture and Seeing Soundscapes: Methodological Approach of Individual Vocabulary Profiling to Evaluate Audiovisual Perception |
| Lukas Aspöck, Jonathan Ehret, Stefan Baumann, Andrea Bönsch, Christine T. Röhr, Martine Grice, Torsten W. Kuhlen, Janina Fels | Prosodic and visual naturalness of dialogs presented by conversational virtual agents |
| Isabel Schiller, Jan Alber, Lukas Aspöck, Chinthusa Mohanathasan, Linda Wetzel, Sabine Schlittmeier | Text-related immersion for varying auditory background scenes |
| Karin Loh, Julian Burger, Lukas Aspöck, Janina Fels | EduRA database: room models based on room acoustic measurements in primary and preschools |
Eine Übersicht über alle weiteren Beiträge der Tagung befinden sich in der der DAGA 2021 App.
Priority Program AUDICTIVE – Kick-Off-Meeting
Awesome day (on April 27, 2021) with the virtual Kick-Off-Meeting from the priority program SPP2236-AUDICTIVE: Auditory Cognition in interactive virtual Environments funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG).
Group picture of the AUDICTIVE participants – Zoom
We are very happy that we had a very interactive and successful meeting with great collaborators and partners within AUDICTIVE. Special thanks go to our moderator Ellen Gürtler and the graphic recorder Martina Grigoleit, who made this day very inspiring and extraordinary.
Graphic Recording of the Meeting by Martina Grigoleit
Rückblick: ICA 2019 / EAA Euroregio / EAA Summer School
Dieser Artikel erschien im Akustik Jornal der DEGA, Ausgabe Nr. / Oktober 2019.
Die internationale Tagung für Akustik („23rd International Congress on Acoustics“ – ICA 2019) fand vom 9. bis zum 13. September 2019 in Aachen statt und schloss auch den „4th EAA Euroregio“-Kongress mit ein.
G. Behler / ITA 
G. Behler / ITA 
G. Behler / ITA 
© Sabine Schmidt, das design plus, Aachen, Copyright DEGA e.V.
Mit insgesamt 1700 Teilnehmenden, darunter 590 „Students“ war die Tagung ein voller Erfolg. In 147 strukturierten Sitzungen wurden ca. 1.300 Tagungsbeiträge als Vorträge und Poster präsentiert.
Am 09.09. wurde die Tagung von den Conference Chairs (Prof. Michael Vorländer und Prof. Janina Fels) feierlich eröffnet, umrahmt durch Musik von Lily Dahab und ihrer Band.
Fünf Plenarvorträge wurden von hochkarätigen Wissenschaftlerinnen und Wissenschaftlern gehalten:
- Marion Burgess (Sydney, Australien): “Sound and Noise around us“
- Shrikanth Narayanan (Los Angeles, USA): “Sounds of the human vocal instrument“
- Christopher Wiebusch & Tim Otto Roth (Aachen/Köln): “Astroparticle Immersive Synthesizer³ or how cosmic ‚ghost particles‘ inspire a novel concept of spatialisation of sound“
- Jérémie Voix (Montreal, Kanada, Preisträger des ICA Early Career Awards): “The ear at the age of IoT”
- Maria Heckl (Keele, England): “Thermoacoustic instabilities – physical mechanisms and mathematical modelling”
Neben dem umfangreichen wissenschaftlichen Hauptprogramm gab es diverse zusätzliche Ereignisse, zum Beispiel die Aktivitäten der „EAA Young Acousticians, YAN“ mit der jDEGA und vielen anderen Gruppen des wissenschaftlichen Nachwuchses. Ferner gab es eine Diskussionsrunde zum Thema Wissenschaftskommunikation mit eingeladenen Experten, eine Kontaktbörse mit Industrievertretern zum Thema Karrierewege für den wissenschaftlichen und professionellen Nachwuchs in der Akustik sowie die „5-minute Research Story Competition“, die Mathieu Gaborit (KTH Stockholm) mit einem Beitrag zur Modellierung von geschichteten Absorbern am sehr unterhaltsamen Beispiel von Tiramisu gewonnen hat.
Das Rahmenprogramm der Tagung umfasste ein Orgelkonzert im Aachener Dom mit dem Domorganist Michael Hoppe sowie eine gesellige Abendveranstaltung im Kunstmuseum „Ludwig Forum“, bei der auch eine internationale Jam Session musikalische Akzente setzte. Ebenso wurden verschiedene Exkursionen für die Teilnehmenden gut angenommen (zur Institut für Technische Akustik der RWTH Aachen, zur HEAD acoustics GmbH und zum Institut für Kraftfahrzeuge der RWTH).
G. Behler / ITA 
G. Behler / ITA 
G. Behler / ITA
Begleitet wurde die Tagung durch eine internationale Ausstellung mit Vertretern aus Industrie und Forschung mit insgesamt 58 Ständen. Die Vertreter an den Ständen berichteten von einem unerwartet großen Interesse des internationalen Publikums.
Vor dem ICA-Kongress fand im belgischen Leuven die „EAA Summer School“ für junge Akustikerinnen und Akustiker mit 114 Teilnehmenden statt, die von Monika Rychtarikova und Armin Kohlrausch organisiert wurde. Vom 6. bis 8. September wurden neben dem Kurs „Introductory Course – Approaching Acoustics” vier “Hot Topics”-Kurse zu “Computational modeling in physiological and psychological acoustics”, “Smart city sound”, “Acoustic metamaterials and sonic crystals” und “Acoustic imaging (laser, beamforming, time reversal, photoacoustics)” angeboten.
Auch die weiteren Satellite-Symposien (EAA Spatial Audio Signal Processing Symposium in Paris, International Symposium on Room Acoustics in Amsterdam, International Symposium on Musical Acoustics in Detmold) wurden von den Teilnehmenden gut angenommen, so dass der Monat September 2019 insgesamt sehr reichhaltig an internationalen Veranstaltungen rund um die Akustik war.
DAGA 2020 – Travel grants
Die Gesellschaft für Technische Akustik (GfTA e.V.) möchte Studierende des ITAs unterstützen an der kommenden Jahrestagung für Akustik (DAGA 2020) teilzunehmen. Diese findet vom 16. bis zum 19. März 2020 in Hannover statt und bietet eine sehr gute Möglichkeit, erste Erfahrungen bei wissenschaftlichen Konferenzen zu sammeln.
Die GfTA fördert in diesem Jahr zwei Studierende durch einen Reisezuschuss (Travel grant) in Höhe von jeweils 200€. Kandidaten müssen keinen wissenschaftlichen Beitrag bei der Konferenz einreichen, sollten aber zuvor noch keine DAGA-Konferenz besucht haben und entweder aktuell oder kürzlich an einer Lehrveranstaltung am ITA teilgenommen haben.
Um Dich für den Travel grant zu bewerben, schreibe eine Email an Gottfried Behler und erkläre in ein oder zwei Sätzen, warum Du motiviert bist, an einer Akustik-Konferenz teilzunehmen. Die Deadline für Bewerbungen ist der 1.12.2019, die Bekanntgabe der beiden Gewinner erfolgt bei der diesjährigen Weihnachtsfeier.
Zwei Poster Preise auf der „23rd International Student Conference on Electrical Engineering“ Konferenz „POSTER 2019“ in Prag
Auf der diesjährigen „23rd International Student Conference on Electrical Engineering“ „POSTER 2019“ am 23. Mai 2019 an der Faculty of Electrical Engineering, CTU Prague haben drei Doktorand*innen des Instituts für Technische Akustik teilgenommen.
In der Kategorie „Biomedical Engineering“ haben Saskia Wepner und Shaima’a Doma vom Lehr- und Forschungsgebiet für Medizinische Akustik mit ihren Beiträgen:
- Shaima’a Doma: Towards Subjective Evaluation of Individualized Head-Related Transfer Functions
- Saskia Wepner: Subject Movement During the Measurement of Head-Related Transfer Functions
teilgenommen.
In der Kategorie „Communications“ hat Christian Dreier vom Lehrstuhl für Technische Akustik mit seinem Beitrag „Measurement of Rotational Degrees of Freedom in Vibroacoustic Transfer Functions“ teilgenommen.
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Petr Neugebauer (SVTI) – ČVUT FEL -
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Petr Neugebauer (SVTI) – ČVUT FEL -
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Petr Neugebauer (SVTI) – ČVUT FEL
Saskia Wepner und Christian Dreier wurden für ihre Beiträge mit dem 3. (Biomedical Engineering, Saskia Wepner) und 1. Platz (Communications, Christian Dreier) ausgezeichnet.
Herzlichen Glückwunsch!
