From the beginning of their auditory development, children are immediately confronted with the challenge of orienting themselves in complex acoustic situations. Whether a parent’s voice or a passing vehicle, it […]
The IHTA park is used as a case study for a lot of the institute´s research on auralisation and visualisation of urban scenes. An audio-visual model of the park already […]
Die Hörbarmachung urbaner Lärmszenarien mittels Außenlärm-Auralisationen ist neben geeigneten Modellen zur Simulation von Schallausbreitung- und empfängern angewiesen auf Modelle von bewegten Quellen wie beispielsweise PKW. In dieser Arbeit wird die […]
When understanding and recalling spoken language, various complex processes take place in the brain. Certain circumstances can either impede or facilitate speech comprehension, e.g. visual stimuli such as lip movements […]
Auditory selective attention (ASA) is a common phenomenon which describes the ability to intentionally focus on a specific source of sound while ignoring other irrelevant sounds. Since in real life […]
In tropical countries, air conditioning systems are widely used to improve indoor climate. In many cases, natural ventilation can also provide thermal comfort for users with less energy consumption and […]
Implementing a Virtual Studio Technology (VST) host plugin with the auralization application Virtual Acoustics (VA) would allow VA to load and control the parameters of VST plugins as an input […]
The simulation of audio-visual performance is despite technological advancements still a challenging task which usually requires researchers to simplify problems in order to reduce computational complexity, sacrificing both auditory and […]
Angetrieben durch die Reduzierung von Lärmbelastung und Simulation von Schallausbreitung kann akustische virtuelle Realität (AVR) zur Durchführung von Untersuchungen eingesetzt werden. Zunächst wird bildbasierte photogrammetrische Software verwendet, mit der ein […]
For my internship I joined the “Social Systems and Circuits Group” which is part of the MPI for Brain Research, located in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. It focuses on identifying […]
Working with 3D audio formats, especially Ambisonics, is not as straight-forward as traditional channel-based formats like stereo or 5.1. This gets even more complex with irregular loudspeaker arrays like SCaLAr: […]
The term irrelevant sound effect (ISE) refers to a significant reduction in the immediate serial recall of lists of presented items, usually digits or letters, when irrelevant auditory sound is […]
Sensorineural hearing loss is a common problem and causes a decreasing quality of life for the people affected. For several reasons, the realistic simulation of these impairments may be considered […]
We often see a disconnect between how people express themselves through language and how those words are perceived or interpreted. This gap exists, for example, between architects who strive to […]
Virtual Acoustics (VA) is a powerful framework for the auralization of virtual scenes and is developed at the Institute for Hearing Technology and Acoustics. It uses physics-based models for source, […]
I conducted my internship at the company AQ Solutions which produces medical implants. It focuses on prostheses for revision surgery, including standard as well as patient specific implants which are […]
The internship was performed in the Human-Machine-Interaction group within the “Automated Driving” business area and deals with two main projects. The first project deals with the development of a system […]
Ultrasonic metal welding (USMW) is a technique of welding small-area materials by means of high-frequency vibration friction welding. Despite its wide use, it is still hard to monitor the welding […]
Cathedrals are significant pieces of architecture, symbols of the European culture, whose grandiosity is the result not only of their extraordinary visual features, but also of their remarkable acoustic environment. […]
Tateo Nakajima will give a talk that will present a selection of his projects and the evolution of his design practice, in light of the key influences that have shaped […]
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