This second conference will gather researchers, engineers and users to explore and discuss arrays, algorithms, abstractions and applications for sound field control. Sound field control technology enables the active management of audio delivered within an acoustical environment. There are many challenges in making the signal capture, processing and reproduction suitable to tailor the sound field for specific applications, occupancy or listeners’ requirements.
Potential uses of the technology include the creation of independent sound zones, active control of noise, personal communication systems, electroacoustic manipulation of room acoustics, and replication of complex spatial sound fields using multichannel audio systems. Application areas include automotive audio, telecommunications, consumer entertainment systems, portable devices, aircraft interiors, virtual reality, live music and professional audio, concert halls, cinemas, museums and other public venues.
The three-day conference program incorporates keynote and tutorial lectures, research talks, themed workshop panel discussions, poster presentations and demonstrations. It will focus on the dissemination of technical solutions and recommended practices, which may stimulate new ideas for potential commercial applications of sound field control.
Technology and applications areas covered will include microphone arrays, array design, beamforming, spatial sound field recording techniques, sound field sampling for control purposes, loudspeaker arrays, multichannel audio, transducers, signal processing for sound field control, crosstalk cancellation, pressure matching, mode matching, acoustic contrast control, planarity control, active noise control, adaptive sound field control, sound field synthesis and reproduction, ambisonics, wavefield synthesis, audio coding, reverberation, de-reverberation and room compensation, sound source separation, psychoacoustics, speech intelligibility, etc.Keynote speakers for this conference include Philip Nelson, Professor of Acoustics in the Institute of Sound and Vibration Research at the University of Southampton, covering “Sound field control: A brief history”; Gary Elko, a leading research engineer in the field of acoustic signal processing related to telecommunications and the co-inventor of the Eigenmike spherical microphone array for immersive audio applications, discussing “Differential Microphone Arrays”; and Steven van de Par, professor at the University of Oldenburg, Germany, covering “The Psychoacoustics of Reverberation”.
July 18-20
Guildford, UK
www.aes.org/conferences/2016/sfc/
