Autumn graduation 2023

On 3 May 2023, the university held the autumn graduation where the following current and past CAL members graduated. Congratulations to all for their achievement. Photo credit: Charlene Lo. Master of Engineering Charlene Lo Bachelor of Engineering with Honours Kenneth...

Jin Xuan Teh joined CAL

The CAL welcomed a new PhD student Jin Xuan Teh who is studying how we could acquire clean audio recordings from drones under the supervision of Associate Professor Yusuke Hioka and Dr Michael Kingan. Welcome Jin!  ...

ARC hosted NOVEM2023

The Acoustics Research Centre hosted Noise and Vibration: Emerging Methods (NOVEM2023) held at the University of Auckland from 8 to 10 January 2023. From CAL, we had the following presentation. Y. Hioka, C. T. J. Hui, H. Masuda, C. I. Watson “Effect of room...

Joint workshops with University of Tokyo

The Communication Acoustics Lab jointly held workshops with the System #1 laboratory (PI: Professor Hiroshi Saruwatari) of the University of Tokyo to report recent studies on extreme acoustic sensing and exchange ideas. The workshops were held both in Auckland and...

New journal publication

We recently published a new journal paper from Applied Acoustics authored by the members of the CAL (Justine Hui and Yusuke Hioka) with our collaborators. The paper studied how different types of masking sound (a noise that is designed to hide confidential/private...

Joint seminar at Tokyo Institute of Technology

On 17 November 2022, Yusuke Hioka visited Nakadai Lab (PI: Prof Kazuhiro Nakadai) at Tokyo Institute of Technology with Dr Michael Kingan (Acoustics Research Centre, University of Auckland) and held a joint seminar covering recent studies on UAV (drone) audition...