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...

Presentation at APSIPA-ASC 2022

Our member Nicholas Eng presented his paper co-authored with Yusuke Hioka and Dr Catherine Watson (Department of Electrical, Computer and Software Engineering, University of Auckland) titled “Using Perceptual Quality Features in the Design of the Loss Function...

Presentation at ICA 2022

We had the following presentation online at the International Congress on Acoustics 2022 held from 24 to 28 October. Yunqi.C. Zhang, C.T.J Hui, Yusuke Hioka, and Catherine I. Watson. Performance of speech enhancement algorithms for native Mandarin listeners on English...

Presentation at IROS 2022

Our past member (and current collaborator) Dr Benjamin Yen presented a paper titled ” Design of a Low-Cost Passive Acoustic Monitoring System for Animal Localisation from Calls” at the 2022 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and...

Seminar at Sophia University

On 11 October 2022, Yusuke Hioka was invited by Prof Takayuki Arai at Sophia University to give a seminar titled “Effect of room acoustics on speech intelligibility under noise between native and non-native listeners”. The Communication Acoustics Lab has...

Presentation at Internoise 2022

We gave the following presentations online at Internoise 2022 held from 21 to 24 August. C. Lo, C.T.J. Hui, Y. Hioka. Speech privacy through dynamic fundamental frequency matching (Presentation video)