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)

CAL winter gathering 2022

We had the regular winter gathering of the CAL. Contrary to previous years where we typically went to local cakeries, we had it in the acoustics lab with homemade cakes/muffins/tea because of the omicron resurgence. It was still nice to see everyone in person....

Presentation at Quiet Drone 2022

We had the following presentations at Quiet Drone 2022 held online from 27 to 30 June. Yameizhen Li, Benjamin Yen, and Yusuke Hioka. Improvement of rotor noise reduction for unmanned aerial vehicle audition by rotor noise PSD informed beamformer design. (Presentation...

Autumn graduation 2022

On 5 May 2022, the university held the autumn graduation where the following current and past CAL members graduated. Congratulations to all for their achievement. Doctor of philosophy Dr Benjamin Yen Bachelor of Engineering with Honours Jamima Prins Thomas Lovelock...