Seminar by Yusuke Hioka

by | Nov 21, 2020 | Uncategorised

On Friday 20 November 2020, Yusuke Hioka presented a talk titled “Speech intelligibility in noise with varying spatial acoustics under Ambisonics-based sound reproduction system” in the postgraduate student seminar organised by IEEE...

Journal paper published

by | Nov 5, 2020 | publications

We have a journal paper published from Applied Acoustics authored by the current and past members of the CAL (Eugena Au, Shirley Xiao, Justine Hui and Yusuke Hioka) with our collaborators. The paper studies speech intelligibility under Ambisonics-based sound...

Spring graduation

by | Nov 4, 2020 | graduation

After several disruptions by the Covid lockdowns this year, on 4 November 2020 the university held the spring graduation where the following past CAL members graduated. Congratulations to all for their achievement. Master of Engineering Chenhui Jiang Bachelor of...

Participants needed for speech survey!

by | Oct 29, 2020 | experiment, recruitment, research

We are looking for participants to help us with our speech survey for our research topic: Effect of noise and room acoustics on speech intelligibility Location: Anechoic chamber, Acoustics Research Centre, University of Auckland Duration: 45-55 minutes (with 5 minutes...

Seminar by Benjamin Yen

by | Oct 27, 2020 | presentation

On Tuesday 27 October 2020, Benjamin Yen presented a talk titled “Source enhancement for unmanned aerial vehicle recording using multi-sensory information” in the postgraduate student seminar organised by IEEE NZ Signal Processing/Information Theory Joint...

Journal paper published

by | Sep 27, 2020 | publications

We have a journal paper published from EURASIP Journal on Audio, Speech, and Music Processing. The paper describes the details of the algorithm developed by a group of students led by Benjamin Yen. The team participated IEEE Signal Processing Cup 2019 and their...

Received NSC SfTI grant

by | Jun 21, 2020 | grants

The head of CAL, Yusuke Hioka, was granted NZ$199,996 as the National Science Challenge Science for Technological Innovation (SfTI) Seed Project to conduct a project titled “Practical solutions for outdoor localisation using acoustics in conservation”...

New visiting research fellow

by | Mar 16, 2020 | Members, Visitors

We welcomed a visiting research fellow Dr Eri Osawa from Speech Communication Laboratory, Sophia University, Japan. Eri is working with Yusuke Hioka and Justine Hui on the project to investigate the effect of room acoustics on the perception of Japanese vowels. Eri...

New members joined the CAL

by | Mar 1, 2020 | New members

To start the new academic year, the CAL welcomed following new students in the team. Masters students: Seo In Park: “Sound source localisation for drones” Part4 project students: Daniel Yau, Peter Lin: Project title “Audio recording and sound source...