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Perception

Cohort 1 of the EPSRC Sustainable Sound Futures CDT gathered for a group photo indoors around a large anatomical ear model used for sound and hearing research.

Investigating Neighbour Noise through a Mixed-methods Approach to Understand Human Perception and Response

Project outline A given acoustic environment may consist of numerous individual sound sources with varying acoustic qualities, yet humans can intuitively separate sounds originating from different sources. Prior research has suggested that sources perceived as dominant within a soundscape play a significant role in overall soundscape perception (for example, if the dominant sound sources are […]

Cohort 1 of the EPSRC Sustainable Sound Futures CDT gathered for a group photo indoors around a large anatomical ear model used for sound and hearing research.

Evaluation of Complex Acoustic Environments Using Sound Source Separation Methods

Project outline A given acoustic environment may consist of numerous individual sound sources with varying acoustic qualities, yet humans can intuitively separate sounds originating from different sources. Prior research has suggested that sources perceived as dominant within a soundscape play a significant role in overall soundscape perception (for example, if the dominant sound sources are […]

Cohort 1 of the EPSRC Sustainable Sound Futures CDT gathered for a group photo indoors around a large anatomical ear model used for sound and hearing research.

Bio-inspired Auditory Models

Project outline This project aims to develop AI models inspired by the auditory system for improved auditory scene analysis. While recent advances in machine learning have produced numerous acoustic AI models for various auditory tasks, these models typically adapt architectures from computer vision or natural language processing. This cross-domain borrowing often results in models that […]