Royal Society event on science policy
We had a great time back at the Royal Society last night, where we engaged members of the science-policy world with our immersive audio research, including Greg Clark, Chair of the House of Commons Science Innovation & Technology Select Committee.
Farewell drinks for Gunhee
I wish you all the best for the future Gunhee, who was my IROP (International Research Opportunities Programme) placement student for the last two months. Thank you for all your excellent work!
The Royal Society’s Summer Science Exhibition
The last week, I and the team have been demonstrating our research to the public at the Royal Society’s Annual Summer Science Exhibition. It has been fantastic to raise awareness of our work and research into immersive audio!!!
Our new paper on the use of GANs to upsample HRTFs is now available!
Our new paper on the use of generative adversarial networks (GANs) to upsample low-res HRTFs to high-res is now available on Arxiv! Read here: https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.05812 A. Hogg, M. Jenkins, H. Liu, I. Squires, S. Cooper and L. Picinali: HRTF upsampling with a generative adversarial network using a gnomonic equiangular projection. In: Proc. IEEE/ACM Transactions on […]
The SONICOM HRTF dataset is now available!!!
Our HRTF measurement dataset, featuring acoustic measurements and 3D head scans of 200 subjects, is available online! https://axdesign.co.uk/tools-and-devices/sonicom-hrtf-dataset. Accompanying paper has been published on Journal of I. Engel, R. Daugintis, T. Vicente, AI. T.. Hogg, J. Pauwels, AR. J.. Tournier and L. Picinali: The SONICOM HRTF Dataset. In: J. Audio Eng. Soc., vol. 71, no. […]
AXD – Football Legends
The AXD team marked another great year together with the annual Prince’s Gardens football game ⚽️
Imperial Graduation
It was great to finally be able to graduate from Imperial with these awesome individuals!
First in-person SIG-SAIA meet-up
It was great to be able to host the first in-person SIG-SAIA meet-up at Imperial last Friday. A big thank you to those who came! You can catch up on the presentations here: https://youtu.be/Uuk06b8cjgk
Dies Elegantiarum 2023
Wonderful departmental photo at Dies Elegantiarum 2023. Dies Elegantiarum is a long-term tradition in Design Engineering (we had the first one in 2016, and we didn’t miss a year since); it consists in coming to work that day dressed up using your best and smartest attire. Thanks once again to Lorenzo for bring this tradition […]
Early Career SIG Event
Meeting so many great Acoustics researchers at the UK Early career event in Manchester this week was fantastic. Feeling inspired.