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Nelson - S3A: Future Spatial Audio for an Immersive Listener Experience at Home

Staff

Lead researchers

Professor Filippo Fazi

Professor

Research interests

  • 3D audio capture and reproduction, including binaural audio, cross-talk cancellation, Ambisonics, studies of the Head Related Transfer Function (HRTF)
  • Loudspeaker and microphone arrays
  • Sound field control
Connect with Filippo

Email: Filippo.Fazi@soton.ac.uk

Other researchers

Professor Philip Nelson CBE FREng

Professor of Acoustics
Connect with Philip

Email: P.A.Nelson@soton.ac.uk

Emeritus Professor Stephen Elliott

Research interests

  • Professor Elliott's research interests have been mainly concerned with the connections between the physical world and digital signal processing.
  • The research was originally related to the active control of sound and vibration. This work has resulted in the demonstration of active control in cars, helicopters and propeller aircraft and the authorship of the books "Active Control of Sound" with P.A. Nelson, "Active Control of Vibration" with C.R. Fuller and P.A. Nelson and, most recently, "Signal Processing for Active Control".The active control research has traditionally involved the reduction of unwanted noise, most recently on luxury yachts, but has recently developed to the reproduction of sound signals, such as music, in specific regions of space, so that, for example, the driver of a car can listen to Radio 4, while a child in the back of the car can listen to a Disney DVD.He is also involved in working on the growing body of work on modelling the mechanics of the cochlea and the functioning of cochlear implants, as below. This is important not only for communication and speech processing systems, but also in order to help understand the causes of hearing impairment and how they might be overcome.
Connect with Stephen

Email: S.J.Elliott@soton.ac.uk

Collaborating research institutes, centres and groups

Research outputs

Spatial reproduction of near sources at low frequency using adaptive panning
Dylan Menzies & Filippo Maria Fazi, 2015
Type: conference
Listener tracking stereo for object based audio reproduction
Marcos Felipe Simon Galvez, Filippo Maria Fazi, Dylan Menzies, Teofilo de Campos & Adrian Hilton, 2015
Type: conference
A theoretical analysis of sound localisation, with application to amplitude panning
Dylan Menzies & Filippo M. Fazi, 2015
Type: conference