Publications
- ACOUSTIC AR/VR
- HRTF PERSONALISATION – NUMERICAL
- HRTF PERSONALISATION – PERCEPTUAL
- HRTF UPSAMPLING – INTERPOLATION
- OTHER TOPICS RELATED TO SPATIAL ACOUSTICS AND IMMERSIVE AUDIO
- PERCEPTUAL MODELS DESIGN AND USE
- ROOM ACOUSTICS AND PERCEPTION
- SOUND SOURCE DIRECTIVITY
- SPATIAL HEARING AND COGNITION
- SPATIAL HEARING EXPERIMENTS – LOCALISATION
- SPATIAL HEARING EXPERIMENTS – OTHER
- SPATIAL HEARING EXPERIMENTS – SPEECH
- SPATIAL HEARING EXPERIMENTS – TOOLS, FORMATS AND DATASETS
ACOUSTIC AR/VR
- Bhattacharyya, J., Picinali, L., Vinciarelli, A., Brewster, S (2024) Investigating the Influence of Environmental Acoustics and Playback Device for Audio Augmented Reality Applications, AES 2024 International Audio for Games Conference.
- Davide Fantini, Giorgio Presti, Michele Geronazzo, Riccardo Bona, Alessandro Giuseppe Privitera, Federico Avanzini (2023) Co-immersion in Audio Augmented Virtuality: the Case Study of a Static and Approximated Late Reverberation Algorithm, IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, vol. 29, no. 11, pp. 4472-4482.
- María Cuevas-Rodríguez, Daniel González-Toledo, Pablo Gutierrez-Parera, Arcadio Reyes-Lecuona (2023) An experiment replication on dynamic 3D sound localisation using auditory virtual reality, In Proceedings of the Forum Acusticum 2023, Torino, Italy, pp. 1787-1794.
HRTF PERSONALISATION – NUMERICAL
- Felix Perfler, Florian Pausch, Katharina Pollack, Nicki Holighaus, Piotr Majdak (2025) Parametric model of the human pinna based on Bézier curves and concave deformations, Computers in Biology and Medicine, vol 188
- Davide Fantini, Michele Geronazzo, Federico Avanzini, Stavros Ntalampiras (2025) A Survey on Machine Learning Techniques for Head-Related Transfer Function Individualization, IEEE Open Journal of Signal Processing, vol.6, pp30-56.
- Julie Meyer, Sebastian Prepeliţă, Lorenzo Picinali (2025) On the accuracy of finite-difference time-domain simulations of head-related transfer functions as a function of model complexity, Applied Acoustics, vol. 228.
- Davide Fantini, Stavros Ntalampiras, Giorgio Presti, Federico Avanzini (2024) Toward a Novel Set of Pinna Anthropometric Features for Individualizing Head-Related Transfer Functions, Sound and Music Computing Conference.
- Florian Pausch, Felix Perfler, Nicki Holighaus, Piotr Majdak (2023) Comparison of deep-neural-network architectures for the prediction of head-related transfer functions using a parametric pinna model, In Proceedings of the Forum Acusticum 2023, Torino, Italy, pp. 2329-2334.
- Felix Perfler, Piotr Majdak, Florian Pausch, Katharina Pollack (2023) Concepts for the evaluation of a parametric pinna model, In Proceedings of the Forum Acusticum 2023, Torino, Italy, pp. 2335-2338.
- J. Meyer and L. Picinali (2023) Comparison of Simulated Head-Related Transfer Functions Accuracy for Different Model Complexities Using the Finite-Difference Time-Domain Method, In Proceedings of the Forum Acusticum 2023, Torino, Italy, pp. 131-137.
- Pauwels, J. & Picinali, L. (2023) On The Relevance Of The Differences Between HRTF Measurement Setups For Machine Learning, ICASSP 2023 – 2023 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP).
- Brinkmann, F., Kreuzer, W., Thomsen, J., Dombrovskis, S., Pollack, K., Weinzierl, S., Majdak, P. (2023) Recent Advances in an Open Software for Numerical HRTF Calculation, Journal of the Audio Engineering Society, vol. 71, no. 7/8, pp. 502-514.
- Pollack, K., Pausch, F., Majdak, P. (2022) Parametric pinna model for a realistic representation of listener-specific pinna geometry, Proceedings of the 24th International Congress on Acoustics.
- Pollack, K., Kreuzer, W. & Majdak, P. (2022) Modern Acquisition of Personalised Head-Related Transfer Functions – An Overview. Advances in Fundamental and Applied Research on Spatial Audio.
- Stitt, P., & Katz, B. G. (2021). Sensitivity analysis of pinna morphology on head-related transfer functions simulated via a parametric pinna model. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 4(149), 2559.
- Pollack, K. & Majdak, P. (2021) Evaluation of a parametric pinna model for the calculation of head-related transfer functions. 2021 Immersive and 3D Audio: from Architecture to Automotive (I3DA).
- Fantini, D., Avanzini, F., Ntalampiras, S. & Presti, G. (2021) HRTF Individualization Based on Anthropometric Measurements Extracted from 3D Head Meshes. 2021 Immersive and 3D Audio: from Architecture to Automotive (I3DA)
- Pollack, K., Brinkmann, F., Majdak, P. & Kreuzer, W. (2021) From photos to personalized spatial audio playback. Elektrotechnik und Informationstechnik, 138 (250-255).
- Pausch, F., Perfler, F., Holighaus, N., Majdak, P., Mesh2PPM – Automatic Parametrization of the BezierPPM: Entire Pinna. In 158th Convention of Audio Engineering Society, Warsaw, Poland. Audio Engineering Society (AES), May 23, 2025.
- Pausch, F., Perfler, F., Holighaus, N., Majdak, P., Mesh2PPM – Automatic Parametrization of the BezierPPM: Perceptually Important Pinna Regions. In 11th Convention of the European Acoustics Association: Forum Acusticum 2025, Málaga, Spain. European Acoustics Association (EAA), June 25, 2025.
HRTF PERSONALISATION – PERCEPTUAL
- Daugintis, Rapolas; Alary, Benoît; Geronazzo, Michele; Picinali, Lorenzo (2024) Effects of binaural rendering personalisation and reverberation on speech-on-speech masking, Proceedings of the AES 5th International Conference on Audio for Virtual and Augmented Reality
- Daniel Gonzalez-Toledo, Pablo Gutierrez-Parera, Carmen Soto-Romero, Maria Cuevas-Rodriguez, Arcadio Reyes-Lecuona (2024) A pilot experiment on user individualization for sound localization within interactive virtual environments, EuroXR 2024: Proceedings of the 21st EuroXR International Conference, pg 137
- Picinali L. & Katz, B. (2023) System-to-User and User-to-System Adaptations in Binaural Audio. Sonic Interactions in Virtual Environments, pp.115-143.
HRTF UPSAMPLING – INTERPOLATION
- Siripornpitak, P., Engel, I., Squires, I., Cooper, S.J., & Picinali, L. (2022) Spatial up-sampling of HRTF sets using generative adversarial networks: A pilot study. Frontiers in Signal Processing, 2.
- A. Hogg, H. Liu, M. Jenkins and L. Picinali (2023) Exploring the impact of transfer learning on GAN-based HRTF upsampling, In Proceedings of the Forum Acusticum 2023, Torino, Italy, pp. 2323-2328.
- Aidan O. T. Hogg, Mads Jenkins, He Liu, Isaac Squires, Samuel J. Cooper, Lorenzo Picinali (2024) HRTF Upsampling With a Generative Adversarial Network Using a Gnomonic Equiangular Projection, IEEE/ACM Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing, vol. 32.
OTHER TOPICS RELATED TO SPATIAL ACOUSTICS AND IMMERSIVE AUDIO
- Katz, B. F. G. & Majdak, P. (eds) (2022) Advances in Fundamental and Applied Research on Spatial Audio, IntechOpen.
- Poirier-Quinot, D., Lawless, M. S., Stitt. P., Katz, B. F. G. (2022) HRTF Performance Evaluation: Methodology and Metrics for Localisation Accuracy and Learning Assessment, Advances in Fundamental and Applied Research on Spatial Audio, IntechOpen.
- Pausch, F.., Doma, S., Fels, J. (2022) Hybrid multi-harmonic model for the prediction of interaural time differences in individual behind-the-ear hearing-aid-related transfer functions, Acta Acustica, vol. 6, no. 34.
- L. Picinali, B. F. Katz, M. Geronazzo, P. Majdak, A. Reyes-Lecuona and A. Vinciarelli (2022) The SONICOM Project: Artificial Intelligence-Driven Immersive Audio, From Personalization to Modeling, IEEE Signal Processing Magazine, vol. 39, no. 6, pp. 85-88.
- Geronazzo, M and Serafin, S (eds) (2022) Sonic Interactions in Virtual Environments, Human-Computer Interaction Series.
PERCEPTUAL MODELS DESIGN AND USE
- Roberto Barumerli, Piotr Majdak (2025) FrAMBI: A Software Framework for Auditory Modeling Based on Bayesian Inference, Neuroinformatics, vol 23.
- Roberto Barumerli, Piotr Majdak (2023) Frambi: towards a flexible software framework for auditory modeling based on bayesian inference, In Proceedings of the Forum Acusticum 2023, Torino, Italy, pp. 293-294.
- R. Daugintis, R. Barumerli, M. Geronazzo and L. Picinali (2023) Initial Evaluation of an Auditory-Model-Aided Selection Procedure for Non- Individual HRTFs, In Proceedings of the Forum Acusticum 2023, Torino, Italy, pp. 2701-2708.
- Barumerli, R., Majdak, P., Geronazzo, M., Meijer, D., Avanzini, F. & Baumgartner, R. (2023) A Bayesian model for human directional localization of broadband static sound sources, Acta Acoustica, Vol 7., Article 12.
- Daugintis, R., Barumerli, R., Picinali, L. & Geronazzo M. (2023) Classifying Non-Individual Head-Related Transfer Functions with A Computational Auditory Model: Calibration And Metrics. ICASSP 2023 – 2023 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing.
- Hollomey, C., Majdak, P., Baumgartner, R. (2022) The Auditory Modeling Toolbox 1.x, Proceedings of the 24th International Congress on Acoustics
- Barumerli, R., Majdak, P. (2022) Towards a general probabilistic framework to predict human sound localization, Proceedings of the 24th International Congress on Acoustics
- Peremans, H., McLachlan, G., Majdak, P., Reijniers, J. (2022) Ideal versus non-ideal observer models for sound localization, Proceedings of the 24th International Congress on Acoustics
- Barumerli, R., Majdak, P., Geronazzo, M., Meijer, D., Avanzini, F., Baumgartner, R. (2022) Evaluation of spatial tasks in virtual acoustic environments by means of modeling individual localization performances, Proceedings of the 24th International Congress on Acoustics
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- Osses Vecchi, A., Varnet, L., Carney, L. H., Dau, T., Bruce, I. C., Verhulst, S., & Majdak, P. (2022). A comparative study of eight human auditory models of monaural processing. Acta Acustica, 6.
- McLachlan, G., Majdak, P., Reijniers, J., & Peremans, H. (2021). Towards modelling active sound localisation based on Bayesian inference in a static environment. Acta Acustica, 5.
ROOM ACOUSTICS AND PERCEPTION
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- Abehsera-Morell, Pablo; Poirier-Quinot, David; Katz, Brian F.G (2024) Perception of changes in source orientation-dependent reverberation for a visible virtual vocal source, Proceedings of the 156th AES Convention.
- Bellows, Samuel D.; Katz, Brian F. G. (2024) Calibrating geometric room acoustic models using a gradient descent algorithm, Proceedings of the 156th AES Convention.
- Filippo Denti, Davide Fantini, Giorgio Presti, Federico Avanzini (2024) PAN-AR: A Multimodal Dataset of Higher-Order Ambisonics Room Impulse Responses, Ambient Noise and Spherical Pictures, AM ’24: Proceedings of the 19th International Audio Mostly Conference: Explorations in Sonic Cultures, pp. 332-340.
- Wolfgang Kreuzer, Katharina Pollack, Fabian Brinkmann and Piotr Majdak (2024) NumCalc: An open-source BEM code for solving acoustic scattering problems, Engineering Analysis with Boundary Elements, vol. 161, pp. 157-178.
- V. Martin and L. Picinali (2023) Comparing Online vs. Lab-based Experimental Approaches for the Perceptual Evaluation of Artificial Reverberation, In Proceedings of the Forum Acusticum 2023, Torino, Italy, pp. 3373-3379.
- Bona, R., Fantini, D., Presti, G., Tiraboschi, M., Engel, I. & Avanzini, F. (2022) Automatic Parameters Tuning of Late Reverberation Algorithms for Audio Augmented Reality. AM ’22: Proceedings of the 17th International Audio Mostly Conference.
- Engel, I. & Picinali, L. (2022) Reverberation and its Binaural Reproduction: The Trade-off between Computational Efficiency and Perceived Quality. Advances in Fundamental and Applied Research on Spatial Audio.
SOUND SOURCE DIRECTIVITY
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Marco Fontana, Giorgio Presti, Davide Fantini, Federico Avanzini, Arcadio Reyes-Lecuona (2024) A Highly Parametrized Scattering Delay Network Implementation for Interactive Room Auralization, International Conference on Digital Audio Effects (DAFx24),
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Yannis Malafis, Pinelopi-Maria Pierroutsakou, Konstantinos Bakogiannis, and Areti Andreopoulou (2024) Exploring the Directivity of the Lute, Lavta, and Oud Plucked String Instruments, AES 157th Convention.
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Samuel D Bellows, Brian F G Katz (2024) Combining multiple sparse measurements with reference data regularization to create spherical directivities applied to voice data, Acta Acustica, vol. 8.
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Abehsera-Morell, Pablo; Poirier-Quinot, David; Katz, Brian F.G (2023) Projecting Source Directivity Variations onto an Existing Binaural Room Impulse Response, Proceedings of the AES International Conference on Spatial and Immersive Audio.
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Bakogiannis, Konstantinos; Dedousis, Giorgos; Malafis, Yiannis; Andreopoulou, Areti (2023) On the spherical directivity and formant analysis of the singing voice; a case study of professional singers in Greek Classical and Byzantine music, Proceedings of the 153rd Audio Engineering Society Convention.
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Bakogiannis, Konstantinos; Tavelidou, Eleni; Andreopoulou, Areti (2023) Estimation and assessment of vocal directivity variations as an effect of small body movements, Proceedings of the 153rd Audio Engineering Society Convention.
SPATIAL HEARING AND COGNITION
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Eva Fringi, Nesreen Alshubaily, Lorenzo Picinali, Stephen Anthony Brewster, Tanaya Guha, Alessandro Vinciarelli (2024) Is Distance a Modality? Multi-Label Learning for Speech-Based Joint Prediction of Attributed Traits and Perceived Distances in 3D Audio Immersive Environments, ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction.
SPATIAL HEARING EXPERIMENTS – LOCALISATION
- Glen McLachlan, Piotr Majdak, Jonas Reijniers, Michael Mihocic, Herbert Peremans (2025) Bayesian active sound localisation: To what extent do humans perform like an ideal-observer?, PLOS Computational Biology.
- Lladó, P., Barumerli, R., Baumgartner, R., Majdak, P. (2024) Predicting the effect of headphones on the time to localize a target in an auditory-guided visual search task, Frontiers in Virtual Reality, vol 5.
- McLachlan, G., Majdak, P., Reijniers, J., Mihocic, M., Peremans, H. (2023) Dynamic spectral cues do not affect human sound localization during small head movements, Frontiers in Neuroscience, vol. 17.
- Poirier-Quinot, D. & Lawless, M. (2023) Impact of wearing a head-mounted display on localization accuracy of real sound sources, Acta Acustica, vol. 7, no. 3.
- Poirier-Quinot, D., Lawless, M. S., Stitt. P., Katz, B. F. G. (2022) HRTF Performance Evaluation: Methodology and Metrics for Localisation Accuracy and Learning Assessment, Advances in Fundamental and Applied Research on Spatial Audio, IntechOpen.
- Andreopoulou, A. and Katz, B. F. G. (2022) Perceptual Impact on Localization Quality Evaluations of Common Pre-Processing for Non-Individual Head-Related Transfer Functions, Journal of the Audio Engineering Society, vol. 70, no. 5, pp. 340-354.
SPATIAL HEARING EXPERIMENTS – OTHER
- De Muynke, Julien; Poirier-Quinot, David; Katz, Brian F. G. (2024) Effect of Interpolation Artifacts on Perceived Stability of Nearby Sources in a Navigable Reverberant Virtual Environment, Journal of the AES.
- Julien De Muynke, David Poirier-Quinot, Brian F. G. Katz (2023) Creating navigable auralisations using RIR convolution: Impact of grid density and panning method on perceived source stability, Proceedings of the AES International Conference on Spatial and Immersive Audio.
SPATIAL HEARING EXPERIMENTS – SPEECH
- González-Toledo, Daniel and Cuevas-Rodríguez, María and Vicente, Thibault and Picinali, Lorenzo and Molina-Tanco, Luis and Reyes-Lecuona, Arcadio (2024) Spatial release from masking in the median plane with non-native speakers using individual and mannequin head related transfer functions, The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, vol. 155, no. 1, pp. 284-293.
- T. Vicente and L. Picinali (2023) Towards the use of spatial release from masking and spatial stream segregation tests to select an HRTF, In Proceedings of the Forum Acusticum 2023, Torino, Italy, pp. 2709-2712.
SPATIAL HEARING EXPERIMENTS – TOOLS, FORMATS AND DATASETS
- Daniel González-Toledo, Luis Molina-Tanco, María Cuevas-Rodríguez, Piotr Majdak, Arcadio Reyes-Lecuona (2023) The Binaural Rendering Toolbox. A Virtual Laboratory for Reproducible Research in Psychoacoustics, In Proceedings of the Forum Acusticum 2023, Torino, Italy, pp. 331-337.
- L. Picinali, G. Grimm, Y. Hioka, G. Kearney, D. Johnston, C. Jin, L.S.R. Simon, H. Wuthrich, M. Mihocic, P. Majdak and D. Vickers (2023) VR/AR and hearing research: current examples and future challenges, In Proceedings of the Forum Acusticum 2023, Torino, Italy, pp. 1393-1400.
- Engel, I., Daugintis, R., Vicente, T., Hogg, A., Pauwels, J., Tournier, A. J., & Picinali, L. (2023) The SONICOM HRTF Dataset, Journal of the Audio Engineering Society, Vol 21, No.5.
- Majdak, P., Zotter, F., Brinkmann, F., De Muynke, J., Mihocic, M., Noisternig, M. (2022) Spatially Oriented Format for Acoustics 2.1: Introduction and Recent Advances, Journal of the Audio Engineering Society, vol. 70, no. 7/8, pp. 565-584.