SONICOM HRTF Dataset part of Huawei challenge
21.11.2024
The SONICOM HRTF Dataset is being used as part of an ‘Individual Head-Related Transfer Functions (HRTFs)’ competition organised by Huawei.
Keep up to date with the latest project news, research and public outreach activities.
21.11.2024
The SONICOM HRTF Dataset is being used as part of an ‘Individual Head-Related Transfer Functions (HRTFs)’ competition organised by Huawei.
30.08.2024
Discover the winners of the SONICOM Listener Acoustic Personalisation Challenge.
26.07.2024
Members of the SECTG cluster met virtually for a workshop to present their work and technologies to each other in order to foster collaboration
27.03.2024
Discover the Listener Acoustic Personalisation (LAP) Challenge, inviting all in the auditory research community to tackle key challenges facing immersive audio technology.
26.03.2024
New SONICOM research has shown that machine learning approaches can be effective at spatially upsampling head-related transfer functions (HRTFs), outperforming other methods when very few measurements are taken.
21.03.2024
SONICOM showcased the project to members of the public at the Imperial Lates: AI
20.12.2023
2023 has been the busiest year yet for SONICOM. Found out what we've been up to.
19.12.2023
24.11.2023
The SECTG cluster joined together at Imperial College London for a transformative event designed for aspiring researchers.
22.11.2023
Members of the SONICOM consortium gathered with external researchers and stakeholders to exchange knowledge and ideas.
24.10.2023
Last month, members of the SONICOM team presented at the 10th Convention of the European Acoustics Association – Forum Acusticum 2023.
02.08.2023
SONICOM took part in the Royal Society's Summer Science Exhibition, engaging hundreds of people with immersive audio across the week.
23.05.2023
SONICOM research has been selected to exhibit at the Royal Society’s Summer Science Exhibition – one of the largest science engagement festivals in the UK.
10.02.2023
10.02.2023
Meet Areti Andreopoulou. Areti is Assistant Professor in the Music Technology Laboratory of Music Acoustics and Technology (LabMAT) at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (NKUA) in Greece.
10.02.2023
Meet Katharina (Kathi) Pollack, PhD student. Kathi works at the Acoustics Research Institute within the Austrian Academy of Sciences in Vienna, Austria. She is interested in spatial audio, games, and knitting.
10.02.2023
Meet Evangelina (Eva) Fringi. She is a Research Associate at the University of Glasgow and has a BSc in mathematics and a MA in Philosophy of Mind and Cognitive Science.
10.02.2023
Meet Katarina (Kat) Poole. She is a Research Associate at the Audio Experience Design team in Imperial College London, UK. She is passionate about everything audio and how the brain makes sense of it all.
24.10.2022
The book brings together experts in spatial audio for virtual reality to tackle the design of 3D spatial interactions in an audio-centred and audio-first perspective.
16.09.2022
Members of the SONICOM team attended and presented at the UK Hearing, Audiology & Sciences Meeting 2022.
08.06.2022
Catchup on the latest news and updates from the SONICOM consortium in our June 2022 newsletter.
07.06.2022
Learn about the Aural Assessment By means of Binaural Algorithms (AABBA) group.
15.03.2022
SONICOM's new Science Communication Officer, Harry Jenkins, recounts his experience having his head 3D scanned as part of the project.
13.12.2021
SONICOM researchers dive-in to understand more about the values and safety of using AI in the project.
25.11.2021
SONICOM'S coordinator Dr Lorenzo Picinali (Imperial College London) in collaboration with the University of Malaga have developed a set of binaural software tools. The fruit of their labour was the 3D Tune-In Toolkit, and they have made it freely available for all non-programmer binaural enthusiasts
07.10.2021
07.09.2021
Welcome to the first issue of the SONICOM newsletter, a biannual bulletin that will share updates from our project over the next 5 years.
22.07.2021
With representatives from all partners present, the meeting provided a fruitful basis for discussions on delivering the project’s pioneering objectives over the next 5-years.
11.02.2021
The immersive audio technology is developed by SONICOM, a new EIC Pathfinder project, which will revolutionize the way we interact socially within AR/VR environments and applications.
04.02.2021
Imperial College London researchers have won a €5.7million EU Horizon 2020 grant to develop AI-informed immersive audio techniques.
Our scientific publications are freely available