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Dreamwaves: intuitive navigation using your ears (and your phone)

21.03.2025

Discover more about SONICOM's partner Dreamwaves and their 3D audio navigation journey.

SONICOM’s 2024 Research Successes

14.03.2025

Discover SONICOM's research successes of 2024.

BezierPPM: a new parametric model of the human pinna

10.03.2025

New SONICOM research introduces BezierPPM – a new parametric model of the pinna based on cubic Bézier curves and concave deformations.

Introducing FrAMBI: A new framework for auditory modelling

20.02.2025

Learn about FrAMBI, a MATLAB/Octave framework that applies Bayesian inference to model auditory perception and behaviour.

Assessing machine learning techniques for HRTF individualisation

06.02.2025

New SONICOM research surveys machine learning-based approaches for HRTF personalisation in the literature.

SONICOM at Imperial Lates: Senses

16.12.2024

The SONICOM team exhibited at the event in what was the project's last engagement activity of 2024

New SONICOM toolbox to analyse spatial audio 

09.12.2024

Spatial Audio Metrics (SAM) is an open-source software platform to help researchers and audio enthusiasts compare and visualise HRTFs

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.

The Winners of the SONICOM LAP Challenge

30.08.2024

Discover the winners of the SONICOM Listener Acoustic Personalisation Challenge.

Collaboration to maximise impact

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

Launch of SONICOM’s Listener Acoustic Personalisation Challenge

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.

Simplifying HRTF measurements using machine learning

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.

SONICOM at Imperial Lates: AI

21.03.2024

SONICOM showcased the project to members of the public at the Imperial Lates: AI

SONICOM Year in Review 2023

20.12.2023

2023 has been the busiest year yet for SONICOM. Found out what we've been up to.

SONICOM celebrates UK association to Horizon Europe

19.12.2023

Workshop for early career researchers hosted at Imperial College London

24.11.2023

The SECTG cluster joined together at Imperial College London for a transformative event designed for aspiring researchers.

Inspiring discussions at the SONICOM Research Sandpit

22.11.2023

Members of the SONICOM consortium gathered with external researchers and stakeholders to exchange knowledge and ideas.

SONICOM at Forum Acusticum 2023

24.10.2023

Last month, members of the SONICOM team presented at the 10th Convention of the European Acoustics Association – Forum Acusticum 2023.

SONICOM at the Royal Society’s Summer Science Exhibition

02.08.2023

SONICOM took part in the Royal Society's Summer Science Exhibition, engaging hundreds of people with immersive audio across the week.

SONICOM to be featured at the Royal Society’s Summer Science Exhibition 

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.

International Day of Women and Girls in Science

10.02.2023

In profile: Areti Andreopoulou

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.

In profile: Katharina Pollack

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.

In profile: Eva Fringi

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.

In profile: Katarina Poole

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.

New SONICOM-sponsored book tackles 3D audio for virtual reality

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.

UK Hearing, Audiology & Sciences Meeting 2022

16.09.2022

Members of the SONICOM team attended and presented at the UK Hearing, Audiology & Sciences Meeting 2022.

SONICOM’s June Newsletter

08.06.2022

Catchup on the latest news and updates from the SONICOM consortium in our June 2022 newsletter.

The group bringing together scientists to understand human hearing

07.06.2022

Learn about the Aural Assessment By means of Binaural Algorithms (AABBA) group.

3D scanning my head to further virtual reality research

15.03.2022

SONICOM's new Science Communication Officer, Harry Jenkins, recounts his experience having his head 3D scanned as part of the project.

Ethics and artificial intelligence

13.12.2021

SONICOM researchers dive-in to understand more about the values and safety of using AI in the project.

Free binaural tools not just for the binaural researcher, for everyone

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

A special session at I3DA conference 2021

07.10.2021

We’ve launched a newsletter!

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.

SONICOM officially kicks off with the inaugural annual meeting

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.

A new immersive audio technology for virtual and augmented reality

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.

Personalised immersive audio could help virtual socialising feel more real

04.02.2021

Imperial College London researchers have won a €5.7million EU Horizon 2020 grant to develop AI-informed immersive audio techniques.