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PID-like active impedance control for electroacoustic resonators to design tunable single-degree-of-freedom sound absorbers

Hervé Lissek, Maxime Volery, Xinxin Guo

Sound absorption at low frequencies still remains a challenge in both scientific research and engineering practice. Natural porous materials are ineffective in this frequency range, as well as acoustic resonators which present too narrow bandwidth of absor ...

2022

Sound Field Reconstruction in a room through Sparse Recovery and its application in Room Modal Equalization

Vu Thach Pham

The acoustics of a room often refer to the quality of the room in terms of sound recording as well as sound reproduction. At low frequencies, where the wavelengths are of the same order of magnitude with the dimensions of the room, due to the standing wave ...

EPFL2021

The effect of low-frequency equalisation on preference and sensorimotor synchronisation in music

Steffen Alexander Herff

Equalisation, a signal processing technique commonly used to shape the sound of music, is defined as the adjustment of the energy in specific frequency components of a signal. In this work, we investigate the effects of equalisation on preference and senso ...

SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD2021

Numerical investigation of optimal divertor gas baffle closure on TCV

Stefano Coda, Benoît Labit, Holger Reimerdes, Christian Gabriel Theiler, Mirko Wensing, Davide Galassi

A first set of divertor gas baffles has recently been installed in the TCV tokamak. In order to explore the physics determining the benefits and limitations of divertor baffling and to guide the design of a possible second generation of baffles, the effect ...

2020

Enhancing Punching Strength and Deformation Capacity of Flat Slabs

Aurelio Muttoni, Miguel Fernández Ruiz, Raffaele Cantone

Punching reinforcement systems have significantly developed in recent years as they allow enhancing the punching resistance of slab-column connections as well as their deformation capacity. These systems, with varying geometry and layout, normally consist ...

2019

Practical Deep Stereo (PDS): Toward applications-friendly deep stereo matching

François Fleuret, Anton Ivanov, Stepan Tulyakov

End-to-end deep-learning networks recently demonstrated extremely good performance for stereo matching. However, existing networks are difficult to use for practical applications since (1) they are memory-hungry and unable to process even modest-size image ...

NEURAL INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEMS (NIPS)2018

Pyramic: Full Stack Open Microphone Array Architecture And Dataset

Robin Scheibler, René Beuchat

In this paper we introduce an open source and reproducible microphone array hardware design and an anechoic dataset recorded with this array. The Pyramic array has 48 microphones spread onto six identical modules connected to an FPGA-ARM combo. The arrange ...

IEEE2018

Method and apparatus for presenting to a user of a wearable apparatus additional information related to an audio scene

Martin Vetterli, Ivan Dokmanic, Juri Ranieri

A method for presenting to a user of a wearable audio device a modified audio scene together with additional information related to the audio scene, comprising: capturing audio signals with a plurality of microphones; outputting an audio signal with a plur ...

2017

On the Optimisation of Multi-Degree-of-Freedom Acoustic Impedances of Low-Frequency Electroacoustic Absorbers for Room Modal Equalisation

Hervé Lissek, Sami Driss Karkar, Etienne Thierry Jean-Luc Rivet

Low-frequency electroacoustic absorbers have recently been developed as a solution for the modal equalisation. Firstly investigated in waveguides, the technique consists in matching the acoustic impedance at a closed-box loudspeaker diaphragm to the charac ...

2017

Experimental assessment of low-frequency electroacoustic absorbers for room modal equalization in actual listening rooms

Hervé Lissek, Sami Driss Karkar, Etienne Thierry Jean-Luc Rivet, Véronique Adam

In listening rooms, low-frequency modal resonances lead to uneven distributions in space and frequency of the acoustic energy, as well as an alteration of the temporal behavior of the original music content. While usual absorption techniques have severe li ...

AES2016

Through the Hourglass: A Faithful Audiovisual Reconstruction of the Old Montreux Casino

Martin Vetterli

In architecture, space is traditionally understood as a cumulus of forms, colors and textures that form a conceived area, or-in other words-architectural space design is mainly achieved by following visual concepts. The human experience of space, however, ...

Springer2015

Audio-based Positioning and Target Localization for Swarms of Micro Aerial Vehicles

Meysam Basiri

Swarms of autonomous MAVs show great potential in many diverse applications. In a search and rescue mission, a group of MAVs could quickly reach disaster areas by flying over obstacles, cluttered and inaccessible terrains, and work in parallel to detect an ...

EPFL2015

Isolator-free unidirectionalthulium-doped fiber laser

Camille Sophie Brès, Svyatoslav Kharitonov

We report the first demonstration of a unidirectional, isolator-free 2-mmthulium-doped fiber (TDF) laser, relying on the properties of the theta cavity (ring resonator with S-shaped feedback). The core pumped theta cavity TDF laser provides sub-Watt output ...

2015

Distributed Measurement of Signal Power Evolution in a Phase Sensitive Parametric Amplifier

Luc Thévenaz, Camille Sophie Brès, Marcelo Alfonso Soto Hernandez, Fatemeh Alishahi, Armand Vedadi-Comte, Andrey Denisov

A method to measure the signal power evolution along phase-sensitive parametric amplifiers is proposed using Brillouin optical time-domain analysis. Different evolutions along the fiber are reported by varying input wave phases, including amplification and ...

OSA2014

Effect of Dispersion Fluctuations on Longitudinal Gain Evolution in Phase-Sensitive Parametric Amplifiers

Luc Thévenaz, Camille Sophie Brès, Marcelo Alfonso Soto Hernandez, Fatemeh Alishahi, Mohammad Amin Shoaie, Armand Vedadi-Comte, Andrey Denisov

A Brillouin probing method is proposed to extract the distribution of signal power along phase-sensitive parametric amplifiers. Operation near the zero-dispersion-wavelength shows enhanced sensitivity to dispersion fluctuations, allowing effective extracti ...

2014

Single-Channel Indoor Microphone Localization

Martin Vetterli, Ivan Dokmanic, Reza Parhizkar

We propose a novel method for single-channel microphone localization inside a known room. Unlike other approaches, we take advantage of the room reverberation, which enables us to use only a single fixed loudspeaker to localize the microphone. Our method u ...

IEEE2014

Toward broadband electroacoustic resonators through optimized feedback control strategies

Hervé Lissek, Romain Boulandet

This paper presents a methodology for the design of broadband electroacoustic resonators for low-frequency room equalization. An electroacoustic resonator denotes a loudspeaker used as a membrane resonator, the acoustic impedance of which can be modified t ...

Elsevier2014

Audio-based Localization for Swarms of Micro Air Vehicles

Dario Floreano, Felix Stephan Schill, Meysam Basiri

Localization is one of the key challenges that needs to be considered beforehand to design truly autonomous MAV teams. In this paper, we present a cooperative method to address the localization problem for a team of MAVs, where individuals obtain their pos ...

2014

Power evolution along phase-sensitive parametric amplifiers: an experimental survey

Luc Thévenaz, Camille Sophie Brès, Marcelo Alfonso Soto Hernandez, Fatemeh Alishahi, Armand Vedadi-Comte, Andrey Denisov, Thi Minh Phuong Hoang

We propose and experimentally demonstrate a method based on Brillouin optical time-domain analysis to measure the longitudinal signal power distribution along phase-sensitive fiber-optical parametric amplifiers (PS-FOPAs). Experimental results show that th ...

Optical Soc Amer2014

Perception and Reproduction of Auditory Spatial Impression

Andreas Walther

As audio reproduction systems evolve to incorporate many loudspeakers, the potential to evoke faithful auditory spatial impressions increases. Psychoacoustic principles of auditory spatial perception, and methods for production and reproduction of acoustic ...

EPFL2013