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Welcome to the Chair of Multimedia Communications and Signal Processing, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg
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Current Projects

SCENIC

Self-Configuring ENvironment-aware Intelligent aCoustic sensing

Advanced sound processing applications, particularly those based on array processing, are critically sensitive to the environment's acoustic response because their design does not account for the complex propagation phenomena that cause it. Reverberations are usually seen as a liability to take countermeasures against, while nature teaches us that the information provided by the acoustic interaction with the environment can become a valuable asset that enables complex navigational tasks and more. Turning the acoustic response from a liability into an asset requires a thorough understanding of propagation phenomena, and an accurate acoustic modelling of the environment. This can be done by listening to how the environment renders controlled sound emissions, as long as such emission exhibit a temporal as well as a spatial "structure". Further information can be found on the official SCENIC homepage

The final review meeting of the SCENIC project takes place at our Chair on Friday, December 16, 2012.

The morning session gives an overview on the project goals and achievements.
It is open to the public and our scientific colleagues are cordially invited!

Agenda

9.00 - 11.00h General presentations on the SCENIC project
Introduction and vision Prof. Augusto Sarti, Politecnico di Milano
Approaches Prof. Rudolf Rabenstein, University Erlangen-Nuremberg
Calibration and environment inference Prof. Patrick Naylor, Imperial College, London
Source characterization and extraction Prof. Walter Kellermann, University Erlangen-Nuremberg
Rendering with room compensation and modeling Prof. Augusto Sarti, Politecnico di Milano
11.00-12.30h Demonstration session
Various Demonstrations on: Researchers from the partner institutions:
Acoustic source localization Politecnico di Milano
Inference of the acoustic environment Imperial College, London
Environment aware acoustic rendering Fondazione Bruno Kessler
University Erlangen-Nuremberg

Date and Location

Friday, December 16, 2011

Chair of Multimedia Communications and Signal Processing
Room 5.17
Cauerstrasse 7
91058 Erlangen

DICIT: "Talking to your TV? - Naturally!"

dicitvideoAt the final review meeting at the LMS on January 14 and 15, 2010, the EU-Project DICIT ("Distant-talking Interfaces for Control of Interactive TV") received the best possible project score. In this context, the "acoustic front-end" that had been developed with the LMS Audio Group as the responsible project partner was characterized as the highlight of the project.

For an impression of the functionality of the developed prototype you may want to watch the demo video produced at LMS. Further information can be found on the official DICIT homepage.

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