Let us also introduce you to Dr Katarina Poole 👉 bit.ly/45BKSBA

Dr Poole works as a Research Associate at the Audio Experience Design team in Imperial College London, UK

We will be sharing more profiles of the women in SONICOM in the near future, so keep your eye out!

Next up, meet PhD student, Kathi Pollack 👉 bit.ly/4k8VY4t

Kathi works at the Acoustics Research Institute within the Austrian Academy of Sciences in Vienna, Austria

Our postdoc Katarina Poole also presented her work on synthetic @sonicom.bsky.social HRTFs at ISH 2025!

Dreamwaves' involvement in SONICOM allows them to refine their 3D audio navigation technology by integrating cutting-edge spatial audio research and AI-driven sound processing, helping them enhance accuracy, improve user experience, and develop more inclusive navigation solutions

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But all this is just a taste of what we got up to in 2024 - read our full research highlights on our website: www.sonicom.eu/sonicoms-202...

Our research also uncovered new insights showing that there is a relationship between the distance of a speaker and their perceived personality traits, which we couldn't have explored without the help of 3D immersive environments.
Read the research: eprints.gla.ac.uk/341008/

We also ran our first Listener Acoustic Personalisation (LAP) Challenge, which invited members of the auditory research community to tackle key challenges facing immersive audio technology.
Learn more about the Challenge and the winners: www.sonicom.eu/the-winners-...

Some of our highlights include the launch of the latest version of the Binaural Rendering Toolbox, designed as a virtual laboratory for psychoacoustic experimentation.
Access the BRT Repository here: github.com/GrupoDiana/B...

The analysis shows that BezierPPM can accurately represent human pinnae, meaning that it has high potential for a range of applications, including:
🪪 Biometric identification
👂 Design of ear prostheses
🔊 Personalisation of spatial hearing

“In contrast to other PPMs, BezierPPM is inspired by the biological structure of the human pinna aiming at providing parameters directly related to the complex pinna geometry,” says Felix Perfler, PhD student and first author of the research.

“We hope that the toolbox will foster reproducible research in psychoacoustics and auditory neuroscience," says Dr Roberto Barumerli, the publication’s lead author based at @isf-oeaw.bsky.social and the University of Verona.

FrAMBI is integrated into the widely used and SONICOM-supported auditory modelling toolbox (AMT), allowing it to be maintained long-term and expanded accordingly: amtoolbox.org