The SONICOM Ecosystem is now live for all to explore! This open community platform makes the future of research in spatial hearing & personalised binaural audio more accessible, reusable, and transparent than ever before. Read more about how it works 👉bit.ly/4ub0k0w

New JASA publication from Rapolas Daugintis on perceptual evaluation of auditory model–based HRTF selection 🎧📄 pubs.aip.org/asa/jasa/art... The work investigates how auditory models relate to perceived localisation and spatial audio quality 🔊🧠

Perceptual evaluation of an auditory model–based similarity metric for head-related transfer functions

A key challenge in binaural spatial audio personalisation is defining perceptual similarity metrics that meaningfully rate non-individual head-related transfer

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Our team is proud to contribute to the SONICOM ecosystem through dataset acquisition, measurements, and perceptual studies, directly supporting open research in spatial audio and spatial hearing 🧠🔊 The collaborative ecosystem is now live 🚀

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The SONICOM Ecosystem is live! An open platform bringing together audio datasets and tools to support research on how we hear in AR/VR and digital spaces 🔊 A community‑driven resource for anyone exploring sound. Explore it here: bit.ly/4dPpOM2 @oeaw.bsky.social @isf-oeaw.bsky.social

Nils Marggraf-Turley measured individual HRTFs for the Headphones.com team 🎧 Headphones.com is a well-known audio company and review platform focused on high-quality headphones and objective audio measurements. Watch the YouTube video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=W9gW...

Unlocking Audio Perfection In Headphones

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Nils Marggraf-Turley and Lorenzo Picinali at the Royal Society meeting on Vision Augmented Hearing in Manchester 👁️👂 Very interesting meeting on how auditory and visual perception interact, with valuable discussions alongside researchers from academia and industry.

Exciting news from the AXD team! 🎉 axdesign.co.uk/news-posts/t... We’ve just published two new papers in Hearing Research exploring how people perceive sound in complex environments:

🎧 AES UK London × Hybrid Lecture Join us for an evening of audio research with three current PhD students. 📅 Wed 10 Dec | 🕕 18:00–20:30 📍 Dyson Library, Imperial College London, SW7 2DB 💻 Online via Zoom, register here: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: The AES U.K. Section: An Evening of Audio Research. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar.

The AES UK Section is delighted to host an evening with 3 current audio PhD researchers presenting and discussing elements of their work to date. Rapolas Daugintis, Imperial College London: Perceptu...

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📢 We're inviting applications for a funded PhD position on the project "Perceptually-Informed Design and Validation of Spatial Audio for Virtual Acoustics." 🗓 Deadline: 09 January 2026 🔗 Learn more & apply: www.imperial.ac.uk/design-engin... #PhD #SpatialAudio

🎉 Huge congratulations to our team members Rapolas and Neel for successfully passing their PhD viva over the past couple of weeks! 👇

Greetings from CherISH doctoral network meeting in Leuven 👋

It’s been a productive few months for our team! We’re excited to share two more recently published works: 🧵👇

Last year, we co-organised the first Listener Acoustic Personalisation (LAP) Challenge, sponsored by IEEE Signal Processing Society and @sonicom.bsky.social Now, we’re excited to share two new publications that present the challenge outcomes! 🧵👇

🚨 New SONICOM Publication Alert! 🚨 Our latest paper relates to the 1st Listener Acoustic Personalisation (LAP) Challenge and officially opens the LAP24 Special Topic in the IEEE Open Journal of Signal Processing, dedicated to the 2024 LAP Challenge 🔊 📖 Read it here: 👉 bit.ly/4nIf4RU

Listener Acoustic Personalisation Challenge - LAP24: Head-Related Transfer Function Upsampling

Head-related transfer functions (HRTFs) often play a crucial role in spatial hearing, immersive audio applications for virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR), and help in improving hearing as...

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The AXD team had a great time in Málaga last week presenting our work at Forum Acusticum Euronoise 2025, including the @sonicom.bsky.social and Cherish projects. We enjoyed engaging discussions, fostered old friendships, and made exciting new connections! ☀️

Nicola La Magna, PhD student with @Cherish_MSCA, presented his poster on spatial release from masking and listening effort in binaural vs. free-field listening at the International Symposium on Hearing (ISH 2025) in Vienna. Great to see this work shared at an international forum!

👋 Greetings from the International Congress of Acoustics (ICA) in New Orleans, where our PhD student Nils presented his work on enhancing spatial release from masking through individual head-related transfer function augmentation.

Read more about our latest ANTHEA paper, where we explore the neural correlates (EEG) of spatialised sound detection in complex acoustic scenes: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Assessing Behavioral and Neural Correlates of Change Detection in Spatialized Acoustic Scenes

The ability to detect changes in complex auditory scenes is crucial for human survival, yet the neural mechanisms underlying this process remain elusi…

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📄We have a new publication on the generalization of accommodation to head-related transfer functions! Give it a read 👇 #SpatialAudio #HRTF #Hearing pubs.aip.org/asa/jasa/art...

On the generalization of accommodation to head-related transfer functions

To date, there is strong evidence indicating that humans with normal hearing can adapt to non-individual head-related transfer functions (HRTFs). However, less

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SONICOM exhibited at @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social Senses Lates a few weeks ago! On the night visitors had the opportunity to listen to some audio demos, learn about the project and go on a tour of the Turret Lab 🔊 Read more 👉 bit.ly/3ZUNg2T @axdimperial.bsky.social @imperialspark.bsky.social

SONICOM at Imperial Lates: Senses - Sonicom

The SONICOM team exhibited at the Lates in what was the last engagement activity of 2024

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📢 New SONICOM toolbox Introducing Spatial Audio Metrics (SAM) – an open-source software platform to compare and visualise Head-Related Transfer Functions (HRTFs) which helps enhance the listening experience 🔊 Learn more 👇 bit.ly/49s7zYL

New SONICOM toolbox to analyse spatial audio  - Sonicom

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Today, we were visited by David Lou Alon from Meta Reality Labs and Boaz Rafaely from Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. We had great discussions about our research in the spatial audio domain.

Come say hello to the SONICOM team at #ImperialLates: Senses 🔊 We’ll also be running tours of the Turret Lab so make sure you get your name on the list before we run out of space! See you from 6pm at @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social

📃 Have a read of our latest article, which focuses on using virtual acoustics for assessing ecoacoustic monitoring devices (our 6-channel autonomous #MAARU recorder)👇 doi.org/10.1111/2041...

Towards using virtual acoustics for evaluating spatial ecoacoustic monitoring technologies

Small microphone arrays and sound-source localisation algorithms are increasingly prevalent in the passive acoustic monitoring (PAM) of ecosystems. These technologies enable analysis of natural so...

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Hello #BlueSky 🦋 world! You can meet us in person at #ImperialLates: Senses tonight to explore the wonderful world of 3D audio. 🔊🎧 🗓️ 5 December, 6-9 pm 📍South Kensington @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social Register here: ow.ly/Sxvl50U9320

Imperial Lates: Senses

Join the Imperial Lates for a free evening of sensory stimulating activities to explore science.

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