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Place: Odeion hall, HUT-TUAS, Otaniementie 17.
Date: Thursday 3.3.2005
Time: 10.00 - 15.00 
Title: Recent research in spatial audio and room acoustics modeling at HUT

Program:
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10.00 Opening + short intro of Odeion
      Lauri Savioja, HUT/TML

      - Odeion is a new almost semi-anechoic lecture room / research facility 
        which has 24 ch. spatial sound reproduction equipment

10.15 State-of-the-art in room acoustics modeling with WGM
      Antti Kelloniemi, HUT/TML
      
      - Antti has been studying the boundary conditions for wave guide 
        meshes and he will report the current status of his work.

10.45 Diffraction modeling and recent activities in Trondheim
      Paul Calamia, Princeton Univ. & NTNU Trondheim

      - Paul is a PhD student at Princeton University and currently 
        visiting NTNU for this academic year. Before his PhD studies he 
        worked for Kirkegaard Associates 1998-2002.

11.15 Auralization in slow motion and new room acoustics visualizations
      Tapio Lokki, HUT/TML

      - Tapio will present a new idea to study spatial distribution of early 
        reflections and also some novel visualization ideas related to 
        room acoustics.

11.45 Lunch

12.30 Perceptual aspects of frequency-dependent interaural cues
      Toni Hirvonen, HUT/AKU

      - Toni reports his studies on spatial sound perception. Toni's work is 
        basic research pursuing to development of binaural auditory model.

13.00 Localization in complex listening situations: 
      Selection of binaural cues based on interaural coherence
      Juha Merimaa, HUT/AKU

      - Juha reports the research results that he obtained during his 
        visit to IKA at Bochum (Jens Blauert's lab)

13.30 Coffee break

13.50 Spatial impulse response rendering + demos
      Ville Pulkki, HUT/AKU

      - Ville presents and demonstrates a novel method for processing 
        spatial sound for multichannel reproduction.

14.20 Overall discussion and discussion about potential co-operation in future


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