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Sound Quality and Psychoacoustics

This area is centred in the evaluation of sound quality, preferably applied to the improvement of the environmental noise produced by any source: motors, electrical appliances and machines in general. Sound psychoacoustic characteristic are considered (loudness, sharpness, roughness and so on), just as other type of spectral and temporal characteristics not dismissing a priori any type of signal processing tool. Its aim is to diminish the annoying sensation caused, if possible acting directly on the source or using control active noised techniques

Projects of this area

• D-Noise: Distributed Network of Active Noise Equalizers for Multi-User Sound Control
Funding: European Commision
Years: 2017-2018
Researcher: Marc Moonen

• Generation of Knowledge About Human Being Multisensory Interaction with Environments for the Development of New Products and Services in Ceramic Industry
Funding: Ministerio de Ciencia y Tecnología. Proyectos de Especial Relevancia
Years: 2008-2009
Researcher: José Javier López Monfort

• Sound Quality Studio of Valencian Toys
Funding: Asociación de investigación de la industria del juguete, conexas y afines - AIJU
Years: 2007
Researcher: Gema Piñero Sipán

• Quality Improvement of Toy Sounds using Psychoacoustic Analysis
Funding: Asociación de investigación de la industria del juguete, conexas y afines - AIJU
Years: 2005-2006
Researcher: Gema Piñero Sipán

• Development and Application of Time-Frequency Tools to Determine Sound Sensation of Engine Noise
Funding: Generalitat Valenciana
Years: 2004-2005
Researcher: María de Diego Antón

• Local Control Sound Field System for Subjective Sound Quality Improvement in Indoor Environments (COLOSO)
Funding: Generalitat Valenciana. Ayudas a proyectos de I+D. CTIDIA/2002/116
Years: 2002-2003
Researcher: Alberto González Salvador

• Quality Improvement of Perceived Exhaust Noise using Digital Signal Processing Techniques
Funding: Comisión Interministerial de Ciencia Y Tecnología, Nº TIC99-0444-C02 (Proyecto coordinado)
Years: 2000-2002
Researcher: Gema Piñero Sipán

• Methodology for the Analysis of HSDI Diesel Combustion Noise
Funding: PSA Peugeot-Citroën
Years: 1999-2001
Researcher: Gema Piñero Sipán

• Digital Audio System for the Design of Interior Sounds in Vehicles
Funding: Comisión Interministerial de Ciencia Y Tecnología Nº TIC98-0343
Years: 1998-2000
Researcher: Alberto González Salvador

Publications of this area

JOURNAL PAPERS

• Pablo Gutierrez-Parera, Jose J. Lopez, Perception of nonlinear distortion on emulation of frequency responses of headphones, The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 142, nº4, 2085-2088, 2018. doi: 10.1121/1.5031030

• Pablo Gutierrez-Parera, Jose J. Lopez, Spatial Audio with Consumer Headphones: How its quality affects the immersion, Waves 8, 17-29, 2016.

• Pablo Gutierrez-Parera, Jose J. Lopez, Influence of the Quality of Consumer Headphones in the Perception of Spatial Audio, Applied Sciences (Basel) 6, nº4, 117-134, 2016. doi: 10.3390/app6040117

• L. Padilla, Gema Piñero, Maria de Diego, Miguel Ferrer, Alberto Gonzalez, D. Ayllón, R. Gil-Pita, M. Rosa-Zurera, Improving speech intelligibility in hearing aids. Part II: Quality Assessment, Waves 6, 73 - 85, 2014.

• Andrés Camacho, Gema Piñero, Maria de Diego, Alberto Gonzalez, Exploring Roughness Perception in Car Engine Noises through Complex Cepstrum Analysis, Acta Acustica united with Acustica 94, no.1, 130-140, 2008. doi: 10.3813/AAA.918015

• Alberto Gonzalez, Miguel Ferrer, Maria de Diego, Gema Piñero, Sound Quality of Low Frequency and Car Engine Noises after Active Control, Journal of Sound and Vibration, ISSN: 0022-460X 265 no.3, 663-679, 2003. doi: 10.1016/S0022-460X(02)01462-1

• Jose Javier Lopez, Alberto Gonzalez, Experimental evaluation of cross-talk cancellation regarding loudspeakers angle of listening, IEEE Signal Processing Letters, ISSN:1070-9908 8 no.1, 13-15, 2001.

CONFERENCE PAPERS

• Laura Fuster, Maria de Diego, Gema Piñero, Alberto Gonzalez, Miguel Ferrer, Subjective analysis of speech privacy using speech masking in open-plan offices, 27th International Congress on Sound and Vibration (ICSV27) , Online, 2021.

• Juan Estreder, Gema Piñero, Fabián Aguirre, Maria de Diego, Alberto Gonzalez, On Perceptual Audio Equalization for Multiple Users in Presence of Ambient Noise, 10th IEEE Sensor Array and Multichannel Signal Processing Workshop (SAM 2018) , Sheffield, UK, 2018.

• José J. Lopez, Sergio Martinez-Sanchez, Pablo Gutierrez-Parera, Array processing for echo cancellation in the measurement of Head-Related Transfer Functions, , 2581-258811th European Congress and Exposition on Noise Control Engineering (EuroNoise 2018) , Crete Island, Greece, 2018.

• Pablo Gutierrez-Parera, Jose J. Lopez, An experiment to evaluate the performance of a parametric model for the individualization of the HRTF in the median plane, 142nd International Audio Engineering Society Convention (AES 2017) , Berlin, Germany, 2017.

• Jose J. Lopez, Pablo Gutierrez-Parera, Evaluation of the frequency response of consumer headphones and its influence towards a binaural reproduction with HRTF individualization, 22nd International Congress on Acoustics (ICA 2016) , Buenos Aires, Argentina, 2016.

• Christian Antoñanzas, Pablo Gutierrez-Parera, Maria A. Simarro, Jose A. Belloch, Audiovisual Tool for understanding Audio concepts for being used in bachelor’s degree programmes, , 495-5022nd International Conference on Higher Education Advances (HEAd'16) , Valencia, Spain, 2016. doi: 10.4995/HEAD16.2016.2923

• Josep Rodríguez, Miguel Ferrer, Gema Piñero, Maria de Diego, Desarrollo de herramienta software para la realización de test de audición con ruido "JHINT", Tecniacústica , Valencia, Spain, 2015.

• Elena Simarro, Maria de Diego, Miguel Ferrer, F.J. Garcia-Callejo, Alberto Gonzalez, Analisis de la capacidad de localización del sistema auditivo humano para la detección de hipoacusias, XXIX Simposium Nacional de la Unión Científica Internacional de Radio, URSI , Valencia, Spain, 2014.

• Gema Piñero, Laura Fuster, Maria de Diego, Miguel Ferrer, Alberto Gonzalez, Karina Pernías, Maite Romero, Sound quality evaluation of powered riding toy noises by children, Internoise , New York, USA, 2012.

• Jose Javier Lopez, Maximo Cobos, Experiments on the Perception of Elevated Sources in Wave-Field Synthesis Using HRTF Cues, 128th Convention of the Audio Engineering Society , London, United Kingdom, 2010.

• Maximo Cobos, Jose Javier Lopez, Alberto Gonzalez, Jose Escolano, Stereo to Wave-Field Synthesis Music Up-mixing: An Objective and Subjective Evaluation, ISCCSP 2008 , St. Julians, Malta, 2008.

• Gema Piñero, Maria de Diego, Alberto Gonzalez, Laura Fuster, Andrés Camacho, Application of different time-frequency analysis to psychoacoustic description of car engine noise, AES 118th Convention (Audio Engineering Society) , Barcelona, Spain, 2005.

• German Ramos, Jose Javier Lopez, Subjective evaluation of an equalization method for loudspeakers based on random parametric optimization of IIR filters, AES 116th Convention (Audio Engineering Society) , Berlin, Germany, 2004.

• Andrés Camacho, Gema Piñero, Maria de Diego, Miguel Ferrer,, On the Use of Complex Cepstrum in Psychoacoustic Evaluations of Engine Noise, 11th International Congress On Sound And Vibration, ICSV 2004 , San Petersburgo, Russia, 2004.

• Andrés Camacho, Gema Piñero, Laura Fuster, Maria de Diego, Evaluation Of Human Perception Of Roughness For Diesel Car Noise, 10th International Congress On Sound And Vibration (ICSV 2003) , Estocolmo, Sweden, 2003.

• Alberto Gonzalez, Miguel Ferrer, Maria de Diego, Gema Piñero, Subjective Considerations in Multichannel Active Noise Control Equalization of Repetitive Noise, Active 2002 , Southampton, United Kingdom, 2002.

• Gema Piñero, Alberto Gonzalez, Maria de Diego, Time-Frequency Analysis applied to Psychoacoustic Evaluation of Car Engine Noise Quality, 2002 International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP 2002) , Orlando, EEUU, 2002.

• Gema Piñero, Maria de Diego, Alberto Gonzalez, Correlations Between Time-Frequency Spectral Characteristics and Psychoacoustic Metrics, The 3rd EAA European Congress On Acoustics (Forum Acusticum 2002) , Sevilla, Spain, 2002.

• Miguel Ferrer, Maria de Diego, Gema Piñero, Alberto Gonzalez, Evaluación subjetiva de la calidad del sonido mediante test de parejas, XII Jornadas nacionales de acústica , Logroño, Spain, 2001.

• Maria de Diego, Alberto Gonzalez, Gema Piñero, Miguel Ferrer, Subjective Evaluation of Active Noise Control Techniques Applied to Engine Noise, The 2001 International Congress and Exhibition on Noise Control Engineering (Inter-Noise 2001) , La Haya, Holland, 2001.

• Maria de Diego, Gema Piñero, Alberto Gonzalez, Miguel Ferrer, Juan Garcia-Bonito, Improvements on Subjective Evaluation of Active Noise Control Systems, 17th International Conference on Acoustics (ICA 2001) , Roma, Italy, 2001.

• Maria de Diego, Miguel Ferrer, Gema Piñero, Alberto Gonzalez, Juan Garcia-Bonito, Mejora de la calidad del sonido de motor en el interior de vehículo mediante técnicas de control activo, Actas ISBN 0210-3680 , 2001.

• Maria de Diego, Alberto Gonzalez, Gema Piñero, Miguel Ferrer, Juan Garcia-Bonito, Subjective Evaluation of Actively Controlled Interior Car Noise, 2001 International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP 2001) , Salt Lake City, EEUU, 2001.

• Gema Piñero, Andrés Camacho, Luis Vergara, Alberto Gonzalez, Maria de Diego, Relation between Time-Frequency Parameters and Psychoacoustic Features in Noise Quality Evaluation, 17th International Conference on Acoustics (ICA 2001) , Roma, Italy, 2001.

• Pablo Gutierrez-Parera, Jose J. Lopez, On the influence of the frequency response over azimuth localization with consumer headphones, 2016 AES International Conference on Headphone Technology , Aalborg, Denmark.

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