Sound in Virtual Reality

In our research, we combine spatial audio, acoustic simulation, and auditory perception with interaction and narrative design. We bring together artistic and technical expertise to explore the expressiveness of new audio technology.
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Our active research topics are 

  • Binaural Rendering in Mixed Reality 
  • 6-Degrees-of-Freedom Virtual Acoustics 
  • Spatial Artificial Reverberation
  • Modal Analysis and Synthesis 
  • Reverberation Enhancement Systems 

Sound in Virtual Reality research group is part of the Aalto Acoustics Lab.

Contact

Sebastian Jiro Schlecht

Sebastian Jiro Schlecht

Professor of Practice
A806 Department of Art and Media

Latest publications

Directional distribution of the pseudo intensity vector in anisotropic late reverberation

Nils Meyer-Kahlen, Sebastian J. Schlecht 2024 Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Two-Stage Attenuation Filter for Artificial Reverberation

Vesa Valimaki, Karolina Prawda, Sebastian J. Schlecht 2024 IEEE Signal Processing Letters

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Laura Beloff, Calvin Guillot Suarez, Sebastian Schlecht, Andrea Mancianti, Esther Saraste, Marko Tandefelt, Petri Ruikka, Jani Hietanen, John W. Fail 2023

Differentiable Feedback Delay Network For Colorless Reverberation

Gloria Dal Santo, Karolina Prawda, Sebastian Schlecht, Vesa Välimäki 2023 Proceedings of the 26th International Conference on Digital Audio Effects (DAFx23)

Grouped Feedback Delay Networks with Frequency-Dependent Coupling

Orchisama Das, Sebastian J. Schlecht, Enzo De Sena 2023 IEEE/ACM Transactions on Audio Speech and Language Processing

Interpolation of Spatial Room Impulse Responses Using Partial Optimal Transport

Aaron Geldert, Nils Meyer-Kahlen, Sebastian J. Schlecht 2023 ICASSP 2023 - 2023 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP)

Common-slope modeling of late reverberation

Georg Gotz, Sebastian J. Schlecht, Ville Pulkki 2023 IEEE/ACM Transactions on Audio Speech and Language Processing

Deep Learning for Loudspeaker Digital Twin Creation

Bryn Louise, Teodors Kerimovs, Sebastian Schlecht 2023 AES Europe 2023

Design with Sound: The Relevance of Sound in VR as an Immersive Design Tool for Landscape Architecture

Loviisa Luoma, Pia Fricker, Sebastian Schlecht 2023 Journal of Digital Landscape Architecture

Auralization of Measured Room Transitions in Virtual Reality

Thomas McKenzie, Nils Meyer-Kahlen, Christoph Hold, Sebastian J. Schlecht, Ville Pulkki 2023 AES: Journal of the Audio Engineering Society
More information on our research in the Aalto research portal.
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