Hearing loss is widespread and significantly impacts an individual's ability to engage with
broadcast media. Access can be improved through new object-based audio personalization …

Audio-visual (AV) representation learning is an important task from the perspective of
designing machines with the ability to understand complex events. To this end, we propose …

Age demographics have led to an increase in the proportion of the population suffering from
some form of hearing loss. The introduction of object-based audio to television broadcast …

For traditional broadcasting formats, implementation of accessible audio strategies for hard
of hearing people have used a binary, intelligibility-based approach. In this approach …

The challenge of installing and setting up dedicated spatial audio systems can make it
difficult to deliver immersive listening experiences to the general public. However, the …

Categorisation is a fundamental cognitive process that plays a central role in everyday
behaviour and action. Whereas previous studies have investigated the categorisation of …

Sound effect libraries are commonly used by sound designers in a range of industries.
Taxonomies exist for the classification of sounds into groups based on subjective similarity …

The purpose of this paper is to compare the performance of human listeners against the
selected machine learning algorithms in the task of the classification of spatial audio scenes …

Featured Application The current study will be of interest to designers of professional audio
software and hardware devices as it will allow them to design their tools to increase or …

Media device orchestration (MDO) is the concept of using an ad hoc array of devices to
deliver or augment a media experience. This paper describes a multiple stimulus rating …