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Parity-Time Acoustic Metamaterials and Unidirectional Invisible Sensors

We theoretically and experimentally investigate the unique scattering properties of parity-time acoustic systems. We observe acoustic invisibility of airborne sound at audible frequencies in a parity-time symmetric meta-molecule made of perfectly balanced ...

2014

Virtual Reality for Architectural Acoustics

Dirk Schröder

Over the last decades, powerful prediction models have been developed in architectural acoustics, which are used for the calculation of sound propagation in indoor and/or outdoor scenarios. Sound insulation is predicted rather precisely by using direct and ...

Taylor & Francis2014

Acoustic Echoes Reveal Room Shape

Martin Vetterli, Yue Lu, Ivan Dokmanic, Reza Parhizkar, Andreas Walther

Imagine that you are blindfolded inside an unknown room. You snap your fingers and listen to the room’s response. Can you hear the shape of the room? Some people can do it naturally, but can we design computer algorithms that hear rooms? We show how to com ...

National Academy of Sciences2013

Effect of spectral overlap on the echo suppression threshold for single reflection conditions

Andreas Walther

In performing arts venues, the spectra of direct and reflected sound at a receiving location differ, due to seat dip effect, diffusive and absorptive surfaces, and source directivity. This paper examines the influence of differing lead and lag spectral con ...

Acoustical Society of America2013

Bimodal sound source tracking applied to road traffic monitoring

Patrick Marmaroli

The constant increase of road traffic requires closer and closer road network monitoring. The awareness of traffic characteristics in real time as well as its historical trends, facilitates decision-making for flow regulation, triggering relief operations, ...

EPFL2013

Development of electroacoustic absorbers as soundproofing solutions for industrial ventilation systems

Hervé Lissek, Etienne Thierry Jean-Luc Rivet, Victor Desarnaulds

In many industrial environments, room and cavity modes may severely strengthen the annoyance of low frequency noises, such as in ventilation equipments. Moreover, there is an obvious technological gap in the state-of-the-art relative to low-frequency sound ...

2013

Modeling (non-)uniform scattering distributions in geometrical acoustics

Dirk Schröder

In most cases, a surface is not ideally smooth. It rather contains regular and irregular dents, bumps and other textures that influence the reflection of the incident wave. A reflection on such a corrugated surface causes a frequency-dependent redirection ...

Acoustical Society of America2013

Echo thresholds for reflections from acoustically diffusive architectural surfaces

Christof Faller, Andreas Walther

When sound reflects from an irregular architectural surface, it spreads spatially and temporally. Extensive research has been devoted to prediction and measurement of diffusion, but less has focused on its perceptual effects. This paper examines the effect ...

Acoustical Society of America2013

Pass-by noise acoustic sensing for estimating speed and wheelbase length of two-axle vehicles.

Jean-Marc Odobez, Hervé Lissek, Xavier Falourd, Patrick Marmaroli

This paper focuses on acoustic road traffic monitoring and looks, more specifically, into the problem of speed and wheelbase length estimation of two-axle vehicles as they pass by. It is known that both front and rear axle trajectories may be dissociated u ...

2013

Robust Acoustic Source Localization of Emergency Signals from Micro Air Vehicles

Dario Floreano, Felix Stephan Schill, Meysam Basiri

In search and rescue missions, Micro Air Vehicles (MAV's) can assist rescuers to faster locate victims inside a large search area and to coordinate their efforts. Acoustic signals play an important role in outdoor rescue operations. Emergency whistles, as ...

2012

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