Publications by Patrick Marmaroli

No need to shout: Effect of signal loudness on sibling communication in barn owls

Hervé Lissek, Xavier Falourd, Patrick Marmaroli, Dorian Cazau

In animal communication, signal loudness is often ignored and seldom measured. We used a playback experiment to examine the role of vocal loudness (i.e., sound pressure level) in sibling to sibling communication of nestling barn owls Tyto alba. In this spe ...

2017

Hearing assistance system

Hervé Lissek, Patrick Marmaroli, Gilles André Courtois

There is provided a hearing assistance system, comprising a transmission unit (10) comprising a microphone arrangement (17) for capturing audio signals from a voice of a speaker ( 11 ) using the transmission unit and being adapted to transmit the audio sig ...

2016

Dynamic Range Limiting of HRTFs: Principle and Objective evaluation

Hervé Lissek, Patrick Marmaroli, Gilles André Courtois, Lukas Rohr

This research addresses the challenge of incorporating dynamic range limiting of the magnitude response of HRTFs for hearing-impaired listeners who are using binaural hearing aids. In this application, a direct implementation of spatialization using the or ...

2016

Body part-centered and full body-centered peripersonal space representations

Olaf Blanke, Hervé Lissek, Andrea Serino, Elisa Canzoneri, Patrick Marmaroli, Jean-Paul Noel

Dedicated neural systems represent the space surrounding the body, termed Peripersonal space (PPS), by integrating visual or auditory stimuli occurring near the body with somatosensory information. As a behavioral proxy to PPS, we measured participants' re ...

Nature Publishing Group2015

Development and assessment of a localization algorithm implemented in binaural hearing aids

Hervé Lissek, Patrick Marmaroli, Gilles André Courtois

Digital wireless microphone systems have been developed to enhance speech intelligibility for hearing aid users. The voice of the speaker of interest is picked-up close to the mouth by a body-worn microphone, and rendered in a diotic way (same signal at th ...

IEEE2015

Full body action remapping of peripersonal space: The case of walking

Olaf Blanke, Hervé Lissek, Andrea Serino, Patrick Marmaroli, Jean-Paul Noel, Petr Grivaz

The space immediately surrounding the body, i.e. peripersonal space (PPS), is represented by populations of multisensory neurons, from a network of premotor and parietal areas, which integrate tactile stimuli from the body’s surface with visual or auditory ...

Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd2015

A sound diffusion system for directional sound enhancement

Hervé Lissek, Alain Dufaux, Xavier Falourd, Alexandre Delidais, Patrick Marmaroli, Baptiste Crettaz, Cédric Monchâtre

A loudspeaker array is described including several circular sound emitters that are bunked. One circular sound emitter can be either a circular array of loudspeakers (kind 1) or a toroidal loudspeaker (kind 2). The loudspeaker array can be composed of circ ...

André Roland S.A.2015

Implementation of a binaural localization algorithm in hearing aids: Specifications and achievable solutions

Hervé Lissek, Patrick Marmaroli, Gilles André Courtois

This article introduces the constraints and issues related to the implementation of a binaural localization algorithm on a pair of hearing aids. The algorithm should improve the rendering of the spatial information available in the audio signals, which are ...

2014

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

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