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.

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Latest publications

Multi-shelf graphic equalizer

Sebastian J. Schlecht, Tantep Sinjanakhom, Vesa Välimäki 2025 Signal Processing

RIR2FDN: An improved room impulse response analysis and synthesis

Gloria Dal Santo, Benoit Alary, Karolina Prawda, Sebastian Schlecht, Vesa Välimäki 2024 Proceedings of the 27th International Conference on Digital Audio Effects (DAFx24)

Active Acoustics With a Phase Cancelling Modal Reverberator

Gian De Bortoli, Karolina Prawda, Sebastian Schlecht 2024 Journal of the Audio Engineering Society

Differentiable Active Acoustics: Optimizing Stability via Gradient Descent

Gian De Bortoli, Gloria Dal Santo, Karolina Prawda, Tapio Lokki, Vesa Välimäki, Sebastian Schlecht 2024 Proceedings of the 27th International Conference on Digital Audio Effects (DAFx24)

Binaural Dark Velvet Noise Reverberator

Jon Fagerström, Nils Meyer-Kahlen, Sebastian Schlecht, Vesa Välimäki 2024 Proceedings of the 27th International Conference on Digital Audio Effects (DAFx24)

Non-Exponential Reverberation Modeling Using Dark Velvet Noise

Jon Fagerström, Sebastian J. Schlecht, Vesa Välimäki 2024 AES: Journal of the Audio Engineering Society

Matching early reflections of simulated and measured RIRs by applying sound-source directivity filters

Anthony Gallien, Karolina Prawda, Sebastian J. Schlecht 2024 4th International Conference on Acoustics and Sound Reinforcement, ASR 2024

A multi-room transition dataset for blind estimation of energy decay

Philipp Götz, Georg Götz, Nils Meyer-Kahlen, Kyung Lee, Karolina Prawda, Emanüel A P Habets, Sebastian Schlecht 2024 2024 18th International Workshop on Acoustic Signal Enhancement, IWAENC 2024 - Proceedings

Dynamic late reverberation rendering using the common-slope model

Georg Götz, Teodors Kerimovs, Sebastian J. Schlecht, Ville Pulkki 2024 2024 6th International Conference on Audio for Games

Audiovisual Congruence and Localization Performance in Virtual Reality: 3D Loudspeaker Model vs. Human Avatar

Anja Hofmann, Nils Meyer-Kahlen, Sebastian Schlecht, Tapio Lokki 2024 Journal of the Audio Engineering Society
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