Spatial Audio and Oddities: Superhearing, Laser Beams, and Windy Yelling | 30/09/2025

Διάλεξη Καθηγητή Ville Pulkki για Τεχνολογία 3Δ Ήχου

Την Τρίτη 30/9/2025 και ώρα 10:00 – 12:00 π.μ. θα πραγματοποιηθεί διάλεξη από τον Καθηγητή  Ville Pulkki, Department of Information and Communications Engineering, Aalto University, Finland, με τίτλο: 

Spatial Audio and Oddities:

Superhearing, Laser Beams, and Windy Yelling

Η διάλεξη θα πραγματοποιηθεί στην Εργαστηριακή Αίθουσα Η/Υ  του τομέα Τηλεπικοινωνιών & Τεχνολογίας Πληροφορίας, τμήματος Ηλεκτρολόγων Μηχανικών και Τεχνολογίας Υπολογιστών. Η αίθουσα βρίσκεται στον 3ο όροφο του κεντρικού κτηρίου Η.Μ.&Τ.Υ.,  απέναντι από το κλιμακοστάσιο.

Βιογραφικά στοιχεία
Prof Ville Pulkki (Aalto University, Department of Information and Communications Engineering) has been active in the field of acoustics for 30 years, and a professor at Aalto University for 10 years. His doctoral thesis (and project work before that) focused on a technique for positioning virtual sources over multichannel loudspeaker arrays and delved also on perceptual side of the matter, both with subjective tests and binaural auditory models. After the PhD he used the gained knowledge on the resolution of human directional hearing to develop a parametric time-frequency-domain technique for reproduction of sound fields, a version of which has also been standardized recently. In addition to spatial audio, prof Pulkki has done research and teaching on communication acoustics. He co-authored the textbook Communication Acoustics: An Introduction to Speech, Audio and Psychoacoustics (John Wiley & Sons 2015)

Αντικείμενο της διάλεξης

In addition to providing a broad summary on these career defining topics, prof Pulkki has promised to discuss some of his recent research projects:

  • An ultrasonic spatial superhearing device, which allows the user to hear and localize sources, e.g. bats flying around.
  • How a request for a small and powerful impulsive source that could be placed inside a violin led to development of impulse response                    measurements using focused pulsed laser beams.
  • And why do people think that it is hard to yell against the wind, although it is a physical fact that human radiates more sound upstream than       downstream.

 

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John Mourjopoulos
Professor emeritus
University of Patras