Publications related to Sound Blaster

Type-Preserving Compilation of Class-Based Languages

The Dependent Object Type (DOT) calculus was designed to put Scala on a sound basis, but while DOT relies on structural subtyping, Scala is a fundamentally class-based language. This impedance mismatch means that a proof of DOT soundness by itself is ...

EPFL2023

DG-Mix: Domain Generalization for Anomalous Sound Detection Based on Self-Supervised Learning

Olga Fink, Ismail Nejjar, Gaëtan Michel Frusque

Detecting anomalies in sound data has recently received significant attention due to the increasing number of implementations of sound condition monitoring solutions for critical assets. In this context, changing operating conditions impose significant dom ...

2022

Sound and Complete Verification of Polynomial Networks

Volkan Cevher, Grigorios Chrysos, Fanghui Liu, Mehmet Fatih Sahin, Elias Abad Rocamora

Polynomial Networks (PNs) have demonstrated promising performance on face and image recognition recently. However, robustness of PNs is unclear and thus obtaining certificates becomes imperative for enabling their adoption in real-world applications. Exist ...

2022

Electrical Signal Modeling in Cochlear Implants. Study of Temperature and Humidity Effects

Maria-Alexandra Paun

The present paper discusses the climatic effects of humidity and temperature on cochlear implant functioning and the quality of the electrical sound signal. MATLAB Simulink simulations were prepared, offering insights into signal behavior under such climat ...

MDPI2021

Good Vibrations and Unknown Excitations

Dalia Salem Hassan Fahmy El Badawy

Inspired by the human ability to localize sounds, even with only one ear, as well as to recognize objects using active echolocation, we investigate the role of sound scattering and prior knowledge in regularizing ill-posed inverse problems in acoustics. In ...

EPFL2020

Neural encoding of auditory features during music perception and imagery

José del Rocio Millán Ruiz, Stéphanie Martin

Despite many behavioral and neuroimaging investigations, it remains unclear how the human cortex represents spectrotemporal sound features during auditory imagery, and how this representation compares to auditory perception. To assess this, we recorded ele ...

2018

The caisson – review of a unique wooden construction typology in China

Corentin Jean Dominique Fivet, Jingxian Ye

The caisson is a wooden construction system that covers opera stages for rain protection and sound control. Caissons in China display a diverse range of geometric expressions, delicate manufacturing, structural behaviours, and acoustic qualities. Despite t ...

2018

Localization of emergency acoustic sources by micro aerial vehicles

Dario Floreano, Felix Stephan Schill, Meysam Basiri

For micro aerial vehicles (MAVs) involved in search and rescue missions, the ability to locate the source of a distress sound signal is significantly important and allows fast localization of victims and rescuers during nighttime, through foliage and in du ...

John Wiley & Sons2017

On the integration of Non-Image-Forming effects of light on venetian blinds and electric lighting control

Jean-Louis Scartezzini, Laurent Deschamps, Ali Motamed, Marta Benedetti

Light induces important “Non-Image-Forming” (NIF) effects on human physiology and behavior, such as improvement of alertness, cognitive performance and mood. Considering these effects in office lighting can improve well-being and productivity of the occupa ...

Elsevier2017

Room Modal Equalisation with Electroacoustic Absorbers

Etienne Thierry Jean-Luc Rivet

The sound quality in a room is of fundamental importance for both recording and reproducing processes. Because of the room modes, the distributions in space and frequency of the sound field are largely altered. Excessive rise and decay times caused by the ...

EPFL2016

Raking the Cocktail Party

Martin Vetterli, Ivan Dokmanic, Robin Scheibler

We present the concept of an acoustic rake receiver—a microphone beamformer that uses echoes to improve the noise and interference suppression. The rake idea is well-known in wireless communications; it involves constructively combining different multipath ...

Ieee-Inst Electrical Electronics Engineers Inc2015

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

Optimization of electroacoustic resonators for semi-active room equalization in the low-frequency range

Hervé Lissek, Etienne Thierry Jean-Luc Rivet

At low frequencies, standing waves within the room cause large frequency-response variations in the listening environment, such as audio rooms or recording studios. This unwanted phenomenon has a significant impact on the sound quality of an audio system. ...

2013

The Contributions of Sensory Dominance and Attentional Bias to Cross-modal Enhancement of Visual Cortex Excitability

Micah Murray

Approaching or looming sounds (L-sounds) have been shown to selectively increase visual cortex excitability [Romei, V., Murray, M. M., Cappe, C., & Thut, G. Preperceptual and stimulus-selective enhancement of low-level human visual cortex excitability by s ...

2013

Perception and Reproduction of Auditory Spatial Impression

Andreas Walther

As audio reproduction systems evolve to incorporate many loudspeakers, the potential to evoke faithful auditory spatial impressions increases. Psychoacoustic principles of auditory spatial perception, and methods for production and reproduction of acoustic ...

EPFL2013

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

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

Conception acoustique de systèmes microtechniques

Jean-Daniel Lüthi

Considered as one of the most difficult complications in horology, the mechanical chiming watch, known as the striking watch, has today become one of the symbols of high craftsmanship. When it chimes the hour the sound of a striking watch must not only be ...

EPFL2011

Backtracking of Colloids: A Multiparticle Collision Dynamics Simulation Study

Giuseppe Foffi, Maxim Belushkin

The role of sound in the dynamics of mesoscale systems is typically neglected, since frequently the associated time scales are much smaller than all the other time scales of interest. However, for sufficiently small objects embedded in a solvent with a suf ...

2011

Binaural Audio Signal Processing Using Interaural Coherence Matching

Fritz Menzer

Binaural room impulse responses (BRIRs) characterize the transfer of sound from a source in a room to the left and right ear entrances of a listener. Applying BRIRs to sound source signals enables headphone listening with the perception of a three dimensio ...

EPFL2010