Author Archives: Sascha Spors

Jupyter Notebooks on Finite Element Method in Acoustics

Being curious about numerical simulations in acoustics using the Finite Element Method (FEM), we started to compile a series of jupyter notebooks providing some insight into the theory, implementation as well as simulation results. The notebooks are available on Github … Continue reading

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Postdoctoral Researcher Position

A fixed-term (4 years) position for a postdoctoral researcher is available at the Institute of Communications Engineering, Laboratory of Signal Processing and Virtual Acoustics, University of Rostock, Germany. The research is carried out within the framework of project INF ‘Infrastructure … Continue reading

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Doctoral Researcher Position

A fixed-term (3 years) position for a doctoral researcher is available at the Institute of Communications Engineering, Laboratory of Signal Processing and Virtual Acoustics, University of Rostock, Germany. The aim of the project is to acoustically localize and classify cavitation … Continue reading

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Paper: Towards Open Science in Acoustics: Foundations and Best Practices

The paper Towards Open Science in Acoustics: Foundations and Best Practices by Sascha Spors, Matthias Geier and Hagen Wierstorf presented at the annual meeting of the German acoustical society (DAGA) discusses the open science approach and its application in acoustics. … Continue reading

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Paper: Improved Driving Functions for Rectangular Loudspeaker Arrays Driven by Sound Field Synthesis

The paper Improved Driving Functions for Rectangular Loudspeaker Arrays Driven by Sound Field Synthesis by Sascha Spors, Frank Schultz and Till Rettbergs derives improved driving functions for rectangular loudspeaker arrays by applying the equivalent scattering approach. The following supplementary data … Continue reading

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Digital Signal Processing – Lecture notes featuring computational examples

Digital signal processing is underlying many techniques for the processing of audio signals. The lecture notes to our masters course Digital Signal Processing are available as Open Educational Resource. The materials are provided in the form of jupyter notebooks featuring … Continue reading

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Release 0.3.1 of the Sound Field Synthesis Toolbox for Python

We are pround to announce release 0.3.1 of the Sound Field Synthesis Toolbox for Python. This release features Calculation of the sound field scattered by an edge Various driving functions for sound field synthesis using an edge-shaped secondary source distribution … Continue reading

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Release of Two!Ears Auditory Model Version 1.2

A new release of the Two!Ears auditory model is available You can download the release on the Two!Ears website. Check out the installation guide. Besides lots of bug fixes, this release features: Blackboard system: * Replaced GmtkLocationKS by GmmLocationKS * … Continue reading

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Two!Ears Auditory Model 1.1 Released

A new version of our software framework was published today, please go to the download section and have a look at the installation guide in order to try it out. Besides lots of bug fixes, the main new features of … Continue reading

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Release 0.2.0 of the Sound Field Toolbox for Python

Release 0.2.0 of our Sound Field Toolbox for Python is available. The Python port of the Sound Field Synthesis toolbox features the calculation of the synthesized sound field for various sound reproduction methods for the monofrequent case. Functionality for visualization … Continue reading

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