Virtual Acoustics
The Virtual Acoustics Research Group is concentrating on room acoustics – how it could be measured, simulated, and auralized as well as how humans perceive different rooms, in particular the team is world-know on the research of concert halls.

The aim of the Virtual Acoustics group is to get an encompassing understanding how rooms modify sound that we hear. To pursue this goal, the group is investigating auralization, spatial sound capturing and reproduction, binaural technology, and novel objective and subjective evaluation methods, as well as physically-based room acoustics modeling methods. Particularly, the interest has been in concert halls, in which the group has developed new measurement techniques, analysis methods for spatial impulse responses, and sensory evaluation methods to understand the perceptual differences between concert halls.
The current research topics are:
- 3D-sound capturing and reproduction (both with microphone arrays and within room acoustics simulations)
- sound in virtual/augmented reality applications
- perception of speech in noise and reverberation
- acoustics of chamber music halls
- acoustics of cinemas and studios
- novel bio-based absorption materials
The Virtual Acoustics Research Group belongs to the Aalto Acoustics Lab. The research group is led by Professor , AES Fellow.
Group members
Latest publications
Gloria Dal Santo, Gian Marco De Bortoli, Karolina Prawda, Sebastian J. Schlecht, Vesa Välimäki
2025
2025 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, ICASSP 2025 - Proceedings
Gloria Dal Santo, Karolina Prawda, Sebastian J. Schlecht, Vesa Välimäki
2025
Conference Record of the 58th Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems and Computers, ACSSC 2024
Linda Fabiani, Sebastian J. Schlecht, Filip Elvander
2025
2024 58th Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems, and Computers
Jackie Lin, Georg Götz, Sebastian J. Schlecht
2025
Eurasip Journal on Audio, Speech, and Music Processing
Sebastian J. Schlecht, Tantep Sinjanakhom, Vesa Välimäki
2025
Signal Processing
Nikolas Borrel-Jensen, Nils Meyer-Kahlen
2024
INTER-NOISE and NOISE-CON Congress and Conference Proceedings
Jose Cucharero Moya, Muhammad Awais, Mikko Valkonen, Kari Kammiovirta, Lauri Rautkari, Tapio Lokki, Tuomas Hänninen
2024
Materials Today Sustainability
Jose Cucharero Moya, Kari Kammiovirta, Marko Makkonen, Tuomas Hänninen, Tapio Lokki
2024
Proceedings of the Baltic-Nordic Acoustics Meeting
Gloria Dal Santo, Benoit Alary, Karolina Prawda, Sebastian Schlecht, Vesa Välimäki
2024
Proceedings of the 27th International Conference on Digital Audio Effects (DAFx24)
Gian De Bortoli, Karolina Prawda, Sebastian Schlecht
2024
Journal of the Audio Engineering Society
More information on our research in the Aalto research portal.