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Department of Information and Communications Engineering

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.
virtual acoustics research group doing measurements in a concert hall

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.  

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.
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