Two PhD students from the AXD team attended the 27th International Conference on Digital Audio Effects (DAFx24) at the University of Surrey last week.

Nils Maggraf-Turley presented his work on sound source location decoding from neural responses elicited by different spatial rendering methods. The full paper is available here.

Xuyi Hu presented his research on HRTF spatial upsampling in the spherical harmonics domain employing a generative adversarial network. His work focuses on leveraging machine learning models to improve the accuracy and efficiency of HRTF personalisation. This innovative approach aims to enhance sound localisation by reducing the number of measurements required and ensuring high-resolution audio rendering, which holds great potential for applications in virtual and augmented reality. The full paper is available via this link.