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The New Zealand/Japan Joint Research Meeting on Psychological & Physiological Acoustics and Electroacoustics

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Date:	30 November 2017	10:00 - 17:35 & 1 December 2017		10:00 - 17:00

Venue:	University of Auckland (Conference Centre, City Campus, Building 423 22 Symonds Street, Auckland, New Zealand)  [MAP]
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PROGRAM
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Thursday, 30 November, AM, Session 1 (10:00 - 11:40) (1) 10:00 - 10:20 Noise cancellation method for speech signal by using an extension type UKF *Hisako Orimoto, Akira Ikuta (Pref. Univ. of Hiroshima) (2) 10:20 - 10:40 Modelling the acoustics of a vocal tract *Timothy Wang, Catherine Watson, Richard Clarke, John Cater (UOA) (3) 10:40 - 11:00 A Comparative Study on Acoustic Characteristics of Orchestral Instruments Using 768 kHz/32 bit Super High Resolution Measurement System *Yuka Manabe, Tomoaki Magome, Kan Okubo (Tokyo Met. Univ.) (4) 11:00 - 11:20 Fuzzy Bayesian Filter for Sound Environment by Considering Additive Property of Energy Variable and Fuzzy Observation in Decibel Scale *Akira Ikuta, Hisako Orimoto (Prefectural Univ. Hiroshima) (5) 11:20 - 11:40 Non-Diagonal Regularization Matrix for Affine Projection Algorithm *Suehiro Shimauchi, Sachiko Kurihara, Noboru Harada (NTT) -- Break ( 10 minutes ) -- Thursday, 30 November, AM, Invited Talk 1 (11:50 - 12:30) (6) 11:50 - 12:30 [Invited Talk] Sound field control for the creation of multizone and focused sound fields - Approaches based on spatial mode control - *Mark Poletti (Callaghan Innovation) -- Lunch ( 85 minutes ) -- Thursday, 30 November, PM, Session 2 (13:55 - 15:55) (7) 13:55 - 14:15 Localisation of bird calls in native NZ bush using MUSIC and/or GCC method *Alexander Pepperell, Zachary Halstead, Benjamin Ollivier, Yusuke Hioka (UOA) (8) 14:15 - 14:35 Bird localization using the GCC in the wavelet domain *Benjamin Ollivier, Alex Pepperell, Zachary Halstead, Yusuke Hioka (UOA) (9) 14:35 - 14:55 Monaural sound localization under conditions of active head rotation *Tatsuya Hirahara, Daiki Kojima, Daisuke Morikawa (Toyama Prefectural University) (10) 14:55 - 15:15 Direction of arrival estimation using a microphone on a rotating disk *Robert Drage, Timothy Boag, Yusuke Hioka (UOA) (11) 15:15 - 15:35 Spatial sound morphing by using a miniature head simulator array *Takashi Miyaura, Reika Uchimi (TCU), Kaoru Ashihara (AIST), Shogo Kiryu (TCU) (12) 15:35 - 15:55 Enhancing the binaural synthesis from spherical microphone array recordings by using virtual microphones *Cesar Salvador, Shuichi Sakamoto, Jorge Trevino, Yoiti Suzuki (Tohoku Univ.) -- Break ( 20 minutes ) -- Thursday, 30 November, PM, Invited Talk 2 (16:15 - 16:55) (13) 16:15 - 16:55 [Invited Talk] Subjective impression of virtual sound space *Yukio Iwaya (TGU) Thursday, 30 November, PM, Invited Talk 3 (16:55 - 17:35) (14) 16:55 - 17:35 [Invited Talk] Factors affecting medial olivocochlear reflex and their implications for its role as a protection mechanism from noise-induced hearing loss *Sho Otsuka (NTT) Friday, 1 December, AM, Invited Talk 4 (10:00 - 10:40) (15) 10:00 - 10:40 [Invited Talk] The fight against noise -- A personal view -- *David Welch (UOA) -- Break ( 10 minutes ) -- Friday, 1 December, AM, Session 3 (10:50 - 12:10) (16) 10:50 - 11:10 An assessment of basic properties of distant-presented bone-conducted ultrasonic hearing *Seiji Nakagawa, Riki Ogino, Gaik-Sean Yap, Sho Otsuka (Chiba Univ.) (17) 11:10 - 11:30 Word identification in adverse listening conditions by Japanese learners of English -- Role of predictability -- *Hinako Masuda (Seikei Uni.) (18) 11:30 - 11:50 Study on the relationship between modulation spectral features and the perception of nonlinguistic information with noise-vocoded speech *Zhi Zhu, Ryota Miyauchi, Yukiko Araki, Masashi Unoki (JAIST) (19) 11:50 - 12:10 Study on speech privacy protection by controlling speech transmission index in simulated room *Masashi Unoki, Yuta Kashihara, Maori Kobayashi, Masato Akagi (JAIST) -- Lunch ( 60 minutes ) -- -- Lab Tour ( 30 minutes ) -- Friday, 1 December, PM, Invited Talk 5 (13:40 - 14:20) (20) 13:40 - 14:20 [Invited Talk] Toward Affective Speech-to-Speech Translation *Masato Akagi (JAIST) Friday, 1 December, PM, Invited Talk 6 (14:20 - 15:00) (21) 14:20 - 15:00 [Invited Talk] Blind Audio Source Separation based on Independent Component Analysis *Shoji Makino (Univ. of Tsukuba) -- Break ( 20 minutes ) -- Friday, 1 December, PM, Session 4 (15:20 - 17:00) (22) 15:20 - 15:40 Range Control of Maximum Demodulation Distance in Parametric Loudspeaker Using Flexible Acoustic-lens *Kirara Ariyoshi, Takahiro Fukumori, Masato Nakayama, Takanobu Nishiura(Ritsumeikan Univ.) (23) 15:40 - 16:00 Generating method of binaural signals at semi- arbitrary listening positions from a linear microphone array *Asuka Yamazato, Yoichi Haneda (UEC) (24) 16:00 - 16:20 HRTF Personalization Based on Pinna Shape Estimation with Handy Three-dimensional Scanner *Zhuan Zuo, Takahiro Fukumori, Masato Nakayama, Takanobu Nishiura (Ritsumeikan Univ.) (25) 16:20 - 16:40 An efficient spatial sound rendering method for extended reality applications *Trevino Jorge, Sakamoto Shuichi, Suzuki Yoiti (Tohoku Univ.) (26) 16:40 - 17:00 A Matrix Driving Method for Multi-channel Loud Speaker using Multiplication-output and Delta-sigma Modulator with Multiple-input *Shigeto Takeoka (SIST) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Talk: 15-minutes Presentation + 5-minutes QA Invited Talk: 35-minutes Presentation + 5-minutes QA Organizers: Acoustics Research Centre, Faculty of Engineering, University of Auckland Technical Committee of Psychological and Physiological Acoustics, Acoustical Society of Japan Technical Committee of Electroacoustics, Acoustical Society of Japan / Technical Committee of Engineering acoustics, IEICE (Japan) Contact information: Dr Yusuke Hioka, University of Auckland E-mail: y.hioka [at] auckland.ac.nz Dr Eriko Aiba, University of Electro-Communications (Technical Committee of Psychological and Physiological Acoustics) URL: http://asj-hcom.acoustics.jp/en/index_e.html E-mail: aiba.eriko [at] uec.ac.jp Dr Shigeto Takeoka, Shizuoka Institute of Science and Technology (Technical Committee of Electroacoustics and Engineering Acoustics) E-mail: takeoka.shigeto [at] sist.ac.jp