Anti-noise window: Subjective perception of active noise reduction and effect of informational masking

B Lam, KCQ Lim, K Ooi, ZT Ong, D Shi… - Sustainable Cities and …, 2023‏ - Elsevier
Reviving natural ventilation (NV) for urban sustainability presents challenges for indoor
acoustic comfort. Active control and interference-based noise mitigation strategies, such as …

ARAUS: A large-scale dataset and baseline models of affective responses to augmented urban soundscapes

K Ooi, ZT Ong, KN Watcharasupat… - IEEE Transactions …, 2023‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Choosing optimal maskers for existing soundscapes to effect a desired perceptual change
via soundscape augmentation is non-trivial due to extensive varieties of maskers and a …

[HTML][HTML] Sha** city soundscapes: In-situ comparison of four sound installations in an urban public space

V Fraisse, C Tarlao, C Guastavino - Landscape and Urban Planning, 2024‏ - Elsevier
The soundscape approach considers sound as a resource from a user perspective in the
planning of public spaces. While this approach is garnering increased research attention …

Automating urban soundscape enhancements with AI: In-situ assessment of quality and restorativeness in traffic-exposed residential areas

B Lam, ZT Ong, K Ooi, WH Ong, T Wong… - Building and …, 2024‏ - Elsevier
Formalized in ISO 12913, the “soundscape” approach is a paradigmatic shift towards
perception-based urban sound management, aiming to alleviate the substantial …

Predictive Modelling of Complex Urban Soundscapes: Enabling an engineering approach to soundscape design

AJ Mitchell - 2022‏ - discovery.ucl.ac.uk
Conventional noise control methods typically limit their focus to the reduction of unwanted
noise, ignoring the benets of positive sounds and struggling to reflect the totality of noise …

Autonomous soundscape augmentation with multimodal fusion of visual and participant-linked inputs

K Ooi, KN Watcharasupat, B Lam… - ICASSP 2023-2023 …, 2023‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Autonomous soundscape augmentation systems typically use trained models to pick optimal
maskers to effect a desired perceptual change. While acoustic information is paramount to …

Autonomous in-situ soundscape augmentation via joint selection of masker and gain

KN Watcharasupat, K Ooi, B Lam… - IEEE Signal …, 2022‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The selection of maskers and playback gain levels in an in-situ soundscape augmentation
system is crucial to its effectiveness in improving the overall acoustic comfort of a given …

A conceptual framework for the practical use of predictive models and Soundscape Indices: Goals, constraints, and applications

A Mitchell, F Aletta, T Oberman… - INTER-NOISE and …, 2023‏ - ingentaconnect.com
With the recent standardization of soundscape, there has been increased interest in bringing
the soundscape approach into an engineering context. While traditional assessment …

Deployment of an IoT system for adaptive in-situ soundscape augmentation

T Wong, KN Watcharasupat, B Lam… - INTER-NOISE and …, 2023‏ - ingentaconnect.com
Soundscape augmentation is an emerging approach for noise mitigation by introducing
additional sounds known as “maskers” to increase acoustic comfort. Traditionally, the choice …

[HTML][HTML] Soundscape perception indices (SPIs): Develo** context-dependent single value scores of multidimensional soundscape perceptual quality

A Mitchell, F Aletta, T Oberman, J Kang - The Journal of the Acoustical …, 2024‏ - pubs.aip.org
The soundscape approach provides a basis for considering the holistic perception of sound
environments in context. Whereas steady advancements have been made in methods for …