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SONICOM @sonicom.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

After 4.5 years, the SONICOM project came to a close at the end of June 2026 🥺 Thank you to everyone who came along for the ride...we’ve put together a final newsletter to celebrate the achievements of the project 🎉 Check it out now ⬇️

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SONICOM: A Project Summary - Sonicom

Check out the final newsletter for SONICOM, reflecting on all that's been achieved in the past 4.5 years

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SONICOM @sonicom.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

The SONICOM Ecosystem is now live for all to explore! This open community platform makes the future of research in spatial hearing & personalised binaural audio more accessible, reusable, and transparent than ever before. Read more about how it works 👉bit.ly/4ub0k0w

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SONICOM @sonicom.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

The SONICOM Ecosystem is live! An open platform bringing together audio datasets and tools to support research on how we hear in AR/VR and digital spaces 🔊 A community‑driven resource for anyone exploring sound. Explore it here: bit.ly/4dPpOM2 @oeaw.bsky.social @isf-oeaw.bsky.social

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SONICOM @sonicom.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

Congratulations to Dr Davide Fantini for delivering a webinar for the IEEE Signal Processing Society on machine learning for personalised spatial audio 🎉 📺 Watch the recording: lnkd.in/exEFefAk 📑 View the slides: lnkd.in/enA2fWiB

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SONICOM @sonicom.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

Exciting news! The IEEE Signal Processing Society has invited Dr Davide Fantini to host a webinar on a paper co-authored with Michele Geronazzo, Federico Avanzini, and Stavros Ntalampiras. 🗓️ Mon 9 Mar, 2pm CET 🔗 If you are interested, you can find more details and register here: bit.ly/4050aL8

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SONICOM @sonicom.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

Meet Maria Cuevas-Rodriguez! María is an Assistant Professor at the @univmalaga.bsky.social and has shared some insights on her career, work, life outside the lab, and being a woman in STEM. Read now 👉 bit.ly/4b0FvOg

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SONICOM @sonicom.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

January is nearly over, and before we well and truly jump into 2026, here’s a moment to celebrate everything that made the last one count 🔊 The 2025 SONICOM Year in Review is now live 👉 tinyurl.com/kmv6j5ze

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Celebrating SONICOM's 2025 Research Successes - Sonicom

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SONICOM @sonicom.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

A few years ago, we had the pleasure of showcasing some of the remarkable women driving innovation within the SONICOM consortium 🔊 Today, we're excited to relaunch that series and introduce a new face on the team! Meet Jessica Luo 👉 sonicom.eu/in-profile-j... @sorbonne-universite.fr

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In profile: Meet Jessica Lou

Meet one of the fantastic women in the SONICOM consortium

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SONICOM @sonicom.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

Curious about what’s going on in this clip? SONICOM researcher Kathi Pollack breaks it down in her guest article, 'Decoding the Shape of Our Ears' Read all about it now 👉 bit.ly/4fOxaOL

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SONICOM @sonicom.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

SONICOM partners recently launched an interactive experience at the Great Exhibition Road Festival 🎪 Participants spent 10 minutes in the 'Immersive Sound Lab', with just one challenge: Can you trust your ears? Read more 👉 bit.ly/4lQDc3G

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Trust Your Ears? SONICOM’s Immersive Sound Lab puts visitors to the test at London Festival - Sonicom

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SONICOM @sonicom.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

🚨 New SONICOM Publication Alert! 🚨 Our latest paper relates to the 1st Listener Acoustic Personalisation (LAP) Challenge and officially opens the LAP24 Special Topic in the IEEE Open Journal of Signal Processing, dedicated to the 2024 LAP Challenge 🔊 📖 Read it here: 👉 bit.ly/4nIf4RU

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Listener Acoustic Personalisation Challenge - LAP24: Head-Related Transfer Function Upsampling

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SONICOM @sonicom.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

Last week, the University of Malaga team presented on the recently released v2.0 of the Binaural Rendering Toolbox (BRT) at Forum Acusticum Euronoise 2025! Some of the team worked on a piece about the toolbox for the SONICOM website. Check it out 👉 bit.ly/45LzYsZ

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SONICOM @sonicom.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

Congratulations to Arcadio Reyes-Lecuona on presenting the first (of many) SONICOM presentations at Forum Acusticum 2025 🔊 Stay tuned!

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SONICOM @sonicom.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

Happy International Women in Engineering Day! We’re proud to spotlight some of the amazing women behind SONICOM today 🔊 Meet Prof Areti Andreopoulou, an Assistant Professor at the Music Technology Laboratory (LabMAT) at NKUA in Athens, Greece👉 bit.ly/4kXRWNy

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SONICOM @sonicom.bsky.social · 15/06/2025

The SONICOM consortium met in Milan, Italy for a jam-packed annual meeting 🔊 Things unofficially kicked off Tuesday evening with a relaxed aperitivo, the perfect warm-up for the following 2.5 days of sharing key updates from the past 12 months and mapping out plans for the final year of SONICOM!

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Audio Experience Design @axdimperial.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

Our postdoc Katarina Poole also presented her work on synthetic @sonicom.bsky.social HRTFs at ISH 2025!

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SONICOM @sonicom.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

Congratulations to Dr. Kat Poole from the @axdimperial.bsky.social team at @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social for presenting her research for SONICOM on synthetic HRTFs at the International Symposium on Hearing in Vienna! Discover more about Kat’s work here 👉 bit.ly/43wp88K

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SONICOM @sonicom.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

Discover BeRTA - a highly configurable application that allows users to design a wide range of virtual sound scenarios, including immersive auditory scenes for experiments, virtual environments, or artistic projects. Read more: www.sonicom.eu/enhancing-vi...

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Enhancing Virtual Reality with BeRTA: A Modular Spatial Audio Renderer - Sonicom

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SONICOM @sonicom.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

Imagine navigating through an unknown city without even glancing at a map... @dreamwavesio.bsky.social, a SONICOM partner, is pioneering audio-based navigation that directs you through 3D AR sound cues Learn more about their 3D audio navigation journey: sonicom.eu/dreamwaves-i... 1/2

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Dreamwaves: intuitive navigation using your ears (and your phone) - Sonicom

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SONICOM @sonicom.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

Spring is in the air, and it's making us reflect upon our research successes from the past year 💪 Our 2024 included publications advancing our understanding of spatial hearing mechanisms to new research tools. Read more about our research progress: www.sonicom.eu/sonicoms-202...

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SONICOM's 2024 Research Successes - Sonicom

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SONICOM @sonicom.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

Discover BezierPPM - a new parametric model of the human pinna created by SONICOM researchers at @isf-oeaw.bsky.social 👂 This model represents the biological structure of the human pinna and enables its parametric modelling in many degrees of freedom. Learn more 👇 www.sonicom.eu/bezierppm-a-...

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BezierPPM: a new parametric model of the human pinna - Sonicom

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SONICOM @sonicom.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

🔊 New SONICOM research Discover FrAMBI, a new MATLAB/Octave framework for implementing and evaluating auditory models, ensuring consistency across studies. Learn more: www.sonicom.eu/introducing-...

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Introducing FrAMBI: A new framework for auditory modelling - Sonicom

Learn about FrAMBI, a MATLAB/Octave framework that applies Bayesian inference to model auditory perception and behaviour.

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SONICOM @sonicom.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

🔊 New SONICOM research This work surveys machine learning-based approaches for HRTF personalisation in the literature, organising them according to the processing steps involved in the machine learning workflow. Read more on our website: www.sonicom.eu/assessing-ma...

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Assessing machine learning techniques for HRTF individualisation - Sonicom

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SONICOM @sonicom.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

SONICOM exhibited at @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social Senses Lates a few weeks ago! On the night visitors had the opportunity to listen to some audio demos, learn about the project and go on a tour of the Turret Lab 🔊 Read more 👉 bit.ly/3ZUNg2T @axdimperial.bsky.social @imperialspark.bsky.social

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SONICOM at Imperial Lates: Senses - Sonicom

The SONICOM team exhibited at the Lates in what was the last engagement activity of 2024

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SONICOM @sonicom.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

📢 New SONICOM toolbox Introducing Spatial Audio Metrics (SAM) – an open-source software platform to compare and visualise Head-Related Transfer Functions (HRTFs) which helps enhance the listening experience 🔊 Learn more 👇 bit.ly/49s7zYL

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New SONICOM toolbox to analyse spatial audio - Sonicom

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Audio Experience Design @axdimperial.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

Hello #BlueSky 🦋 world! You can meet us in person at #ImperialLates: Senses tonight to explore the wonderful world of 3D audio. 🔊🎧 🗓️ 5 December, 6-9 pm 📍South Kensington @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social Register here: ow.ly/Sxvl50U9320

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Imperial Lates: Senses

Join the Imperial Lates for a free evening of sensory stimulating activities to explore science.

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SONICOM @sonicom.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

Come say hello to the SONICOM team at #ImperialLates: Senses 🔊 We’ll also be running tours of the Turret Lab so make sure you get your name on the list before we run out of space! See you from 6pm at @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social

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SONICOM @sonicom.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

Welcome to SONICOM’s Bluesky 🦋 SONICOM is funded by the @ec.europa.eu Horizon2020 Programme and aims to revolutionise the way we interact socially within augmented and virtual reality (AR/VR) environments and applications, from online meetings to VR gaming 🔊

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