New visiting research fellow

We welcomed a visiting research fellow Dr Eri Osawa from Speech Communication Laboratory, Sophia University, Japan. Eri is working with Yusuke Hioka and Justine Hui on the project to investigate the effect of room acoustics on the perception of Japanese vowels. Eri...

New members joined the CAL

To start the new academic year, the CAL welcomed following new students in the team. Masters students: Seo In Park: “Sound source localisation for drones” Part4 project students: Daniel Yau, Peter Lin: Project title “Audio recording and sound source...

Research fund granted

Head of CAL Yusuke Hioka was granted Catalyst: Seeding New Zealand-Japan Joint Research Project Programme grant for the project “Extreme acoustic sensing based on small-data-driven machine learning and its rescue application” from the Royal Society of New...

Journal paper published

We have a journal paper accepted and published from the Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. The paper summrises our research on developing a method for estimating the direction of bird calls. The link to the paper is here.

ARC excursion

The group joined the summer excursion organised by the Acoustics Research Centre. This year we visited Tiritiri Matangi Island on Hauraki Gulf and enjoyed an early summer day by hiking, watching birds, and having picnic lunch...

Research fund granted

The head of CAL, Yusuke Hioka, was granted NZ$166,865 as the Faculty Research Develoment Fund to conduct a project titled “Spatial release from sound masking in non-native listeners with different proficiency level”. The project is a collaboration with...