Hervé Lissek
Senior Scientist
herve.lissek@epfl.ch +41 21 693 46 30 https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Herve_Lissek
Citizenship: French, Swiss
Birth date: 16.06.1974
EPFL STI IEL LTS2
ELB 040 (Bâtiment ELB)
Station 11
1015 Lausanne
Web site: Web site: https://lts2.epfl.ch/
EPFL STI IEM LTS2
ELB 040 (Bâtiment ELB)
Station 11
1015 Lausanne
+41 21 693 46 30
Office:
ELB 040
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Fields of expertise
Acoustics and audio engineering, Electroacoustics.
Room acoustics.
Active noise control.
Acoustic metamaterials.
Assisted reverberation.
Psychoacoustics.
Sound spatialization
Room acoustics.
Active noise control.
Acoustic metamaterials.
Assisted reverberation.
Psychoacoustics.
Sound spatialization
Mission
Head of the Acoustic Group at the Laboratoire de Traitement des Signaux LTS2.Specialty: Development of ElectroAcoustic MetaMaterials. Bridging the gap between active loudspeakers, electroacoustic resonators, and acoustic metamaterials.
National Focal Point (NFP) for Switzerland within the X-Noise EV European Network (FP7-Aircraft External Noise Research Network and Coordination).
Teaching activities: electroacoustics (Bachelor), Audio engineering (Master), active noise control (Doctoral program).
SHORT BIOGRAPHY
After a PhD in Acoustics (Les Matériaux Actifs à Propriétés Acoustiques Variables, Université du Maine, Le Mans), Dr. Lissek joined the Laboratoire dElectromagnétisme et dAcoustique to supervise the active noise control activities of the Acoustic Research Group, headed by Prof. Mario Rossi.Since 2006, Dr. Lissek took the leadership of the Acoustic Group, and launched several expertise activities together with new research topics at EPFL, especially in the frame of Aircraft Noise Research in EU projects (FP5-Silence(R), FP6-X3 Noise, FP7-TEENI, OPENAIR, XNOISE EV). He is also appointed expert by the EC to evaluate research proposals in calls for projects in Aeronautics within FP7.
Since 2015, Hervé Lissek and the Acoustic Group are affiliated to the Laboratoire de Traitement des Signaux LTS2
Dr. Lissek is now heading a team of 6 people, among which 4 PhD students, 1 Post-doc, and 1 Engineer.
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Dr. Lissek's core competences are related to electroacoustics, namely know-how on loudspeaker and microphone design, acoustic transmission lines description via lumped element models, as well as the design of arrays of transducers for sound reinforcement and acoustic imaging, especially for communication (line arrays, wave field synthesis) applications or noise metrology (beamforming, near-field holography, goniometry). Together with this specific skill, he and his group claim a broader acoustic expertise such as the characterization and model of complex sound sources, including structure-fluid interactions, sound propagation models within complex 3D fields including weather effects and other fluid and thermodynamic interactions, and auditory issues of sound (namely psychoacoustics, including sound design).As a combination of these competences, active noise control has become a hot activity of Dr. Lissek in the last decade, leading to the development of practical concepts for active noise cancellation, active impedance control, or the recent shunt loudspeakers techniques used as acoustic absorbers, the core of these developments remaining the electroacoustic transducers. As a consequence of the latter, the acoustic group led by Dr. Lissek is investigating new research areas such as acoustic metamaterials, that should lead to acoustic cloaking capabilities.
PROJECTS
Ongoing- SALUTE (H2020-CS2, coord. ECL, France)- SmartAnswer (H2020-ITN, coord. VKI, Belgium)
- ARTEM (H2020, coord. DLR, Germany)
- Compressive Sensing (SNF)
Completed - INTERACTS (CTI, with Goldmund sa, Relec sa, HEPIA): development of electroacoustic absorbers for the equalization of rooms in the low-frequency range
- BHA(L&S) (CTI, with Phonak ag): development of signal processing techniques for localization and spatialization in hearing aids
- i3DMusic (Eurostars - CTI): enable enhanced playback of existing musical content on up to date and emerging 3D audio systems
- X-Noise EV
- OPENAIR (call FP7-AAT-2008-RTD-1): OPtimisation for low Environmental Noise impact AIRcraft
- CTI-VeoVox: microphone arrays dedicated to speech recognition devices, for telecommunications applications (KTI funding).
- TEENI (call FP7-AAT-2007-RTD-1): Turboshaft Engine Exhaust Noise Identification
- ACT-Noise: Active Control for Tampers Noise (FOEN funding)
- QTT: Quiet Traction Transformer (FOEN funding)
- X3-Noise (call FP6-2005-Aero-1): Aircraft External Noise Research Network and Co-ordination.
- CTI-myVox(TM): microphone arrays dedicated to speech recognition devices, for telecommunications applications (KTI funding).
- CTI-Keystrokes: methodologie for the acoustic qualification of keystroke noise (KTI funding).
- Active materials with variable acoustic properties: new techniques for absorbing noise by way of active acoustic impedance matching.
- Sound design: development of characterization, modelization, and design techniques for enhancing sound quality of manufactured objects.
- Audio: electroacoustic transducers design for audio, telecommunications, and active noise control.
Publications
Infoscience publications
Infoscience
Active Acoustic Su-Schrieffer-Heeger-Like Metamaterial
Physical Review Applied. 2023-07-12. DOI : 10.1103/PhysRevApplied.20.014022.Ultrabroadband sound control with deep-subwavelength plasmacoustic metalayers
Nature Communications. 2023-05-19. DOI : 10.1038/s41467-023-38522-5.Observation of non-reciprocal harmonic conversion in real sounds
Communications Physics. 2023-05-06. DOI : 10.1038/s42005-023-01217-w.Smart acoustic lining for UHBR technologies engine: from the design of an electroacoustic metasurface to experimental characterization under flow
2023-04-28. SPIE Smart Structures + Nondestructive Evaluation, 2023, Long Beach, California, United States, March 12-17, 2023. p. 1248319. DOI : 10.1117/12.2658519.Robust direct acoustic impedance control using two microphones for mixed feedforward-feedback controller
Acta Acustica. 2023-01-09. DOI : 10.1051/aacus/2022058.Robust tunable acoustic impedance control on electroacoustic resonators for aircraft noise reduction
Lausanne, EPFL, 2023. DOI : 10.5075/epfl-thesis-9833.Plasma based noise reduction system
US11790881 ; US2023020879 ; EP4116967 . 2023.Effect of time delay on the impedance control of a pressure-based, current-driven Electroacoustic Absorber
Journal of Sound and Vibration. 2022-07-25. DOI : 10.1016/j.jsv.2022.117201.Human Head Yaw Estimation based on Two 3-axis Accelerometers
IEEE Sensors Journal. 2022-07-17. DOI : 10.1109/JSEN.2022.3185712.In flow acoustic characterisation of a 2D active liner with local and non local strategies.
Applied Acoustics. 2022-02-15. DOI : 10.1016/j.apacoust.2022.108655.PID-like active impedance control for electroacoustic resonators to design tunable single-degree-of-freedom sound absorbers
Journal of Sound and Vibration. 2022-01-31. DOI : 10.1016/j.jsv.2022.116784.Corona discharge actuator as an active sound absorber under normal and oblique incidence
Acta Acustica. 2022-01-31. DOI : 10.1051/aacus/2022001.Plasma-based Electroacoustic Actuator for Broadband Sound Absorption
Lausanne, EPFL, 2022. DOI : 10.5075/epfl-thesis-9784.Auditory externalization of a remote microphone signal
Lausanne, EPFL, 2022. DOI : 10.5075/epfl-thesis-8959.Experimental assessment of an active (acoustic) liner prototype in an acoustic flow duct facility
2021-04-14. SPIE Smart Structures + Nondestructive Evaluation, 2021, online, March 22-26, 2021. p. 505-511. DOI : 10.1117/12.2583099.Sound Field Reconstruction in a room through Sparse Recovery and its application in Room Modal Equalization
Lausanne, EPFL, 2021. DOI : 10.5075/epfl-thesis-8394.Development of a plasma electroacoustic actuator for active noise control applications
Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics. 2020-09-23. DOI : 10.1088/1361-6463/abafde.Low frequency sound field reconstruction in a non-rectangular room using a small number of microphones
Acta Acustica. 2020-05-12. DOI : 10.1051/aacus/2020006.Improving sound absorption through nonlinear active electroacoustic resonators
Physical Review Applied. 2020-01-10. DOI : 10.1103/PhysRevApplied.13.014018.Sparse and Parametric Modeling with Applications to Acoustics and Audio
Lausanne, EPFL, 2020. DOI : 10.5075/epfl-thesis-7215.Active acoustic resonators with reconfigurable resonance frequency, absorption, and bandwidth
Physical Review Applied. 2019-11-27. DOI : 10.1103/PhysRevApplied.12.054064.Perception of Auditory Distance in Normal-Hearing and Moderate-to-Profound Hearing-Impaired Listeners
Trends in Hearing. 2019-11-27. DOI : 10.1177/2331216519887615.Auditory externalization in hearing-impaired listeners with remote microphone systems for hearing aids
2019-07-11. 26th International Congress on Sound & Vibration - ICSV26, Montréal, Québec, Canada, July 7-11, 2019.Electroacoustic resonators: system identification and stability
2019-07-11. 26th International Congress on Sound & Vibration - ICSV26, Montréal, Québec, Canada, July 7-1, 2019. p. 641-648.Evaluation subjective d’un algorithme de spatialisation binaurale pour aides auditives par des sujets normo-entendants et malentendants
14ème Congrès Français d'Acoustique (CFA 2018), Le Havre, France, April 23-27, 2018.Wave-conversion active liner based on generalized Snell-Descartes law
2019. The 26th International Congress on Sound and Vibration - ICSV26, Montréal, Québec, Canada, July 7-11, 2019.Sound field reconstruction in a room using low-rank approximation of mode shapes: validation and application
2019. The 26th International Congress on Sound and Vibration - ICSV26, Montréal, Québec, Canada, July 7-11, 2019.Fully symmetrical single-suspension electrodynamic loudspeaker using a Halbach array
2019. The 26th International Congress on Sound and Vibration - ICSV26, Montréal, Québec, Canada, July 7-11, 2019.Development of a wideband steerable acoustic metasurface composed of active electroacoustic resonators with COMSOL
COMSOL Conference 2018, Lausanne, Switzerland, October 22-24, 2018.Constant-pressure sound waves in non-Hermitian disordered media
Nature Physics. 2018-07-02. DOI : 10.1038/s41567-018-0188-7.Low Frequency Sound Field Reconstruction in Non-rectangular Room: A Numerical Validation
2018-05-30. Euronoise 2018 - 11th European Congress and Exposition on Noise Control Engineering, Crete, Greece, May 27-31, 2018.Subjective evaluation of a spatialization feature for hearing aids by normal-hearing and hearing-impaired subjects
2018-05-14. 144th Audio Engineering Society Convention, Milano, Italy, May 24-26, 2018.Conception d'une zone d'écoute personnelle par contrôle d'impédance déporté
14ème Congrès Français d'Acoustique (CFA 2018), Le Havre, France, April 23-27, 2018.Ondes acoustiques à amplitude constante dans des milieux désordonnés non-Hermitiens
14ème Congrès Français d'Acoustique (CFA 2018), Le Havre, France, April 23-27, 2018.Absorption active dans un conduit avec écoulement à l'aide d'un liner électroacoustique
14ème Congrès Français d'Acoustique (CFA 2018), Le Havre, France, April 23-27, 2018.Duct modes damping through an adjustable electroacoustic liner under grazing incidence
Journal of Sound and Vibration. 2018-04-16. DOI : 10.1016/j.jsv.2018.04.009.Audio-visual sensory deprivation degrades visuo-tactile peri-personal space
Consciousness and Cognition. 2018-04-02. DOI : 10.1016/j.concog.2018.04.001.Effects of Binaural Spatialization in Wireless Microphone Systems for Hearing Aids on Normal-Hearing and Hearing-Impaired Listeners
Trends in Hearing. 2018-02-18. DOI : 10.1177/2331216517753548.Discrete constant pressure waves in non-Hermitian disordered metamaterials
International Conference on Nonlinear Localization in Lattices (NLL - 2018), Spetses Island, Greece, 18-22 June 2018.Joint Estimation Of The Room Geometry And Modes With Compressed Sensing
2018-01-01. IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Calgary, CANADA, Apr 15-20, 2018. p. 6882-6886. DOI : 10.1109/ICASSP.2018.8462655.Objective evaluation of static beamforming on the quality of speech in noise
2018. Euronoise, Heraklion, Crete, Greece, May 27-31, 2018. p. 1-6.Experimental evaluation of speech enhancement methods in remote microphone systems for hearing aids
2018. Euronoise, Heraklion, Crete, Greece, May 27-31, 2018. p. 1-8.Développement et validation d'une métasurface acoustique orientable large bande composée de résonateurs électroacoustiques actifs
14e Congrès Français d'Acoustique (CFA2018), Le Havre, 23-27 avril 2018.Toward Wideband Steerable Acoustic Metasurfaces with Arrays of Active Electroacoustic Resonators
Journal of Applied Physics. 2018. DOI : 10.1063/1.5011380.Multi-degree-of-freedom low-frequency electroacoustic absorbers through coupled resonators
Applied Acoustics. 2018. DOI : 10.1016/j.apacoust.2017.10.019.Constant amplitude sound waves in non-Hermitian metamaterials
174th meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA.Assessment of a metamaterial-inspired active acoustic liner concept for application to aircraft engine noise reduction
Workshop "Applications industrielles des métamatériaux acoustiques", Marseille, France, September 1, 2017.Development of Leaky-Wave Antenna Applications with Acoustics Metamaterials: from the Acoustic Dispersive Prism to Sound Direction Finding with a Single Microphone
2017. 11th International Congress on Engineered Material Platforms for Novel Wave Phenomena - Metamaterials 2017, Marseille, France, August 28 - September 2. p. 202-204. DOI : 10.1109/MetaMaterials.2017.8107890.Localization of Sound Sources in a Room with One Microphone
2017. Wavelets and Sparsity XVII, San Diego, California, USA, August 6-9, 2017. p. 1039401. DOI : 10.1117/12.2271249.Design of Remote Quiet Zones Using Spot-Type Sound Reducers
Acta Acustica united with Acustica. 2017. DOI : 10.3813/AAA.919113.On the Optimisation of Multi-Degree-of-Freedom Acoustic Impedances of Low-Frequency Electroacoustic Absorbers for Room Modal Equalisation
Acta Acustica united with Acustica. 2017. DOI : 10.3813/AAA.919132.No need to shout: Effect of signal loudness on sibling communication in barn owls
Ethology. 2017. DOI : 10.1111/eth.12612.Electromagnetic Inspired Acoustic Metamaterials
Lausanne, EPFL, 2017. DOI : 10.5075/epfl-thesis-7763.Design and experimental validation of an active acoustic liner for aircraft engine noise reduction
2017. MEDYNA 2017: 2nd Euro-Mediterranean Conference on Structural Dynamics and Vibroacoustics, Sevilla, Spain, April 25-27, 2017.Design of active Multiple-degrees-of-freedom electroacoustic resonators for use as broadband sound absorbers
2017. MEDYNA 2017: 2nd Euro-Mediterranean Conference on Structural Dynamics and Vibroacoustics, Sevilla, Spain, April 25-27, 2017.Generation of acoustic helical wavefronts using metasurfaces
Physical Review B. 2017. DOI : 10.1103/PhysRevB.95.024312.Broadband Low-Frequency Electroacoustic Absorbers Through Hybrid Sensor-/Shunt-Based Impedance Control
IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology. 2017. DOI : 10.1109/TCST.2016.2547981.Hearing assistance system
SONOVA AG: CN107211225 ; US10149074 ; EP3248393 ; US2018020298 ; EP3248393 ; CN107211225 ; WO2016116160 . 2016-07-28.Experimental assessment of low-frequency electroacoustic absorbers for room modal equalization in actual listening rooms
2016-06-07. 140th Audio Engineering Society Convention, Paris, France, June 4-7, 2016.Synthèse temps-réel d’impédance acoustique distribuée
2016-04-15. 13e Congrès Français d'Acoustique, Le Mans, France, 11-15 avril 2016. p. 867-870.Egalisation modale des salles avec des absorbeurs électroacoustiques
2016-04-15. Congrès Français d'Acoustique, Le Mans, France, April 11-15, 2016. p. 1199-1205.Acoustic energy harvesting using electrochemical double layor capacitors: Technical feasibility and performance assessment
2016. IECON 2016 - 42nd Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society, Florence, Italy, October 24-27, 2016. p. 5495-5500. DOI : 10.1109/IECON.2016.7793097.Room Modal Equalisation with Electroacoustic Absorbers
Lausanne, EPFL, 2016. DOI : 10.5075/epfl-thesis-7166.Dynamic Range Limiting of HRTFs: Principle and Objective evaluation
Journal of the Audio Engineering Society (JAES). 2016. DOI : 10.17743/jaes.2016.0023.Spatial hearing rendering in wireless microphone systems for binaural hearing aids
Lausanne, EPFL, 2016. DOI : 10.5075/epfl-thesis-7221.Sensorless Electroacoustic Absorbers Through Synthesized Impedance Control for Damping Low-Frequency Modes in Cavities
Acta Acustica united with Acustica. 2016. DOI : 10.3813/AAA.918986.Acoustic carpet cloak based on an ultrathin metasurface
Physical Review B. 2016. DOI : 10.1103/PhysRevB.94.014302.Electromagnetic inspired acoustic leaky-wave antenna
2016. 2016 10th European Conference on Antennas and Propagation (EuCAP), Davos, Switzerland, April 10-15, 2016. DOI : 10.1109/EuCAP.2016.7481954.Exploiting the leaky-wave properties of transmission-line metamaterials for single-microphone direction finding
The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 2016. DOI : 10.1121/1.4949544.Développement et validation d’une d’antenne acoustique à ondes de fuite
2016. 13e Congrès Français d'Acoustique, Le Mans, April 11-15, 2016. p. 623-629.Acoustic dispersive prism
Scientific Reports. 2016. DOI : 10.1038/srep18911.Body part-centered and full body-centered peripersonal space representations
Scientific Reports. 2015. DOI : 10.1038/srep18603.Development and assessment of a localization algorithm implemented in binaural hearing aids
2015. 23rd European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO), Nice, France, August 31, 2015. p. 2321-2325.Control strategies for a distributed active acoustic skin
2015. INTERNOISE 2015, San Francisco, CA, USA, August 9-12, 2015. p. 1266-1273.Absorbeur électroacoustique: du haut-parleur shunté à la synthèse d'impédance acoustique
Journée scientifique de la SFA - Techniques de contrôle en vibrations, acoustique et musique, IRCAM, Paris, France, November 16, 2015.Electroacoustic absorption: towards room equalization in the low-frequency range
ETHZ Acoustics Colloquium, ETHZ, Zurich, Switzerland, October 28, 2015.Low frequency absorption by hybrid sensor/shunt-based impedance control
Swiss AES meeting, Yverdon, September 3, 2015.Evaluation of audio source separation in the context of 3D audio
Lausanne, EPFL, 2015. DOI : 10.5075/epfl-thesis-6723.On the design of unit-cells for acoustic metasurfaces
2015. 9th International Congress on Advanced Electromagnetic Materials in Microwaves and Optics - Metamaterials 2015, Oxford, United Kingdom, September 7-12, 2015. p. 397-399. DOI : 10.1109/MetaMaterials.2015.7342464.Acoustic Metasurface
2015. META’15, the 6th International Conference on Metamaterials, Photonic Crystals and Plasmonics, City College of New York, New York City, NY, USA, August 4, 2015 – August 7, 2015.All about that bass!
Montreux Jazz Workshops, Montreux, Petit Palais, July 15, 2015.A sound diffusion system for directional sound enhancement
US2017006379 ; EP3078209 ; WO2015083020 ; WO2015083020 ; GB201321325 . 2015.Absorbeurs électroacoustiques actifs: application à l’égalisation des salles aux basses fréquences
Colloque du CIDB-GIAC-SFA: Vibrations et bruits basses fréquences dans les bâtiments, Paris, Maison des Travaux Publics, France, 2015.Experimental assessment of active electroacoustic absorbers for broadband room modes damping
2015. INTERNOISE 2015, San Francisco, California, USA, August 9-12, 2015. p. 1534-1542.Binaural hearing aids with wireless microphone systems including speaker localization and spatialization
2015. 138th Audio Engineering Society Convention, Warsaw, Poland, 7 May 2015 through 10 May 2015.Full body action remapping of peripersonal space: The case of walking
Neuropsychologia. 2015. DOI : 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2014.08.030.Objective and subjective validation of an active control approach to reduce the occlusion effect in hearing aids
Acta Acustica united with Acustica. 2015. DOI : 10.3813/AAA.918847.Acoustic Leaky-Wave Antenna
2014. 8th International Congress on Advanced Electromagnetic Materials in Microwaves and Optics - Metamaterials 2014, Copenhagen, Denmark, August, 25-30, 2014. DOI : 10.1109/MetaMaterials.2014.6948575.Electroacoustic absorbers for the low-frequency modal equalization of a room: what is the optimal target impedance for maximum modal damping, depending on the total area of absorbers?
2014. 7th Forum Acusticum 2014, Kraków, Poland, September 7-12, 2014.Egalisation modale des salles avec des absorbeurs électroacoustiques
Journées des Jeunes Chercheurs en vibrations, Acoustique et Bruit, Lyon, France, November 6-7, 2014.Implementation of a binaural localization algorithm in hearing aids: Specifications and achievable solutions
2014. 136th Audio Engineering Society Convention, Berlin, 26 April 2014 through 29 April 2014. p. 197-206.Active Control mitigating the Ear Canal Occlusion Effect caused by Hearing Aids
Lausanne, EPFL, 2014. DOI : 10.5075/epfl-thesis-6218.Absorbeurs électroacoustiques pour l'égalisation modale des salles : Une nouvelle approche avec des haut-parleurs à double bobine
2014. CFA Poitiers 2014, Poitiers, France, April 22-25, 2014.Baffle Electroacoustique
WO2014053994 ; WO2014053994 ; FR2996400 . 2014.Investigations on the physical factors influencing the ear canal occlusion effect caused by hearing aids
ACTA ACUSTICA UNITED WITH ACUSTICA. 2014. DOI : 10.3813/AAA.918732.Toward broadband electroacoustic resonators through optimized feedback control strategies
Journal of Sound and Vibration. 2014. DOI : 10.1016/j.jsv.2014.05.033.Optimization of an acoustic leaky-wave antenna based on acoustic metamaterial
2013. Acoustics 2013, New Delhi, India, November 10-15, 2013.Audio Novelty-Based Segmentation of Music Concerts
2013. Acoustics 2013, New Delhi, November 10-15, 2013.Observation of Vehicle Axles Through Pass-by Noise: A Strategy of Microphone Array Design
IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems. 2013. DOI : 10.1109/TITS.2013.2265776.Vertical localization performance in a practical 3-D WFS formulation
Journal of the Audio Engineering Society. 2013.Journal Articles
2023
Active Acoustic Su-Schrieffer-Heeger-Like Metamaterial
Physical Review Applied. 2023-07-12. DOI : 10.1103/PhysRevApplied.20.014022.Ultrabroadband sound control with deep-subwavelength plasmacoustic metalayers
Nature Communications. 2023-05-19. DOI : 10.1038/s41467-023-38522-5.Observation of non-reciprocal harmonic conversion in real sounds
Communications Physics. 2023-05-06. DOI : 10.1038/s42005-023-01217-w.Robust direct acoustic impedance control using two microphones for mixed feedforward-feedback controller
Acta Acustica. 2023-01-09. DOI : 10.1051/aacus/2022058.2022
Effect of time delay on the impedance control of a pressure-based, current-driven Electroacoustic Absorber
Journal of Sound and Vibration. 2022-07-25. DOI : 10.1016/j.jsv.2022.117201.Human Head Yaw Estimation based on Two 3-axis Accelerometers
IEEE Sensors Journal. 2022-07-17. DOI : 10.1109/JSEN.2022.3185712.In flow acoustic characterisation of a 2D active liner with local and non local strategies.
Applied Acoustics. 2022-02-15. DOI : 10.1016/j.apacoust.2022.108655.PID-like active impedance control for electroacoustic resonators to design tunable single-degree-of-freedom sound absorbers
Journal of Sound and Vibration. 2022-01-31. DOI : 10.1016/j.jsv.2022.116784.Corona discharge actuator as an active sound absorber under normal and oblique incidence
Acta Acustica. 2022-01-31. DOI : 10.1051/aacus/2022001.2020
Development of a plasma electroacoustic actuator for active noise control applications
Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics. 2020-09-23. DOI : 10.1088/1361-6463/abafde.Low frequency sound field reconstruction in a non-rectangular room using a small number of microphones
Acta Acustica. 2020-05-12. DOI : 10.1051/aacus/2020006.Improving sound absorption through nonlinear active electroacoustic resonators
Physical Review Applied. 2020-01-10. DOI : 10.1103/PhysRevApplied.13.014018.2019
Active acoustic resonators with reconfigurable resonance frequency, absorption, and bandwidth
Physical Review Applied. 2019-11-27. DOI : 10.1103/PhysRevApplied.12.054064.Perception of Auditory Distance in Normal-Hearing and Moderate-to-Profound Hearing-Impaired Listeners
Trends in Hearing. 2019-11-27. DOI : 10.1177/2331216519887615.2018
Constant-pressure sound waves in non-Hermitian disordered media
Nature Physics. 2018-07-02. DOI : 10.1038/s41567-018-0188-7.Duct modes damping through an adjustable electroacoustic liner under grazing incidence
Journal of Sound and Vibration. 2018-04-16. DOI : 10.1016/j.jsv.2018.04.009.Audio-visual sensory deprivation degrades visuo-tactile peri-personal space
Consciousness and Cognition. 2018-04-02. DOI : 10.1016/j.concog.2018.04.001.Effects of Binaural Spatialization in Wireless Microphone Systems for Hearing Aids on Normal-Hearing and Hearing-Impaired Listeners
Trends in Hearing. 2018-02-18. DOI : 10.1177/2331216517753548.Toward Wideband Steerable Acoustic Metasurfaces with Arrays of Active Electroacoustic Resonators
Journal of Applied Physics. 2018. DOI : 10.1063/1.5011380.Multi-degree-of-freedom low-frequency electroacoustic absorbers through coupled resonators
Applied Acoustics. 2018. DOI : 10.1016/j.apacoust.2017.10.019.2017
Design of Remote Quiet Zones Using Spot-Type Sound Reducers
Acta Acustica united with Acustica. 2017. DOI : 10.3813/AAA.919113.On the Optimisation of Multi-Degree-of-Freedom Acoustic Impedances of Low-Frequency Electroacoustic Absorbers for Room Modal Equalisation
Acta Acustica united with Acustica. 2017. DOI : 10.3813/AAA.919132.No need to shout: Effect of signal loudness on sibling communication in barn owls
Ethology. 2017. DOI : 10.1111/eth.12612.Generation of acoustic helical wavefronts using metasurfaces
Physical Review B. 2017. DOI : 10.1103/PhysRevB.95.024312.Broadband Low-Frequency Electroacoustic Absorbers Through Hybrid Sensor-/Shunt-Based Impedance Control
IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology. 2017. DOI : 10.1109/TCST.2016.2547981.2016
Dynamic Range Limiting of HRTFs: Principle and Objective evaluation
Journal of the Audio Engineering Society (JAES). 2016. DOI : 10.17743/jaes.2016.0023.Sensorless Electroacoustic Absorbers Through Synthesized Impedance Control for Damping Low-Frequency Modes in Cavities
Acta Acustica united with Acustica. 2016. DOI : 10.3813/AAA.918986.Acoustic carpet cloak based on an ultrathin metasurface
Physical Review B. 2016. DOI : 10.1103/PhysRevB.94.014302.Exploiting the leaky-wave properties of transmission-line metamaterials for single-microphone direction finding
The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 2016. DOI : 10.1121/1.4949544.Acoustic dispersive prism
Scientific Reports. 2016. DOI : 10.1038/srep18911.2015
Body part-centered and full body-centered peripersonal space representations
Scientific Reports. 2015. DOI : 10.1038/srep18603.Full body action remapping of peripersonal space: The case of walking
Neuropsychologia. 2015. DOI : 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2014.08.030.Objective and subjective validation of an active control approach to reduce the occlusion effect in hearing aids
Acta Acustica united with Acustica. 2015. DOI : 10.3813/AAA.918847.2014
Investigations on the physical factors influencing the ear canal occlusion effect caused by hearing aids
ACTA ACUSTICA UNITED WITH ACUSTICA. 2014. DOI : 10.3813/AAA.918732.Toward broadband electroacoustic resonators through optimized feedback control strategies
Journal of Sound and Vibration. 2014. DOI : 10.1016/j.jsv.2014.05.033.2013
Observation of Vehicle Axles Through Pass-by Noise: A Strategy of Microphone Array Design
IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems. 2013. DOI : 10.1109/TITS.2013.2265776.Vertical localization performance in a practical 3-D WFS formulation
Journal of the Audio Engineering Society. 2013.Conference Papers
2023
Smart acoustic lining for UHBR technologies engine: from the design of an electroacoustic metasurface to experimental characterization under flow
2023-04-28. SPIE Smart Structures + Nondestructive Evaluation, 2023, Long Beach, California, United States, March 12-17, 2023. p. 1248319. DOI : 10.1117/12.2658519.2021
Experimental assessment of an active (acoustic) liner prototype in an acoustic flow duct facility
2021-04-14. SPIE Smart Structures + Nondestructive Evaluation, 2021, online, March 22-26, 2021. p. 505-511. DOI : 10.1117/12.2583099.2019
Auditory externalization in hearing-impaired listeners with remote microphone systems for hearing aids
2019-07-11. 26th International Congress on Sound & Vibration - ICSV26, Montréal, Québec, Canada, July 7-11, 2019.Electroacoustic resonators: system identification and stability
2019-07-11. 26th International Congress on Sound & Vibration - ICSV26, Montréal, Québec, Canada, July 7-1, 2019. p. 641-648.Wave-conversion active liner based on generalized Snell-Descartes law
2019. The 26th International Congress on Sound and Vibration - ICSV26, Montréal, Québec, Canada, July 7-11, 2019.Sound field reconstruction in a room using low-rank approximation of mode shapes: validation and application
2019. The 26th International Congress on Sound and Vibration - ICSV26, Montréal, Québec, Canada, July 7-11, 2019.Fully symmetrical single-suspension electrodynamic loudspeaker using a Halbach array
2019. The 26th International Congress on Sound and Vibration - ICSV26, Montréal, Québec, Canada, July 7-11, 2019.2018
Low Frequency Sound Field Reconstruction in Non-rectangular Room: A Numerical Validation
2018-05-30. Euronoise 2018 - 11th European Congress and Exposition on Noise Control Engineering, Crete, Greece, May 27-31, 2018.Subjective evaluation of a spatialization feature for hearing aids by normal-hearing and hearing-impaired subjects
2018-05-14. 144th Audio Engineering Society Convention, Milano, Italy, May 24-26, 2018.Joint Estimation Of The Room Geometry And Modes With Compressed Sensing
2018-01-01. IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Calgary, CANADA, Apr 15-20, 2018. p. 6882-6886. DOI : 10.1109/ICASSP.2018.8462655.Objective evaluation of static beamforming on the quality of speech in noise
2018. Euronoise, Heraklion, Crete, Greece, May 27-31, 2018. p. 1-6.Experimental evaluation of speech enhancement methods in remote microphone systems for hearing aids
2018. Euronoise, Heraklion, Crete, Greece, May 27-31, 2018. p. 1-8.2017
Development of Leaky-Wave Antenna Applications with Acoustics Metamaterials: from the Acoustic Dispersive Prism to Sound Direction Finding with a Single Microphone
2017. 11th International Congress on Engineered Material Platforms for Novel Wave Phenomena - Metamaterials 2017, Marseille, France, August 28 - September 2. p. 202-204. DOI : 10.1109/MetaMaterials.2017.8107890.Localization of Sound Sources in a Room with One Microphone
2017. Wavelets and Sparsity XVII, San Diego, California, USA, August 6-9, 2017. p. 1039401. DOI : 10.1117/12.2271249.Design and experimental validation of an active acoustic liner for aircraft engine noise reduction
2017. MEDYNA 2017: 2nd Euro-Mediterranean Conference on Structural Dynamics and Vibroacoustics, Sevilla, Spain, April 25-27, 2017.Design of active Multiple-degrees-of-freedom electroacoustic resonators for use as broadband sound absorbers
2017. MEDYNA 2017: 2nd Euro-Mediterranean Conference on Structural Dynamics and Vibroacoustics, Sevilla, Spain, April 25-27, 2017.2016
Experimental assessment of low-frequency electroacoustic absorbers for room modal equalization in actual listening rooms
2016-06-07. 140th Audio Engineering Society Convention, Paris, France, June 4-7, 2016.Synthèse temps-réel d’impédance acoustique distribuée
2016-04-15. 13e Congrès Français d'Acoustique, Le Mans, France, 11-15 avril 2016. p. 867-870.Egalisation modale des salles avec des absorbeurs électroacoustiques
2016-04-15. Congrès Français d'Acoustique, Le Mans, France, April 11-15, 2016. p. 1199-1205.Acoustic energy harvesting using electrochemical double layor capacitors: Technical feasibility and performance assessment
2016. IECON 2016 - 42nd Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society, Florence, Italy, October 24-27, 2016. p. 5495-5500. DOI : 10.1109/IECON.2016.7793097.Electromagnetic inspired acoustic leaky-wave antenna
2016. 2016 10th European Conference on Antennas and Propagation (EuCAP), Davos, Switzerland, April 10-15, 2016. DOI : 10.1109/EuCAP.2016.7481954.Développement et validation d’une d’antenne acoustique à ondes de fuite
2016. 13e Congrès Français d'Acoustique, Le Mans, April 11-15, 2016. p. 623-629.2015
Development and assessment of a localization algorithm implemented in binaural hearing aids
2015. 23rd European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO), Nice, France, August 31, 2015. p. 2321-2325.Control strategies for a distributed active acoustic skin
2015. INTERNOISE 2015, San Francisco, CA, USA, August 9-12, 2015. p. 1266-1273.On the design of unit-cells for acoustic metasurfaces
2015. 9th International Congress on Advanced Electromagnetic Materials in Microwaves and Optics - Metamaterials 2015, Oxford, United Kingdom, September 7-12, 2015. p. 397-399. DOI : 10.1109/MetaMaterials.2015.7342464.Acoustic Metasurface
2015. META’15, the 6th International Conference on Metamaterials, Photonic Crystals and Plasmonics, City College of New York, New York City, NY, USA, August 4, 2015 – August 7, 2015.Experimental assessment of active electroacoustic absorbers for broadband room modes damping
2015. INTERNOISE 2015, San Francisco, California, USA, August 9-12, 2015. p. 1534-1542.Binaural hearing aids with wireless microphone systems including speaker localization and spatialization
2015. 138th Audio Engineering Society Convention, Warsaw, Poland, 7 May 2015 through 10 May 2015.2014
Acoustic Leaky-Wave Antenna
2014. 8th International Congress on Advanced Electromagnetic Materials in Microwaves and Optics - Metamaterials 2014, Copenhagen, Denmark, August, 25-30, 2014. DOI : 10.1109/MetaMaterials.2014.6948575.Electroacoustic absorbers for the low-frequency modal equalization of a room: what is the optimal target impedance for maximum modal damping, depending on the total area of absorbers?
2014. 7th Forum Acusticum 2014, Kraków, Poland, September 7-12, 2014.Implementation of a binaural localization algorithm in hearing aids: Specifications and achievable solutions
2014. 136th Audio Engineering Society Convention, Berlin, 26 April 2014 through 29 April 2014. p. 197-206.Absorbeurs électroacoustiques pour l'égalisation modale des salles : Une nouvelle approche avec des haut-parleurs à double bobine
2014. CFA Poitiers 2014, Poitiers, France, April 22-25, 2014.2013
Optimization of an acoustic leaky-wave antenna based on acoustic metamaterial
2013. Acoustics 2013, New Delhi, India, November 10-15, 2013.Audio Novelty-Based Segmentation of Music Concerts
2013. Acoustics 2013, New Delhi, November 10-15, 2013.Theses
2023
Robust tunable acoustic impedance control on electroacoustic resonators for aircraft noise reduction
Lausanne, EPFL, 2023. DOI : 10.5075/epfl-thesis-9833.2022
Plasma-based Electroacoustic Actuator for Broadband Sound Absorption
Lausanne, EPFL, 2022. DOI : 10.5075/epfl-thesis-9784.Auditory externalization of a remote microphone signal
Lausanne, EPFL, 2022. DOI : 10.5075/epfl-thesis-8959.2021
Sound Field Reconstruction in a room through Sparse Recovery and its application in Room Modal Equalization
Lausanne, EPFL, 2021. DOI : 10.5075/epfl-thesis-8394.2020
Sparse and Parametric Modeling with Applications to Acoustics and Audio
Lausanne, EPFL, 2020. DOI : 10.5075/epfl-thesis-7215.2017
Electromagnetic Inspired Acoustic Metamaterials
Lausanne, EPFL, 2017. DOI : 10.5075/epfl-thesis-7763.2016
Room Modal Equalisation with Electroacoustic Absorbers
Lausanne, EPFL, 2016. DOI : 10.5075/epfl-thesis-7166.Spatial hearing rendering in wireless microphone systems for binaural hearing aids
Lausanne, EPFL, 2016. DOI : 10.5075/epfl-thesis-7221.2015
Evaluation of audio source separation in the context of 3D audio
Lausanne, EPFL, 2015. DOI : 10.5075/epfl-thesis-6723.2014
Active Control mitigating the Ear Canal Occlusion Effect caused by Hearing Aids
Lausanne, EPFL, 2014. DOI : 10.5075/epfl-thesis-6218.Posters
2017
Assessment of a metamaterial-inspired active acoustic liner concept for application to aircraft engine noise reduction
Workshop "Applications industrielles des métamatériaux acoustiques", Marseille, France, September 1, 2017.2014
Egalisation modale des salles avec des absorbeurs électroacoustiques
Journées des Jeunes Chercheurs en vibrations, Acoustique et Bruit, Lyon, France, November 6-7, 2014.Talks
2019
Evaluation subjective d’un algorithme de spatialisation binaurale pour aides auditives par des sujets normo-entendants et malentendants
14ème Congrès Français d'Acoustique (CFA 2018), Le Havre, France, April 23-27, 2018.2018
Development of a wideband steerable acoustic metasurface composed of active electroacoustic resonators with COMSOL
COMSOL Conference 2018, Lausanne, Switzerland, October 22-24, 2018.Conception d'une zone d'écoute personnelle par contrôle d'impédance déporté
14ème Congrès Français d'Acoustique (CFA 2018), Le Havre, France, April 23-27, 2018.Ondes acoustiques à amplitude constante dans des milieux désordonnés non-Hermitiens
14ème Congrès Français d'Acoustique (CFA 2018), Le Havre, France, April 23-27, 2018.Absorption active dans un conduit avec écoulement à l'aide d'un liner électroacoustique
14ème Congrès Français d'Acoustique (CFA 2018), Le Havre, France, April 23-27, 2018.Discrete constant pressure waves in non-Hermitian disordered metamaterials
International Conference on Nonlinear Localization in Lattices (NLL - 2018), Spetses Island, Greece, 18-22 June 2018.Développement et validation d'une métasurface acoustique orientable large bande composée de résonateurs électroacoustiques actifs
14e Congrès Français d'Acoustique (CFA2018), Le Havre, 23-27 avril 2018.2017
Constant amplitude sound waves in non-Hermitian metamaterials
174th meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA.2015
Absorbeur électroacoustique: du haut-parleur shunté à la synthèse d'impédance acoustique
Journée scientifique de la SFA - Techniques de contrôle en vibrations, acoustique et musique, IRCAM, Paris, France, November 16, 2015.Electroacoustic absorption: towards room equalization in the low-frequency range
ETHZ Acoustics Colloquium, ETHZ, Zurich, Switzerland, October 28, 2015.Low frequency absorption by hybrid sensor/shunt-based impedance control
Swiss AES meeting, Yverdon, September 3, 2015.All about that bass!
Montreux Jazz Workshops, Montreux, Petit Palais, July 15, 2015.Absorbeurs électroacoustiques actifs: application à l’égalisation des salles aux basses fréquences
Colloque du CIDB-GIAC-SFA: Vibrations et bruits basses fréquences dans les bâtiments, Paris, Maison des Travaux Publics, France, 2015.Patents
2023
Plasma based noise reduction system
US11790881 ; US2023020879 ; EP4116967 . 2023.2016
Hearing assistance system
SONOVA AG: CN107211225 ; US10149074 ; EP3248393 ; US2018020298 ; EP3248393 ; CN107211225 ; WO2016116160 . 2016-07-28.2015
A sound diffusion system for directional sound enhancement
US2017006379 ; EP3078209 ; WO2015083020 ; WO2015083020 ; GB201321325 . 2015.2014
Baffle Electroacoustique
WO2014053994 ; WO2014053994 ; FR2996400 . 2014.Research
Electroacoustic resonators
Bridging the gap between shunt loudspeakers and active sound absorption.Acoustic metamaterials
Acoustic metamaterials are engineered structures that exhibit acoustic properties not readily available in nature, such as negative mass density, negative bulk modulus, or negative refraction index.Acoustic antenna and arrays
Development of distributed acoustic sources or sensors in view of controlling directivity and radiation properties of sound sources.Psychoacoustics
Listening test procedures and processing techniques wit a view to assessing sound quality of audio systems.Teaching & PhD
Teaching
Electrical and Electronics Engineering
PhD Students
Liu Qin, Padlewski Mathieu François,Past EPFL PhD Students
Boulandet Romain , Courtois Gilles André , Grimaldi Vincent Pierre Olivier , Marmaroli Patrick , Peic Tukuljac Helena , Pham Vu Thach , Rivet Etienne Thierry Jean-Luc , Rohr Lukas , Sergeev Stanislav , Seyyed Esfahlani Seyyed Hussein , Volery Maxime , Zurbrügg Thomas Stefan ,Courses
Electroacoustics
This lecture will give the EE students strong ground knowledge on the acoustical engineering through a formalism that they already know, namely electrotechnics. The main learning outcome of the lecture is the understanding and the design of acoustic systems such as acoustic filters.
Lab in information technologies
Get familiar with experimental aspects of the main domains of the orientation "Information and communication technologies"
Lab in acoustics
Apply the knowledge acquired in Electroacoustics, Audio Engineering and Propagation of Acoustic Waves lectures.
Audio engineering
This lecture is oriented towards the study of audio engineering, with a special focus on room acoustics applications. The learning outcomes will be the techniques for microphones and loudspeaker design, as well as room acoustics knowledge.