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How loudness and acoustic cues help us judge where a speaker is facing
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How loudness and acoustic cues help us judge where a speaker is facing

Researchers at Sophia University discover that both loudness and frequency-based acoustic cues help listeners identify speaker’s facing direction, a breakthrough for spatial audio...

New system allows acoustic robots to co-operatively transport objects
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New system allows acoustic robots to co-operatively transport objects

(A)-(B) An independent object transport and a cooperative object transport in ant colonies (contact object transport) [4], (C)-(D) An independent object transport and...

Algorithm improves acoustic sensor accuracy for cheaper underwater robotics
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Algorithm improves acoustic sensor accuracy for cheaper underwater robotics

Northeastern University postdoctoral research associate Alan Papalia tested his algorithm by riding in an autonomous surface vehicle on the Charles River. Credit: Northeastern...

Combining photonic neural networks with distributed acoustic sensing for infrastructure monitoring
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Combining photonic neural networks with distributed acoustic sensing for infrastructure monitoring

By directly leveraging light signals received from distributed acoustic sensing systems, the proposed photonic neural network architecture provides massive gains in accuracy and...