People behind SOFA

• Piotr Majdak (Acoustics Research Institute, Austrian Academy of Sciences): project leader
• Hagen Wierstorf (Telekom Innovation Laboratories, Technical University of Berlin): one of the project initiators, Octave support
• Michael Mihocic (Acoustics Research Institute, Austrian Academy of Sciences): Matlab support, website support
• Markus Noisternig (UMR STMS IRCAM-CNRS-UPMC): specifications, standardization
• Matthieu Parmentier (France Television): standardization

SOFA was initiated in January 2012 during the 4th AABBA meeting in Berlin (Blauert, 2009). Since then, many other researches helped by providing feedback and support.

Acknowledgments

• Rozenn Nicol (Orange Labs, France Telecom, Lannion, France)
• Agnieszka Roginska (Music Technology, New York University, NY, USA)
• Harald Ziegelwanger (Acoustics Research Institute, Austrian Academy of Sciences)
• Yôiti Suzuki (Research Institute of Electrical Communication, Tohoku University)
• Kanji Watanabe (Faculty of Engineering, Akita Prefectural University)

Also many thanks go to the AES standardization team for their support.

Contact

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References

Blauert, J., Braasch, J., Bucholz, J., Colburn, H.S., Jekosch, U., Kohlrausch, A., Mourjopoulos, J., Pulkki, V., Raake, A. (2009) "Aural assessment by means of binaural algorithms - The AABBA project" in proceedings of the International Symposium on Auditory and Audiological Research (ISSAR), Helsingør, Denmark.