This paper demonstrates how to use multiple Kinect sensors to map a performer’s motion to music. Skeleton data streams from multiple sensors are merged in order to compensate for occlusions of the performer. The skeleton joint positions drive the performance via open sound control data. We discuss how to register the different sensors to each other and how to smoothly merge the resulting data s...

Wireless sensor networks being a collection of numerous sensor nodes, each with sensing (temperature, humidity, sound level, light intensity, magnetism, etc.) and wireless communication capabilities, provide huge opportunities for monitoring and mathematical modeling of the time-evolution of the physical quantities under investigation. Starting from the measurements collected by the sensor node...

Wireless sensor networks being a collection of numerous sensor nodes, each with sensing (temperature, humidity, sound level, light intensity, magnetism, etc.) and wireless communication capabilities, provide huge opportunities for monitoring and mathematical modeling of the time-evolution of the physical quantities under investigation. Starting from the measurements collected by the sensor node...

This paper introduces a method to detect an accurate position, which includes its distance and direction, of a sound source based on a new Ttype microphone array having four sound sensors in a LabView development environment. The T-type microphone array consists of three linear microphones in the front side and one in the center of the rear side. Existing linear microphone array types have diff...

In order to improve patients’life conditions and to reduce the costs of long hospitalization, medicine is more and more interested in telemonitoring techniques. We develop a smart audio sensor for a telemonitoring system. This sensor is equipped with microphones in order to detect a sound event (an abnormal noise or a call for help). The sound extracted information is send through a CAN bus. Th...

This paper presents a new spherical shaped capacitive sensor device for creating interactive compositions and embodied user experiences inside of a periphonic, 3D sound space. The Somatic Sound project is here presented as a) technological innovative musical instrument, and b) an experiential art installation. One of the main research foci is to explore embodied experiences through moving, inte...

Sensor networks deals with study of set of transducers with a communication infrastructure used to monitor physical or environmental conditions, such as temperature, sound, pressure, speed, illumination intensity, sound intensity, chemical concentrations, pollutant levels, Body functions etc. International Journal of sensor networks and data communications helps us to gain knowledge on the rece...

Monitoring ocean acoustic noise has been the subject of considerable recent study, motivated by the desire to assess the impact of anthropogenic noise on marine life. A combination of measuring ocean sound using an acoustic sensor network and modelling sources of sound and sound propagation has been proposed as an approach to estimating the acoustic noise map within a region of interest. Howeve...

Drum kits consist of various kinds of percussion instruments. As all percussion instruments are large and heavy, they are inconvenient for drummers to carry and set up. Virtual drums, which include motion sensors and enable drummers to imitate playing drums by stroking a virtual drum, are highly portable. However, drummers, who are used to playing real drums, have difficulty in demonstrating th...

In a diffuse sound field, prior research has established that a secondary source can theoretically achieve perfect cancellation at an error microphone in the far field of the secondary source. However, the sound pressure level is generally only reduced in a small zone around the error sensor, and at a distance half of a wavelength away from the error sensor, the averaged sound pressure level wi...