This study aims to explore the relationship between soundscape and landscape factors in commercial spaces. Commercial pedestrian streets in Seoul, Korea were selected in order to include various sound and visual elements in urban commercial spaces. In site evaluation of soundscape were performed in the case study areas. Perceptual and physical acoustic environments in the commercial area were a...

Soundscape, earlier proposed by the Canadian composer and ecologist R. Murray Schafer in 1960s, contains a large amount of environmental information and event information for the expression of specific historic areas, the survival status of a particular nation or people, and especially, the native environment has important significance. 22 binaural recorded soundscape samples collected from Gua...

The purpose of this study was to investigate whether or not a computer may predict the outcome of soundscape assessments, based on acoustic data only. It may be argued that this is impossible, because a computer lack life experience. Moreover, if the computer was able to make an accurate prediction, we also wanted to know what information it needed to make this prediction. We recruited 33 stude...

This paper describes a trial of Macaulay and Crerar’s method of mapping a workplace soundscape [1] to assess its fitness as a basis for an extended soundscape mapping method. Twelve participants took part within 14 separate environments, which included academic, commercial and domestic locations. Results were visualized and subsequently collapsed to produce typical responses to typical environm...

In this article we propose a structured IIR model for HRTF filters that can be applied to multi-user binaural soundscape rendering of virtual sound sources moving continuously in 3D space. A motivation for using low-order IIR models in HRTF interpolation is to trade some reasonable amount of soundscape fidelity for computational performance. Two strategies for interpolation of these IIRmodels a...

Soundmark is an important element of soundscape, this research aims to find and collect the city soundmarks in some areas of Zhaoqing city, and analyze people's understanding of these soundmarks. The methods of soundwalking, on site survey and questionnaire are used to un derstand and explore people's sense of approval on soundmark, as well as the significance of soundmark in urban design. The ...

Adaptive walk on a fitness soundscape [7] is a new kind of interactive evolutionary computation for musical works. This system provides a virtual two-dimensional grid called a “soundscape” in which each point corresponds to a genotype that generates a sound environment. By using the human abilities of localization and selective listening, the user can “walk” toward genotypes that generate more ...

Soundscape research represents a paradigm shift in the field of sound evaluation. First, it improves human perception, and, second, it expands on classical physical measurements and makes reference to the use of different investigative measurement methods. This multifaceted approach is basic to improving the validity of the research outcome on any subject or phenomenon, and it avoids systematic...

The "bag-of-frames" (BOF) approach, which encodes audio signals as the long-term statistical distribution of short-term spectral features, is commonly regarded as an effective and sufficient way to represent environmental sound recordings (soundscapes). The present paper describes a conceptual replication of a use of the BOF approach in a seminal article using several other soundscape datasets,...