SONORA

The Spatial Dynamics of Room Acoustics

LoV

The Library of Voices - Unlocking the Alamire Foundation’s Music Heritage Resources Collection through Visual and Sound Technology

CONNEXOUNDS

Cooperative Signal Processing Solutions for IoT-based Multi-User Speech Communication Systems

SoM

The Sound of Music: Innovative research and valorization of plainchant through digital technology

I-SPOT

Intelligent Ultra Low-Power Signal Processing for Automotive

SOUNDS

Service-Oriented, Ubiquitous, Network-Driven Sound

UNMUTED

Understanding Music-Based Interventions to Encourage Social- Emotional Development in Groups of Adults with Autism Spectrum Disorder

HOLISTIC

A holistic approach to the design of integrated and distributed digital signal processing algorithms for audio and speech communication devices

Fellowships

  • Interpolation, sampling, and uncertainty modeling for acoustic environments is an FWO Postdoctoral Research Fellowship (2021-2024) held by Filip Elvander and supervised by Toon van Waterschoot.
  • Development of a multi-microphone approach for the assessment of quality of life in pig farms is a VLAIO Baekeland PhD Fellowship (2019-2023) held by Bram Cuyx, supervised by Toon van Waterschoot and co-supervised by Wim Buyens and Wim Desmet.

Finished projects & fellowships

  • User-centered Design of Deep Learning Application for Emotion Detection and Depression Prediction based on Smartphone Sensor Data was a CSC PhD Fellowship held by Duowei Tang, supervised by Toon van Waterschoot and co-supervised by Luc Geurts and Peter Kuppens.
  • SPOTT (Tomorrow’s Scalable and PersOnalised advertising Technology, Today) was a VLAIO Industrial R&D Project (2018-2020) supervised by Tinne Tuytelaers and Toon van Waterschoot in collaboration with Appiness.
  • WLAAN (Distributed Digital Signal Processing for Ad-hoc Wireless Local Area Audio Networking) was a KU Leuven Category 2 research project (2016-2020) supervised by Marc Moonen and co-supervised by Toon van Waterschoot.
  • Learning signal representations of acoustic manifolds was an FWO Postdoctoral Research Fellowship (2018-2019) held by Maja Taseska and supervised by Toon van Waterschoot.
  • m-Sense (Innovative use of sensors in mobile platforms) was a VLAIO TETRA project (2016-2018) supervised by Luc Geurts, Toon Goedemé, and Toon van Waterschoot.
  • Cochlear-VII (Advances in auditory implants: Signal processing and clinical aspects) was a VLAIO Industrial R&D Project (2015-2018) supervised by Marc Moonen and Jan Wouters, and co-supervised by Tom Francart and Toon van Waterschoot in collaboration with Cochlear.
  • SparsEvent (Acoustic Event Detection: Sparse Signal Representations, Embedded Optimization Algorithms, and Case Studies) was a KU Leuven Impulse Fund research project (2014-2018) supervised by Toon van Waterschoot and co-supervised by Peter Karsmakers and Bart Vanrumste.
  • Ravenna (Proof-of-concept of a rationed architecture for vehicle entertainment and NVH next-generation acoustics) was a VLAIO Industrial R&D Project (2015-2017) supervised by Toon van Waterschoot and co-supervised by Marc Moonen, in collaboration with Premium Sound Solutions.
  • Blind Estimation of Room Acoustics for Binaural Sound Scene Synthesis was a KU Leuven BOF+ Postdoctoral Research Fellowship (2015-2016) held by Enzo De Sena, supervised by Marc Moonen and co-supervised by Toon van Waterschoot.
  • Robust Cough Detection in Commercial Pig Producing Farms was an IWT Baekeland Industrial PhD Fellowship (2014-2016) held by Martijn Hemeryck, supervised by Toon van Waterschoot and co-supervised by Daniel Berckmans and Wim Desmet, in collaboration with SoundTalks.
  • DREAMS (Dereverberation and Reverberation of Audio, Music, and Speech) was an FP7-PEOPLE Marie Curie Initial Training Network (2013-2016) coordinated by Toon van Waterschoot and Aldona Niemiro-Sznajder, in collaboration with Aalborg University, University of Oldenburg, Imperial College London, Televic Conference, Oticon, Bang & Olufsen, Spinvox, CEDAR Audio, Nuance, and Fraunhofer IDMT.
  • A Signal-Oriented Approach to Acoustic Signal Enhancement: Framework, Case Studies, and Evaluation was an FWO Postdoctoral Research Fellowship (2011-2014) held by Toon van Waterschoot and supervised by Marc Moonen.