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Soundscape monitoring

Dick Botteldooren (UGent) , Bert De Coensel (UGent) , Damiano Oldoni (UGent) and Michiel Boes (UGent)
(2013) p.196-196
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The soundscape: the sonic environment as perceived and understood within a context by a user is hard to measure. Still being able to approximately mimic how a human listener would interact with the sonic environment in electronic equipment would open a wide range of opportunities for the soundscape researcher and designer. Monitoring how the soundscape evolves over the day, the week, the seasons, gives insight in the acoustic ecology that is hard to grasp during a short visit or a sound walk. Therefore computational intelligence techniques were developed and implemented on sound monitoring networks that are able to mimic part of the human perception of the sonic environment. For such systems to work in diverse sound environments, some form of learning and adaptivity is essential. In addition attention and gating mechanisms must be implemented to be able to determine the sounds that a human listener would most likely notice. Holistic indicators are added to assess effects on mood and emotion that do not involve sound recognition. The soundscape monitoring system has been deployed as part of the IDEA project at several urban locations and the results are compared to human observations.

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Botteldooren, Dick, et al. Soundscape Monitoring. Deutsche Gesellschaft für Akustik (DEGA), 2013, pp. 196–196.
APA
Botteldooren, D., De Coensel, B., Oldoni, D., & Boes, M. (2013). Soundscape monitoring. 196–196. Berlin, Germany: Deutsche Gesellschaft für Akustik (DEGA).
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Botteldooren, Dick, Bert De Coensel, Damiano Oldoni, and Michiel Boes. 2013. “Soundscape Monitoring.” In , 196–196. Berlin, Germany: Deutsche Gesellschaft für Akustik (DEGA).
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Botteldooren, Dick, Bert De Coensel, Damiano Oldoni, and Michiel Boes. 2013. “Soundscape Monitoring.” In , 196–196. Berlin, Germany: Deutsche Gesellschaft für Akustik (DEGA).
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Botteldooren D, De Coensel B, Oldoni D, Boes M. Soundscape monitoring. In Berlin, Germany: Deutsche Gesellschaft für Akustik (DEGA); 2013. p. 196–196.
IEEE
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D. Botteldooren, B. De Coensel, D. Oldoni, and M. Boes, “Soundscape monitoring,” presented at the AIA-DAGA 2013 Conference on Acoustics, Merano, Italy, 2013, pp. 196–196.
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  abstract     = {{The soundscape: the sonic environment as perceived and understood within a context by a user is hard to measure. Still being able to approximately mimic how a human listener would interact with the sonic environment in electronic equipment would open a wide range of opportunities for the soundscape researcher and designer. Monitoring how the soundscape evolves over the day, the week, the seasons, gives insight in the acoustic ecology that is hard to grasp during a short visit or a sound walk. Therefore computational intelligence techniques were developed and implemented on sound monitoring networks that are able to mimic part of the human perception of the sonic environment. For such systems to work in diverse sound environments, some form of learning and adaptivity is essential. In addition attention and gating mechanisms must be implemented to be able to determine the sounds that a human listener would most likely notice. Holistic indicators are added to assess effects on mood and emotion that do not involve sound recognition. The soundscape monitoring system has been deployed as part of the IDEA project at several urban locations and the results are compared to human observations.}},
  author       = {{Botteldooren, Dick and De Coensel, Bert and Oldoni, Damiano and Boes, Michiel}},
  language     = {{eng}},
  location     = {{Merano, Italy}},
  pages        = {{196--196}},
  publisher    = {{Deutsche Gesellschaft für Akustik (DEGA)}},
  title        = {{Soundscape monitoring}},
  year         = {{2013}},
}