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Chairs: Jordan Cheer and Felix Langfeldt

Chairs: Manuel Collet and Emanuele De Bono

This session focuses on the application of active impedance control in reducing noise and vibration across acoustical and mechanical systems. By dynamically adjusting generalized boundary impedance operator through feedback, active impedance control enables noise and vibration scattering, improved stability, and enhanced acoustic performance. Presentations will cover modeling approaches, control strategies, and experimental results in fields such as smart materials, active metaliners, and acoustic–mechanical coupling in programmable metamaterial.

Chairs: Hervé Lissek

Chairs: Stanislaw Wrona and Sven Herold

This session will gather advances in active vibration control for structures and machinery. The scope includes feedback/feedforward approaches, adaptive/robust control, sensor/actuator placement, active casings, and experimental validation in aerospace, automotive, and industrial applications.

Chairs: Malte Misol, Maria de Diego, and Alberto Gonzalez

This session explores recent advances in Active Sound Control, including feedforward and feedback algorithms, active noise and vibration reduction, sound design, and adaptive signal processing. Contributions address theoretical developments, experimental implementations, and applications in automotive, aerospace, and industrial acoustics, with a growing focus on data-driven approaches.

Chairs: Robin Sandfort and Angela Stöger

Chairs: Martin Wutke, Jeanette Probst, and Marina Scheumann

This session brings together researchers from traditional bioacoustics, AI-based modeling and practitioners to improve animal management systems. Topics addressing aspects from experimental design, data curation to supervised/ unsupervised learning for animal monitoring. We aim to exploit applications in animal management and discuss methodological integration into practical systems under challenging soundscapes.

Chairs: Jure Železnik and Daniel Haider

This session serves as a meeting point for researchers in machine learning, acoustic engineering, and biology who explore the interface between audio, animal behavior, communication and ecology. We invite contributions across the full methodological spectrum: from fresh and novel ML architectures and signal processing techniques designed for bioacoustic applications, to biological discoveries and insights that have been made possible by applying (existing) ML tools. By bringing together technical innovation and biological application, this session aims to foster cross-disciplinary dialogue and spark advances at the intersection of sound, data, and life.

Chairs: Katharina Prager and Julia Joukhadar

Communication is essential for animals living in social groups, but also plays an important role in key behaviours like mate attraction and territory defense in more solitary species. In this session we examine the connection between vocal signals and social structure, highlighting the ways in which bioacoustics can be used as a tool to investigate this topic.

Chairs: Dick Botteldooren and Hans Slabbekoorn

Passive Acoustic Monitoring (PAM) and other technological developments in recent years have greatly facilitated and expanded the ways in which bioacoustics methods can be utilized as conservation tools. In this session we explore the diverse ways in which these methods can be applied to support and inform conservation strategies or alleviate human wildlife conflict.

Chairs: Gunnar Heilmann and Michael Kerscher

This session explores how the choice of equipment—from sensors to software—shapes the quality of bioacoustic research and the insights gained into animal behavior. It highlights the balance between technological know-how, research ambitions, and available budgets in fieldwork. Participants are invited to share experiences on how new tools have expanded possibilities, revealed unseen acoustic patterns or other insights, and challenged assumptions about what can be measured in nature.

Chairs: Teresa Carrascal, Heinz Ferk, Chiara Scrosati, and Selina Vavrik-Kirchsteiger

This session presents a broad range of topics in building acoustics, including new methods, materials, and applications. Contributions cover experimental, theoretical, and practical aspects, offering insights into current challenges and innovations that advance acoustic design and performance in the built environment.

Chairs: Birgit Rasmussen and Gjermund Holøyen

Acoustic regulations/recommendations for housing, schools, offices, hospitals. Requested documentation: Role of calculations, site inspection, field testing, test reports. Neighbour noise annoyance results from national health and morbidity surveys. Regulations for acoustic retrofit in buildings and related case studies. Use of acoustic quality information in advertisements and technical condition reports.

Chairs: Selina Vavrik-Kirchsteiger and Martin Schneider

This session explores recent advancements in measurement techniques and experimental analysis in building acoustics, highlighting innovative methods, precision challenges, and in situ applications. Presentations will cover sound and vibration transmission in buildings, analysis of modal behavior, resonant systems and so on, providing insights into improving acoustic performance and validation of simulation models through robust measurement approaches.

Chairs: Andrea Santoni, Edwin Reynders, and Antonino di Bella

This session covers the prediction of sound and vibration transmission in buildings including analytical, numerical, statistical or empirical models for direct transmission across building elements or the combination of direct and flanking transmission in complete buildings. Also, papers incorporating experimental validation of prediction models and BIM topics are encouraged.

Chairs: Heinz Ferk and Jean-Luc Kouyoumji

This session focuses on the building acoustics of wooden buildings, addressing airborne sound insulation, impact noise and flanking transmission. Presentations will cover measurement methods, modeling approaches, and design strategies that enhance acoustic comfort and performance in timber structures, reflecting the growing importance of sustainable, wood-based constructions.

Chairs: Berndt Zeitler, Jochen Scheck, and Andreas Mayr

Building services and technical equipment are essential for modern comfort but represent a major source of unwanted noise and vibration in buildings. This session addresses current research and practical developments related to the generation, transmission, and mitigation of structure-borne sound caused by HVAC systems, elevators, plumbing, and so on. The contributions explore experimental and numerical methods for predicting and assessing vibration excitation and sound radiation, finite element simulations, and innovative measurement techniques.

Chairs: Catherine Guigou-Carter and Sonia Antunes

This structured session concerns the measurement and estimation of the ground-borne sound pressure level in buildings due to outdoor ground vibration generated by railway lines, either at the ground surface or underground. For railway lines at the ground surface, air-borne rolling noise can also affect the sound pressure level inside buildings. Both ground-borne sound and air-borne rolling sound can impact indoor acoustic environment of building residents and have to be considered to ensure protection against noise.

Chairs: Müllner Herbert and Rok Prislan

This session is intended to provide a platform for researchers to present and discuss their work on the evaluation of the existing related single number quantifiers as well as proposals for new alternative descriptors. Research that addresses methodological challenges, in particular subjective perception-related problems and acoustic comfort, are considered.

Chairs: Jack Havie-Clark and Christoph Reichl

As sustainable heat pump use increases, their noise can impact residential quality of life. The session aims to explore innovative solutions by covering topics like sound characterisation, psychoacoustics, and planning, bringing together researchers and industry professionals.

Chairs: Stephan Schoenwald and Josep Llorca-Bofí

The increasing developments in airborne acoustic auralization in both in the indoor as the outdoor built environment requires input data from the surrounding materials and surfaces. One of the challenges on this endeavour is the understanding which acoustic characteristics complex surfaces have -such as combined material panels, in-built wall components, complex façade systems, ground materials, etc. This session will present the most recent advances in methods to measure such complex surfaces. The aim is to understand their features such as absorption, reflection, scattering, impedance, or others, and/or how this knowledge is transferred to simulation of acoustics. Both fundamental and applied developments are welcome.

Chairs: Volker Wittstock, Amandine Maillet, and Pierre Leroy

The objective of this session is to provide the community with an overview of recent developments and ongoing reviews in standards related to architectural acoustics. This is a joint initiative of areas A03 Building Acoustics and A16 Room Acoustics.

Chairs: Lukas Aspöck and Iván Herrero-Durá

Chairs: Iván Herrero-Durá and Kristian Jambrosic

Chairs: María Campo-Valera and Michael Buba

Chairs: Vojto Chmielik and Pierre Aumond

Chairs: Andrea Santoni and Louena Shtrepi

Chairs: Núria Campillo-Davó and Laura Estévez-Mauriz

Chairs: Christian Adams and Martin Czuka

Chairs: Cedric Vuye

Since the introduction of the EU Environmental Noise Directive, environmental noise policy has relied heavily on level‑based indicators such as L_den and L_night. Unfortunately, their correlation with experienced noise annoyance and well‑being is often modest, especially where exposure is intermittent, source‑specific, or context‑dependent. At the same time, with advances in AI and the availability of affordable sensors, a combination of citizen science and smart sensing now makes it possible to observe on a much larger scale how people perceive and are affected by environmental noise across urban, suburban, and rural regions. This session brings together research and case studies that: (i) leverage citizen participation to capture noise annoyance and context (activity, place, expectations), (ii) use smart sound sensors and advanced machine listening algorithms to identify and separate noise sources (e.g., road traffic sub‑classes, aircraft, neighbors, industry, leisure events, …), (iii) propose, validate, or compare new (sets of) acoustic indicators that better explain annoyance than Lden and Lnight. These indicators should capture the temporal, spectral/tonal, psychoacoustic, … characteristics of the noise, but could also contain soundscape‑inspired indices. (iv) explore hybrid models that integrate non‑acoustic factors (e.g. restoration opportunities, vulnerability, sociodemographics, …) taken from governmental and GIS data.

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Chairs: Robert Arcos and Elias Zea

Chairs: Christian Adams

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Chairs: Jack Havie-Clark and Christoph Reichl

As sustainable heat pump use increases, their noise can impact residential quality of life. The session aims to explore innovative solutions by covering topics like sound characterisation, psychoacoustics, and planning, bringing together researchers and industry professionals.

Chairs: Antonin Novak and Marko Horvat

Chairs: Dominik Mayrhofer and Petr Honzik

Chairs: Thomas Gmeiner and Manuel Melon

Chairs: Manfred Haider and Pierrick Lotton

Chairs: Hervé Lissek

Chairs: Stefan Becker, Roberto Camussi, and Daniele Ragni

Chairs: Daniele Ragni and Alessandro Di Marco

Chairs: Stefan Becker and Franck Perot

Chairs: Anita Schulz and Francesco Avallone

Chairs: Lorenzo Tieghi and Felix Czwielong

Chairs: Jan Delfs and Damiano Casalino

Chairs: Francesco Avallone and Stefan Schoder

Chairs: Stefan Becker and Yves Auregan

Metamaterials offer a new way of absorbing sound in ventilation systems and vehicles. In addition to reducing sound, the fluid mechanics of the boundary layer on the surface are crucial. This significantly influences the properties of the sound absorber and the impedance boundary conditions, and can lead to additional flow-induced source terms. The session aims to improve understanding and analysis of the physical processes involved. The session covers both numerical and experimental methods.

Chairs: Ercan Altinsoy

Chairs: Serkan Atamer

Chairs: Ercan Altinsoy, Etienne Parizet, and Massimiliano Massulo

Chairs: Ercan Altinsoy and Massimiliano Massulo

Chairs: Ercan Altinsoy and Sait Özer

Chairs: Mirco Pezzoli and Alois Sontacchi

Chairs: Maximo Cobos and Thushara Abhayapala

This session explores the intersection of deep learning and sensor array signal processing, covering novel applications of neural networks for tasks like direction-of-arrival estimation, beamforming, spatial audio recording, source separation, and anomaly detection. Focus will be on techniques that leverage moderate-size datasets or prior structure to enhance performance, robustness, and computational efficiency in complex, real-world environments.

Chairs: Martin Hagmüller and Franz Pernkopf

Machine Learning for Human Bioacoustics is an emerging interdisciplinary field that applies computational intelligence to the analysis, interpretation, and synthesis of sounds produced by the human body. These bioacoustic signals — including heartbeats, breath sounds, joint clicks, gastrointestinal noises, and vocal emissions — carry valuable physiological and pathological information. By leveraging modern machine learning, signal processing, and data science techniques, this area aims to automatically detect, classify, and model bodily sounds for purposes such as early disease diagnosis, and health monitoring. Research in this domain spans from low-level acoustic feature extraction and deep neural network architectures for sound classification, to multimodal fusion of biosignals and the development of interpretable AI models that can assist clinicians. Key Focus Areas: – Acoustic signal acquisition and preprocessing from the human body – Deep learning for physiological sound classification and anomaly detection – Development of acoustic biomarkers for disease diagnosis – Explainable AI and interpretable models in healthcare acoustics – Integration of bioacoustic data with other physiological signals (ECG, EMG, etc.) – Applications in telemedicine, wearable health devices, and digital stethoscopes

Chairs: Martin Hagmüller and Franz Pernkopf

This session highlights intelligent methods for speech separation, enhancement, and processing, driven by advances in machine learning and artificial intelligence. It welcomes research on model architectures, training strategies, and evaluation approaches that improve robustness, perceptual quality, and computational efficiency.

Chairs: Carlo Drioli

Recent advances in eXplainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI), Physics-Informed Neural Networks (PINN), and hybrid physically informed modeling are likely to open new frontiers in the analysis, synthesis, and clinical diagnostics of human voice production. By integrating physical knowledge of vocal fold dynamics and acoustic propagation with data-driven approaches, these methods promise to provide increased interpretability, data analysis robustness, and diagnostic power. This special session aims to bring together researchers from acoustics, voice science, artificial intelligence, biomedical engineering, and computational modeling to discuss emerging techniques and applications of AI models constrained by physical and physiological principles. Topics of Interest: -Physics-informed neural networks (PINNs) and hybrid models for voice production simulation, -XAI methods applied to voice analysis, pathology detection, and vocal performance evaluation, -Integration of biomechanical and aeroacoustic models with data-driven learning, -Model interpretability and uncertainty quantification in clinical and research contexts, -Voice inverse modeling and parameter estimation using physically informed AI, -Benchmarking and validation of physics-informed models in voice research

Chairs: María Campo-Valera

Chairs: Jean-Philippe Groby, Manfred Kaltenbacher, and Steffen Marburg

Chairs: Steffen Marburg and Bart Van Damme

Metamaterials as solutions for acoustic and vibration issues are a hot topic in mechanics research. This Structured Session welcomes contributions on novel results in simulations, experimental work, and practical implementations.

Chairs: Jacques Cuenca and Elena Shabalina

The proposed session aims at gathering researchers contributing to the modelling and experimental testing of acoustic and vibrational metamaterials. The session aims to be oriented towards novel applications and experimental methods. We aim to provide a platform for the exchange of knowledge in the areas of (1) Experimental methods for sound- and vibration-absorbing materials and metamaterials, (2) Experimental methods for vibration-reducing materials and metamaterials, (3) Novel materials and metamaterials in industrial applications, (4) Psychoacoustics and sound quality of metamaterials.

Chairs: Wonju Jeon, Florian Toth, Jae Yeun Lee, and Hyeonbin Ryoo

In analogy to astrophysical black holes, systems described by classical physics can show surprising properties, e.g. wave slowdown, focusing and wideband absorption. This section will discuss advances in the fundamental understanding of structural acoustic black holes, metamaterials and waveguide structures in air, as well as present related technical applications from wideband absorbers, wave focusing or mode conversion devices to vibration isolation. We will also focus on design by topology optimization, novel modeling strategies and experimental verification in the field.

Chairs: Luis Godinho and Olivier Dazel

This session is interested in all papers that assess new numerical strategies/methods and advanced applications of numerical methods to analyze acoustic materials and metamaterials. Additionally, papers incorporating experimental validation of such methods are strongly encouraged.

Chairs: Mélanie Nolan and Luc Jaouen

This session highlights cutting-edge methods and innovations in the measurement and characterization of acoustic materials. Contributions are invited that focus on advanced techniques for determining sound absorption and reflection coefficients, surface impedance, and pore parameters, using both standardized procedures and novel, emerging approaches (e.g., free-field, in-situ, etc.). Emphasis is placed on methodological development, experimental advancements, and analytical innovations rather than application-oriented case studies.

Chairs: Gregory Chaplain, Tristan Lawrie, and Malte Peter

New insights in wave propagation in complex media offer a more comprehensive understanding of the functioning of acoustic metamaterials. For example, new simplified models stripped down to the essentials of interactions of unit cells enable more direct design towards desired properties. Similarly, new understanding of wave propagation in finite versus infinite structures or stability of effects with respect to perturbations or beyond periodicity improves the design of graded metamaterials or metamaterials made for energy harvesting. This session has a broad focus on new developments in the modelling and simulation of acoustic wave propagation in complex media with metamaterial applications.

Chairs: Teresa Bravo and Cédric Maury

This structured session presents modellings and performance analysis of micro-perforated and Helmholtz-type resonant absorbers, which are used for sound absorption and/or insulation. These comprise resonant units involving (micro-)perforates, including multilayered configurations, acoustic black holes or rainbow trapping filters undergoing (aero-)acoustic excitations. Emphasis will be placed on theoretical modelling approaches, including impedance, modal and transfer matrix methods, as well as numerical simulations of their acoustic properties. The session also covers experimental characterization techniques used to validate models and optimize absorber performance across frequency ranges. Applications in room acoustics, transportation noise control, and industrial environments will be discussed.

Chairs: Gregory Chaplain, Federico Bosia, and Vinicius Dal Poggetto

This session focuses on novel metamaterial concepts and their applications enabling the dynamic control of acoustic and elastic wave propagation. It covers tunable and programmable metamaterials, time-modulated systems, and topological designs for active and reconfigurable manipulation of sound and vibration in applications such as sensing, non-reciprocal waveguiding, and energy harvesting.

Chairs: Stefan Becker and Yves Auregan

Metamaterials offer a new way of absorbing sound in ventilation systems and vehicles. In addition to reducing sound, the fluid mechanics of the boundary layer on the surface are crucial. This significantly influences the properties of the sound absorber and the impedance boundary conditions, and can lead to additional flow-induced source terms. The session aims to improve understanding and analysis of the physical processes involved. The session covers both numerical and experimental methods.

Chairs: Francesco Pompoli and Philippe Glé

This session welcomes contributions addressing the sustainability of materials with acoustic applications. Accepted papers will explore innovative, bio-based, or recycled materials that combine high acoustic performance with reduced environmental impact. Topics may include acoustical characterisation and modeling, optimisation, life-cycle assessment, circular design strategies, eco-efficient manufacturing, and the integration of sustainable materials in acoustic products and architectural systems.

Chairs: Daniel Kiefer and Lynda Chehami

Chairs: Blasius Buchegger, Slimane Ouakka, and Christopher Knuth

Chairs: Theodosia Stratoudaki, Markus Saurer, and Robert Nuster

Chairs: Andres Prieto-Aneiros and Paolo Amado-Mendes

Chairs: Vasileios Chatziioannou, Montserrat Pàmies-Vilà, and Charalampos Saitis

Chairs: Rolf Bader

Musical instrument tone production is based on nonlinear dynamics, which can be analysed in a theoretical, numerical, or experimental fashion. This session focuses on nonlinear dynamical models of musical instruments but also aims to extend to larger systems involving the interplay of musical instruments and their environments. (to be confirmed)

Chairs: Vasileios Chatziioannou and Christoph Reuter

Musicians can influence the sound of their instruments in both obvious and subtle ways. While some playing techniques form part of standard training, others aim to expand an instrument’s sonic capabilities. This session aims to deepen our understanding of the physical mechanisms underlying the influence of playing techniques on sound production, using experimental or numerical methods, also including techniques for analysing the playability of musical instruments subject to players’ control parameters.

Chairs: Peter Rucz and Juliette Chabassier

This session is dedicated to sharing recent advancements on modelling of musical instruments. The session focuses on the following topics: general physical models including coupling, dissipation, and nonlinear phenomena; numerical methods for simulation and sound synthesis; data-based parameter optimisation and model tuning; application of computer simulation in instrument making; model validation based on experimental measurements.

Chairs: Ercan Altinsoy

Playing musical instruments engages not only the auditory system, but also the sense of touch and body movement. This session focuses on the tactile aspects of musical interaction, including haptic feedback in instrument playing, vibro-tactile perception of musical sound, and the design of audio-haptic interfaces for musical performance and listening. The session welcomes both empirical and theoretical studies on the role of haptics in music and music-instrument expression, perception, and learning, etc. as well as applications of haptics in digital, hybrid and augmented musical instruments.

Chairs: Kai Siedenburg

Musical sounds feature an extraordinary acoustic variety that can induce intensive perceptual experiences. The perception of music and musical instruments continues to challenge psychoacoustics in its efforts to establish stable relations between the acoustical properties of music signals and associated perceptual responses. This session creates connections and synergies between the acoustics of musical instruments and their perceptual implications in terms of musical scene analysis, pitch, timbre, semantics, emotion, etc.

Chairs: Montserrat Pàmies-Vilà and Henri Boutin

Instrument makers constantly explore the properties of materials to shape the sound of musical instruments. This session invites contributions that reflect on the influence of the material choice in a musical instrument including: measurements of material properties, material influence on the instrument behaviour, material properties’ estimation through simulations, 3D-printed imitations of musical instruments, reproduction of old or unplayable instruments.

Chairs: Maarten Hornikx and Jean-Daniel Chazot

Chairs: Dominik Mayrhofer and Dionysios Panagiotopoulos

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Chairs: Elias Zea and Marcus Maeder

Chairs: Ning Xiang and Ali Mohammad-Djafari

Chairs: Luis Godinho and Olivier Dazel

This session is interested in all papers that assess new numerical strategies/methods and advanced applications of numerical methods to analyze acoustic materials and metamaterials. Additionally, papers incorporating experimental validation of such methods are strongly encouraged.

Chairs: Francesco Avallone and Stefan Schoder

Chairs: Stefan Schoder and Marcus Maeder

Chairs: Andres Prieto-Aneiros and Paolo Amado-Mendes

Chairs: Maarten Hornikx and Albert Prinn

Advances in numerical acoustics have the potential to transform the analysis, prediction, and optimization of sound fields in rooms. This session invites submissions of recent developments in numerical methods for room acoustics that improve accuracy, efficiency, and applicability across a wide range of room acoustics scenarios, including architectural design, auralization, and virtual acoustics.

Chairs: Albert Prinn and Jan Smits

Advances in computational acoustics increasingly rely on hybrid modelling strategies that combine the strengths of complementary methods to achieve both high accuracy and computational efficiency. This session focuses on recent developments that combine numerical and data-driven techniques to overcome the limitations of conventional acoustic solvers. Contributions may include the coupling of numerical techniques or the integration of machine learning models into traditional modelling frameworks.

Chairs: Gregory Chaplain, Tristan Lawrie, and Malte Peter

New insights in wave propagation in complex media offer a more comprehensive understanding of the functioning of acoustic metamaterials. For example, new simplified models stripped down to the essentials of interactions of unit cells enable more direct design towards desired properties. Similarly, new understanding of wave propagation in finite versus infinite structures or stability of effects with respect to perturbations or beyond periodicity improves the design of graded metamaterials or metamaterials made for energy harvesting. This session has a broad focus on new developments in the modelling and simulation of acoustic wave propagation in complex media with metamaterial applications.

Chairs: Stefan Kniesburges

The human voice, or speech, constitutes a highly complex phenomenon that emerges from the interaction between expiratory airflow, vocal fold dynamics, and the processes of sound generation and modulation within the vocal tract. The in-vivo investigation of voice and speech production remains particularly challenging due to the restricted accessibility of both the larynx and the vocal tract. Accordingly, this session addresses recent advances in measurement techniques for in-vivo studies of voice production (e.g., normal speech, singing, and pathological phonation), in addition to experimental and numerical modeling approaches that facilitate a deeper understanding of the fundamental mechanisms and characteristic features underlying acoustic voice generation.

Chairs: Albert Prinn and Franz Zotter

This topic is dedicated to new models and theories of reverberation, including diffuseness, isotropy, and uniformity: Reverberation is an important phenomenon in acoustics. It can be efficiently quantified using statistical models such as Sabine’s and Eyring’s equations. A diffuse field is a necessary assumption in these models. However, there is significant potential for new concepts and theories of diffuse or stochastic wave fields, anisotropic reverberation, and spatial non-uniformity.

Chairs: Nico F. Declercq and Stefan Radel

This session includes all aspects of ultrasonic wave propagation…

Chairs: Lynda Chehami and Markus Saurer

The session will include presentations on new non-destructive testing (NDT) and structural Health Monitoring (SHM) methods for materials, components, or assemblies, as well as specific elements enabling their implementation (transduction) or demonstrating their performance.

Chairs: Lynda Chehami, Markus Saurer, and Robert Nuster

This session concerns imaging algorithms, quantitative inversion algorithms as well as advanced signal processing. This session is interested in the biomedical, non-destructive testing and structural health monitoring fields of application.

Chairs: Noe Jimenez and Michiel Postema

Chairs: Robert Nuster, Jan Laufer, Ben Cox, and Günther Paltauf

Contributions are invited on photoacoustic detection and scanner technology, image reconstruction methods, experimental and computational techniques for functional and molecular imaging, quantitative imaging, the characterization of compounds and contrast agents using time-resolved spectroscopy, and related fields.

Chairs: Robert Nuster and Nico F. Declercq

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Chairs: Emmanuel Dekemper, Ireneusz Grulkovski, and Samuel Dupont

Chairs: Nico F. Declercq

Chairs: Theodosia Stratoudaki, Markus Saurer, and Robert Nuster

Chairs: Daniel Kiefer and Lynda Chehami

Chairs: Bernhard Laback and Sarah Verhulst

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Chairs: Hendrik Husstedt, Inga Holube, and Florian Denk

Chairs: Etienne Gaudrain and Olivier Macherey

Chairs: Lukas Ruettiger and Emanuel Ponsot

Chairs: Gerard Encina-Llamas and Bastian Epp

Chairs: Katrin Krumbholz and Joseph Sollini

Chairs: Kai Siedenburg

Chairs: Helia Relano Iborra and Vaclav Vencovac

Chairs: Mark Saddler and Volker Hohmann

Chairs: Kai Siedenburg and Piotr Majdak

Chairs: Piotr Majdak and Ville Pulkki

Chairs: Janina Fels and Carolin Breuer

Chairs: Kai Siedenburg

Musical sounds feature an extraordinary acoustic variety that can induce intensive perceptual experiences. The perception of music and musical instruments continues to challenge psychoacoustics in its efforts to establish stable relations between the acoustical properties of music signals and associated perceptual responses. This session creates connections and synergies between the acoustics of musical instruments and their perceptual implications in terms of musical scene analysis, pitch, timbre, semantics, emotion, etc.

Chairs: Jan Rennies

Chairs: Massimiliano Masullo and Margret Engel

Chairs: Daniel Oberfeld-Twistel and Emmanuel Ponsot

Chairs: Kai Siedenburg

Chairs: Mélanie Nolan, Jamilla Balint, and Francesco Martellotta

Chairs: Louena Shtrepi and Zackery Belanger

A more human-centric design of the built environment requires a better integrated design process that embraces not only aesthetics but also functionality promoting health and well-being. The session gathers contributions that investigate the integration of innovative acoustic surfaces into architecture considering indoor and outdoor implementations. How are unique surfaces designed, fabricated, installed, and validated, especially those which meet the aesthetic goals of the architect? What are effective workflow processes and how are aspects of acoustic behaviour incorporated? Of particular interest are surfaces that were not developed to be off-the-shelf acoustic products and the challenges that need to be faced in their performance characterization. The session welcomes studies on the application of multidisciplinary know-how in shaping new design approaches with acoustic perception in mind and highlighting emerging trends in acoustic product development.

Chairs: Mélanie Nolan, Marco Berzborn, and Jon Hargreaves

Accurate modeling and measurement of sound absorption and scattering properties are essential for creating high-quality acoustic environments, often achieved through the effective integration of absorptive and diffusive surfaces. This session explores ways to enhance state-of-the-art  and standardized methods for characterizing these properties, introduces novel methods, and shares best practices for reliable, reproducible results, covering experimental protocols, modeling techniques, and methods to ensure consistency across diverse laboratories and materials.

Chairs: Valtteri Hongisto and Giulia Fratoni

Noise is one of the problems of indoor environment in offices. Noise causes distraction, work performance reduction, and stress. This session covers many scientific fields: psychological effects of noise on occupants, acoustic measurements, and solutions to reduce the noise problems.

Chairs: Janina Fels and Arianna Astolfi

The session focuses on how acoustic design impacts learning environments in both physical and virtual settings. It addresses sound quality, speech intelligibility, and immersive auditory experiences, presenting innovative research and applications that bridge architectural acoustics, virtual reality technologies, and educational performance to support effective communication and cognitive engagement.

Chairs: Jamilla Balint, Francesco Martellotta, and Juan Oscar Garcia Gomez

This session examines how acoustic design and architecture shape the identity of performance spaces. Key themes include the interplay between architectural form and acoustic function, adaptable acoustic environments, material and surface strategies for performers and audiences, and the dialogue between performance and rehearsal spaces. Contributions that move beyond case studies to present innovative concepts, methods, and experimental approaches are especially welcome.

Chairs: Jamilla Balint, Sebastian Schlecht, and Topio Lokki

This session explores active design and control in enclosed spaces, with a focus on scientific approaches to the real-time modification of sound fields. The contributions cover adaptive algorithms for spatial and temporal sound optimization, active reverberation enhancement, and feedback control. The session highlights recent advances in acoustic modeling, control strategies, and system design, with applications ranging from concert halls and multipurpose venues to variable acoustic environments.

Chairs: Stephan Schoenwald and Josep Llorca-Bofí

The increasing developments in airborne acoustic auralization in both in the indoor as the outdoor built environment requires input data from the surrounding materials and surfaces. One of the challenges on this endeavour is the understanding which acoustic characteristics complex surfaces have -such as combined material panels, in-built wall components, complex façade systems, ground materials, etc. This session will present the most recent advances in methods to measure such complex surfaces. The aim is to understand their features such as absorption, reflection, scattering, impedance, or others, and/or how this knowledge is transferred to simulation of acoustics. Both fundamental and applied developments are welcome.

Chairs: Francesco Martellotta and Zühre Sü Gül

This session welcomes contributions that explore the complex acoustical needs of worship spaces taking into account the specific implications related to the different rites and ways to use the space. Key topics can include the role of shape, volume and materials, the interplay between different signals (plain or cantillated speech, choral or congregational singing, and music), and the role of public address systems. Contributions that put together experimental research and practical applications, also including case studies -either historical or contemporary- if functional to explore innovative or exemplary solutions, are especially welcome.

Chairs: Simone Secchi, Andrea Giglio, Juan Negreira, and Maria Quinn

Hospitals are complex environments where noise can negatively affect both healthcare staff and patients. For patients, noise can disrupt sleep, whose deprivation induces a state of alertness, influencing mood, behavior, collaboration, healing time, and length of stay. For staff, noise can cause headaches, fatigue, sleep disorders, and stress. The following topics may be covered during the session: acoustics measures in hospitals; noise mitigation techniques and materials in hospitals; relationship between acoustic conditions and the rehabilitation process of patients and work stress of medical and nursing staff; architectural design and wellbeing in hospitals; case studies in healthcare and elderly homes.

Chairs: Volker Wittstock, Amandine Maillet, and Pierre Leroy

The objective of this session is to provide the community with an overview of recent developments and ongoing reviews in standards related to architectural acoustics. This is a joint initiative of areas A03 Building Acoustics and A16 Room Acoustics.

Chairs: Mélanie Nolan and Luc Jaouen

This session highlights cutting-edge methods and innovations in the measurement and characterization of acoustic materials. Contributions are invited that focus on advanced techniques for determining sound absorption and reflection coefficients, surface impedance, and pore parameters, using both standardized procedures and novel, emerging approaches (e.g., free-field, in-situ, etc.). Emphasis is placed on methodological development, experimental advancements, and analytical innovations rather than application-oriented case studies.

Chairs: Maarten Hornikx and Albert Prinn

Advances in numerical acoustics have the potential to transform the analysis, prediction, and optimization of sound fields in rooms. This session invites submissions of recent developments in numerical methods for room acoustics that improve accuracy, efficiency, and applicability across a wide range of room acoustics scenarios, including architectural design, auralization, and virtual acoustics.

Chairs: Albert Prinn and Franz Zotter

This topic is dedicated to new models and theories of reverberation, including diffuseness, isotropy, and uniformity: Reverberation is an important phenomenon in acoustics. It can be efficiently quantified using statistical models such as Sabine’s and Eyring’s equations. A diffuse field is a necessary assumption in these models. However, there is significant potential for new concepts and theories of diffuse or stochastic wave fields, anisotropic reverberation, and spatial non-uniformity.

Chairs: Filippo Fazi, Efren Fernandez-Grande, and Boaz Rafaely

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Chairs: Maximo Cobos and Thushara Abhayapala

This session explores the intersection of deep learning and sensor array signal processing, covering novel applications of neural networks for tasks like direction-of-arrival estimation, beamforming, spatial audio recording, source separation, and anomaly detection. Focus will be on techniques that leverage moderate-size datasets or prior structure to enhance performance, robustness, and computational efficiency in complex, real-world environments.

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Chairs: Elias Zea and Samuel Verburg

Chairs: Jung-Woo Choi

Chairs: Matthieu Hartenstein and Samuel Bellows

Chairs: María Campo-Valera

Chairs: André Fiebig and Jian Kang

Chairs: Margret Engel and André Fiebig

Chairs: Enkela Alimadhi, Francesco Aletta, and Keely Siebein

The Topic aims to create a platform for sharing evidence-based approaches, case studies, and clinical research, as well as for identifying best practices and addressing methodological challenges in assessing soundscape interventions. Moreover, the session can contribute to the ongoing development of ISO/CD TS 12913-4: Acoustics — Soundscape — Part 4: Design and Intervention, providing further scientific evidence to guide future guidelines and policies. By bringing researchers in one topic.

Chairs: Rosa Maria Alsina-Paès

Chairs: Simone Terroesin and Papataya Nur Dokmeci Yorukoglu

This session invites contributions on the application of soundscape methodologies to the study and design of indoor environments across a variety of building types, with particular emphasis on occupants’ affective responses, as well as their cognitive, physiological, and behavioral reactions.

Chairs: Arezoo Talebzadeh, Kirsten Van Den Bosch, and Brigitte Schule-Forkamp

This session explores the need for an inclusive lens in soundscape research, focusing on the creation and assessment of acoustic environments that examine aural diversity, neurodiversity, and diverse hearing abilities.  It advocates moving away from the “majority” toward solutions that embrace diversity by expanding beyond the disability framework to include socio-economic factors, cultural diversity, age, gender, and intersectionality.

Chairs: Elif Özcan Vieira and Thomas Hampton

Chairs: Timothy Van Renterghem

Chairs: Tin Oberman and Claudio Guarnaccia

This session explores how sound shapes human experience and ecosystems within protected natural areas.. We invite research from soundscape, bioacoustics, planning, noise management and the related disciplines. Topics include overtourism, monitoring, ISO 12913 applications, prediction modelling, and innovative protection, assessment and management approaches. Case studies, methodological advances and interdisciplinary collaborations are encouraged.

Chairs: Fabian Heisterkamp and Florian Schelle

This structured session explores how workplace noise affects hearing and overall health of workers – and how noise control at source, emission measurements and exposure assessments can reduce risk. Contributions may cover all aspects of noise at the workplace, i.e. noise emission measurement methods, concepts to reduce the noise exposure, e.g. Sell & Buy Quiet, exposure assessment (including impulse noise), and hearing surveillance. Regulatory perspectives and case studies are especially welcome

Chairs: Manish Manohare

The session will explore emerging physiological and psychological assessment approaches in soundscape evaluation. It will integrate objective measures such as EEG, heart rate variability, and skin conductance with perceptual and emotional responses to reveal how acoustic environments influence cognition, attention, and well-being in urban and natural settings.

Chairs: Elif Özcan Vieira, Stefano Delle Monache, and Nicolas Misdariis

Our goal is to establish and spread a design culture on sound and listening. Sound-driven design represents a shift from ‘designing sound’, as an object to be designed, towards ‘designing for listening activity’. We consider listening as a design element that can offer granularity to the design process and that highlights human-centered qualities of the sound-driven design space, as well as the role of the senses in the experience of the sound quality of products and systems. We feel the urgency to fill the gap with the real-world practice, which is consolidating and already tackling the wicked problems of creating or improving our listening experience of products, media, cinema, video games, appliances and environments at large.

Chairs: Nicolas Misdariis and Sara Lenzi

Relevant studies focus on applied sound-driven design, including sound- and evidence-based case studies and interventions with specific impact, e.g., from product sounds and auditory displays to acoustic environments and soundscapes, in healthcare, mobility, sustainability, and the lived environment in general. The aim is to qualify and quantify the designed and existing sounds and sound environments.

Chairs: Georgios Marentakis and Sandra Pauletto

Relevant studies focus on sound-driven design for listener-centric experiences.These may include design studies investigating how sound and action intertwine to shape dynamic relationships between humans and objects, studies investigating the design of perceptual, cognitive, emotional, or aesthetic aspects of the auditory experience, or studies on the fundamentals of sound-driven design and audition. Thus, investigating sound-evoked experiences through qualitative and quantitative methods and exploring actions and interactions induced by sounds and sound environments are the aims of this sub-track.

Chairs: Stefano Delle Monache and Nicolas Misdariis

Relevant studies focus on research methodologies for sound-driven design and education, tackling 1) the analysis and the brief of sound issues in design projects at the technical, functional, aesthetic and/or societal level, 2) tools and methods for the creation and production of sound solutions, 3) the evaluation of design concepts, prototypes, and implemented products / services / systems, and 4) the role of sound-based representations in design communication and creativity. The aim of this sub-track is to advance the understanding of the design processes incorporating sound, and to offer new methods for practice and educational purposes.

Chairs: Elif Özcan Vieira and Simone Spagnol

Relevant studies focus on the technical and perceptual dimensions of sound quality as they relate to the design and evaluation of products and services, ranging from vehicles and appliances to media and digital platforms. We invite contributions addressing measurement methods, modeling approaches, and evaluation techniques that link physical, psychoacoustic, and computational parameters with perceptual and experiential outcomes. The aim is to advance the integration of rigorous sound quality assessment into design and innovation processes, supporting the creation of products and systems that are not only functional but also acoustically meaningful and engaging.

Chairs: Katharina Groß-Vogt

Chairs: Philipp Aichinger and Barbara Schuppler

Chairs: Peter Mihajlik and Tamas Grosz

This session invites contributions that address the challenges and opportunities of automatic speech recognition (ASR) for atypical speech, broadly defined. Atypical speech encompasses a wide range of vocal conditions and speaking styles, including those of children, elderly speakers, individuals with speech or voice disorders, and speakers affected by dysarthria, emotional distress (e.g., crying, sobbing), or physiological and situational factors such as whispering, shouting, laughing, intoxication, or drug influence. We are also interested in studies that explore intentionally distorted or stylized speech, as well as speech produced in non-standard acoustic environments. We welcome submissions that cover all aspects of this topic, including data resource creation, annotation practices, modeling techniques, evaluation methodologies, and comparative analyses with typical speech systems. Particular emphasis is placed on methods that enhance the robustness, fairness, and adaptability of ASR technologies in the face of diverse and challenging vocal conditions. Contributions on ASR-based applications—such as tools for speech assessment, rehabilitation, or Computer-Assisted Pronunciation Training (CAPT) designed for atypical or vulnerable speaker populations—are also encouraged. Through this session, we aim to foster dialogue and collaboration across speech technology, linguistics, and clinical research communities to push the boundaries of inclusive and accessible speech recognition.

Chairs: Martin Hagmüller, Philipp Aichinger, and Melanie Jouaiti

This session explores the intersection of speech, health, and technology, focusing on augmentative and alternative communication (AAC), inclusive and accessible speech communication, and AI-driven speaking aids. It highlights advances in acoustics, signal processing, and artificial intelligence that support individuals with speech or voice impairments, promote vocal health, and enhance communication accessibility. The session invites interdisciplinary contributions bridging clinical, technical, and human-centered perspectives to advance equitable and intelligent communication solutions for all.

Chairs: Juan Ignacio Godino Llorente

About 20% of the global population experiences voice or speech disorders, often linked to neurological conditions (e.g. Parkinson’s, Alzheimer’s, ALS…). This is expected to rise with aging populations. However, there are no standardized, objective methods to assess the effects of these diseases, highlighting the need for improved tools to evaluate the speech quality and articulatory function. Advances in speech technologies offer potential for early detection and monitoring of a wide range of neurological conditions. Despite progress, current systems lag behind normal speech models. This special session aims to advance interdisciplinary research, clinical applications, and technological innovation in biomedical speech and language processing.

Chairs: Steven Lulich and Daniel Aalto

Recent advances in MRI technology have created unprecedented opportunities for speech research. With the advent of ultra-high field MRI, improved transmission, receiver, and transceiver coils, parallel transmission (pTx), fast acquisition, artificial intelligence, and more, and it is now possible to elucidate mechanisms of speech all the way from the macro-scale (e.g. vocal tract shape) to the meso-scale (e.g. activation of individual cerebral cortical layers). This session will introduce and examine MRI-related technology, techniques, and findings relevant to speech.

Chairs: Carlo Drioli

Recent advances in eXplainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI), Physics-Informed Neural Networks (PINN), and hybrid physically informed modeling are likely to open new frontiers in the analysis, synthesis, and clinical diagnostics of human voice production. By integrating physical knowledge of vocal fold dynamics and acoustic propagation with data-driven approaches, these methods promise to provide increased interpretability, data analysis robustness, and diagnostic power. This special session aims to bring together researchers from acoustics, voice science, artificial intelligence, biomedical engineering, and computational modeling to discuss emerging techniques and applications of AI models constrained by physical and physiological principles. Topics of Interest: -Physics-informed neural networks (PINNs) and hybrid models for voice production simulation, -XAI methods applied to voice analysis, pathology detection, and vocal performance evaluation, -Integration of biomechanical and aeroacoustic models with data-driven learning, -Model interpretability and uncertainty quantification in clinical and research contexts, -Voice inverse modeling and parameter estimation using physically informed AI, -Benchmarking and validation of physics-informed models in voice research

Chairs: Stefan Kniesburges

The human voice, or speech, constitutes a highly complex phenomenon that emerges from the interaction between expiratory airflow, vocal fold dynamics, and the processes of sound generation and modulation within the vocal tract. The in-vivo investigation of voice and speech production remains particularly challenging due to the restricted accessibility of both the larynx and the vocal tract. Accordingly, this session addresses recent advances in measurement techniques for in-vivo studies of voice production (e.g., normal speech, singing, and pathological phonation), in addition to experimental and numerical modeling approaches that facilitate a deeper understanding of the fundamental mechanisms and characteristic features underlying acoustic voice generation.

Chairs: Martin Hagmüller and Franz Pernkopf

This session highlights intelligent methods for speech separation, enhancement, and processing, driven by advances in machine learning and artificial intelligence. It welcomes research on model architectures, training strategies, and evaluation approaches that improve robustness, perceptual quality, and computational efficiency.

Chairs: Oliver Niebuhr, Sara Pearsell, and Ingo Siegert

Chairs: Martin Czuka and Manfred Haider

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Chairs: Michael Cik

This session explores key issues and innovations in road traffic noise and vibration: measurement techniques, modelling tools, mitigation strategies, and environmental impacts. Researchers, engineers and policymakers will exchange insights on regulatory developments, emerging technologies and urban soundscape improvement, fostering interdisciplinary dialogue in road traffic noise research.

Chairs: Manfred Haider

Chairs: Martin Czuka and Karoline Alten

Chairs: Andreas Fuchs

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Chairs: Blasius Buchegger, Slimane Ouakka, and Christopher Knuth

Chairs: María Campo-Valera and Dídac Diego-Tortosa

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Chairs: Mohamed Ichchou and Sergio De Rosa

Chairs: Mohamed Ichchou

Chairs: Giuseppe Petrone

Chairs: Sergio De Rosa

Chairs: Romain Rumpler

Chairs: Marcus Maeder

Chairs: Wonju Jeon, Florian Toth, Jae Yeun Lee, and Hyeonbin Ryoo

In analogy to astrophysical black holes, systems described by classical physics can show surprising properties, e.g. wave slowdown, focusing and wideband absorption. This section will discuss advances in the fundamental understanding of structural acoustic black holes, metamaterials and waveguide structures in air, as well as present related technical applications from wideband absorbers, wave focusing or mode conversion devices to vibration isolation. We will also focus on design by topology optimization, novel modeling strategies and experimental verification in the field.

Chairs: Matthias Frank and Annika Neidhardt

Chairs: Josep Llorca-Bofí and Jonas Heck

We plan to invite contributions from our research group and institutions, working on physically-based simulation approaches of sound and auralization towards realistic urban and indoor environments: • Fraunhofer-Institute for Building Physics, IBP, Germany. • Institute for Hearing Technology and Acoustics (IHTA), RWTH Aachen University. • Architectural Representation Department, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya.

Chairs: Paweł Małecki

This session welcomes contributions on the application of modern AI systems—particularly classification and content/feature-recognition models and deep generative models—to virtual acoustics. Topics include the synthesis, creation, and rendering of acoustic spaces; scene analysis and (source) separation. Also, AI driven sound scenes perceptual metrics and their evaluation. Target domains include spatial audio, cultural/architectural heritage, and environmental noise/ambience and soundscapes.

Chairs: Nils Peters and Lorenzo Picinali

Description: It is widely recognized that the population in industrialized nations is aging rapidly. With this demographic shift, and additional factors such as noise-induced or congenital hearing loss, an increasing proportion of multimedia consumers require enhanced accessibility. Simultaneously, spatial audio is becoming mainstream, offering immersive listening experiences on many consumer devices. However, most spatial audio systems are designed with the implicit assumption of “normal hearing”, potentially marginalizing a substantial segment of the audience. This structured session examines the perceptual and technical assumptions underlying the concept of “normal hearing” in spatial audio. It invites contributions to examine how various forms of hearing impairment alter spatial perception and immersion, and invites presentations on emerging strategies to design more accessible and inclusive spatial audio experiences.

Chairs: Annika Neidhardt, Nils Meyer-Kahlen, and Johannes Arend

This session addresses technological advances and perceptual requirements in audio for augmented reality. Contributions on topics such as head-worn-array capture, room-adaptive rendering, audiovisual congruence, and perceptual evaluation methods are invited. The emphasis is on cross-disciplinary research integrating room acoustics, audio signal processing, psychoacoustics, HCI, and AR technology.

Chairs: Janina Fels and Carolin Breuer

Chairs: Janina Fels and Arianna Astolfi

The session focuses on how acoustic design impacts learning environments in both physical and virtual settings. It addresses sound quality, speech intelligibility, and immersive auditory experiences, presenting innovative research and applications that bridge architectural acoustics, virtual reality technologies, and educational performance to support effective communication and cognitive engagement.

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