People behind SOFA
- Piotr Majdak (Acoustics Research Institute, Austrian Academy of Sciences): project leader, Matlab support
- Markus Noisternig (UMR STMS IRCAM-CNRS-UPMC): specifications, standardization
- Hagen Wierstorf (Quality and Usability Lab, Technical University of Berlin): Octave support
- Michael Mihocic (Acoustics Research Institute, Austrian Academy of Sciences): Matlab support, website support
- Harald Ziegelwanger (Acoustics Research Institute, Austrian Academy of Sciences): specifications
- Thibaut Carpentier (UMR STMS IRCAM-CNRS-UPMC): C++ API, specifications
SOFA was initiated in January 2012 during the 4th AABBA meeting in Berlin (Blauert, 2009). Since then, many other researches helped by providing feedback and support:
- Matthieu Parmentier (France Television): initiation of the AES standardization
- Wolfgang Hrauda (Institute for Electronic Music and Acoustics, University of Arts and Music, Graz)
- Bruce Olson, AESSC Chair: AES standardization committee chair
- Mark Yonge, AESSC Secretary: AES standardization committee secretary
- Rozenn Nicol (Orange Labs, France Telecom)
- Agnieszka Roginska (Music Technology, New York University)
- Yôiti Suzuki (Research Institute of Electrical Communication, Tohoku University)
- Kanji Watanabe (Faculty of Engineering, Akita Prefectural University)
- Yukio Iwaya (Faculty of Engineering, Tohoku Gakuin University)
- Michele Geronazzo (University of Padova): headphone support
- Julien De Muynke
- Franz Zotter
- Fabian Brinkmann
- David Ackerman
- Jens Ahrens
- Scott Norcross
- Angelo Farina
- L. Neumann
- Tom Ammermann
- Sunil Bharitkar
- Florian Camerer
- W. De Bruijn
- M. Emerit
- F. Fleischmann
- Kimio Hamasaki
- A. Harma
- Jean-Marc Jot
- M. Kelly
- R. Kessler
- T. Knowles
- Frank Melchior
- Gregory Pallone
- C. Par
- A. Pereira
- C. Pike
- Jan Plogsties
- Edwige Ronciere
- Thomas Sporer
- Bert van Daele
- Wieslaw Woszczyk
Also many thanks go to the AES standardization team for their support.
Contact
If you have questions about SOFA, please send an email to the mailing list. You need to be a member of the mailing list to send a message to the list. You don't need to be a member to send an email to the moderator.
Also you are invited to contact the standardization committee of X212. Join us at [1] and select "SC-02-08-E" from the list.
References
Blauert, J., Braasch, J., Bucholz, J., Colburn, H.S., Jekosch, U., Kohlrausch, A., Mourjopoulos, J., Pulkki, V., Raake, A. (2009) "Aural assessment by means of binaural algorithms - The AABBA project" in proceedings of the International Symposium on Auditory and Audiological Research (ISSAR), Helsingør, Denmark.