AES 2026 AVARIG Conference

AES 2026 AVARIG Conference

Schedule as of May 2026 - subject to change

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9:30am CEST

Coffee Cafe / Lunch

10:00am CEST

Designing Spatial Audio Environments for Autonomic Regulation: Toward a Framework of Social Sonic Design Jussieu:Conf 2 (Binaural)Carolyn Malachi Is now the right time for Procedural Audio? Jussieu:Room 3Joshua Reiss • Nelly Garcia • David Marttila (P) Comparing Immersive VR and Tablet-Based Music Experience: Subjective and Physiological Responses Across Presentation Formats Jussieu:Room 1Michael Oehler • Leonard Bruns • Tobias Rotsch • Benedict Saurbier • Tray Minh Voong (P) Effects of Navigation and Perspective on Presence and Localization in Audio Augmented Reality Jussieu:Room 1Elois Zelada • Anıl Çamcı (P) Effects of Spatial Audiovisual Incongruency on Mental Workload and Task Performance in Immersive VR Jussieu:Room 1Catherine Sall • Agnieszka Roginska (P) MAV-C: A Framework for the Joint Objective Estimation of Audio-Visual Complexity in Immersive Virtual Environments Jussieu:Room 1Luca Resti • Amelia Gully • Michael McLoughlin • Gavin Kearney • Alena Denisova (P) Complex Ratio Mask Ambisonics-to-Binaural Rendering with Intensity Vector Features and Perceptual Multi-Objective Optimization Jussieu:Room 1Szymon Zaporowski • Bartłomiej Mróz (P) Perceptual Limits of Ambisonic Order for Beamforming in Complex Acoustic Scenes Jussieu:Room 1Francois Salmon • Julian Palacino • Charles Verron • Mathieu Paquier (P) The role of room acoustics in 6DoF interactive audio for XR Jussieu:Room 1Hyunkook Lee • Dale Johnson • Lubomir Spacek (P) AT_WaveSpace: a Wave Field Synthesis Engine for Research and Authoring, Applied to Near-Field Distance Perception of Focused Sources Jussieu:Room 1Antoine Gonot • Olivier Macherey • Sabine Meunier Sponsor demos Jussieu:Room 2

10:30am CEST

Sound as Cultural Memory: Participatory Immersive Audio Production for the Witness Blanket VR Environment Jussieu:Conf 2 (Binaural)Kirk McNally • Carey Newman

11:00am CEST

Mémoire Vive: Exploring the use of authentic rendering as a narrative process in an AR fiction Jussieu:Conf 2 (Binaural)Raphaël Revault • David Poirier-Quinot Assessing localisation and localisation uncertainty for off-centre listening in a stereo loudspeaker setup Jussieu:Conf 1Pedro Llado • Rapolas Daugintis • Enzo De Sena

11:30am CEST

The Binaural Rendering Workshop (BRT) Jussieu:Conf 2 (Binaural)Arcadio Reyes-Lecuona • Daniel Gonzalez-Toledo • Maria Cuevas-Rodriguez • Katarina Poole • Lorenzo Picinali Crosstalk Cancellation in Loudspeaker Arrays: Effects of Directivity, Array Size, and Listener Position Jussieu:Conf 1Francesco Veronesi • Filippo Fazi • Jacob Hollebon

12:00pm CEST

The illusion of elevated lateral sources using loudspeakers in the horizontal plane Jussieu:Conf 1Rapolas Daugintis • Enzo De Sena • Monty Bland • Pedro Lladó Lunch A Cafe / Lunch

12:30pm CEST

Extending Audio Accessibility Toward Structured and Immersive Auditory Interaction in Gameplay Jussieu:Conf 2 (Binaural)Jiwon Kwak Trading of interaural time and level differences for stimuli presented using a novel two-listener virtual imaging system Jussieu:Conf 1Isaac Lambert • Vlad Paul • Philip Nelson

1:00pm CEST

Effect of the template on the predicted sagittal-plane sound-localization performance Jussieu:Conf 2 (Binaural)Felix Perfler • Piotr Majdak Lunch B Cafe / Lunch (P) Custom Ear Tips from 3D Scanning: Potential for Gaming Audio Applications Jussieu:Room 1Pasin Israsena • Tharapong Soonrach • Sangvorn Seesutas (P) Listening from the Booth: Multi-Perspective Auralisation and Theatrical Sound Engineering Jussieu:Room 1Paulo Assis Barbosa • José Augusto Mannis • Brian F.G. Katz (P) Now We're Getting Somewhere – A First Prototype for a Co-Designed, Blind-accessible Auditory Navigation Toolkit for 3D Open-World Video Game Environments Jussieu:Room 1Luke Child • Natanya Ford (P) Pleyel.exe Jussieu:Room 1Victor Leblanc • Mateo Knox (P) A framework for 6DoF 4pi reverberation generation using wave-based-derived virtual sound sources. Jussieu:Room 1Ryoko Hara • Masataka Nakahara • Akira Omoto (P) An Immersive Sequencer in Virtual Reality with Natural Interaction and Hybrid Audio Reproduction Jussieu:Room 1Jiawen Mao • Lukas Nepomuceno • Ke Ding • Anıl Çamcı (P) An Open-Source Toolchain for Atmos Transcoding and Immersive Playback on Irregular Loudspeaker Arrays Jussieu:Room 1Lucian Parisi (P) Benchmarking Spatial Audio Reproduction Systems in Smart Glasses and XR Headsets: Illustrative Results and Interpretation Jussieu:Room 1Yi Wu • Garrett Treanor • Agnieszka Roginska (P) Vikk64: A planar microphone array for audio-visual reproduction in virtual reality Jussieu:Room 1Felix Stärz • Matthias Blau

1:30pm CEST

Eliciting the Effectiveness of Binaural Renderer Enhancement on the Horizontal Plane Jussieu:Conf 2 (Binaural)Garrett Treanor • Shaunak Ranade • Jean-Marc Jot • Daphna Harel • Agnieszka Roginska Sponsor demos Jussieu:Room 2

2:00pm CEST

Primary Source Dominance and Acoustic Scene Complexity in 6DoF VR Audio Evaluation Jussieu:Conf 1Haowen Zhao • Damian Murphy How representative are Dummy head HRTFs? A subjective comParison of mannequin and human datasets Jussieu:Conf 2 (Binaural)Brian F.G. Katz • Samuel D. Bellows

2:30pm CEST

Investigating the Perceptual Relevance of Voice Directivity in Virtual Vocal Instruction Environments Jussieu:Conf 1Eleni Tavelidou • Konstantinos Bakogiannis • Areti Andreopoulou Understanding Ambisonics Through Practical Decisions and Listening Jussieu:Conf 2 (Binaural)Peter Stitt Coffee A Cafe / Lunch

3:00pm CEST

Personality Perception in Acoustic Virtual Reality Jussieu:Conf 1Eva Fringi • Nisreen Alshubaily • Stephen A. Brewster • Lorenzo Picinali • Tanaya Guha • Alessandro Vinciarelli

3:30pm CEST

Rendering 6DoF Audio in Augmented Reality: Perceptual Evaluation of Game Engines, Plugins, and Middleware Jussieu:Conf 2 (Binaural)Kush Munjal • Hyunkook Lee • Dale Johnson Coffee B Cafe / Lunch

4:00pm CEST

Audiovisual Coherence Thresholds for Direct-to-Reverberant Energy Ratio Jussieu:Conf 2 (Binaural)Peter Lindahl • Johannes M. Arend • Nils Meyer-Kahlen Combining Synthetic Sound with Spatial Audio Rendering — Insights and Opportunities Jussieu:Room 3Annika Neidhardt • Jean-Marc Jot • Nils Peters • Aili Niimura • Can Murtezaoglu

4:30pm CEST

The Effect of Authentic Spatial Sound on Verbal Working Memory in Online Virtual Reality Learning Environments Jussieu:Conf 1Vincent Russell • David Murphy Assessing the Plausibility of Measurement-Based Auralization of Sound Transmission through Walls Jussieu:Conf 2 (Binaural)Hendrik Himmelein • Florian Köber • Christoph Pörschmann

5:00pm CEST

Assessing the Impact of Spatial Audio on Cognitive Load and Memory Retention for Virtual Training Simulation in Virtual Reality Jussieu:Conf 1Oliver Kadel • Tomasz Rudzki • Tom Szirtes • Gavin Kearney The quest for decorrelation continues -- from stereo to immersive Jussieu:Conf 2 (Binaural)Alex Case

5:30pm CEST

SCHuBERT: a real-time end-to-end model for piano music emotion recognition Jussieu:Conf 1Massimiliano Zanoni • Riccardo Rossi • Alice Sironi • Paolo Belluco • Cristina Rottondi

6:30pm CEST

Banquet @ La Coupole Off-site