AES 2026 AVARIG Conference

AES 2026 AVARIG Conference

Schedule as of May 2026 - subject to change

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9:30am CEST

Coffee IRCAM:Gallery

10:00am CEST

Re-opening ceremony / Orientation IRCAM:ESPRO (HOA)

10:15am CEST

XR Futures: Recording Our World for Posterity IRCAM:ESPRO (HOA)Damian Murphy

11:00am CEST

Residual Learning for Neural Ambisonics Encoders IRCAM:ESPRO (HOA)Thomas Deppisch • Yang Gao • Manan Mittal • Benjamin Stahl • Chris Hold • David Alon • Zamir Ben-Hur Sponsor demos IRCAM:Studio 5

11:30am CEST

Evaluation of a Higher Order Ambisonic Renderer with Reverberation Compensation via Crosstalk Inversion IRCAM:ESPRO (HOA)Alex Tung • Mark Rau Credibilitizing in Immersive Audio IRCAM:StravinskyLeslie Gaston-Bird

12:00pm CEST

Investigating the “Ring of Silence” in Loudspeaker and Binaural Reproduction Using Advanced Ambisonic Decoding Strategies IRCAM:ESPRO (HOA)Filippo Maria Fazi • Jacob Hollebon • Yueheng Li

12:30pm CEST

Lunch IRCAM:Gallery

1:30pm CEST

Interoperable Spatial Audio Workflows for XR and Live Systems with Grapes 3D Audio Control IRCAM:ESPRO (HOA)Felix Deufel The SONICOM Ecosystem IRCAM:StravinskyPiotr Majdak • Michael Mihocic • Jonathan Stuefer • Herwig Stöger (P) A Compact Inverse Auditory Model for Binaural Signal Reconstruction IRCAM:GalleryVlad Paul • Philip Nelson (P) Short-Term VR Sound-Localization Training under Simulated Single-Sided Deafness: Evaluation of an Enhanced HRTF IRCAM:GalleryKentaro Fujii • Ryugo Kijima (P) An evaluation benchmark of artificial intelligence models for estimating head-related transfer functions (HRTFs) from ear shape representations IRCAM:GalleryAlexandre Philippon • Loïc Reboursière • Thierry Dutoit (P) Investigating the Effect of Sample Rate Variation on the Accuracy of Sound Source Localisation Using a Neural Network IRCAM:GallerySamuel Hobern • Alan Archer-Boyd • Damian Murphy (P) Optimising HRTFs to Improve Spatial Release from Masking IRCAM:GalleryNils Marggraf-Turley • Niels Pontoppidan • Lorenzo Picinali (P) Which Tracking Characteristics from an Audio Only VR Onboarding Predict the Best Performance HRTFs? IRCAM:GalleryMax Væhrens • Stefania Serafin • Flemming Christensen • Dorte Hammershøi Sponsor demos IRCAM:Studio 5

2:30pm CEST

Needlets for Spatial Audio: Objective Evaluations IRCAM:ESPRO (HOA)Şafak Ekmen • Hyunkook Lee The Role of Source Directivity in Spatial Audio Rendering for AR/VR/XR Environments IRCAM:StravinskyAreti Andreopoulou • David Poirier-Quinot • Konstantinos Bakogiannis

3:00pm CEST

Coffee IRCAM:Gallery Neural Regularization for Personal Sound Zones IRCAM:ESPRO (HOA)Yazhou Li • Lin Wang • Joshua Reiss

3:30pm CEST

Sub-band Neural Interpolation of Binaural Room Impulse Responses for Personal Sound Zone Control IRCAM:ESPRO (HOA)Yazhou Li • Lin Wang • Joshua Reiss

4:00pm CEST

Self-Transit to Cité des Sciences: Planetarium Off-site

5:00pm CEST

Vaulted Harmonies 360° @ Cité des Sciences et de l'Industrie Off-siteDavid Poirier-Quinot • Brian F.G. Katz