AES 2026 AVARIG Conference

AES 2026 AVARIG Conference

Schedule as of May 2026 - subject to change

Default Time Zone is EDT - Eastern Daylight Time

9:00am CEST

Registration Jussieu Auditorium

9:30am CEST

Coffee Cafe / Lunch

10:00am CEST

Opening ceremony Jussieu Auditorium

10:30am CEST

From AVAR to AVARIG: 10 Years of XR Audio with the AES Jussieu AuditoriumLawrence Schwedler • Rémi Audfray

11:00am CEST

Immersive Sound Volume II - authors' roundtable Jussieu AuditoriumAgnieszka Roginska

12:00pm CEST

Benchmarking Spatial Audio Reproduction Systems in Smart Glasses and XR Headsets: An Application-Driven Measurement Framework Jussieu:Conf 1Yi Wu • Garrett Treanor • Agnieszka Roginska Eclipsa Audio: Bringing Immersive Audio to Everyone Jussieu:Conf 2 (Binaural)Katarzyna Sochaczewska • Gavin Kearney • Rémi Audfray • Jan Skoglund • Nils Peters Lunch A Cafe / Lunch

12:30pm CEST

Investigating the perceptual impact of head-worn devices for augmented reality using a dynamic task with continuous head–eye tracking Jussieu:Conf 1Fulvio Missoni • Julie Meyer • Andrea Canessa

1:00pm CEST

Field-of-View Informed Binaural Signal Matching for Head-Worn Arrays Jussieu:Conf 2 (Binaural)Or Berebi • Zamir Ben-Hur • David Lou Alon • Boaz Rafaely From Personalised Spatial Audio to Real-World XR Experiences – Results, Tools, and Open Research Outputs Jussieu:Room 3Lorenzo Picinali • Brian F.G. Katz • Areti Andreopoulou • Michele Geronazzo • Piotr Majdak • Arcadio Reyes-Lecuona • Federico Avanzini • Alessandro Vinciarelli • Ragnar Hrafnkelsson • Hugo Furtado • Michele Lucchi Lunch B Cafe / Lunch

1:30pm CEST

Interpolation of Sparsely Sampled Array Transfer Functions for Head-Worn Microphone Arrays Jussieu:Conf 2 (Binaural)Or Berebi • Konstantin Fontaine • Boaz Rafaely • Johannes M. Arend Sponsor demos Jussieu:Room 2

2:00pm CEST

A Baffleless Equatorial Ambisonic Microphone Array of Arbitrary Order Jussieu:Conf 2 (Binaural)Jens Ahrens (D) BRT Application Jussieu:Room 1Daniel Gonzalez-Toledo • Pablo Gutierrez Parera (D) BRT Explorer Jussieu:Room 1Yuli Ragnar • Ragnar Hrafnkelsson (D) Notre-Dame Whispers Jussieu:Room 1Jessica Luo • Brian F.G. Katz • Julien DeMuynke (D) Remote music instruction demo Jussieu:Room 1Eleni Tavelidou • Konstantinos Bakogiannis (D) Spatial Audio Teleconferencing Demo Jussieu:Room 1Federico Avanzini • Marco Fontana • Davide Fantini (P) Assessing Spatial Coherence and Plausibility in a Multi-Position Virtual Choir Experience Jussieu:Room 1Georgios Dedousis • Anastasia Georgaki • Areti Andreopoulou (P) Spatial Audio–Based Indoor Navigation for Blind and Visually Impaired Users: A SONICOM Demonstration Jussieu:Room 1Hugo Furtado • Liliana Calapez • Alexandre Campos • Harald Jagos (P) Vaulted Harmonies: from film to VR and Dome architectures Jussieu:Room 1David Poirier-Quinot • Florent Moreau • Sebastien Maire • Brian F.G. Katz

2:30pm CEST

Time, Gender and Auditory Envelopment in Reproduced Sound: A Review Jussieu:Conf 2 (Binaural)Thomas Lund Coffee A Cafe / Lunch

3:00pm CEST

Perceptual Assessment of Real-Time Diffraction Modelling in Augmented Reality Jussieu:Conf 1Joshua Mannall • Annika Neidhardt • Lauri Savioja • Paul Calamia • Russell Mason • Enzo De Sena

3:30pm CEST

Assessing Efficient Auralization Methods in Architectural Virtual Environments Jussieu:Conf 1Achilleas Xydis • Georgios Papadimitriou • Nils Meyer-Kahlen • Hanna Järveläinen • Carlotta Daro • Matthias Kohler • Rama Gottfried The M480: High-Resolution Spatial Audio Capture Using a 7th-Order Ambisonic Microphone Jussieu:Conf 2 (Binaural)Pascal Rueff • François Salmon Coffee B Cafe / Lunch A Tutorial Guide on Sparse Sampling in Audio for Virtual and Augmented Reality Jussieu:Room 3Jamie Angus-Whiteoak

4:00pm CEST

Adapting to Manipulated Acoustic Distance Laws Jussieu:Conf 2 (Binaural)Christian Scheer • Fabian Brinkmann • Lucas Schmitz • Markus von Berg • Stefan Weinzierl

4:30pm CEST

Real-Time Spatial Auralization for Collaborative Architectural Design in Virtual Reality Jussieu:Conf 2 (Binaural)Achilleas Xydis • Giacomo Montiani • Chao Chia-Hsuan • Fabio Scotto

5:00pm CEST

Comparing Three Movement Simulation Algorithms from Discrete Impulse Responses Jussieu:Conf 2 (Binaural)Sarabeth S. Mullins • Hermes Sampedro Llopis Head-tracked loudspeaker beamforming for spatial audio reproduction Jussieu:Room 3Jacob Hollebon • Filippo Fazi

5:30pm CEST

Immersive recording with a virtual 3D microphone array using spatial information of virtual sound sources sampled in a target space. Jussieu:Conf 2 (Binaural)Masataka Nakahara • Toru Kamekawa • Yasuhiko Nagatomo • Akira Omoto

6:30pm CEST

Welcome cocktail Jussieu Auditorium

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 Toolbox (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) 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

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

9:30am CEST

Coffee IRCAM:Gallery

10:00am CEST

Vaulted Harmonies : Archaeoconcert at Notre-Dame film projection IRCAM:ESPRO (HOA)David Poirier-Quinot • Brian F.G. Katz Sponsor demos IRCAM:Studio 5

10:30am CEST

Perceptual Modeling of Binaural vs. Stereo Music Mixes: A Pairwise Differential Approach with Dimension-wise Attention IRCAM:StravinskyJiarui Liang • Yizhen Wang • Haitian Zhang • Huanhe Li • Yizhen Hou

11:00am CEST

The Impact of User Expertise on Immersion and Usability in an Interactive VR Music Experience IRCAM:StravinskyJacob Hedges • Robert Sazdov • Andrew Johnston (P) Convolving the Convoluted: Acoustigrammetry for Immersive Virtual Reality IRCAM:ESPRO (HOA)Justin Alley (P) Immersive Drum Circle: A Tool For Performing and Composing Spatial Music IRCAM:ESPRO (HOA)Joseph Williams • Matt Barnard • Katarzyna Sochaczewska (P) Ambimix: a Scene-Based Approach to Interactive Mixing IRCAM:ESPRO (HOA)Tom Yaniv • Agnieszka Roginska • Na Na (P) Perceptual Evaluation of Higher-Order Ambisonic Codecs on Both Synthetic Mixing and Native Recordings IRCAM:ESPRO (HOA)Adrien Llave • Grégory Pallone • Jérôme Daniel

11:30am CEST

The Influence of Listener's Background on Virtual Source Detection in a 6DoF Spatial Audio Task IRCAM:StravinskyRahul Roy Chowdhury • Julie Meyer • Lorenzo Picinali

12:00pm CEST

Choir Performance in Virtual Versus Real Rooms: The Influence of Acoustic Modality on Singers’ Performance and Perception IRCAM:StravinskyCharlotte Fernandez • Nathalie Henrich • Brian F.G. Katz

12:30pm CEST

Lunch IRCAM:Gallery

1:30pm CEST

On the influence of headphone cup acoustics on individual pinna cues IRCAM:StravinskyRoman Kiyan • Stephan Preihs • Jürgen Peissig Streaming for mixed reality venues IRCAM:ESPRO (HOA)Paul Harter (P) Acoustic and Perceptual Evaluation of Integrated Near-Ear Speakers vs. Over Head Headphones in VR Environments IRCAM:GalleryZhinuo Li (P) Increasing Accessibility of Auditory Research: A 6-DoF Motion-Capture-Based Interface for Localisation Testing IRCAM:GalleryTomasz Rudzki • Katarzyna Sochaczewska • Michael McLoughlin • Gavin Kearney (P) The impact of audio spatialisation reproduction on the neurophysiological responses of music listeners IRCAM:GalleryLaney Haywood • Sam Hobern • Isao Nambu • Nicolas Epain • Helena Daffern • Gavin Kearney (P) Virtualising SPHERE: active listening in 3D sound localisation IRCAM:GalleryNicola La Magna • Lisa Lever • Clément Desoche • Nils Meyer-Kahlen • Valerie Gaveau • Lorenzo Picinali Sponsor demos IRCAM:Studio 5

2:00pm CEST

Personalized Head-Related Transfer Function Modeling Using a Neural Operator IRCAM:StravinskyChenshen Lu • Kyla McMullen

2:30pm CEST

An investigation of AI integration in sound designer workflows and experiences. IRCAM:ESPRO (HOA)Nelly Garcia • Joshua Reiss The Influence of Binauralizer and HRTF Preprocessing on Objective Loudness in Ambisonics IRCAM:StravinskyNils Peters

3:00pm CEST

Audio Formgiving: Sound Zones as Spatial Structures in Mixed Reality IRCAM:ESPRO (HOA)Hyunkyung Shin • Anıl Çamcı Direction-Dependent Ear Canal Transmission at High Frequencies: A Multi-Subject Study using 3D-Printed Replicas IRCAM:StravinskyBaptiste Fourrier • Daniel Sinev • Benjamin Pries • Stephan Preihs • Jürgen Peissig

3:30pm CEST

An Open-Source Auracast Platform for Selective Listening in Assistive Hearing Applications IRCAM:ESPRO (HOA)Matheus Cavalcanti de Santana • Felipe Pimenta Bernardo • João Victor Colombari Carlet • Bruno Cepeda Henriques • Lucas Marini Gonçalves • Regina Tangerino de Souza Jacob • Wanderléia Quinhoneiro Blasca • Giédre Berretin-Felix • Deborah Viviane Ferrari • Ben-Hur Viana Borges • João Navarro • Vinicius Marrara Pepino A survey of HRTF dataset use in academia and industry reveals no de facto standard IRCAM:StravinskyFabian Brinkmann • Katharina Pollack • Nils Meyer-Kahlen • Pedro Lladó

4:00pm CEST

VR Unseen: An Audio-Haptic Data Framework for Accessible Virtual Storytelling for visually impaired audiences IRCAM:ESPRO (HOA)Cesar Portillo Evaluation of Head-Related Transfer Functions Across Five Levels of Individualisation in Virtual Reality IRCAM:StravinskyLudovic Pirard • Katarina C. Poole

4:30pm CEST

Closing ceremony IRCAM:ESPRO (HOA)