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Lorenzo Picinali

Dyson School of Design Engineering - Imperial College London
Verified email at imperial.ac.uk
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Characterizing soundscapes across diverse ecosystems using a universal acoustic feature set

…, NS Jones, BD Fulcher, L Picinali… - Proceedings of the …, 2020 - National Acad Sciences
Natural habitats are being impacted by human pressures at an alarming rate. Monitoring these
ecosystem-level changes often requires labor-intensive surveys that are unable to detect …

Exploration of architectural spaces by blind people using auditory virtual reality for the construction of spatial knowledge

L Picinali, A Afonso, M Denis, BFG Katz - International Journal of Human …, 2014 - Elsevier
Navigation within a closed environment requires analysis of a variety of acoustic cues, a
task that is well developed in many visually impaired individuals, and for which sighted …

[HTML][HTML] 3D Tune-In Toolkit: An open-source library for real-time binaural spatialisation

M Cuevas-Rodríguez, L Picinali, D González-Toledo… - PloS one, 2019 - journals.plos.org
The 3D Tune-In Toolkit (3DTI Toolkit) is an open-source standard C++ library which includes
a binaural spatialiser. This paper presents the technical details of this renderer, outlining its …

Robust, real‐time and autonomous monitoring of ecosystems with an open, low‐cost, networked device

…, NS Jones, CDL Orme, L Picinali - Methods in Ecology …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Automated methods of monitoring ecosystems provide a cost‐effective way to track changes
in natural system's dynamics across temporal and spatial scales. However, methods of …

An analysis on separability for memetic computing automatic design

F Caraffini, F Neri, L Picinali - Information Sciences, 2014 - Elsevier
This paper proposes a computational prototype for automatic design of optimization algorithms.
The proposed scheme makes an analysis of the problem that estimates the degree of …

Sonification of guidance data during road crossing for people with visual impairments or blindness

S Mascetti, L Picinali, A Gerino, D Ahmetovic… - International Journal of …, 2016 - Elsevier
In the last years several solutions were proposed to support people with visual impairments
or blindness during road crossing. These solutions focus on computer vision techniques for …

HRTF upsampling with a generative adversarial network using a gnomonic equiangular projection

…, H Liu, I Squires, SJ Cooper, L Picinali - … on Audio, Speech …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
An individualised (HRTF) is very important for creating realistic (VR) and (AR) environments.
However, acoustically measuring high-quality HRTFs requires expensive equipment and …

[HTML][HTML] Short-term effects of sound localization training in virtual reality

…, C Kim, JH Lestang, DFM Goodman, L Picinali - Scientific Reports, 2019 - nature.com
Head-related transfer functions (HRTFs) capture the direction-dependant way that sound
interacts with the head and torso. In virtual audio systems, which aim to emulate these effects, …

Assessing HRTF preprocessing methods for Ambisonics rendering through perceptual models

I Engel, DFM Goodman, L Picinali - Acta Acustica, 2022 - acta-acustica.edpsciences.org
Binaural rendering of Ambisonics signals is a common way to reproduce spatial audio
content. Processing Ambisonics signals at low spatial orders is desirable in order to reduce …

Multisensory VR interaction for protein-docking in the CoRSAIRe project

N Férey, J Nelson, C Martin, L Picinali, G Bouyer, A Tek… - Virtual Reality, 2009 - Springer
Proteins take on their function in the cell by interacting with other proteins or biomolecular
complexes. To study this process, computational methods, collectively named protein docking, …