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ANOMALOUS NOISE EVENTS CONSIDERATIONS FOR THE COMPUTATION OF ROAD TRAFFIC NOISE LEVELS: THE DYNAMAP'S MILAN CASE STUDY Open

Ferran Orga, Joan Claudi Socoró, Francesc Álías, Rosa Ma Alsina‐Pagès, Giovanni Zambon , et al. · 2024

Dynamic noise maps are computed to represent the noise levels generated by road traffic in realtime to determine the population exposure to environmental noise. To this aim, a network ofacoustic sensors can be deployed in representative st…

Special Issue on IberSPEECH 2022: Speech and Language Technologies for Iberian Languages Open

José L. Pérez-Córdoba, Francesc Álías, Zoraida Callejas · 2024

ThisSpecial Issue presents the latest advances in research and novel applications of speech and language technologies based on the works presented at the sixth edition of the IberSPEECH conference held in Granada in 2022, paying special at…

Evaluation of Glottal Inverse Filtering Techniques on OPENGLOT Synthetic Male and Female Vowels Open

Marc Freixes, Luis Joglar-Ongay, Joan Claudi Socoró, Francesc Álías · 2023

Current articulatory-based three-dimensional source–filter models, which allow the production of vowels and diphtongs, still present very limited expressiveness. Glottal inverse filtering (GIF) techniques can become instrumental to identif…

Aplicació de tècniques de generació automàtica de la parla en producció audiovisual Open

Francesc Álías, Joan Claudi Socoró, Ignasi Iriondo · 2022

En aquest article es presenta un resum del treball de recerca que porta el mateix títol, realitzat gràcies a l’ajut concedit pel CAC en la VII convocatòria d’Ajuts a projectes de recerca sobre comunicació audiovisual. Després d’estudiar el…

Effects of COVID-19 lockdown in Milan urban and Rome suburban acoustic environments: Anomalous noise events and intermittency ratio Open

Francesc Álías, Rosa Ma Alsina‐Pagès · 2022

The COVID-19 pandemic affected the acoustic environment worldwide, entailing relevant reductions of equivalent noise levels (LAeq) during this exceptional period. In the context of the LIFE+ DYNAMAP project, two wireless acoustic sensor ne…

Contribution of Vocal Tract and Glottal Source Spectral Cues in the Generation of Acted Happy and Aggressive Spanish Vowels Open

Marc Freixes, Joan Claudi Socoró, Francesc Álías · 2022

The source-filter model is one of the main techniques applied to speech analysis and synthesis. Recent advances in voice production by means of three-dimensional (3D) source-filter models have overcome several limitations of classic one-di…

WASN-Based Spectro-Temporal Analysis and Clustering of Road Traffic Noise in Urban and Suburban Areas Open

Joan Claudi Socoró, Francesc Álías, Rosa Ma Alsina‐Pagès · 2022

Environmental noise has become one of the principal health risks for urban dwellers and road traffic noise (RTN) is considered to be the main source of these adverse effects. To address this problem, strategic noise maps and corresponding …

WASN-Based Day–Night Characterization of Urban Anomalous Noise Events in Narrow and Wide Streets Open

Francesc Álías, Joan Claudi Socoró, Rosa Ma Alsina‐Pagès · 2020

In addition to air pollution, environmental noise has become one of the major hazards for citizens, being Road Traffic Noise (RTN) as its main source in urban areas. Recently, low-cost Wireless Acoustic Sensor Networks (WASNs) have become …

Aggregate Impact of Anomalous Noise Events on the WASN-Based Computation of Road Traffic Noise Levels in Urban and Suburban Environments Open

Francesc Álías, Ferran Orga, Rosa Ma Alsina‐Pagès, Joan Claudi Socoró · 2020

Environmental noise can be defined as the accumulation of noise pollution caused by sounds generated by outdoor human activities, Road Traffic Noise (RTN) being the main source in urban and suburban areas. To address the negative effects o…

Characterization of a WASN-Based Urban Acoustic Dataset for the Dynamic Mapping of Road Traffic Noise Open

Francesc Álías, Joan Claudi Socoró, Ferran Orga, Rosa Ma Alsina‐Pagès · 2020

Road Traffic Noise (RTN) is one of the main pollutants in urban and suburban areas, negatively affecting the quality of life of their inhabitants. In the context of the European LIFE DYNAMAP project, two Wireless Acoustic Sensor Networks (…

Editorial for Special Issue “IberSPEECH2018: Speech and Language Technologies for Iberian Languages” Open

Francesc Álías, Antonio Bonafonte, António Teixeira · 2020

The main goal of this Special Issue is to present the latest advances in research and novel applications of speech and language technologies based on the works presented at the IberSPEECH edition held in Barcelona in 2018, paying special a…

Analysis of the Impact of Anomalous Noise Events on Road Traffic Noise Levels Computation from Urban and Suburban WASNs in real operation Open

Francesc Álías, Ferran Orga, Rosa Ma Alsina‐Pagès, Joan Claudi Socoro · 2020

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Noise at the time of COVID 19: The impact in some areas in Rome and Milan, Italy Open

Rosa Ma Alsina‐Pagès, Francesc Álías, Patrizia Bellucci, Pier Paolo Cartolano, Ilaria Coppa , et al. · 2020

The COVID-19 pandemic was confirmed in Italy at the end of January 2020, when the first positive cases for the virus were identified. At the beginning of March, the virus had spread to all Italian regions and on 10 March 2020 the lockdown …

A unit selection text-to-speech-and-singing synthesis framework from neutral speech: proof of concept Open

Marc Freixes, Francesc Álías, Joan Claudi Socoró · 2019

Glottal Source Contribution to Higher Order Modes in the Finite Element Synthesis of Vowels Open

Marc Freixes, Marc Arnela, Joan Claudi Socoró, Francesc Álías, Oriol Guasch · 2019

Articulatory speech synthesis has long been based on one-dimensional (1D) approaches. They assume plane wave propagation within the vocal tract and disregard higher order modes that typically appear above 5 kHz. However, such modes may be …

A WASN-Based Suburban Dataset for Anomalous Noise Event Detection on Dynamic Road-Traffic Noise Mapping Open

Rosa Ma Alsina‐Pagès, Ferran Orga, Francesc Álías, Joan Claudi Socoró · 2019

Traffic noise is presently considered one of the main pollutants in urban and suburban areas. Several recent technological advances have allowed a step forward in the dynamic computation of road-traffic noise levels by means of a Wireless …

Review of Wireless Acoustic Sensor Networks for Environmental Noise Monitoring in Smart Cities Open

Francesc Álías, Rosa Ma Alsina‐Pagès · 2019

Nowadays, more than half of the world’s population lives in urban areas. Since this proportion is expected to keep rising, the sustainable development of cities is of paramount importance to guarantee the quality of life of their inhabitan…

Leveraging Urban Sounds: A Commodity Multi-Microphone Hardware Approach for Sound Recognition Open

Fabrizio Tappero, Rosa Ma Alsina‐Pagès, Letícia Duboc, Francesc Álías · 2018

City noise and sound are measured and processed with the purpose of drawing appropriate government legislation and regulations, ultimately aimed at contributing to a healthier environment for humans. The primary use of urban noise analysis…

Acoustic Conditions Analysis of a Multi-Sensor Network for the Adaptation of the Anomalous Noise Event Detector Open

Joan Claudi Socoró, Rosa Ma Alsina‐Pagès, Francesc Álías, Ferran Orga · 2018

The DYNAMAP project is aimed at implementing a dynamic noise mapping system able to determine the acoustic impact of road infrastructures in real time. It was established as a result of the European Noise Directive 2002/49/EC. A Wireless A…

Detection of Anomalous Noise Events for Real-Time Road-Traffic Noise Mapping: The Dynamap’s project case study Open

Francesc Álías, Rosa Ma Alsina‐Pagès, Ferran Orga, Joan Claudi Socoró · 2018

Environmental noise is increasing year after year, especially in urban and suburban areas. Besides annoyance, environmental noise also causes harmful health effects on people. The Environmental Noise Directive 2002/49/EC (END) is the main …

Detection of Anomalous Noise Events on Low-Capacity Acoustic Nodes for Dynamic Road Traffic Noise Mapping within an Hybrid WASN Open

Rosa Ma Alsina‐Pagès, Francesc Álías, Joan Claudi Socoró, Ferran Orga · 2018

One of the main aspects affecting the quality of life of people living in urban and suburban areas is the continuous exposure to high road traffic noise (RTN) levels. Nowadays, thanks to Wireless Acoustic Sensor Networks (WASN) noise in Sm…

Initial verification of dynamic acoustic mapping along the motorway surrounding the city of Rome Open

R. Benocci, Fábio Janson Angelini, Alessandro Bisceglie, Giovanni Zambon, Patrizia Bellucci , et al. · 2018

DYNAMAP (Dynamic Acoustic Mapping) is a EU LIFE project which aims at developing a dynamic noise mapping system in urban areas (Milan city) and along the motorway A90 surrounding the city of Rome. The two pilot areas present very different…

Preliminary results of Dynamap noise mapping operations Open

R. Benocci, Fábio Janson Angelini, M Cambiaghi, Alessandro Bisceglie, H. Eduardo Roman , et al. · 2018

DYNAMAP, a European Life project, aims at developing a dynamical acoustic map of large urban areassuch as the city of Milan based on a limited number of noise monitoring stations. Generally, traffic noise, recorded as time series by field …

On the Impact of Anomalous Noise Events on Road Traffic Noise Mapping in Urban and Suburban Environments Open

Ferran Orga, Francesc Álías, Rosa Ma Alsina‐Pagès · 2017

Noise pollution is a critical factor affecting public health, the relationship between road traffic noise (RTN) and several diseases in urban areas being especially disturbing. The Environmental Noise Directive 2002/49/EC and the CNOSSOS-E…

Detecting Anomalous Noise Events on Low-Capacity Acoustic Sensor in Dynamic Road Traffic Noise Mapping Open

Rosa Ma Alsina‐Pagès, Joan Claudi Socoró, Francesc Álías · 2017

One of the main aspects affecting the life of people living in urban and suburban areas is their continued exposure to high road traffic noise (RTN) levels, traditionally measured by specialists working on the field. Nowadays, the deployme…

An Anomalous Noise Events Detector for Dynamic Road Traffic Noise Mapping in Real-Life Urban and Suburban Environments Open

Joan Claudi Socoró, Francesc Álías, Rosa Ma Alsina‐Pagès · 2017

One of the main aspects affecting the quality of life of people living in urban and suburban areas is their continued exposure to high Road Traffic Noise (RTN) levels. Until now, noise measurements in cities have been performed by professi…

An FPGA-Based WASN for Remote Real-Time Monitoring of Endangered Species: A Case Study on the Birdsong Recognition of Botaurus stellaris Open

Marcos Hervás, Rosa Ma Alsina‐Pagès, Francesc Álías, Salvador Marti · 2017

Fast environmental variations due to climate change can cause mass decline or even extinctions of species, having a dramatic impact on the future of biodiversity. During the last decade, different approaches have been proposed to track and…

homeSound: Real-Time Audio Event Detection Based on High Performance Computing for Behaviour and Surveillance Remote Monitoring Open

Rosa Ma Alsina‐Pagès, Joan Navarro, Francesc Álías, Marcos Hervás · 2017

The consistent growth in human life expectancy during the recent years has driven governments and private organizations to increase the efforts in caring for the eldest segment of the population. These institutions have built hospitals and…

Description of Anomalous Noise Events for Reliable Dynamic Traffic Noise Mapping in Real-Life Urban and Suburban Soundscapes Open

Francesc Álías, Joan Claudi Socoró · 2017

Traffic noise is one of the main pollutants in urban and suburban areas. European authorities have driven several initiatives to study, prevent and reduce the effects of exposure of population to traffic. Recent technological advances have…

Real-time urban traffic noise maps: The influence of Anomalous Noise Events in Milan pilot area of DYNAMAP Open

Giovanni Zambon, R. Benocci, Ferran Orga, Rosa Ma Alsina‐Pagès, Francesc Álías , et al. · 2017

The DYNAMAP project is expected to provide the traffic noise mapping of the city of Milan with an updating interval down to 5 minutes, thanks to a network of real-time noise monitoring stations. As the noise displayed by the maps should be…

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