Descripción del proyecto
Hacia un cambio radical en la tecnología de audio
El sonido es una de las principales dimensiones de cualquier servicio informático. Por desgracia, hoy día la calidad del sonido depende de dispositivos monousuario y, por lo general, requiere una gestión o ajuste constante. El objetivo del proyecto financiado con fondos europeos SOUNDS es lograr un cambio radical al introducir un nuevo paradigma en la tecnología de audio. Este nuevo estándar se basará en la creciente popularidad de los modelos basados en la red que ofrecen audio como servicio y reemplazará las capacidades restringidas y las limitaciones de un dispositivo monousuario, lo que llevará la tecnología de audio a un nuevo nivel. Por este motivo, el proyecto realizará una investigación interdisciplinar avanzada y formará a una nueva generación de investigadores cualificados con un perfil científico interdisciplinar e internacional.
Objetivo
The SOUNDS European Training Network (ETN) revolves around a new and promising paradigm coined as Service- Oriented, Ubiquitous, Network-Driven Sound. Inspired by the ubiquity of mobile and wearable devices capable of capturing, processing, and reproducing sound, the SOUNDS ETN aims to bring audio technology to a new level by exploiting network-enabled cooperation between devices. We envision the next generation of audio devices to be capable of providing enhanced hearing assistance, creating immersive audio experience, enabling advanced voice control and much more, by seamlessly exchanging signals and parameter settings, and spatially analyzing and reproducing sound jointly with other nearby audio devices and infrastructure. Moreover, such functionality should be self-organizing, flexible, and scalable, requiring minimal user interaction for adapting to changes in the environment or network. It is anticipated that this paradigm will eventually result in an entirely new way of designing and using audio technology, by considering audio as a service enabled through shared infrastructure, rather than as a device-specific functionality limited by the capabilities and constraints of a single user device.
To attain this paradigm shift in audio technology not only requires additional research but also calls for a new generation of qualified researchers with a transdisciplinary and international scientific profile, strong collaborative research and research management skills, and the intersectoral expertise needed to carry research results from academia to industry. It is believed that the SOUNDS ETN will offer the best possible framework for achieving these goals, by organizing advanced interdisciplinary research training, developing solid transferable skills, and providing intersectoral and international experience in a network of qualified and complementary industrial and academic institutions.
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MSCA-ITN - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Innovative Training Networks (ITN)Coordinador
3000 Leuven
Bélgica