Digital Audio Effects

Call for Papers

Digital audio effects usually refer to processing solutions that are aimed at generating, enhancing, processing, and rendering sounds in a wide range of multimedia applications.

In the past few years, the range of research topics that fall within digital audio effects has broadened to accommodate new topics and applications, from space-time processing, to human-machine interaction. All the technologies and the research topics that are behind such topics are today addressed by the International Digital Audio Effects Conference (DAFx), which has become a reference gathering for researchers working in the audio field.

This special issue is devoted to new research developments and trends aimed at going beyond the well-established low-level sound processing and promoting novel emerging solutions based on high-level processing, content-based processing, environment-aware processing, and user-aware processing.

The aim of this special issue is to present the latest research efforts in the above areas, promote emerging applications, stimulate new fields of investigation, and capture emerging research trends.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

• Audio Effects
• Virtual musical instruments and virtual analog models
• Sound representation, generation, and modeling
• Time-frequency and spectral processing
• Space-time audio processing
• Synthesis, reproduction, and perception of spatial sound
• Perception, cognition, and psychoacoustics
• Audio-based music classification and retrieval
• Automatic transcription and high-level features
• Compositional issues, sound design, and sonic interaction design
• Software and hardware implementations
• Networked audio and audio in mobile applications

Before submission authors should carefully read over the journal's Author Guidelines, which are located at http://www.hindawi.com/journals/asp/guidelines/. Prospective authors should submit an electronic copy of their complete manuscript through the journal Manuscript Tracking System at http://mts.hindawi.com/ according to the following timetable:

Lead Guest Editor

• Augusto Sarti, Dipartimento di Elettronica e Informazione (DEI), Politecnico di Milano, Milano, Italy

Guest Editors

• Udo Zoelzer, Department of Signal Processing and Communications, Helmut Schmidt University/University of the Federal Armed Forces Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
• Xavier Serra, Music Technology Group, Department of Information and Communication Technologies, Audiovisual Institute, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain
• Mark Sandler, Centre for digital music (C4DM), School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science, Queen Mary University of London, London E1 4NS, UK
• Simon Godsill, Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB3 0FA, UK