Publications

Conference & convention papers

• Dewhirst, M., Zielinski, S., Jackson, P.J.B & Rumsey, F. (2005).
  "Objective assessment of spatial localisation attributes of surround-sound reproduction systems".
  Proceedings of the Audio Engineering Society 118th Convention, May 28-31, Barcelona, Spain, Preprint 6441.
  [abstract] [bib]
• George, S., Zielinski, S., Rumsey, F. & Bech, S. (2008).
  "Evaluating the sensation of envelopment arising from 5-channel surround sound recordings".
  Proceedings of the Audio Engineering Society 124th Convention, May 17-20, Amsterdam, Preprint 7382.
  [abstract] [bib]
• Rumsey, F., Zielinski, S., Jackson, P.J.B., Dewhirst, M., Conetta, R., George, S., Bech, S. & Meares, D. (2008).
  "QESTRAL (Part 1): Quality Evaluation of Spatial Transmission and Reproduction using an Artificial Listener".
  Proceedings of the Audio Engineering Society 125th Convention, Oct 2-5, San Francisco, USA, Preprint 7595.
  [abstract] [bib]
• Conetta, R., Rumsey, F., Zielinski, S., Jackson, P.J.B., Dewhirst, M., Bech, S., Meares, D. & George, S. (2008).
  "QESTRAL (Part 2): Calibrating the QESTRAL spatial quality model using listening test data".
  Proceedings of the Audio Engineering Society 125th Convention, Oct 2-5, San Francisco, USA, Preprint 7596.
  [abstract] [bib]
• Jackson, P.J.B., Dewhirst, M., Conetta, R., Rumsey, F., Zielinski, S., Bech, S., Meares, D. & George, S. (2008).
  "QESTRAL (Part 3): System and metrics for spatial quality prediction".
  Proceedings of the Audio Engineering Society 125th Convention, Oct 2-5, San Francisco, USA, Preprint 7597.
  [abstract] [bib]
• Dewhirst, M., Conetta, R., Rumsey, F., Jackson, P.J.B., Zielinski, S., Bech, S., Meares, D. & George, S. (2008).
  "QESTRAL (Part 4): Test signals, combining metrics and the prediction of overall spatial quality".
  Proceedings of the Audio Engineering Society 125th Convention, Oct 2-5, San Francisco, USA, Preprint 7598.
  [abstract] [bib]
• George, S., Zielinski, S., Rumsey, F., Conetta, R., Dewhirst, M., Jackson, P.J.B., Meares, D. & Bech, S. (2008).
  "An Unintrusive Objective Model for Predicting the Sensation of Envelopment Arising from Surround Sound Recordings".
  Proceedings of the Audio Engineering Society 125th Convention, Oct 2-5, San Francisco, USA, Preprint 7599.
  [abstract] [bib]
• Conetta, R., Dewhirst, M., Rumsey, F., Zielinski, S., Jackson, P.J.B., Bech, S., Meares, D. & George, S. (2008).
  "Calibration of the QESTRAL model for the prediction of spatial quality".
  Proceedings of the Institute of Acoustics 24th Reproduced Sound Conference, Nov 20-21, Brighton, UK.
  [abstract] [poster] [bib]

Conference abstracts

• Jackson, P.J.B., Rumsey, F., Zielinski, S., Dewhirst, M., Conetta, R., Bech, S., & Meares, D. (2008).
  "Prediction of spatial perceptual attributes of reproduced sound across the listening area".
  J. Acoust. Soc. Am., 123 (5, pt.2): 2979, Presented at Acoustics'08, Paris,July 2008.
  [abstract] [bib]
• Rumsey, F., Zielinski, S., Jackson, P.J.B., Dewhirst, M., Conetta, R., Bech, S., & Meares, D. (2008).
  "Measuring perceived spatial quality changes in surround sound reproduction".
  J. Acoust. Soc. Am., 123 (5, pt.2): 2980, Presented at Acoustics'08, Paris,July 2008.(invited).
  [abstract] [bib]

Posters

• Conetta, R., Jackson, P.J.B., Zielinski, S. & Rumsey, F. (2007)
  "Envelopment: What is it? A definition for multichannel audio".
  Presented at the 1st SpACE-Net Workshop, Jan 25, York, UK.
  [abstract] [poster] [bib]

Theses

• Conetta, R. (2011)
  "Towards the automatic assessment of spatial quality in the reproduced sound environment".
  [thesis]

Software

• George, S., Dewhirst, M., Conetta, R., Zielinski, S., Rumsey, F., Jackson, P.J.B., Bech, S., Meares D. & Supper, B.
  "QESTRAL demonstrator", Online, version 1.0, March 2009.
  
  Note that the online demonstrator is currently not working due to changes in the University of Surrey servers. This problem will be fixed when time permits.