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Schedule as of May 2026 - subject to change

Default Time Zone is EDT - Eastern Daylight Time
Wednesday, July 29
 

8:00am EDT

Registration
Wednesday July 29, 2026 8:00am - 8:30am EDT
Huntington Place (Hall C)
Wednesday July 29, 2026 8:00am - 8:30am EDT
Huntington Place (Hall C) 1 Washington Blvd, Detroit, MI 48226

8:00am EDT

Demos & Networking
Wednesday July 29, 2026 8:00am - 8:00pm EDT
Hall C
Wednesday July 29, 2026 8:00am - 8:00pm EDT
Hall C

8:00am EDT

Immersive Audio Room
Wednesday July 29, 2026 8:00am - 8:00pm EDT
Room 321
Run by Lawrence Tech University with different immersive formats to played back in a room environment.
Wednesday July 29, 2026 8:00am - 8:00pm EDT
Room 321

8:30am EDT

History of Recording
Wednesday July 29, 2026 8:30am - 9:30am EDT
Hall C
For over 94 years, Abbey Road has pushed the boundaries of how sound is created, captured, and experienced. From the invention of stereo sound, to pioneering early recording techniques and shaping the foundations of modern audio, innovation has always been the beating heart of the studios. In this Keynote, Abbey Road’s Head of Audio Products, Mirek Stiles,  will explore the studios’...
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Speakers
MS
Wednesday July 29, 2026 8:30am - 9:30am EDT
Hall C
  Music production techniques for automotive audio

9:30am EDT

Networking Break & Posters
Wednesday July 29, 2026 9:30am - 10:00am EDT
Hall C
"Acoustic Power Volume Density as a Target for Vehicle Cabin Equalization", Yoshi Asahi and Danny Asahi (Eilex) "Advantage of multi-core architectures for automotive audio systems", Sebastian Und Wendt (Pioneer Electronics) "A Layered Approach for In-Car Sound Personalization", Alexander Goldin, Alex Radzishevsky and Suhail Habib Alla (Alango Technologies) "The role of listener position sensing...
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Speakers
P
Wednesday July 29, 2026 9:30am - 10:00am EDT
Hall C
  Posters

10:00am EDT

Hybrid Automotive Sound Systems: Implementation and Tuning of Actuators with Conventional Loudspeakers
Wednesday July 29, 2026 10:00am - 10:25am EDT
Hall C
Actuator-based sound reproduction is increasingly adopted in automotive audio systems due to its advantages in packaging efficiency, reduced mass, and seamless integration into vehicle structures. This work presents the implementation and tuning of a hybrid automotive sound system combining distributed mode loudspeakers (DMLs) with conventional dynamic drivers in a constrained open-cockpit vehicle...
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Speakers
AS
Wednesday July 29, 2026 10:00am - 10:25am EDT
Hall C
  Sound Reproduction in Cars, Sound Reproduction in Cars

10:25am EDT

Why Loudness Tuning Matters: Delivering Consistent Premium Audio Experiences Across All Listening Levels in Automotive Audio Systems
Wednesday July 29, 2026 10:25am - 10:50am EDT
Hall C
Automotive OEMs invest significantly in branded audio systems to create differentiated, premium in-vehicle experiences. However, loudness tuning—critical for maintaining consistent perceived sound quality across listening levels—is often underdeveloped or inconsistently implemented. As a result, systems optimized at a single reference level can sound thin, unbalanced, or inconsistent under...
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Speakers
KD
Wednesday July 29, 2026 10:25am - 10:50am EDT
Hall C
  Sound Reproduction in Cars, Evaluation of Sound Quality and Speech Intelligibility

10:50am EDT

Evaluation of Headrest-Integrated Loudspeakers for Enhanced Spatial Audio Immersion in Automotive Cabins
Wednesday July 29, 2026 10:50am - 11:15am EDT
Hall C
Immersive object-based spatial audio is now firmly established in the music industry as the standard for production, distribution, and playback. The number of automobiles integrating such content to provide premium entertainment experiences is steadily increasing, driving the development of new audio rendering techniques. While loudspeakers integrated into automotive headrests have been around for...
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Speakers
MW
Wednesday July 29, 2026 10:50am - 11:15am EDT
Hall C
  Sound Reproduction in Cars, Evaluation of Sound Quality and Speech Intelligibility

11:15am EDT

Disruptive Audio architectures
Wednesday July 29, 2026 11:15am - 12:00pm EDT
Hall C
Recap of audio system diversification (more audio levels, more car variants (ICE, BEV, PHEV), more functionalities (incl RNC, haptics, headrest, etc) Challenges of today’s audio component integrations: Interior sound challenges, Exterior sound challenges Propositions for disrupting compact (and often doorless) architectures, still meeting performance and functional requirements Specific Speaker...
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Speakers
TV
Wednesday July 29, 2026 11:15am - 12:00pm EDT
Hall C
  Hardware and System Architecture, New Technologies for Automotive Audio

12:00pm EDT

Lunch
Wednesday July 29, 2026 12:00pm - 1:00pm EDT
Hall C
Wednesday July 29, 2026 12:00pm - 1:00pm EDT
Hall C

1:00pm EDT

Modern Audio Workflow Design in the SDV World + Exposing and Fixing Audio Failures in Multi-Core SoCs
Wednesday July 29, 2026 1:00pm - 2:00pm EDT
Hall C
As automotive and embedded platforms evolve toward increasingly complex, multi-core SoCs, achieving reliable real-time audio performance has become more difficult than ever. Subtle interactions among computation, memory subsystems, caches, interrupts, and schedulers can produce intermittent audio dropouts that are hard to reproduce, diagnose, and assign to any single component. Diagnosing and...
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Speakers
PB
JW
Wednesday July 29, 2026 1:00pm - 2:00pm EDT
Hall C
  Software Defined Vehicles

2:00pm EDT

Overcoming Challenges of Measuring Distortion Audibility in Vehicles
Wednesday July 29, 2026 2:00pm - 2:25pm EDT
Hall C
Standardized measurement of in-car audio systems remains an ongoing challenge, particularly regarding microphone configuration and placement, test signals, and correlation with perception. Current recommendations from the AES Technical Committee on Automotive Audio (TC-AA) advocate spatial averaging using multi-microphone arrays to improve repeatability. While this method reduces the influence of...
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Speakers
ST
Wednesday July 29, 2026 2:00pm - 2:25pm EDT
Hall C
  Hardware and System Architecture - Test/Measurement method, Evaluation of Sound Quality and Speech Intelligibility

2:25pm EDT

Sound Sensing via Vehicle Body Surface Vibrations: Feasibility and Performance Evaluation
Wednesday July 29, 2026 2:25pm - 2:50pm EDT
Hall C
Sound sensing through structural vibrations has emerged as a robust alternative to conventional air conducted microphones for automotive exterior applications, where environmental exposure can degrade microphone performance. This study evaluates the feasibility and performance of sensing airborne speech via vehicle body surface vibrations using surface mounted accelerometers. Three miniature...
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Speakers
YD
Wednesday July 29, 2026 2:25pm - 2:50pm EDT
Hall C
  Hardware and System Architecture - Microphones, Evaluation of Sound Quality and Speech Intelligibility

2:50pm EDT

Effects of automotive microphone frequency response characteristics on speech and ASR quality before and after noise reduction: a continuous evaluation
Wednesday July 29, 2026 2:50pm - 3:15pm EDT
Hall C
Microphones used in automotive hands-free and Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) systems are typically required to meet wideband or fullband specifications defined by standards such as ITU-T P.1110 and P.1120. In practice, however, compliance with these standards is often challenged by vehicle cabin integration constraints and automotive-grade durability requirements. Moreover, there is limited...
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Speakers
MB
Wednesday July 29, 2026 2:50pm - 3:15pm EDT
Hall C
  Hardware and System Architecture - Microphones, Evaluation of Sound Quality and Speech Intelligibility

3:15pm EDT

Networking Break & Posters
Wednesday July 29, 2026 3:15pm - 3:45pm EDT
Hall C
"Acoustic Power Volume Density as a Target for Vehicle Cabin Equalization", Yoshi Asahi and Danny Asahi (Eilex) "Advantage of multi-core architectures for automotive audio systems", Sebastian Und Wendt (Pioneer Electronics) "A Layered Approach for In-Car Sound Personalization", Alexander Goldin, Alex Radzishevsky and Suhail Habib Alla (Alango Technologies) "The role of listener position sensing...
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Speakers
P
Wednesday July 29, 2026 3:15pm - 3:45pm EDT
Hall C
  Posters

3:45pm EDT

A Piezoelectric Actuated Flat-Panel Loudspeaker Approach to Immersive Automotive Audio Reproduction
Wednesday July 29, 2026 3:45pm - 4:10pm EDT
Hall C
This paper presents a vehicle-scale multichannel automotive audio demonstrator based on piezoelectrically actuated flat-panel loudspeakers (FPLs) integrated into existing cabin surfaces. The proposed architecture combines piezoelectric driven radiators embedded in headrests, front and rear doors, and an OLED center console with a conventional electrodynamic subwoofer for low-frequency extension,...
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Speakers
MB
Wednesday July 29, 2026 3:45pm - 4:10pm EDT
Hall C
  Hardware and System Architecture - Transducer, Sound Reproduction in Cars

4:10pm EDT

AES White Paper on In-Car Measurements: On the way with Version 1 to ideas for an update
Wednesday July 29, 2026 4:10pm - 4:35pm EDT
Hall C
A White Paper for in-car measurements version 1.0 was officially published in 2023 by the Automotive Audio section of the AES. It comprises basic characteristics of car audio systems. One of the intentions was to make audio systems as well as different cars comparable. This paper is divided into two parts: In the first part, measurements of several cars with different sizes, ages, and audio...
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Speakers
SI
Wednesday July 29, 2026 4:10pm - 4:35pm EDT
Hall C
  Hardware and System Architecture - Test/Measurement method, Evaluation of Sound Quality and Speech Intelligibility

4:35pm EDT

Unlocking the SDV Ecosystem: Modular Frameworks for Deploying Audio IP
Wednesday July 29, 2026 4:35pm - 5:40pm EDT
Hall C
Software-defined vehicles (SDVs) are reshaping how automotive audio features are created and delivered, shifting innovation from hardware-bound implementations to software-defined capabilities. This transition introduces new challenges for IP providers, Tier 1 suppliers, and OEMs in packaging, protecting, integrating, and scaling third-party technologies—but also unlocks significant benefits,...
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Speakers
JB
PB
Wednesday July 29, 2026 4:35pm - 5:40pm EDT
Hall C
  Software Defined Vehicles

5:40pm EDT

Unifying DSP, Acoustics, and Perception in Automotive Audio Design and Simulation
Wednesday July 29, 2026 5:40pm - 6:35pm EDT
Hall C
he development of automotive audio systems is increasingly driven by the need to reduce late‑stage integration risk and to support earlier, more informed design decisions—often before physical prototypes are available. In parallel, objective audio quality and speech intelligibility metrics are being adopted more widely to complement and reduce reliance on subjective listening tests. Together,...
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Speakers
AC
Wednesday July 29, 2026 5:40pm - 6:35pm EDT
Hall C
  Evaluation of Sound Quality and Speech Intelligibility, Machine learning and deep learning in automotive audio applications

6:40pm EDT

Networking Break
Wednesday July 29, 2026 6:40pm - 7:00pm EDT
Hall C
Wednesday July 29, 2026 6:40pm - 7:00pm EDT
Hall C

7:00pm EDT

Reception
Wednesday July 29, 2026 7:00pm - 8:00pm EDT
Hall C
Open Bar & Hand Food
Wednesday July 29, 2026 7:00pm - 8:00pm EDT
Hall C
 
Thursday, July 30
 

8:00am EDT

Registration
Thursday July 30, 2026 8:00am - 8:30am EDT
Huntington Place (Hall C)
Thursday July 30, 2026 8:00am - 8:30am EDT
Huntington Place (Hall C) 1 Washington Blvd, Detroit, MI 48226

8:00am EDT

Demos & Networking
Thursday July 30, 2026 8:00am - 9:00pm EDT
Hall C
Thursday July 30, 2026 8:00am - 9:00pm EDT
Hall C

8:00am EDT

Immersive Audio Room
Thursday July 30, 2026 8:00am - 9:00pm EDT
Room 321
Run by Lawrence Tech University with different immersive formats to played back in a room environment.
Thursday July 30, 2026 8:00am - 9:00pm EDT
Room 321

8:30am EDT

Subjective Evaluation of Automotive Systems
Thursday July 30, 2026 8:30am - 9:30am EDT
Hall C
Sean will summarize different methods used for subjective evaluation of automotive audio systems, with emphasis on perceived sound quality, spatial impression, distortion spectral balance, and listener preference inside the vehicle cabin. He will highlight the challenges of measuring audio in a complex acoustic environment, the strengths and weaknesses of each approach and shows how controlled...
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Speakers
SO
Thursday July 30, 2026 8:30am - 9:30am EDT
Hall C
  Subjective Evaluation of Sound Evaluation

9:30am EDT

Networking Break & Posters
Thursday July 30, 2026 9:30am - 10:00am EDT
Hall C
"Acoustic Power Volume Density as a Target for Vehicle Cabin Equalization", Yoshi Asahi and Danny Asahi (Eilex) "Advantage of multi-core architectures for automotive audio systems", Sebastian Und Wendt (Pioneer Electronics) "A Layered Approach for In-Car Sound Personalization", Alexander Goldin, Alex Radzishevsky and Suhail Habib Alla (Alango Technologies) "The role of listener position sensing...
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Speakers
P
Thursday July 30, 2026 9:30am - 10:00am EDT
Hall C

10:00am EDT

Audio-Visual Blink Comparison in Acoustic Signal Analysis
Thursday July 30, 2026 10:00am - 10:25am EDT
Hall C
Automotive audio systems rely on complex signal-processing algorithms. Technologies such as noise reduction, acoustic echo cancellation, beamforming, and in-car communication processing must be meticulously tuned across vehicle platforms and their unique microphone and loudspeaker layouts. This optimization process requires constant evaluation of where and how specific algorithm parameters alter...
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AR
Thursday July 30, 2026 10:00am - 10:25am EDT
Hall C
  Evaluation of Sound Quality and Speech Intelligibility, Sound Reproduction in Cars

10:25am EDT

Towards a Virtual Listener Panel for Car Audio System Evaluation
Thursday July 30, 2026 10:25am - 10:50am EDT
Hall C
We propose a machine-learning method that predicts trained-listener panel ratings of vehicle audio systems from in-situ microphone-array measurements. Using a dataset collected over more than 10 years from 1177 vehicle audio systems, the model is trained to predict listener-score distributions, not only mean scores, for subjective sound-quality attributes on a 1–10 scale. In this paper we focus...
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AS
Thursday July 30, 2026 10:25am - 10:50am EDT
Hall C
  Evaluation of Sound Quality and Speech Intelligibility, Machine learning and deep learning in automotive audio applications

10:50am EDT

A Practical Method for Routine In Situ Evaluation of Sound Quality in Vehicle Audio Systems
Thursday July 30, 2026 10:50am - 11:15am EDT
Hall C
A method is described for measuring and comparing the perceived sound quality of vehicle audio systems in situ. The process has been refined through use at company facilities for over two decades and has been applied across a variety of internal use cases within the organization. Panels of experienced evaluators, aligned processes, and dedicated facilities are used at multiple sites around the...
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Speakers
RK
Thursday July 30, 2026 10:50am - 11:15am EDT
Hall C
  Evaluation of Sound Quality and Speech Intelligibility, Machine learning and deep learning in automotive audio applications

11:15am EDT

Discovering & Measuring Intermodulation Distortion in Automotive Loudspeakers
Thursday July 30, 2026 11:15am - 12:00pm EDT
Hall C
Intermodulation Distortion in automotive loudspeakers has degraded the quality of the listening experience in vehicles since the onset of audio systems in cars. Even in the current state-of-the-art systems of 30 or more loudspeakers, it can still rear its ugly head. This tutorial will define the especially egregious Amplitude Modulation distortion, show what it looks like in scope captures and...
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Speakers
MZ
Thursday July 30, 2026 11:15am - 12:00pm EDT
Hall C
  Hardware and System Architecture, New Technologies for Automotive Audio

12:00pm EDT

Lunch
Thursday July 30, 2026 12:00pm - 1:00pm EDT
Hall C
Thursday July 30, 2026 12:00pm - 1:00pm EDT
Hall C

1:00pm EDT

Multi-Channel Audio in Automotive & Sound Quality Evaluation
Thursday July 30, 2026 1:00pm - 2:00pm EDT
Hall C
The rapid adoption of Dolby Atmos in automotive audio systems marks a fundamental shift from traditional channel-based reproduction toward object-based, content-driven spatial audio. Unlike legacy surround upmixers, which algorithmically derive envelopment from stereo or limited multichannel sources, Dolby Atmos enables playback of artist-authored spatial intent through dynamic rendering tailored...
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Speakers
KD
Thursday July 30, 2026 1:00pm - 2:00pm EDT
Hall C
  Multi-Channel Audio & Evaluation of Sound Quality

2:00pm EDT

The Design of Broadband Acoustic Metamaterial Lenses via Differentiable Simulations
Thursday July 30, 2026 2:00pm - 2:25pm EDT
Hall C
A core challenge of acoustically optimizing an automotive sound system is realizing a balance between ideal and viable loudspeaker placement. Placement is largely influenced by structural, aesthetic and safety design considerations leading to non-ideal acoustic response characteristics within a given car cabin. These constrains often force drive units to be oriented off-axis from the listening...
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FT
Thursday July 30, 2026 2:00pm - 2:25pm EDT
Hall C
  Hardware and System Architecture, Sound Reproduction in Cars

2:25pm EDT

The Hidden Challenges of 48 V Class D Audio Amplifiers (Here be dragons!)
Thursday July 30, 2026 2:25pm - 2:50pm EDT
Hall C
The automotive industry is rapidly migrating from 12 V to 48 V electrical architectures to support growing power demands from compute and electrified subsystems. Audio amplifiers appear well positioned to benefit through reduced current, lower conductor losses, increased instantaneous power capability, and an additional 12 dB of voltage headroom for improved transient reproduction in...
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Speakers
EK
Thursday July 30, 2026 2:25pm - 2:50pm EDT
Hall C
  Hardware and System Architecture, New Technologies for Automotive Audio

2:50pm EDT

Gradient-Based Learning of Parametric Engine Sound Representations for Real-Time Resynthesis and Tuning on Embedded Systems
Thursday July 30, 2026 2:50pm - 3:15pm EDT
Hall C
Engine order enhancement is central in automotive sound design, where selective harmonics are synthesized to shape perceptual qualities such as sportiness, refinedness, or power. This paper investigates a neural network-based approach to combustion engine sound modeling that extends conventional engine order analysis and enhancement by deriving synthesis parameters from audio data with machine...
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Speakers
RD
Thursday July 30, 2026 2:50pm - 3:15pm EDT
Hall C
  Active Sound Management and Solutions, Machine learning and deep learning in automotive audio applications

3:15pm EDT

Networking Break & Posters
Thursday July 30, 2026 3:15pm - 3:45pm EDT
Hall C
"Acoustic Power Volume Density as a Target for Vehicle Cabin Equalization", Yoshi Asahi and Danny Asahi (Eilex) "Advantage of multi-core architectures for automotive audio systems", Sebastian Und Wendt (Pioneer Electronics) "A Layered Approach for In-Car Sound Personalization", Alexander Goldin, Alex Radzishevsky and Suhail Habib Alla (Alango Technologies) "The role of listener position sensing...
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Speakers
P
Thursday July 30, 2026 3:15pm - 3:45pm EDT
Hall C

3:45pm EDT

A Generalized Optimization Method for Cascaded Bi-Quad Filter Design in Automotive Audio
Thursday July 30, 2026 3:45pm - 4:10pm EDT
Hall C
Automotive audio systems require precise spectral tuning to achieve consistent sound quality across vehicle models, trim levels, and seating positions. Cabin acoustics introduce strong resonances and seat-dependent responses, while manufacturing tolerances, loudspeaker variability, and interior materials create additional differences between vehicles. As modern infotainment platforms incorporate...
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Speakers
AG
Thursday July 30, 2026 3:45pm - 4:10pm EDT
Hall C
  New Technologies for Automotive Audio, Sound Reproduction in Cars

4:10pm EDT

Punch and rumble: does musical genre shape preferred transient-steady-state balance in audio-tactile systems?
Thursday July 30, 2026 4:10pm - 4:35pm EDT
Hall C
Tactile transducers, or "shakers", are increasingly being included within automotive seats, both as a safety feature for driver alerts, and as part of the in-vehicle sound system. High sound pressure level auditory experiences such as live sound events are often accompanied by tactile sensations, and so the inclusion of tactile excitation alongside the audio rendered by the vehicle's loudspeakers...
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Speakers
SS
Thursday July 30, 2026 4:10pm - 4:35pm EDT
Hall C
  New Technologies for Automotive Audio, Sound Reproduction in Cars

4:35pm EDT

Protecting AI-Driven Audio: From Model Training to In-Vehicle Deployment
Thursday July 30, 2026 4:35pm - 5:40pm EDT
Hall C
Modern automotive audio systems have evolved into distributed, software-defined platforms that combine traditional DSP with machine learning. These systems are continuously trained, tuned, and updated using real-world data, creating complex workflows that extend beyond the vehicle. As a result, AI-driven audio technologies have become valuable intellectual property. Development and deployment...
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Speakers
NM
Thursday July 30, 2026 4:35pm - 5:40pm EDT
Hall C
  Machine learning and deep learning in automotive audio applications, New Technologies for Automotive Audio

4:35pm EDT

Designing Cabin-Centric Audio Experiences: UX and System Challenges for Autonomous Vehicle Interiors
Thursday July 30, 2026 4:35pm - 5:40pm EDT
Hall C
Automotive audio systems have historically been engineered around a driver-centric model, with fixed seating geometry and a well-defined listening reference. In contrast, emerging autonomous vehicle interiors introduce reconfigurable seating, multi-user scenarios, and use cases that extend beyond driving to include work, entertainment, and social interaction. These changes fundamentally shift the...
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Speakers
JH
Thursday July 30, 2026 4:35pm - 5:40pm EDT
Hall C
  New Technologies for Automotive Audio, Hardware and System Architecture

6:40pm EDT

Networking Break
Thursday July 30, 2026 6:40pm - 7:00pm EDT
Hall C
Thursday July 30, 2026 6:40pm - 7:00pm EDT
Hall C

7:00pm EDT

Banquet & Entertainment
Thursday July 30, 2026 7:00pm - 9:00pm EDT
Hall C
Catered Sit-Down Dinner with Live Music
Thursday July 30, 2026 7:00pm - 9:00pm EDT
Hall C
 
Friday, July 31
 

8:00am EDT

Registration
Friday July 31, 2026 8:00am - 8:30am EDT
Huntington Place (Hall C)
Friday July 31, 2026 8:00am - 8:30am EDT
Huntington Place (Hall C) 1 Washington Blvd, Detroit, MI 48226

8:00am EDT

Demos & Networking
Friday July 31, 2026 8:00am - 6:00pm EDT
Hall C
Friday July 31, 2026 8:00am - 6:00pm EDT
Hall C

8:00am EDT

Immersive Audio Room
Friday July 31, 2026 8:00am - 6:00pm EDT
Room 321
Run by Lawrence Tech University with different immersive formats to played back in a room environment.
Friday July 31, 2026 8:00am - 6:00pm EDT
Room 321

8:30am EDT

DDSP-based Neural Sound Synthesis
Friday July 31, 2026 8:30am - 9:30am EDT
Hall C
Minsuk presents a neural vehicle sound synthesis framework based on differentiable digital signal processing (DDSP), conditioned on driving signals collected from the CAN bus of an internal combustion engine (ICE) vehicle, and demonstrates the feasibility of realistic and coherent vehicle sound synthesis within this framework. Three design choices are investigated for the proposed framework: the...
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Speakers
MC
Friday July 31, 2026 8:30am - 9:30am EDT
Hall C
  Machine learning and deep learning in automotive audio applications, Active Sound Management and Solutions

9:30am EDT

Networking Break
Friday July 31, 2026 9:30am - 10:00am EDT
Hall C
Friday July 31, 2026 9:30am - 10:00am EDT
Hall C

10:00am EDT

Improving Low-Latency Automatic Drum Transcription for Automotive Applications
Friday July 31, 2026 10:00am - 10:25am EDT
Hall C
In automotive audio systems, musical beats and drum events can control synchronized in-cabin experiences such as ambient lighting and music-driven visual effects. Compared to beat tracking, automatic drum transcription (ADT) offers richer control signals by detecting and classifying drum onsets of multiple drum classes (e.g., kick, snare, and hi-hat), enabling more precise and musically meaningful...
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Speakers
PW
Friday July 31, 2026 10:00am - 10:25am EDT
Hall C
  Machine learning and deep learning in automotive audio applications

10:25am EDT

Implementing Two Upmixing Concepts With One Conditional GAN
Friday July 31, 2026 10:25am - 11:25am EDT
Hall C
Signal processing using artificial intelligence (AI) has gained increasing interest because it outperforms existing solutions in many fields. A significant challenge for deep neural networks lies in meeting strict requirements regarding latency, computational load and memory, which is vital in automotive audio. This paper presents CUpGAN (Conditional Upmix GAN), a computationally efficient method...
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Speakers
CU
Friday July 31, 2026 10:25am - 11:25am EDT
Hall C
  Machine learning and deep learning in automotive audio applications

10:50am EDT

Multi-Stage Real-Time Music Source Separation Using Random and Aligned Mixing with individualized GAN Loss
Friday July 31, 2026 10:50am - 11:15am EDT
Hall C
As intelligent cockpits develop, music source separation (MSS) is increasingly used in automotive audio to address complex sound mixtures failing to meet users’ diverse needs. In karaoke, it separates vocals and accompaniment for humming and enables independent male/female vocal volume adjustment for duets. For in-vehicle audio up-mixing, extracted stems reconfigure stereo mixes into...
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Speakers
JF
Friday July 31, 2026 10:50am - 11:15am EDT
Hall C
  Machine learning and deep learning in automotive audio applications, New Technologies for Automotive Audio

11:15am EDT

From Silicon to Sound: MEMS Microphones in Automotive Audio - Fundamentals, Applications and Qualification
Friday July 31, 2026 11:15am - 12:00pm EDT
Hall C
MEMS microphones in general and automotive – a tutorial Just as the semiconductor content in cars is increasing, so do MEMS microphones play an increasing role – both technology and application driven. Technology driven, because the legacy Electret Condenser Microphones are giving way to leveraging the benefits of MEMS technology, in automotive as they have in consumer electronics. Application...
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Speakers
JK
Friday July 31, 2026 11:15am - 12:00pm EDT
Hall C
  Hardware and System Architecture, New Technologies for Automotive Audio

12:00pm EDT

Lunch
Friday July 31, 2026 12:00pm - 1:00pm EDT
Hall C
Friday July 31, 2026 12:00pm - 1:00pm EDT
Hall C

1:00pm EDT

Synthesis of Seat Vibration for Immersive Electric Vehicle Driving Sound
Friday July 31, 2026 1:00pm - 1:25pm EDT
Hall C
With the increasing adoption of electric vehicles (EVs), the number of vehicles equipped with active driving sound (ASD) systems has also grown. Although many EV driving sounds emulate the acoustic characteristics of internal combustion engine (ICE) vehicles, EVs lack engine induced vibrations, resulting in a mismatch between auditory cues and tactile seat sensations. Providing vibrations...
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Speakers
JB
Friday July 31, 2026 1:00pm - 1:25pm EDT
Hall C
  Active Sound Management and Solutions - vibration synthesis for immersive driving feeling, Sound Reproduction in Cars

1:25pm EDT

Robust Engine Order Cancellation with Reconstructed-Component Decision Logic and Dynamic Order Selection
Friday July 31, 2026 1:25pm - 1:50pm EDT
Hall C
Engine orders are a major source of tonal noise in vehicle cabins. In production engine order cancellation (EOC), good performance is not only high attenuation, but also stable behavior in real conditions. After successful cancellation, the target order can become masked by broadband noise (low SNR). In addition, uncorrelated in-band intrusions may occur in the same frequency region. In these...
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Speakers
MP
Friday July 31, 2026 1:25pm - 1:50pm EDT
Hall C
  Active Sound Management and Solutions - EOC, Hardware and System Architecture

1:50pm EDT

A Review of Active Road Noise Control System Performance and Measurement Methods
Friday July 31, 2026 1:50pm - 2:15pm EDT
Hall C
Active Road Noise Control (RNC) has become an important complement to passive treatments for mitigating low frequency tire–pavement noise in automotive cabins. While numerous global and local RNC systems have been reported in the literature and implemented in production vehicles, their performance is often evaluated using inconsistent indicators and measurement methodologies, making direct...
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Speakers
XQ
Friday July 31, 2026 1:50pm - 2:15pm EDT
Hall C
  Active Sound Management and Solutions - a review, Hardware and System Architecture - Test/Measurement method

2:15pm EDT

Characterization and control of headrest speakers
Friday July 31, 2026 2:15pm - 2:40pm EDT
Hall C
This research focuses on two of the main challenges for headrest loudspeakers in cars – their directivity and their low-frequency performance. In part one, we discuss a method to characterize the directivity in meaningful ways despite the complex acoustic target environment (acoustic near field conditions, presence of head and torso, car interior). Headrest speakers of different classes (open...
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Speakers
SI
Friday July 31, 2026 2:15pm - 2:40pm EDT
Hall C
  Active Sound Management and Solutions, Sound Reproduction in Cars

2:40pm EDT

AVAS (Acoustic Vehicle Alerting Systems) Design and Optimization Using Combined Transfer Function Simulation and Subjective Playback
Friday July 31, 2026 2:40pm - 3:05pm EDT
Hall C
AVAS design and optimization is a critical part of electric and hybrid vehicle development for regulatory purposes. Trial-and-error testing is often done to ensure compliance. However, this comes late in the vehicle design phase, take time, effort, and specialized test equipment and facilities, and is subject to testing variance which may overestimate or underestimate AVAS design viability....
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Speakers
CM
Friday July 31, 2026 2:40pm - 3:05pm EDT
Hall C
  Active Sound Management and Solutions, Evaluation of Sound Quality and Speech Intelligibility

3:00pm EDT

Networking Break
Friday July 31, 2026 3:00pm - 3:30pm EDT
Hall C
Friday July 31, 2026 3:00pm - 3:30pm EDT
Hall C

3:45pm EDT

Challenges in Road Noise Control System Performance Evaluation: Toward Standardized In-Car Measurement Methods
Friday July 31, 2026 3:45pm - 4:30pm EDT
Hall C
Currently, no widely accepted measurement methodology exists for in-car RNC systems. Automotive OEMs, suppliers, and research institutions apply different procedures, measurement microphone configurations, driving conditions, and performance metrics, making it difficult to compare system performance across vehicles, development teams, and research studies. In response to this situation, the NVH...
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Speakers
TF
YD
XQ
Friday July 31, 2026 3:45pm - 4:30pm EDT
Hall C
  Active Sound Management and Solutions

4:30pm EDT

Active Experience Design: Using Sound and Vibration to Create Vehicle Identity
Friday July 31, 2026 4:30pm - 5:15pm EDT
Hall C
The current market landscape for electric vehicles has in-cabin noise trending quieter and quieter with each new generation of vehicles. But as physical and economic limits for acoustic isolation are reached, that same landscape converges on the same exact experience of quietness for every car, regardless of brand. However, what if this same quiet vehicle was instead thought of as a canvas,...
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Speakers
ST
Friday July 31, 2026 4:30pm - 5:15pm EDT
Hall C
  Active Sound Management and Solutions

5:15pm EDT

From Creative Concept to Series Production: Integrated Active Noise Control and Sound Design Workflows for Automotive Audio
Friday July 31, 2026 5:15pm - 6:00pm EDT
Hall C
In automotive audio, sound design plays a key role in defining brand identity and perceived quality. At the same time, development is constrained by long approval cycles, tight timelines, and the need for high consistency from early concept phases to series production. This workshop presents a holistic workflow, combining state-of-the-art Active Noise Control algorithms and vast Sound Design...
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Speakers
AW
Friday July 31, 2026 5:15pm - 6:00pm EDT
Hall C
  Active Sound Management and Solutions, Sound Reproduction in Cars

6:00pm EDT

Closing Remarks
Friday July 31, 2026 6:00pm - 6:15pm EDT
Hall C
Friday July 31, 2026 6:00pm - 6:15pm EDT
Hall C
 

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Hall C
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  • Active Sound Management and Solutions
  • Active Sound Management and Solutions - a review
  • Active Sound Management and Solutions - EOC
  • Active Sound Management and Solutions - vibration synthesis for immersive driving feeling
  • Evaluation of Sound Quality and Speech Intelligibility
  • Hardware and System Architecture
  • Hardware and System Architecture - Microphones
  • Hardware and System Architecture - Test/Measurement method
  • Hardware and System Architecture - Transducer
  • Machine learning and deep learning in automotive audio applications
  • Multi-Channel Audio & Evaluation of Sound Quality
  • Music production techniques for automotive audio
  • New Technologies for Automotive Audio
  • Posters
  • Software Defined Vehicles
  • Sound Reproduction in Cars
  • Subjective Evaluation of Sound Evaluation
  • All Access 19 & 20
  • Keynote
  • Paper Presentation
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