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Mr Symeon Mattes -- PhD

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Mr Symeon Mattes is Postgraduate research student within the Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences, in the Departmennt of Engineering and the Environment, in the ISVR institute at the University of Southampton.

Psychophysics, auditory processing, and perceptual cognition can change how things can be formed

Symeon Mattes[1] graduated from the National Technical University of Athens (MSc, BSc) as Electrical and Computer Engineer in 2009 from the department of Communication, Electronics and Information engineering with emphasis in software applications, data and information processing and physics. Since 2011 he has been working as a postgraduate research student in the Acoustics Group. His research focuses on the development of perceptual models that are able to predict perceptual events, with emphasis in localisation, based on psychophysical factors.

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Signal processing is an area that deals with the analysis of a variety of physical quantities such as sound. However, the extraction of the useful part of the complicated information in an acoustic signal is difficult to obtain without a good understanding of the human response to an auditory stimulus. By combining psychophysical and physiological aspects of human cognition psychoaccoustics results in, which involves the investigation of how sound events are associated to each other. Auditory models attempt to combine techniques from signal processing with findings from psychophysics and human perception to extract information that can be used for further analysis.

Perceptual models can be useful for understanding underlying mechanisms of human perception, and cognition of equivalent predictive changes. Typical cases involve auditory predictors in localisation, evaluators of systems that require expensive and time consuming tests, and engineering for sound quality.

PhD research

Domain: Perceptual models[2]
Funding agencies: University of Southampton[3], Meridian Audio
Title: Perceptual models for sound field analysis and synthesis

Research group

1. A degree in Electronics Engineering was acquired from the Technological Institute of Athens in 2001 as well.
2. The research is part of a domain under Human Perception and Cognition.
3. University of Southampton is part of the Russel Group since 1994.

Demonstrations:

- SESG1009 - Modelling and Computing (Jan 2012)
- SESG6025 - Advance Computational Modelling, for c-code (Oct 2012)
- FEEG1001 - Design and Computing, for python-code (Oct 2012)
- FEEG1004 - Electronics and Electrical Systems (Oct 2012, Feb 2013)

Mr Symeon Mattes
University of Southampton
United Kingdom


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