Meet our team

The S3A team is comprised of Post-doctoral researchers, Research leaders experts and Stream leaders across the 4 different partners (Surrey, Salford, Southampton and the BBC). The Principal Investigator is Prof. Adrian Hilton (Director of the Centre for Vision Speech & Signal Processing – one of the largest activities in audio and visual signal processing in the UK).

S3A also counts on the expert feedback and advice from the Steering Board, chaired by Prof. Søren Bech (Bang & Olufsen) and with other representatives in spatial audio from industry, academia and the EPSRC.

S3A team leaders

Prof. Adrian Hilton

Principal Investigator

Director of the Centre for Vision Speech & Signal Processing, University of Surrey.

Eli James

S3A Project manager

Research Centre Manager at Centre for Vision Speech & Signal Processing, University of Surrey.

Research steams leaders

S3A project consists of four main streams of research with leaders at each partner institution.

Chris Pike

BBC R&D

STREAM 1: Object centred spatial audio production, standards & transmission.

Prof. Trevor Cox

University of Salford

STREAM 2: Understanding listener perception of spatial audio in real spaces.

Dr Philip Jackson

University of Surrey

STREAM 3: Audio-visual DSP for spatial audio object separation & listener localisation.

Dr Filippo Fazi

University of Southampton

STREAM 4: Practical reproduction of personal spatial audio in real spaces.

S3A research team

BBC

Chris Pike

Jon Francombe

Salford University

Trevor Cox – Stream 2 Leader

Rick Hughes – Physics of spatial audio in natural spaces

Yan Tang – Models of listener experience & hearing

Alex Wilson – Psychoacoustics, Audio Production and User Experience

James Woodcock – Listener experience & user requirement

Bruno Fazenda – Audio production, acoustics and psychoacoustics

Bill Davies – Room acoustics, perception and environmental soun

Ben Shirley – Audio Perceptio

University of Surrey

Centre for Vision, Speech and Signal Processing (CVSSP)

Adrian Hilton – S3A Principal Investigator

Eli James – Project Manager

Philip Jackson – Stream 3 Leader

Sandeep Chitreddy – Sound distance perception and rever

Hansung Kim – Visual listener tracking and room models

Qingju Liu – Audio Visual Source separation

William Morris – Software Developer

Luca Remaggi – Audio-visual room representation

Wenwu Wang – Blind sparse and Audio Visual Processin

Institute of Sound Recording

Tim Brookes – Perception and modelling of audio degradations

Russell Mason – MIDI Audio production and post-production, music technology

Philip Coleman – Object-based capture and production

Michael Cousins

University of Southampton

Filippo Fazi – Stream 4 Leader

Giacomo Costantini – Software Developer

Andreas Frank – Object-based delivery & reproduction

Marcos Simon Galvez – Listener centred audio reproduction

Dylan Menzies – Fundamentals of spatial audio reproduction

Prof. Stephen Elliot

Prof. Philip Nelson

Previous S3A members

Frank Melchior – BBC

Teo de Campos – Surrey

Steering Board

Søren Bech (Chair) – Bang & Olufsen

Veronique Larcher – Sennheiser Innovation

Jack O’Clee-Brown – KEF Audio UK

David Steptoe – Audio Software Development

Steve Renals – The University of Edinburgh

Mark Sandler – Queen Mary University of London

Dave Walters – BBC

Natasha Richardson – EPSRC