LAMA | Laboratory for Audio, Music, and Acoustics

Research

Our lab’s research interests include:

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Measurement and modeling of a resonator guitar
Measurement and modeling of a resonator guitar
Mark Rau, Julius O. Smith
ISMA-2019  ·  13 Sep 2019  ·  [no id info]
Water Bottle Synthesis with Modal Signal Processing
Water Bottle Synthesis with Modal Signal Processing
Jatin Chowdhury, Elliot Canfield-Dafilou, Mark Rau
DAFx-20  ·  02 Sep 2020  ·  [no id info]
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2026

Compiling Differentiable Audio Graphs to Real-Time DSP
Compiling Differentiable Audio Graphs to Real-Time DSP
Facundo Franchino, Sebastian J. Schlecht
DAFx 2026 (Demonstrations Track)  ·  03 Sep 2026  ·  [no id info]
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Ambisonic Decoder Equalization in Reverberant Environments via Closed-Hull Crosstalk Inversion
Ambisonic Decoder Equalization in Reverberant Environments via Closed-Hull Crosstalk Inversion
Alex Tung, Mark Rau
DAFx-26  ·  02 Sep 2026  ·  [no id info]
Modal Structures of Plate Boundaries and Klein Bottle Reverberation
Modal Structures of Plate Boundaries and Klein Bottle Reverberation
Jin Woo Lee, Mark Rau
DAFx-26  ·  02 Sep 2026  ·  [no id info]
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Performance-Oriented Wave Digital Circuit Emulation
Performance-Oriented Wave Digital Circuit Emulation
Jatin Chowdhury, Mark Rau
DAFx-26  ·  02 Sep 2026  ·  [no id info]
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Evaluation of a Higher Order Ambisonic Renderer with Reverberation Compensation via Crosstalk Inversion
Evaluation of a Higher Order Ambisonic Renderer with Reverberation Compensation via Crosstalk Inversion
Alex Tung, Mark Rau
AES 2026 AVARIG  ·  30 Jun 2026  ·  [no id info]
Structured Pruning of Feedback Delay Networks
Structured Pruning of Feedback Delay Networks
Facundo Franchino
University of York  ·  28 Apr 2026  ·  [no id info]

2025

Inference-Time Structured Pruning for Real-Time Neural Network Audio Effects
Inference-Time Structured Pruning for Real-Time Neural Network Audio Effects
Jatin Chowdhury, Christopher Johann Clarke
DAFx-25  ·  02 Sep 2025  ·  [no id info]
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2024

Sample Rate Independent Recurrent Neural Networks for Audio Effects Processing
Sample Rate Independent Recurrent Neural Networks for Audio Effects Processing
Alistair Carson, Alec Wright, Jatin Chowdhury, Vesa Välimäki, Stefan Bilbao
arXiv  ·  11 Jun 2024  ·  arXiv:2406.06293

2023

Vibration and acoustic measurements of guitars with applications to luthiery, synthesis, and audio effects
Vibration and acoustic measurements of guitars with applications to luthiery, synthesis, and audio effects
Mark Rau
Stanford University  ·  01 Nov 2023  ·  [no id info]
A comparison of modal parameter extraction methods when applied to measurements of stringed instruments
A comparison of modal parameter extraction methods when applied to measurements of stringed instruments
Mark Rau, Julius O. Smith, Jonathan Abel
Forum Acusticum 2023  ·  11 Sep 2023  ·  [no id info]
RealImpact: A Dataset of Impact Sound Fields for Real Objects
RealImpact: A Dataset of Impact Sound Fields for Real Objects
Samuel Clarke, Ruohan Gao, Mason Wang, Mark Rau, Julia Xu, Jui-Hsien Wang, Doug L. James, Jiajun Wu
arXiv  ·  19 Jun 2023  ·  arxiv:2306.09944
Analyzing Physical Impacts Using Transient Surface Wave Imaging
Analyzing Physical Impacts Using Transient Surface Wave Imaging
Tianyuan Zhang, Mark Sheinin, Dorian Chan, Mark Rau, Matthew O’Toole, Srinivasa G. Narasimhan
2023 IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)  ·  01 Jun 2023  ·  doi:10.1109/CVPR52729.2023.00422

2022

chowdsp wdf: An Advanced C Library for Wave Digital Circuit Modelling
chowdsp_wdf: An Advanced C++ Library for Wave Digital Circuit Modelling
Jatin Chowdhury
arXiv  ·  25 Oct 2022  ·  arXiv:2210.12554
Emulating Diode Circuits with Differentiable Wave Digital Filters
Emulating Diode Circuits with Differentiable Wave Digital Filters
Jatin Chowdhury, Christopher Johann Clarke
Zenodo  ·  07 Jun 2022  ·  doi:10.5281/zenodo.6566846

2021

DiffImpact: Differentiable rendering and identification of impact sounds
DiffImpact: Differentiable rendering and identification of impact sounds
Samuel Clarke, Negin Heravi, Mark Rau, Ruohan Gao, Jiajun Wu, Doug James, Jeannette Bohg
CoRL-2021  ·  08 Nov 2021  ·  [no id info]
Electric-to-acoustic pickup processing for string instruments: An experimental study of the guitar with a hexaphonic pickup
Electric-to-acoustic pickup processing for string instruments: An experimental study of the guitar with a hexaphonic pickup
Mark Rau, Jonathan S. Abel, Doug James, Julius O. Smith
The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America  ·  01 Jul 2021  ·  doi:10.1121/10.0005540
RTNeural: Fast Neural Inferencing for Real-Time Systems
RTNeural: Fast Neural Inferencing for Real-Time Systems
Jatin Chowdhury
arXiv  ·  08 Jun 2021  ·  arXiv:2106.03037

2020

A Comparison of Virtual Analog Modelling Techniques for Desktop and Embedded Implementations
A Comparison of Virtual Analog Modelling Techniques for Desktop and Embedded Implementations
Jatin Chowdhury
arXiv  ·  08 Sep 2020  ·  arXiv:2009.02833
Water Bottle Synthesis with Modal Signal Processing
Water Bottle Synthesis with Modal Signal Processing
Jatin Chowdhury, Elliot Canfield-Dafilou, Mark Rau
DAFx-20  ·  02 Sep 2020  ·  [no id info]
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Stable Structures for Nonlinear Biquad Filters
Stable Structures for Nonlinear Biquad Filters
Jatin Chowdhury
DAFx-20  ·  02 Sep 2020  ·  [no id info]

2019

Improved carillon synthesis
Improved carillon synthesis
Mark Rau, Orchisama Das, Elliot Canfield-Dafilou
DAFx-19  ·  26 Sep 2019  ·  [no id info]
Measurement and modeling of a resonator guitar
Measurement and modeling of a resonator guitar
Mark Rau, Julius O. Smith
ISMA-2019  ·  13 Sep 2019  ·  [no id info]
Real-Time Physical Modelling For Analog Tape Machines
Real-Time Physical Modelling For Analog Tape Machines
Jatin Chowdhury
DAFx-19  ·  02 Sep 2019  ·  [no id info]
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Measurements of acoustic guitar top plates during the voicing process
Measurements of acoustic guitar top plates during the voicing process
Mark Rau, Richard Hoover
ICSV26  ·  07 Jul 2019  ·  [no id info]

2018

Contact sensor processing for acoustic instrument recording using a modal architecture
Contact sensor processing for acoustic instrument recording using a modal architecture
Mark Rau, Jonathan Abel, Julius O. Smith
DAFx-18  ·  18 Sep 2018  ·  [no id info]

2017

An Infinite Sustain Effect Designed for Live Guitar Performance
An “Infinite” Sustain Effect Designed for Live Guitar Performance
Mark Rau, Orchisama Das
AES Convention 143  ·  06 Oct 2017  ·  [no id info]
Blind Estimation of the Reverberation Fingerprint of Unknown Acoustic Environments
Blind Estimation of the Reverberation Fingerprint of Unknown Acoustic Environments
Prateek Murgai, Mark Rau, Jean-Marc Jot
AES Convention 143  ·  06 Oct 2017  ·  [no id info]
An Exploration of Guitar Neck Admittance Measurements Taken at Different String Stopping Locations
An Exploration of Guitar Neck Admittance Measurements Taken at Different String Stopping Locations
Mark Rau, Esteban Maestre, Julius O. Smith, Gary Scavone
ISMA-2017  ·  18 Jun 2017  ·  [no id info]

2016

An Evaluation of Two Microphone Techniques for Bleed Reduction Using Independent Component Analysis
An Evaluation of Two Microphone Techniques for Bleed Reduction Using Independent Component Analysis
Mark Rau, Wieslaw Woszczyk
AES Convention 141  ·  06 Sep 2016  ·  [no id info]