Professor of Audio Engineering
ORCID: 0000-0002-0692-236X
Research Interests
- Spatial Audio
- Ambisonics
- Music production and reproduction in virtual and augmented reality
- Accessibility through audio
Biography
Gavin Kearney is a Professor of Audio and Music Technology at the School of Physics Engineering and Technology at the University of York. He is an active researcher, technologist and sound designer for immersive technologies and has published over a hundred articles and patents relating to immersive audio. He graduated from Dublin Institute of Technology in 2002 with an honors degree in Electronic Engineering and has since obtained both MSc and PhD degrees in Audio Signal Processing from Trinity College Dublin. He joined the University of York as a Lecturer in Sound Design at the Department of Theatre, Film and Television in January 2011 and moved to the Department of Electronic Engineering in 2016. He leads a team of researchers at York AudioLab which focuses on different facets of immersive and interactive audio, including spatial audio and surround sound, real-time audio signal processing, Ambisonics and spherical acoustics, game audio / audio for virtual and augmented reality and recording and audio post-production technique development. He is also vice-chair of the AES Audio for Games Technical Committee.
Projects
- Evaluation of Spatial Audio Codecs (Google)
- SADIE (Spatial Audio for Domestic Interactive Entertainment)
- MINERVA (Musical Interactions in Networked Experiences using Real-time Virtual Audio)
- Enhancing Audio Description II
- Soundfields – Immersive therapy framework for autistic children with Auditory Hypersensitivity
- A3I: Accessible Audio for Autistic Individuals
- BARC (Binaural Acoustic Response of Canines)
- Developing a Database of Immersive Audiovisual Materials
- SAFFIRE (Scalable Audio Frameworks For Immersive Realtime Experiences)
- CoSTAR LiveLAB
Highlighted Publications
A Perceptual Evaluation of Individual and Non-Individual HRTFs : a case study of the SADIE II database
Calum Armstrong, Damian Murphy and Gavin Kearney
Innovative Computer Technology in music based interventions for individuals with autism – Moving beyond traditional interactive music therapy techniques
Daniel Johnston, Hauke Egermann and Gavin Kearney
Diffuse-Field Equalisation of Binaural Ambisonic Rendering
Thomas McKenzie, Damian Murphy, and Gavin Kearney
All Publications
See all of Gavin Kearney’s publications held on the York Research Database.