Plenary Lecture
Signal Processing for Augmented Reality in Historical Architecture
Professor Lamberto Tronchin
DIN-CIARM
University of Bologna
Italy
E-mail: Lamberto.tronchin@unibo.it
Abstract: Signal processing could strongly enhance the possibility to increase virtual reality application in architecture. Both visualisation and auralisation are strongly utilised to recreate ancient environments or architectures, or modify existing room or natural environments.
The possibilities given by recent application on signal processing and measurements allows to recreate augmented reality in a number of significant spaces, among all the UNESCO architectural sites. In this plenary lecture, the applications of new methods of capturing visual and aural information in environments are shown in a couple of significant spaces. The possibility to increase the subjective perception of the architecture (including lighting and sounds) will be shown and commented.
Brief Biography of the Speaker: Dr Lamberto Tronchin is Associate Professor in Environmental Physics from the University of Bologna and is recognised internationally as a leading authority on the subject of sound and acoustics. A pianist himself, with a diploma in piano from the Conservatory of Reggio Emilia, Dr Tronchin's principal area of research has been musical acoustics, room acoustics and signal processing. He is Associate Editor of the Journal of AES, and the author of more than 190 papers and was Chair of the Musical Acoustics Group of the Italian Association of Acoustics from 2000 to 2008. Dr Tronchin is a member of the Scientific Committee of the CIARM, the Inter- University Centre of Acoustics and Musical research, has chaired sessions of architectural and musical acoustics during several international symposiums, been a referee for a number of International journals and is Chair of Organising and Scientific Committees of IACMA (International Advanced Course on Musical Acoustics).
He was a visiting researcher at the University of Kobe in Japan, a visiting professor at the University of Graz in Austria and Special honored International Guest at the International Workshop, ‘Analysis, Synthesis and Perception of Music Signals', at Jadavpur University of Kolkata, India in 2005. He has chaired the International Advanced Course on Musical Acoustics (IACMA), organised with the European Association of Acoustics, which was held in Bologna, in 2005. In 2008 and 2009 he gave plenary lectures at International Congresses on Acoustics in Vancouver, Prague, Bucharest, Santander, Kos, Malta, Paris and Cambridge (UK). He designed theatres and other buildings, as acoustic consultant, in collaboration with several Architects, among them Richard Meier and Paolo Portoghesi.