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Our latest paper ‘A rapid approach to urban traffic noise mapping with a generative adversarial network’ was published in Applied Acoustics (JCR Q1, CAS T2) today. PhD student Xinhao Yang is the first author of this paper.

2024-2025学年开学伊始，课题组也迎来了2024级四名硕士研究生的加入，它们分别是崔云婷（硕24）、张琼杰（硕24）、赵云鹏（硕24）、李慧娜（硕24）。课题组也组织了欢迎活动。在假期中，课题组也组织了多次活动，丰富假期中留校同学们的生活。再次欢迎新成员！

Prof Zhang recently accepted an invitation to formally join the editorial board of Discover Cities. Discover Cities is an open access journal in Springer Nature’s Discover series, supporting multidisciplinary research and policy making in the urban sciences. The journal aims to provide researchers, policymakers and the general public with the latest developments in urban research…

Prof Zhang recently accepted an invitation to formally join the editorial board of PLOS Mental Health and is responsible for manuscripts related to ‘Environmental Impacts and Eco-Anxiety’. PLOS Mental Health is a newly released global multidisciplinary open access journal that brings together research related to improving the mental health and well-being of people around the…

The Soundscape Attribute Translation Project (SATP) is a large-scale international initiative that aims to address key research gaps in the translation of soundscape descriptions in cross-cultural research. The research focuses on 18 languages, namely: Arabic, Chinese, Croatian, Dutch, English, French, German, Greek, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Malay, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish and Vietnamese, and uses…

On 15 June, during the election meeting of the Architectural Acoustics Branch Committee of the Acoustics Society of China held in Xiamen, Prof Zhang Yuan was elected as a committee member of the Architectural Acoustics Branch.

On 7 June, Associate Professor (tenured) of Landscape Architecture, Department of Architecture, The University of Hong Kong, and Founding Director of the Urban Environment and Human Health Laboratory, The University of Hong Kong, Bin Jiang was invited to our group for academic exchanges. During the visit, Professor Jiang Bin shared with the academics and students…

As one of the projects in the research direction of “Occupational Healthy Acoustic Environment”, Sun Hanyu, Liu Yang, Yang Xinhao, Gao Wanqi, Ling Gang and Liu Kexin conducted acoustic measurements of the gymnasium in the Gymnasium of Shenyang University of Architecture on 15th and 16th of May, which included reverberation time, Speech Transmission Index (STI),…

From 4th to 13th May, the group conducted the 2024 Urban Soundscape Field Survey. The survey selected nine sites in Shenyang city, including waterfront parks, pocket parks, traffic roundabout plazas, residential plazas, urban forest parks, etc., and conducted a large-sample survey of soundscape perception among the people in the sites, and obtained more than 500…

From 10th to 12th May, the 2024 Environmental Acoustics and Bioacoustics Frontier Cross Forum was held in Wuhan, where experts and scholars from environmental acoustics, bioacoustics and other related fields gathered at Huazhong Normal University to make academic presentations and academic exchanges. Prof Zhang was invited to attend and give an academic report in the…