Angelo Farina
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Keywords: acoustics; digital signal processing; software developer.
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Angelo Farina is a full professor of Applied Acoustics at the University of Parma, Italy. He holds a second-level degree in Civil Engineering and a PhD in Technical Physics, both form the University of Bologna, where he worked as Researcher since 1986. Since 1992 he moved to the University of Parma, where he became Associated Professor in 1998 and Full Professor in 2005.
Angelo devoted his academic and professional activity to applied acoustics, and more in detail to room acoustics (measurement and simulation programs, releasing the software packages named Aurora-Plugins and Ramsete), outdoor sound propagation (resulting in the Disia software package, the official computer program for noise propagation of the Italian Ministry for the Environment) and advanced audio technologies related to sound capture (microphone arrays, virtual directive microphone) and multichannel sound reproduction (Ambisonics, WFS, and now Spatial PCM Sampling).
In 1999 Angelo was the inventor of the Exponential Sine Sweep method, now widely employed for electroacoustical measurements in many applicative fields. For this invention, Angelo received the honour of being appointed as “fellow” of the Audio Engineering Society in 2008.
Currently Angelo is working on a number of research projects related to the use of massive microphone arrays, cooperating with partners such as the RAI research center or Huawei.
RELEVANT PUBLICATIONS
Farina, A., & Tronchin, L. (2013). 3D Sound Characterisation in Theatres Employing Microphone Arrays. Acta Acustica united with Acustica, 99, 118-125.
Farina, A., Binelli, M., Capra, A., Campanini, S., & Amendola, A. (2011). Recording, simulation and reproduction of a spatial soundfields by PCM Spatial Sampling. In International Seminar on Virtual Acoustics Valencia, November 24-25, 2011. Valencia: Universitat Politècnca de València.
Farina, A., & Tronchin, L. (2011). New measurement technique for 3D sound characterization in theatres. In The acoustics of Ancient Theatres.