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I’m Davide Scaini and I’m interested in experimenting. Working with sound is an happy accident that gives me satisfaction.

I’m interested in open source, open hardware, open mapping (openstreetmap), music, acoustics, photography, bicycles, motorbikes, traveling around, DIY, …

I have a M.Sc. in particle physics from University of Trieste (Italy).

In 2019 I obtained a Ph.D. in Information and Communication Technologies from UPF University. In the meantime I worked for a non-profit foundation called Barcelona Media (2012-2014) and for Dolby Iberia (2014-now).

An updated CV can be found on LinkedIn.

Documents:

• My PhD’s thesis Wavelet-based spatial audio framework: from Ambisonics to Wavelets. A novel approach to spatial audio. arXiv link.
• My Master’s thesis Study of the associated production of a Z boson and hadronic jets in proton-proton collisions at the CMS experiment (on INFN official website)
• My Bachelor’s thesis Una tecnica di calibrazione con elettroni isolati per il calorimetro elettromagnetico di CMS (on INFN official website) (or download from here)

Papers: My papers are listed on ResearchGate or on Google Scholar. If you want a copy, just contact me.

Patents: The best way to have an updated list of my patents is to do a search on Google Patents, like this one.

Public Code:

• ATM my public code is very limited (for several reasons). In this repository I collect some files that I find useful (configuration files or nano-projects). This might not be useful for other people, but after few times I forgot/lost code around, I simply decided that it’s better to publish it.

• During my period in BM I devloped IDHOA which is a piece of code to generate Ambisonics decodings for periphonic or dome-like irregular layouts. We wrote a paper presented at 55th AES International Conference (August 2014). The code is GPL, so feel free to contribute.

  update I forked my own project since I left BM. The updated code can be found here. We presented another paper on IDHOA at the 138th AES Convention (May 2015) `An Evaluation of the IDHOA Ambisonics Decoder in Irregular Planar Layouts´.

Presentations:

• TBD

Supervision of Bacher and Master thesis:

Mostly in collaboration with Daniel Arteaga.

tfg = bachelor’s degree
tfm = master’s degree

Student: Andrea Corcuera Marruffo (tfg)
Title: A real-time encoding tool for Higher Order Ambisonics
Link: here
Year: 2013 - 2014
Supervisor: Daniel Arteaga
Co-supervisor: Davide Scaini

Student: Andrés Pérez López (tfm)
Title: Real-Time 3D Audio Spatialization Tools for Interactive Performance
Link: here
Year: 2013 - 2014
Supervisor: Daniel Arteaga
Co-supervisor: Davide Scaini

Student: Sergio Almendros Díaz (tfg)
Title: A Bottom Up Sensor Testbed
Link: here
Year: 2014
Supervisor: Jaume Barceló
Co-supervisor: Davide Scaini

Student: Joaquim Marcé (tfg)
Title: Implementació d’una eina d’espacialització Sonora basada en Wavelets
Link: here
Year: 2021
Supervisor: Davide Scaini
Co-supervisor: Daniel Arteaga

Student: Rubén Eguinoa Cabrito (tfm)
Title: Subjective Evaluation of the Localization Performance of the Spherical Wavelet Format Compared to Ambisonics
Link:
thesis: here
paper: here
Year: 2021
Supervisor: Davide Scaini
Co-supervisor: Ricardo San Martín

Student: Markús Sigurbjörnsson (tfm)
Title: Adaptation of spatial wavelet format to irregular subdivision meshes
Link: not public.
Year: 2021
Supervisor: Daniel Arteaga
Co-supervisor: Davide Scaini

Student: Max Muñoz Melo (tfg)
Title: Codificació i descodificació d’àudio espacial a temps real a través de les wavelets esfèriques
Link: not public.
Year: 2022
Supervisor: Davide Scaini
Co-supervisor: Daniel Arteaga

Student: Samuel Narvaez (tfm)
Title: Advancing the SWF spatial audio format
Link: here
Year: 2022
Supervisor: Daniel Arteaga
Co-supervisor: Davide Scaini

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