Dr Aidan Hogg
PhD, DIC, MEng, ACGI, FHEA, PGCAP
Lecturer in Computer Science
School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science
Queen Mary University of London
Research
spatial acoustics and immersive audio, statistical signal processing, spatial hearing and hearing aids technologies, acoustical virtual and augmented reality, speech and audio processing
Interests
My research focuses on spatial acoustics, immersive audio, and AI for hearing and listening technologies, with particular interests in head-related transfer functions, perceptual audio, and statistical signal processing for audio applications. I currently lead an EPSRC New Investigator Award on spatial hearing augmentation for hearing assistive technology. More information about my research can be found at
www.aidanhogg.uk.
Publications
Publications of specific relevance to the Centre for Multimodal AI
2025
A Machine Learning Approach for Denoising and Upsampling HRTFsHu X Li J Picinali L Hogg AOT
2025 33rd European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO)., 201-205.
17-11-2025Head-Related Transfer Function Upsampling Using an Autoencoder-Based Generative Adversarial Network With Evaluation FrameworkHu X Li J Picinali L Hogg AOT
Journal of The Audio Engineering Society,
Audio Engineering Society vol. 73 (9), 533-547.
05-09-2025 Listener Acoustic Personalization Challenge - LAP24: Head-Related Transfer Function UpsamplingHogg AOT Barumerli R Daugintis R Poole KC Brinkmann F Picinali L Geronazzo M
IEEE Open Journal of Signal Processing,
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) vol. 6, 926-941.
14-07-2025 2024
HRTF spatial upsampling in the spherical harmonics domain employing a generative adversarial networkHu X Picinali L Hogg A
International Conference on Digital Audio Effects (DAFx) 3 Sep 2024 - 7 Sep 2024.
03-09-2024 HRTF Upsampling With a Generative Adversarial Network Using a Gnomonic Equiangular ProjectionHogg AOT Jenkins M Liu H
IEEE Transactions on Audio Speech and Language Processing,
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) vol. 32, 2085-2099.
11-03-2024 Exploring the impact of transfer learning on GAN-based HRTF upsamplingHogg A Liu H Jenkins M
Proceedings of the 10th Convention of the European Acoustics Association Forum Acusticum 2023., 2323-2328.
17-01-2024 2023
The SONICOM HRTF DatasetEngel I Daugintis R Vicente T Hogg AOT Pauwels J Tournier AJ Picinali L
Journal of The Audio Engineering Society,
Audio Engineering Society vol. 71 (5), 241-253.
09-05-2023 2022
Studying Human-Based Speaker Diarization and Comparing to State-of-the-Art SystemsMcKnight SW Hogg AOT Naylor PA
2022 Asia-Pacific Signal and Information Processing Association Annual Summit and Conference (APSIPA ASC). vol. 00, 1-8.
10-11-2022 Polynomial Eigenvalue Decomposition-Based Target Speaker Voice Activity Detection in the Presence of Competing TalkersNeo VW Weiss S McKnight SW Hogg AOT
2022 International Workshop on Acoustic Signal Enhancement (IWAENC). vol. 00, 1-5.
08-01-2022 2021
A Study of Salient Modulation Domain Features for Speaker IdentificationMcKnight S Hogg A
2021 Asia-Pacific Signal and Information Processing Association Annual Summit and Conference (APSIPA ASC).
14-12-2021 A Polynomial Eigenvalue Decomposition Music Approach for Broadband Sound Source LocalizationHogg AOT Neo VW Weiss S Evers C
2021 IEEE Workshop on Applications of Signal Processing to Audio and Acoustics (WASPAA). vol. 00, 326-330.
20-10-2021 Multichannel Overlapping Speaker Segmentation Using Multiple Hypothesis Tracking Of Acoustic And Spatial FeaturesHogg AOT Evers C
ICASSP 2021 - 2021 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP). vol. 00, 26-30.
11-06-2021 Overlapping Speaker Segmentation Using Multiple Hypothesis Tracking of Fundamental FrequencyHogg AOT Evers C Moore AH
IEEE/Acm Transactions on Audio Speech and Language Processing,
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) vol. 29, 1479-1490.
18-03-2021 Analysis of Phonetic Dependence of Segmentation Errors in Speaker DiarizationMcKnight SW Hogg AOT
2020 28th European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO). vol. 00, 381-385.
21-01-2021 2019
Multiple Hypothesis Tracking for Overlapping Speaker SegmentationHogg AOT Evers C Naylor PA
2019 IEEE Workshop on Applications of Signal Processing to Audio and Acoustics (WASPAA). vol. 00, 195-199.
23-10-2019 Speaker Change Detection Using Fundamental Frequency with Application to Multi-talker SegmentationHogg AOT Evers C
ICASSP 2019 - 2019 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP). vol. 00, 5826-5830.
17-05-2019 Non-Intrusive POLQA Estimation of Speech Quality using Recurrent Neural NetworksSharma D Hogg AOT Naylor PA
2019 27th European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO). vol. 00, 1-5.
06-01-2019 Technical Report: SONICOM / IEEE Listener Acoustic Personalisation (LAP) Challenge - 2024Geronazzo M Picinali L Hogg A Barumerli R Poole K Daugintis R Pauwels J Ntalampiras S et al.
In
Techrxiv HRTFformer: A Spatially-Aware Transformer for Individual HRTF Upsampling in Immersive Audio RenderingHu X Li J Zhang S Goetz S Picinali L Akan O Hogg A
IEEE Transactions on Multimedia,
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
Grants
Grants of specific relevance to the Centre for Multimodal AI
Online Speech Enhancement in Scenarios with Low Direct-to-Reverberant-RatioEmmanouil Benetos and
Aidan Hogg£65,621
L-ACOUSTICS UK LIMITED01-09-2024 - 28-02-2025
Research Group
PhD Students
- Rashad Al-Dahiri
C4DM - Louis Bradshaw
Neuro-Symbolic Music Models - Yuhan Liu
C4DM - Lumi Lu
Differentiable Physical Singing-Voice Modelling - Jinwen Zhou
Combining Deep Learning and Music Theory
News
June 2026
5 June 2026
Dr Aidan Hogg, Lecturer in Computer Science at the School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science, has been awarded a prestigious £607,233 Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) New Investigator Award to lead a new project rethinking hearing assistive technology.
The three-year project, Spatial Hearing Augmentation to Improve Hearing Assistive ... [more]
