Overview
Background
Dr Jihui (Aimee) Zhang is currently a lecturer (Assistant Professor) in the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Queensland, Australia. She is also an honorary lecturer in the Audio & Acoustic Signal Processing (AASP) group, the Australian National University (ANU), Australia. From 2023 to 2024, she was a lecturer (Assistant Professor) in the Institute of Sound and Vibration Research (ISVR), University of Southampton, the United Kingdom. From 2018 to 2022, she was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow and a Research Fellow in the AASP group, ANU, Australia. From May 2018 to Aug.2018, she was a Research Engineer Intern in SONY, Japan.
Her research interest is mainly in Audio Signal Processing, especially Spatial Active Noise Control, Spatial Audio Solution for Virtual and Augmented Reality, and Microphone Arrays. Her other research interest is in Human-Robot/machine Audio Interactions, especially Audio Solution for Human-Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) Interactions. She has practical experience in Digital Design and Embedded Systems, especially Embedded Automatic Test & Control Systems and Embedded Audio Systems
She is currently a senior member of the IEEE and Signal Processing Society (SPS), a member of Audio Engineering Society (AES) and Acoustical Society of America (ASA). She served as chair of Women in Engineering Affinity Group in IEEE Australian Capital Territory Section in 2021 and 2022.
Availability
- Dr Jihui (Aimee) Zhang is:
- Available for supervision
Fields of research
Qualifications
- Bachelor (Honours) of Instrumentation and Control Engineering, Harbin Institute of Technology
- Masters (Extended) of Instrumentation and Control Engineering, Harbin Institute of Technology
- Doctor of Philosophy of Electrical - Signal Processing, Australian National University
- Senior Member, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
Research interests
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Audio Signal Processing
My research interest is mainly in Audio Signal Processing, especially Spatial Active Noise Control, Spatial Audio Solution for Virtual and Augmented Reality, and Microphone Arrays
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Human-Robot Audio Interactions
My other research interest is in Human-Robot/machine Audio Interactions, especially Audio Solution for Human-Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) Interactions
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Digital Design and Embedded systems
I have practical experience in Digital Design and Embedded Systems, especially Embedded Automatic Test & Control Systems and Embedded Audio Systems
Works
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2024
Conference Publication
Reproducing the acoustic velocity vectors in a circular listening area
Wang, Frank Jiarui, Zhang, Jihui Aimee, Abhayapala, Thushara and Samarasinghe, Prasanga (2024). Reproducing the acoustic velocity vectors in a circular listening area. IEEE. doi: 10.1109/icspcs63175.2024.10815751
2024
Journal Article
Reproducing the acoustic velocity vectors in a spherical listening region
Wang, Frank Jiarui, Abhayapala, Thushara D., Zhang, Jihui Aimee and Samarasinghe, Prasanga N. (2024). Reproducing the acoustic velocity vectors in a spherical listening region. IEEE Signal Processing Letters, 31, 2220-2224. doi: 10.1109/LSP.2024.3449235
2024
Conference Publication
Sparse sound field representation using complex orthogonal matching pursuit
Xu, Shaoheng, Zhang, Jihui Aimee, Abhayapala, Thushara D., Bastine, Amy, Lai, Wei-Ting and Samarasinghe, Prasanga N. (2024). Sparse sound field representation using complex orthogonal matching pursuit. ICASSP 2024 - 2024 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Seoul, Republic of Korea, 14-19 April 2024. Piscataway, NJ, United States: IEEE. doi: 10.1109/icassp48485.2024.10445940
2024
Journal Article
Drone audition: Audio signal enhancement from drone embedded microphones using multichannel Wiener filtering and Gaussian-mixture based post-filtering
Manamperi, Wageesha N., Abhayapala, Thushara D., Samarasinghe, Prasanga N. and Zhang, Jihui (Aimee) (2024). Drone audition: Audio signal enhancement from drone embedded microphones using multichannel Wiener filtering and Gaussian-mixture based post-filtering. Applied Acoustics, 216 109818, 109818-216. doi: 10.1016/j.apacoust.2023.109818
2024
Conference Publication
Active noise control over a large region with multiple spherical microphone arrays in wave domain
Tang, Xiaoli, Zhang, Jihui and Abhayapala, Thushara (2024). Active noise control over a large region with multiple spherical microphone arrays in wave domain. 49th IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Seoul, South Korea, 14-19 April 2024. Piscataway, NJ, United States: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. doi: 10.1109/ICASSP48485.2024.10446515
2023
Conference Publication
Time-domain wideband image source method for spherical microphone arrays
Wang, Jiarui, Zhang, Jihui Aimee, Samarasinghe, Prasanga and Abhayapala, Thushara (2023). Time-domain wideband image source method for spherical microphone arrays. 2023 IEEE 25th International Workshop on Multimedia Signal Processing (MMSP), Poitiers, France, 27-29 September 2023. Piscataway, NJ USA: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. doi: 10.1109/MMSP59012.2023.10337705
2023
Conference Publication
Drone audition: improved Gaussian mixture model Wiener filtering approach for audio signal enhancement
Manamperi, Wageesha N., Abhayapala, Thushara D., Samarasinghe, Prasanga N. and Zhang, Jihui (Aimee) (2023). Drone audition: improved Gaussian mixture model Wiener filtering approach for audio signal enhancement. InterNoise23, Chiba, Japan, 20–23 August 2023. Institute of Noise Control Engineering (INCE). doi: 10.3397/in_2023_0952
2023
Conference Publication
Head-related intensity-based transfer function dataset
Evans, Kelly, Wang, Jiarui, Abhayapala, Thushara and Zhang, Jihui Aimee (2023). Head-related intensity-based transfer function dataset. 10th Convention of the European Acoustics Association, Turin, Italy, 11-15 September 2023. European Acoustics Association. doi: 10.61782/fa.2023.1051
2023
Conference Publication
Virtual navigation via higher order distributed sound sources
Abhayapala, Thushara D., Zhang, Jihui, Xu, Shaoheng, Alon, David Lou, Ben-Hur, Zamir and Samarasinghe, Prasanga N. (2023). Virtual navigation via higher order distributed sound sources. 10th Convention of the European Acoustics Association, Turin, Italy, 11-15 September 2023. European Acoustics Association.
2023
Conference Publication
Image source method based on the directional impulse responses
Wang, Jiarui, Samarasinghe, Prasanga, Abhayapala, Thushara and Zhang, Jihui Aimee (2023). Image source method based on the directional impulse responses. ICASSP 2023 - 2023 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Rhodes Island, Greece, 4-10 June 2023. Piscataway, NJ USA: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. doi: 10.1109/ICASSP49357.2023.10095916
2023
Conference Publication
A time-domain multi-channel directional active noise control system
Zhang, Huawei, Zhang, Jihui, Ma, Fei, Samarasinghe, Prasanga N. and Sun, Huiyuan (2023). A time-domain multi-channel directional active noise control system. 31st European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO), Helsinki, Finland, 4-8 September 2023. Piscataway, NJ, United States: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. doi: 10.23919/EUSIPCO58844.2023.10289757
2023
Conference Publication
Room impulse response reconstruction based on spatio-temporal-spectral features learned from a spherical microphone array measurement
Bastine, Amy, Abhayapala, Thushara D. and Zhang, Jihui Aimee (2023). Room impulse response reconstruction based on spatio-temporal-spectral features learned from a spherical microphone array measurement. ICASSP 2023 - 2023 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Rhodes Island, Greece, 4-10 June 2023. Piscataway, NJ USA: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. doi: 10.1109/ICASSP49357.2023.10096202
2022
Journal Article
Spherical harmonic representation of the observed directional wave front in the time domain
Wang, Jiarui, Abhayapala, Thushara, Samarasinghe, Prasanga and Zhang, Jihui Aimee (2022). Spherical harmonic representation of the observed directional wave front in the time domain. JASA Express Letters, 2 (11) 114801, 1-7. doi: 10.1121/10.0015044
2022
Conference Publication
Wave domain sound field interpolation using two spherical microphone arrays
Tang, Xiaoli, Zhang, Jihui, Alon, David Lou, Ben-Hur, Zamir, Samarasinghe, Prasanga and Abhayapala, Thushara (2022). Wave domain sound field interpolation using two spherical microphone arrays. 2022 30th European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO), Belgrade, Serbia, 29 August-2 September 2022. Piscataway, NJ USA: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.
2022
Conference Publication
Binaural reproduction using multi-driver headphones
Wang, Jiarui, Samarasinghe, Prasanga, Abhayapala, Thushara and Zhang, Jihui Aimee (2022). Binaural reproduction using multi-driver headphones. 2022 International Workshop on Acoustic Signal Enhancement (IWAENC), Bamberg, Germany, 5-8 September 2022. Piscataway, NJ USA: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. doi: 10.1109/IWAENC53105.2022.9914750
2022
Conference Publication
GMM based multi-stage Wiener filtering for low SNR speech enhancement
Manamperi, Wageesha, Samarasinghe, Prasanga N., Abhayapala, Thushara D. and Zhang, Jihui (2022). GMM based multi-stage Wiener filtering for low SNR speech enhancement. 2022 International Workshop on Acoustic Signal Enhancement (IWAENC), Bamberg, Germany, 5-8 September 2022. Piscataway, NJ USA: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. doi: 10.1109/IWAENC53105.2022.9914707
2022
Conference Publication
Room acoustic characterization using first-order ambisonics
Bastine, Amy, Abhayapala, Thushara D. and Zhang, Jihui Aimee (2022). Room acoustic characterization using first-order ambisonics. 2022 AES International Conference on Audio for Virtual and Augmented Reality, Redmond, WA USA, 15-18 August 2022. New York, NY USA: Audio Engineering Society.
2022
Journal Article
Time-frequency-dependent directional analysis of room reflections using eigenbeam processing and von Mises-Fisher clustering
Bastine, Amy, Abhayapala, Thushara D. and Zhang, Jihui Aimee (2022). Time-frequency-dependent directional analysis of room reflections using eigenbeam processing and von Mises-Fisher clustering. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 151 (5), 2916-2930. doi: 10.1121/10.0010380
2022
Conference Publication
Spatial active noise control with the remote microphone technique: an approach with a moving higher order microphone
Sun, Huiyuan, Zhang, Jihui, Abhayapala, Thushara and Samarasinghe, Prasanga (2022). Spatial active noise control with the remote microphone technique: an approach with a moving higher order microphone. ICASSP 2022 - 2022 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Singapore, Singapore, 23-27 May 2022. Piscataway, NJ USA: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. doi: 10.1109/ICASSP43922.2022.9746082
2022
Journal Article
Secondary channel estimation in spatial active noise control systems using a single moving higher order microphone
Sun, Huiyuan, Murata, Naoki, Zhang, Jihui, Magariyachi, Tetsu, Samarasinghe, Prasanga N., Hayashi, Shigetoshi, Abhayapala, Thushara D. and Itabashi, Tetsunori (2022). Secondary channel estimation in spatial active noise control systems using a single moving higher order microphone. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 151 (3), 1922-1931. doi: 10.1121/10.0009837
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