This year marks the 60th Anniversary of the first formal meeting of the Audio Engineering Society (AES) in New York, and the first major event of this milestone year kicks off just one month from now, with AES Amsterdam, the 124th AES Convention. The annual AES European Pro Audio Expo and Convention took place at the Amsterdam RAI Center from May 17-20, with exhibits and extensive technical program presented under the banner theme, "New Horizons In Audio."

The technical program devised by the 124th AES Committee truly represents the variety of occupations, fields of interest and relevant issues in audio today. Live sound, recording, broadcast and post-production audio engineers, as well as equipment designers and all-around audio innovators and enthusiasts found the program concentrated with events and workshops on topics of current interest in their respective fields.
LEAFF and UNIVPM (Università Politecnica delle Marche) were at AES, to present 2 papers related to hArtes:

Sub-Band Adaptive Crosstalk Cancellation: A Novel Approach for Immersive Audio Stefania Cecchi, Lorenzo Palestini; Paolo Peretti, Francesco Piazza, Universita Politecnica delle Marche - Ancona, Italy; Ferruccio Bettarelli, Leaff Engineering - Porto Potenza Picena (MC), Italy.  In the field of immersive audio, crosstalk canceller is required when a virtual sound is rendered over two loudspeakers. In the last decade several adaptive algorithms have been proposed: nowadays the least square (LMS) algorithm seems to be the best compromise between simplicity and robustness although its convergence is weakened for colored inputs. In this paper a new approach for crosstalk cancellation based on a sub-band adaptive algorithm will be derived. The effectiveness of this algorithm, considering colored input, will be presented in terms of matrix inversion quality and fast convergence rate comparing it with the conventional LMS algorithm. Convention Paper 7373

NU-Tech: The Entry Tool of the hArtes Toolchain for Algorithms Design Ariano Lattanzi, Ferruccio Bettarelli, Leaff Engineering - Porto Potenza Picena (MC), Italy; Stefania Cecchi, Univerista Politecnica delle Marche - Ancona, Italy.  The aim of the hArtes project is to facilitate and automate the rapid design and development of heterogeneous embedded systems, targeting a combination of a general purpose embedded processor, digital signal processing, and reconfigurable hardware. In this paper we present the NU-Tech platform, the main entry tool from the hArtes toolchain, which has the role of assisting the designers in tuning and possibly improving the input algorithm at the highest level of abstraction. A brief description of the project itself will be given and its vocation to audio highlighted through a case study application. Convention Paper 7399