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How does cross-country variation in auditor regulation affect multinational companies: investigating the case of the EU Audit Reform KU Leuven

Simon Dekeyser
Department of Accountancy and Taxation, Antwerp Campus, Research Centre for Accounting & Taks, Brussels Campus
The goal of this project is to investigate the impact of the EU Audit Reform on various aspects of multinational group financial reporting: i) auditor choice, ii) financial reporting quality and iii) cost of financing. Multinational groups have an important role in the global economy accounting for about one-third of world GDP (OECD, 2018). Consequently, the truthfulness of their financial statements is of critical importance the entire global ...

The auditor as evaluator. International evolutions in audit roles as a result of management reform. KU Leuven

Geert Bouckaert
Public Governance Institute
Objectives The research design of the Audeval project is based on the central hypothesis that the environment influences the audit system and the audit system, in turn, influences the performance audit process. The objective of this project is to test this hypotheses through comparative analyses en to understand how the different levels of analysis influence each other. Five countries will be compared over two periods in time. This method will ...

Personalization of the 3D audio experience University of Antwerp

Herbert Peremans
Condensed Matter Theory, Engineering Management
3D-audio makes it appear as if sounds come from outside of your head, even better the sounds can come from everywhere: from above or below, from the front of the back. 3D-audio really immerses you into a soundscape: you become part of it, thereby improving the experience significantly. However, for the last couple of years the audio-visual sector has been struggling with a specific problem that stands in the way of the broad application of ...

Restoration of Old Ethiopian Audio Recordings KU Leuven

Toon van Waterschoot
Electrical Engineering Technology (ESAT), Group T Leuven Campus, Dynamical Systems, Signal Processing and Data Analytics (STADIUS)

1. Introduction Since the invention of the cylinder phonograph by Thomas Edison in 1877 and it commercialization in 1887, humanity has used several storage media to record and store audio data. Vast amount of audio recording including entertainment, cultural, educational and research have been stored in these media and their current status is not well known. The stored data in these storage medium is faced with two important and unavoidable ...

CoReAD - Cognitive Research in AD - Towards a model determining cognitive load in audio described audio(-visual) products. University of Antwerp

Gert Vercauteren
Translation, Interpreting and Intercultural Studies (TricS)
Inclusion and accessibility are higher on Europe's political and social agenda than ever before, and this has led broadcasters, film houses but also theatres and museums to start developing services to give people with disabilities access to their products and events. For blind and partially sighted people, audio description (AD) has been created, a service that describes visual and unclear sound elements for the visually impaired, so that they ...

PhD position in audio signal processing KU Leuven

Toon van Waterschoot
Dynamical Systems, Signal Processing and Data Analytics (STADIUS), Electrical Engineering Technology (ESAT), Group T Leuven Campus

The objective of this PhD project is to challenge the widely accepted premise that single-microphone audio analysis cannot rely on spatial or wavenumber domain signal representations. This premise implies that the spatial diversity of acoustic environments (e.g. spatial spreading of sound sources) cannot be exploited in single-microphone devices, hence limiting their applicability in a wide variety of speech and audio applications, including ...

Towards a greater accessibility of audiovisual media: exploring machine translation for audio description from English into Dutch. University of Antwerp

Translation, Interpreting and Intercultural Studies (TricS)
A key concern within Translation Studies is the profound impact of technological developments on the dynamic human-machine interactions. In this respect, the introduction of neural machine translation systems has had a profound influence on the study and practice of translation. The role of technology is particularly outspoken in the area of focus of the present project, namely Audio Description (AD). AD is an access service that translates ...

3D audio personalization for virtual reality applications. University of Antwerp

Herbert Peremans
Co-Design of Cyber-Physical Systems (Cosys-Lab), Condensed Matter Theory, Engineering Management
Our previous research resulted in a low-cost and user-friendly do-it-yourself method that allows a user to measure their Head Related Transfer Function (HRTF) at home. While it is recognized that personalized 3D audio can add significant value to VR applications in a Business to Business environment, e.g. VR safety training, it appears that in addition to an efficient way of personalizing 3D audio, i.e. an HRTF measurement, two more elements are ...

Deep-Learning based Joint Audio, Video Processing for Augmented Listening Ghent University

Nilesh Madhu
Department of Electronics and information systems, Department of Telecommunications and information processing

Augmented listening implies the extraction of desired audio signal(s) from a distorted capture. Like human perception of speech, where visual and acoustic cues jointly contribute to the understanding, we aim to improve this extraction by augmenting the audio with visual information. A side-application is the detection of inconsistent streams, hinting at deepfakes or otherwise compromised streams.

Per-Tone Equalization and Per-Tone Precoding for Speech and Audio Signal Processing KU Leuven

Marc Moonen
Dynamical Systems, Signal Processing and Data Analytics (STADIUS)

Per-tone equalization and per-tone precoding have been developed as suitable tools for digital subscriber line (DSL) transmission in highspeed digital modems. DSL adopts so-called discrete multi-tone transmission (DMT) as a modulation format, which is essentially a Fourier transform based transmultiplexing operation that has indeed been shown to allow for the additional per-tone processing. In this project per-tone equalization and per-tone ...