Tong Xiao
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Dept. of Medical Physics and Acoustics
Signal Processing Division
D-26111 Oldenburg
Germany
Tel: +49-441-798 5470
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Tong Xiao
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Dr. Tong Xiao, Ph.D.
Dept. of Medical Physics and Acoustics - Signal Processing Group
University of Oldenburg
D-26129 Oldenburg
Germany
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Office: W30 2-212
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Biography
Dr. Tong Xiao received an Honour Bachelor Degree of Electrical and Electronic Engineering from the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT) University in 2015 and a PhD in Engineering from the University of Technology Sydney (UTS) in 2023. He is currently a Postdoctoral Research Associate at Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg, Germany. Dr. Xiao had extensive experience, including previous roles as a postdoctoral researcher at UTS (2022-2023), a research intern at Facebook (Meta) Reality Labs (2020-2021), and an academic tutor at UTS (2021). His expertise spans active noise control, audio signal processing, and machine learning, contributing significantly to both academic research and industry advancements.
Research Interests
- Active Noise Control/Cancellation
- Spatial Audio
- Microphone Array Processing
- Machine Learning for Acoustical Signal Processing
Current Project
Collaborative Research Centre SFB 1330 Hearing Acoustics (HAPPAA)
Project C1 - MIMO acoustic earpiece for combined equalization, feedback cancellation and noise reduction
Journal Papers
- Xiao, T., Halkon, B., Wang, S., Oberst, S. and Qiu, X.: 2024, Refracto-vibrometry for active control of sound radiation through an opening. Journal of Sound and Vibration, 577(118242), pp. 1-15.
- Xiao, T., Xu, B., Zhao, C.: 2023, Spatially selective active noise control systems, The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 153(5), pp. 2733-2744.
- Xiao, T., Zhao, S., Qiu, X. and Halkon, B.: 2021, Using a retro-reflective membrane and laser Doppler vibrometer for real-time remote acoustic sensing and control, Sensors 21(11), pp. 1-15.
- Xiao, T., Qiu, X. and Halkon, B.: 2020, Ultra-broadband local active noise control with remote acoustic sensing, Scientific reports 10(1), pp. 1-12.
Peer-Reviewed Conference Papers
- Xiao, T. and Doclo, S.: 2024, Effect of target signals and delays on spatially selective active noise control for open-fitting hearables. in Proc. IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), pp. 1056-1060.
- Xiao, T., Halkon, B., Zhao, S., Cooper-Woolley, B., Strange, F., Ferguson, A.: 2023, Environmental noise tagging via audio spectrogram transformer, INTER-NOISE and NOISE-CON Congress and Conference Proceedings, Vol. 268, Institute of Noise Control Engineering, pp. 7394-7400.
- Cooper-Woolley, B., Darroch, M.M., Cong, J., Hendriks, X., Zhu, Q., Xiao, T., Zhao, S. and Halkon, B.: 2023. Initial design, development & calibration of MEMS based sound level meter for real-time construction monitoring. In 2022 Conference of the Acoustical Society of New Zealand.
- Xiao, T., Halkon, B., Oberst, S., Wang, S. and Qiu, X.: 2022, Sound field measurement at an enclosure opening using refracto-vibrometry, Proceedings of the 28th International Congress on Sound and Vibration, ICSV.
- Xiao, T., Qiu, X. and Halkon, B.: 2021, Using a laser Doppler vibrometer to estimate sound pressure in air, in S. Oberst, B. Halkon, J. Ji and T. Brown (eds), Vibration Engineering for a Sustainable Future, Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp. 371-377.
- Zhong, J., Xiao, T., Halkon, B., Kirby, R. and Qiu, X.: 2020, An experimental study on the active noise control using a parametric array loudspeaker, INTER-NOISE and NOISE-CON Congress and Conference Proceedings, Vol. 261, Institute of Noise Control Engineering, pp. 662-668.
- Xiao, T. and Qiu, X.: 2019, A comparison of using sound pressure and particle velocity as error signals for local active noise control, Proceedings of the 26th International Congress on Sound and Vibration, ICSV 2019.
News and Media
- Noise-Canceling Headphones Without the Headphones [IEEE Spectrum]
- Headset over earphone: Cancelling out unnecessary and unwanted noise [Science Daily] [Tech Xplore] [Bioengineer.org] [EurekAlert!] [Scimex]
- They invent noise reduction without headphones (in French) [Futura-Sciences]
Awards
- 2022 Recipient, UTS Vice-Chancellor’s Conference Fund (International Congress on Sound and Vibration)
- 2022 Recipient, Graduate Research School Post Thesis Scholarship
- 2020 Recipient, Graduate Research School One-Off Scholarship
- 2019 Recipient, Graduate Research School One-Off Scholarship
- 2017 Recipient, Australian Government Research Training Program (RTP) Fees Offset Scholarship
- 2017 Recipient, Australian Government Research Training Program (RTP) Stipend
Peer Reviewing Activities
- IEEE/ACM Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing (IEEE TASLP)
- Applied Acoustics
- Trends in Hearing
- Noise Control Engineering Journal (NCEJ)