6th meeting between Dynamap team members at La Salle-URL

Last February 26th Salle Campus Barcelona-URL hosted the Dynamap project participants. Throughout the morning, presentations and meetings were held, and in the afternoon, the foreign participants were invited to tour the facilities of the Campus with special attention to the acoustic laboratory of La Salle. Participants included Paola Coppi of AMAT (Agenzia Mobilità Ambiente Comune di Milano); Patrizia Bellucci and Riccardo Oliveri of the experimental center ANAS; Alessandro Bisceglie of the Milano- Bicocca University; Morena Borgonovo from the City of Milan; and Michael Gillé of the German company SoundPLAN GmbH.  DYNAMAP is a European project focusing on the development of sensors networks of low - cost to create noise maps in real time, which will provide that information to the general public. Within the project, the researchers at the Research Group on Media Technologies (GTM) of La Salle-URL work in the Anomalous Event Detection Algorithm (ANED) software. Seniors group researchers are Dr. Xavier Sevillano, Dr. Joan Claudi Socoró and Dr. Francesc Alías, with the collaboration of students as Gerard Ribera and Xavier Albiol. They have developed an algorithm to detect abnormal noises and discard those that come from different sound sources from traffic. Thus prevent that these noises alter the levels detected by sensors and cause an erroneous representation of the dynamic noise map. It's the fourth European research project related to acoustics and signal processing in this group of La Salle-URL, which has positioned itself as one of the most active and a leader in acoustic part, and processing of audio and voice in Catalonia. The project, of 5 years (2014-2019), is already underway since the beginning of the project meeting in Rome on September 12th, 2014.In the first phase low-cost sensors and tools to manage, process and generate noise maps in real time were developed. In addition, it is also planned to monitor systems for a minimum period of one year to check the operation in critical situations.