Experimental study of sound zone methods for indoor/outdoor active noise cancellation

Hocquette L, Pene Y. Experimental study of sound zone methods for indoor/outdoor active noise cancellation. In: Convention Paper. Audio Engineering Society; 2026. Paper 10287. Available from: https://aes.org/publications/elibrary-page/?id=23224

@inproceedings{Hocquette2026_23224,
  author = {Hocquette, Lucas and Pene, Yves},
  title = {{Experimental study of sound zone methods for indoor/outdoor active noise cancellation}},
  note = {Paper 10287},
  year = {2026},
  month = may,
  publisher = {Audio Engineering Society},
  url = {https://aes.org/publications/elibrary-page/?id=23224}
}

TY  - CPAPER
TI  - Experimental study of sound zone methods for indoor/outdoor active noise cancellation
AU  - Hocquette, Lucas
AU  - Pene, Yves
M1  - Paper 10287
PY  - 2026
DA  - 2026/05/28
UR  - https://aes.org/publications/elibrary-page/?id=23224
PB  - Audio Engineering Society
LA  - en
AB  - The development of personal sound zone systems in recent years show great potential for low-frequency noise control outside of noisy spaces. These approaches show promising applications to manage noise pollution arising from concerts in large venues or urban festivals. However, most of the literature considered that the created sound zones would exist in the same room or acoustic space as the noise source. This premise hence discards all setups where the disturbances would occur outside of concert venues (e.g in neighboring houses). This paper presents a first experimental study of the behavior of sound zone methods for indoor sound zones and outdoor noise sources. These initial results present a good efficiency of these methods in this edge case, opening new use cases for these approaches.
ER  -