Speech

• Speech production
• Speech perception
• Speech analysis
• Speech synthesis
• Speech recognition and understanding
• Spoken dialogue and speech interface
• Speech translation
• Speaker recognition
• Spoken document processing
• Speech coding and transmission
• Speech processing for welfare

Psychological and Physiological Acoustics

• Physiological and neurological mechanism of hearing
• Psychology of hearing
• Auditory model, Auditory processing
• Measurement, evaluation and diagnosis of hearing
• Hearing aids, Auditory prostheses
• Engineering application and AI implementation of hearing
• Perception of speech, music, and noise
• Evaluation of audio equipment
• Integration of auditory and other sensory systems

Noise and Vibration

• Generation mechanism of noise and vibration
• Theoretical analysis of transmission of noise and vibration
• Prediction model of noise and vibration
• Development of noise reduction methods and devices
• Sound absorbing materials
• Development of materials of vibration reduction and control
• Physiological, psychological and social reaction on noise and vibration
• Creation of comfortable sound environment

Architectural Acoustics

• Room Acoustics: theory, analysis and subjective evaluation
• Acoustic design of auditoriums and performance spaces
• Sound environment planning of living spaces
• Sound insulation measures for buildings
• Reduction measures of floor impact sound and structure-borne sound
• Materials and structures for sound insulation and absorption
• Analysis, simulation, visualization and auralization of sound field
• Measurement and evaluation of acoustic properties of spaces and materials

Electro－acoustics

• Transducers (microphones, loudspeakers, sensors and others)
• Measurement and evaluation methods
• Sound field recording, analysis, reproduction and control
• Spatial audio and binaural technology
• Acoustic signal processing (sound source separation, signal enhancement and others)
• Detection and classification of acoustic events and sounds
• Applied acoustic systems

Musical Acoustics

• Sound generation mechanism of instruments
• Psychological property of musical sounds
• Structure of music and performance (such as nonverbal information and communication)
• Computer music (algorithms, performance supporting systems)
• Environmental aspect of sound and music (creation, improvement and recording)

Ultrasonics

• Ultrasonic properties of materials, phonon physics, acousto-optics
• Measurement techniques, imaging, nondestructive evaluation
• Piezoelectric devices (bulk wave devices, surface wave devices)
• Nonlinear acoustics, high power ultrasound, sonochemistry
• Biomedical ultrasound
• Ocean acoustics

Acoustic Imaging

• Imaging by sound wave
• Visualization and sonification of sound and vibration
• Image processing
• Design of sound field
• Numerical simulation of sound fields
• Medical ultrasonic imaging and analysis
• Imaging of acoustical phenomena
• Imaging of sound perception
• Imaging as audio-visual sensing
• Visualization method and device technology
• New approach of perceptualization for acoustics