The effects of visual landscape and traffic type on soundscape perception in high-rise residential estates of an urban city

Tan, Johann Kay Ann; Hasegawa, Yoshimi; Lau, Siu‐Kit; Tang, Shiu Keung

doi:10.1016/j.apacoust.2021.108580

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“…Frequent perception of mechanical noise decreased soundscape pleasantness and increased soundscape eventfulness, while artificial sound increased soundscape eventfulness and decreased visual landscape satisfaction. Possibly because the traditional street space enhances the noise generated by vehicles and pedestrians on the road [40], the noisy sound hurts human emotions [41], reducing soundscape pleasantness and visual landscape satisfaction. Both artificial and mechanical noise had a significant positive effect on soundscape eventfulness (p < 0.01), a finding consistent with previous studies [12,20,42] that road traffic or human activities increase soundscape eventfulness by increasing the degree of temporal structure of the acoustic environment.…”

Section: Influence Of Place Function On the Overall Relationship Betw...mentioning

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A Study of the Effects of Historical Block Context on Soundscape Perception

Ye,

Li,

Chen

et al. 2024

Buildings

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This study aims to explore the influence of spatial functional differences on the overall relationship between soundscape and visual landscape in the context of historical blocks and then propose design guidelines for audiovisual elements. Audiovisual stimulus materials were collected from 11 representative locations in typical urban historical blocks along the southeast coast of China and classified into residential, cultural leisure, and commercial spaces based on their primary function, activity, and visual environment characteristics. An evaluation environment was created in the laboratory using virtual reality technology, and a subjective evaluation questionnaire was administered to 71 volunteers regarding the perception of audiovisual elements and the evaluation of the overall environment. Structural equation modeling was used to elucidate the relationships between sound source perception, soundscape perception, visual landscape satisfaction, and overall harmony of the environment and to compare the effects of functional differences at different locations on the overall relationships. The results show significant differences in the types of perceived sound sources at different functional locations, which makes the sound sources affecting soundscape perception and visual landscape satisfaction different. Residential space is mainly affected by artificial sound and mechanical noise; in cultural and leisure spaces, all three types of sound sources have a significant impact, and only natural sound has enhanced subjective perception; the impact of artificial sound in commercial space is crucial. In addition, visual landscape satisfaction should be prioritized over soundscape pleasure to enhance the overall harmony of the environment. In residential and commercial spaces, reducing artificial and mechanical noise can effectively enhance the harmony of the environment; in cultural and leisure areas, reducing artificial sounds and increasing natural sounds or historical landscape elements can enhance the overall harmony of the environment. The results of this paper provide empirical evidence for understanding the overall relationship between soundscape factors in urban contexts and suggest that place function should be considered an important context when designing soundscapes.

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Section: Influence Of Place Function On the Overall Relationship Betw...mentioning

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A Study of the Effects of Historical Block Context on Soundscape Perception

Ye,

Li,

Chen

et al. 2024

Buildings

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“…This is because specific sound sources and soundscape perceptions can affect soundscape quality [12][13][14][15]. In addition, landscape elements, including plants [16], structures, [17] and water bodies [18,19], can affect soundscape quality. Hence, exploring the relationships between landscape elements and environmental SPL, types of sound sources and soundscape perception serves as a key starting point for the study of optimizing soundscape quality.…”

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Soundscape Optimization Strategies Based on Landscape Elements in Urban Parks: A Case Study of Greenlake Park in Kunming

2023

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The soundscape quality of urban parks can influence the mental and physical health of park visitors. This paper proposes strategies for optimizing soundscape quality by correlating the physical parameters to the human perception. The data has been gathered through a case study of Greenlake Park located in Kunming, China. The objective physical acoustic indexes and the subjective soundscape perception were analyzed using a combination of GIS spatial statistical analysis from 1224 pieces of environmental sound pressure level data and questionnaire data of human perception collected through soundwalks. The conclusions are as follows: (1) Compared with water bodies, lands perform better in absorbing and reducing the environmental sound pressure level with a decrease of 2.0 dB every 15 m in the terrestrial landscape of rich plant layers and high degree of enclosure, compared to a decrease of 1.5 dB every 15 m in the water landscape with lotus leaves, cruise ships or structures; (2) Sound pressure level and types of sound sources profoundly affect our soundscape perception. Acoustic environment evaluation, soundscape suitability, visual preferences, pleasure perception and relaxation perception are positively correlated with natural sound perception (p < 0.01), while significantly negatively correlated with sound pressure level, human activity and mechanical sound perception. In the end, the correlation between landscape elements and sound pressure level, sound sources and soundscape perception are discussed, and a soundscape optimization strategy for urban parks supported by research data is proposed.

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“…Contextual factors known to affect soundscape assessments include listener-or participant-linked demographic variables, such as age [9], responses to self-reported psychological questionnaires [10,11], and the present activity while experiencing the soundscape [12]. In addition, factors related to the visual environment, such as the physical objects present in a scene [13], or the proportion of landscape elements like greenery and buildings [14,15], may also affect soundscape assessments.…”

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Autonomous Soundscape Augmentation with Multimodal Fusion of Visual and Participant-Linked Inputs

Ooi

Watcharasupat

Lam

et al. 2023

ICASSP 2023 - 2023 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP)

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Autonomous soundscape augmentation systems typically use trained models to pick optimal maskers to effect a desired perceptual change. While acoustic information is paramount to such systems, contextual information, including participant demographics and the visual environment, also influences acoustic perception. Hence, we propose modular modifications to an existing attention-based deep neural network, to allow early, mid-level, and late feature fusion of participant-linked, visual, and acoustic features. Ablation studies on module configurations and corresponding fusion methods using the ARAUS dataset show that contextual features improve the model performance in a statistically significant manner on the normalized ISO Pleasantness, to a mean squared error of 0.1194±0.0012 for the best-performing all-modality model, against 0.1217 ± 0.0009 for the audio-only model. Soundscape augmentation systems can thereby leverage multimodal inputs for improved performance. We also investigate the impact of individual participant-linked factors using trained models to illustrate improvements in model explainability.

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The effects of visual landscape and traffic type on soundscape perception in high-rise residential estates of an urban city

Cited by 22 publications

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A Study of the Effects of Historical Block Context on Soundscape Perception

A Study of the Effects of Historical Block Context on Soundscape Perception

Soundscape Optimization Strategies Based on Landscape Elements in Urban Parks: A Case Study of Greenlake Park in Kunming

Autonomous Soundscape Augmentation with Multimodal Fusion of Visual and Participant-Linked Inputs

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