Publications

Journal papers

McCarthy, Ryan A., et al. “Machine Learning in Acoustics: A Review and Open-Source Repository.” arXiv preprint arXiv:2507.04419 (2025).
Verburg, Samuel A., et al. “Optimal sensor placement for the spatial reconstruction of sound fields.” EURASIP Journal on Audio, Speech, and Music Processing 2024.1 (2024): 41.
Verburg, Samuel A., Williams, Earl G., and Fernandez-Grande, Efren. “Acousto-optic holography.” The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 152.6 (2022): 3790-3799.
Hahmann, Manuel, Verburg, Samuel A., and Fernandez-Grande, Efren. “Spatial reconstruction of sound fields using local and data-driven functions.” The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 150.6 (2021): 4417-4428.
Verburg, Samuel A., and Fernandez-Grande, Efren. “Acousto-optical volumetric sensing of acoustic fields.” Physical Review Applied 16.4 (2021): 044033.
Nolan, Mélanie, et al. “Experimental characterization of the sound field in a reverberation room.” The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 145.4 (2019): 2237-2246.
Verburg, Samuel A., and Fernandez-Grande, Efren. “Reconstruction of the sound field in a room using compressive sensing.” The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 143.6 (2018): 3770-3779.

Conference papers

Verburg, Samuel A., et al. “Dynamic room impulse response measurements with a robotic arm.” 11th Convention of the European Acoustics Association, European Acoustics Association, 2025.
Figueroa-Durán, Antonio, et al. “Frequency and spatial limitations of sound field reconstruction methods for navigable reproduction.” 11th Convention of the European Acoustics Association, European Acoustics Association, 2025.
Verburg, Samuel A., Fernandez-Grande, Efren, and Gerstoft, Peter. “Optical interferometry based acoustic field characterization using physics informed neural networks.” INTER-NOISE and NOISE-CON Congress and Conference Proceedings. Vol. 270. No. 3. Institute of Noise Control Engineering, 2024.
Nolan, Mélanie, et al. “Free Field Measurements of the Effective Acoustic Properties of Rigidly Backed Anisotropic Porous Materials.” 10th Convention of the European Acoustics Association. European Acoustics Association, EAA, 2023.
Verburg, Samuel A., et al. “Optimizing the Position of Sensors for Characterizing Acoustic Fields.” 10th Convention of the European Acoustics Association. European Acoustics Association, EAA, 2023.
Fernandez-Grande, Efren , Verburg, Samuel A., and Karakonstantis, Xenofon. “Sound field reconstruction: towards large-scale spatial sensing.” 10th Convention of the European Acoustics Association. 2023.
Verburg, Samuel A., et al. “Optimal sensor placement for sound field reconstruction.” Proc. of the 24rd International Congress on Acoustics, ICA. 2022.
Verburg, Samuel A., Fernandez-Grance, Efren, and Williams, Earl G.. “Acousto-optic sensing for near-field acoustic holography.” INTER-NOISE and NOISE-CON Congress and Conference Proceedings. Vol. 265. No. 2. Institute of Noise Control Engineering, 2023.
Fernandez-Grande, Efren, et al. “Reconstruction of room impulse responses over extended domains for navigable sound field reproduction.” 2021 Immersive and 3D Audio: from Architecture to Automotive (I3DA). IEEE, 2021.
Verburg, Samuel A., and Fernandez-Grande, Efren. “Sensor placement for sound field reconstruction in enclosures.” INTER-NOISE and NOISE-CON Congress and Conference Proceedings. Vol. 263. No. 1. Institute of Noise Control Engineering, 2021.
Hahmann, Manuel, Verburg, Samuel A., and Fernandez-Grande, Efren. “Convolutional sparse formulation of the sound field in an enclosure.” INTER-NOISE and NOISE-CON Congress and Conference Proceedings. Vol. 261. No. 3. Institute of Noise Control Engineering, 2020.
Verburg, Samuel A., and Fernandez-Grande, Efren. “Joint sensing methods to reconstruct acoustic fields over space.” INTER-NOISE and NOISE-CON Congress and Conference Proceedings. Vol. 261. No. 3. Institute of Noise Control Engineering, 2020.
Verburg, Samuel A., Fernandez-Grande, Efren, and Barrera-Figueroa, Salvador. “Acousto-optic sensing of the sound field in a lightly damped room.” INTER-NOISE and NOISE-CON Congress and Conference Proceedings. Vol. 259. No. 2. Institute of Noise Control Engineering, 2019.
Hahmann, Manuel, Verburg, Samuel A., and Fernandez-Grande, Efren. “Analysis of a sound field in a room using dictionary learning.” 23rd International Congress on Acoustics. Deutsche Gesellschaft für Akustik eV, 2019.
Verburg, Samuel A., and Fernandez-Grande, Efren. “Acousto-optic sensing–spatial reconstruction of the sound ﬁeld enclosed in a room.” 23rd International Congress on Acoustics. 2019.
Fernandez-Grande, Efren , Verburg, Samuel A., and Hahmann, Manuel. “Acousto-optic capture of the sound field in a room based on sparse measurement data.” International Symposium on Room Acoustics 2019. Nederlands Akoestisch Genootschap, 2019.
Verburg, Samuel A., and Fernandez-Grande, Efren. “Volumetric sampling of the sound field in a room.” INTER-NOISE and NOISE-CON Congress and Conference Proceedings. Vol. 258. No. 4. Institute of Noise Control Engineering, 2018.
Nolan, Mélanie, et al. “A wavenumber approach to quantifying non-uniform sound incidence in measurements of sound absorption in the reverberation chamber.” Euronoise 2018. European Acoustics Association, 2018.

Popular science:

Verburg, Samuel A., et al. “A century of acousto-optics: From early discoveries to modern sensing of sound with light.” Acoust. Today 19.3 (2023): 54-62.
“Acousto-Optics: Sensing Sound with Light.” in Across Acoustics podcast 2024