The New York Times interviews researchers from CUSP's Sounds of New York City (SONYC) project to visualize the impact of the COVID19 pandemic on noise pollution in NYC. The corner of Lafayette and East Fourth Street in New York used to… Continue Reading The Coronavirus Quieted City Noise. Listen to What’s Left.
Is Noise Pollution the Next Big Public-Health Crisis?
Senior Research Scientist Charlie Mydlarz and Research Scientist Mark Cartwright discuss the Sounds of New York City (SONYC) Project's efforts to monitor, analyze, and mitigate urban noise pollution in this article by David Owen of The New Yorker. (...)A few weeks… Continue Reading Is Noise Pollution the Next Big Public-Health Crisis?
Computers Turn an Ear on New York City
The Sounds of New York City Project (SONYC) is featured in a new podcast by Scientific American. NYU’s “Sounds of New York City” project listens to the city—and then, with the help of citizen scientists, teaches machines to decode the… Continue Reading Computers Turn an Ear on New York City
Help fight noise pollution by identifying these sound clips collected from urban sensors
The Sounds of New York City (SONYC) is featured by The Verge. Cities are noisy places, and a team of scientists believe that sensors, artificial intelligence, and some generous volunteers can help solve the problem. Sounds of New York City(SONYC) is… Continue Reading Help fight noise pollution by identifying these sound clips collected from urban sensors
Think you know the sounds of the city? Noise pollution experts needed
NYU CUSP Research Scientist Mark Cartwright discusses how the Sounds of New York City project (SONYC) is looking for volunteer citizen scientists to review 10-second snippets of sound with AM New York. Researchers from New York University have spent over two years… Continue Reading Think you know the sounds of the city? Noise pollution experts needed
You can help researchers curb NYC noise pollution as a citizen scientist
SONYC is featured by Metro New York. New York City noise pollution is a serious issue, and New York University researchers need your help to fight it.New York City is noisy, and that fact is more than just an annoyance… Continue Reading You can help researchers curb NYC noise pollution as a citizen scientist
Citizen Scientists Train Artificial Intelligence to Help Mitigate Noise Pollution in NYC
Featured by New York University. The Sounds of New York City (SONYC) project launches its first citizen science initiative to help NYU researchers train machine listening models.The Sounds of New York City (SONYC) —a first-of-its-kind research project addressing urban noise pollution—has launched… Continue Reading Citizen Scientists Train Artificial Intelligence to Help Mitigate Noise Pollution in NYC
SONYC: A System for Monitoring, Analyzing, and Mitigating Urban Noise Pollution
Juan P. Bello and Charles Mydlarz discuss "SONYC: A System for the Monitoring, Analyzing, and Mitigating Urban Noise Pollution," a Contributed Article in the February 2019 Communications of the Association for Computing Machinery (CACM) Magazine. https://vimeo.com/310203443Noise is unwanted or harmful… Continue Reading SONYC: A System for Monitoring, Analyzing, and Mitigating Urban Noise Pollution
How Sound Affects Our Health
NYU CUSP Senior Research Scientist Justin Salamon and the Sounds of New York City (SONYC) project featured by The Wall Street Journal. Public officials and scientists are increasingly absorbed in the study of how sound affects our health.Negative effects, such… Continue Reading How Sound Affects Our Health
Noise exposure is becoming ‘the new secondhand smoke’
Featured by the Washington Post. NEW YORK — One of the quietest places in this noisy city is in the middle of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, which draws 7 million visitors a year. Most don’t know of the tiny Astor… Continue Reading Noise exposure is becoming ‘the new secondhand smoke’
These scientists think peace and quiet should be a human right
March 8, 2018 Juan Bello, a sound researcher at NYU CUSP & New York University, is featured in this article by Popular Science. Step onto the streets of New York or any other major city and you will be greeted with a barrage of… Continue Reading These scientists think peace and quiet should be a human right
Sounds Of NYC Project Aims To Dull Noises In The City That Never Sleeps
November 16, 2018 Featured by Smart Cities Dive. With so much noise pollution in New York, it’s easy to understand why it’s the city that never sleeps.The city’s civil complaint line gets more calls about noise than any other issue. One… Continue Reading Sounds Of NYC Project Aims To Dull Noises In The City That Never Sleeps
To Create A Quieter City, They’re Recording The Sounds Of New York
November 16, 2018 Featured by the New York Times. On Thursday, microphones mounted outside two buildings in Manhattan went live.Bright yellow signs that say “Recording Underway” announced their arrival.But these devices are not eavesdropping on your conversations.A group of researchers… Continue Reading To Create A Quieter City, They’re Recording The Sounds Of New York
SONYC Is A NYC BigApps 2015 Finalist!
On November 11, BigApps NYC 2015 announced that CUSP’s researchers, Charlie Mydlarz and Justin Salamon have made it through to the competition’s finals. Their submission, the SONYC project has been selected as one of the finalists in the Connected Cities category.
SONYC Through to Semifinals of BigApps NYC 2015!
On November 11, BigApps NYC 2015 announced that CUSP’s researchers, Charlie Mydlarz and Justin Salamon have made it through to the competition’s finals. Their submission, the SONYC project has been selected as one of the finalists in the Connected Cities category.