Spatial audio signal processing for binaural reproduction of recorded acoustic scenes–review and challenges

B Rafaely, V Tourbabin, E Habets… - Acta …, 2022 - acta-acustica.edpsciences.org
Spatial audio has been studied for several decades, but has seen much renewed interest
recently due to advances in both software and hardware for capture and playback, and the …

Binaural reproduction based on bilateral ambisonics and ear-aligned HRTFs

Z Ben-Hur, DL Alon, R Mehra… - IEEE/ACM Transactions …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Reproduction of high quality spatial sound has gained considerable importance with the
recent technology developments in the fields of virtual and augmented reality. Recently, the …

Perceptual evaluation of mitigation approaches of impairments due to spatial undersampling in binaural rendering of spherical microphone array data

T Lübeck, H Helmholz, JM Arend… - Journal of the Audio …, 2020 - aes.org
Spherical microphone arrays (SMAs) are widely used to capture spatial sound fields that can
then be rendered in various ways as a virtual acoustic environment (VAE) including …

Assessing HRTF preprocessing methods for Ambisonics rendering through perceptual models

I Engel, DFM Goodman, L Picinali - Acta Acustica, 2022 - acta-acustica.edpsciences.org
Binaural rendering of Ambisonics signals is a common way to reproduce spatial audio
content. Processing Ambisonics signals at low spatial orders is desirable in order to reduce …

Assessing spherical harmonics interpolation of time-aligned head-related transfer functions

JM Arend, F Brinkmann, C Pörschmann - Journal of the Audio Engineering …, 2021 - aes.org
High-quality spatial audio reproduction over headphones requires head-related transfer
functions (HRTFs) with high spatial resolution. However, acquiring datasets with a large …

Compression of higher-order ambisonic signals using directional audio coding

C Hold, V Pulkki, A Politis… - IEEE/ACM Transactions …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Delivering high-quality spatial audio in the Ambisonics format requires extensive data
bandwidth, which may render it inaccessible for many low-bandwidth applications. Existing …

Resynthesis of spatial room impulse response tails with anisotropic multi-slope decays

C Hold, T McKenzie, G Götz, S Schlecht… - journal of the audio …, 2022 - research.aalto.fi
Spatial room impulse responses (SRIRs) capture room acoustics with directional
information. SRIRs measured in coupled rooms and spaces with non-uniform absorption …

Spatial upsampling of sparse spherical microphone array signals

T Lübeck, JM Arend… - IEEE/ACM Transactions …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We present a method for spatial upsampling of signals captured with spherical microphone
arrays with a limited number of microphones. The upsampling is performed by adding virtual …

On the selection of the number of beamformers in beamforming-based binaural reproduction

I Ifergan, B Rafaely - EURASIP Journal on Audio, Speech, and Music …, 2022 - Springer
In recent years, spatial audio reproduction has been widely researched with many studies
focusing on headphone-based spatial reproduction. A popular format for spatial audio is …

Recordings of a loudspeaker orchestra with multichannel microphone arrays for the evaluation of spatial audio methods

D Ackermann, J Domann, F Brinkmann… - Journal of the Audio …, 2023 - aes.org
For live broadcasting of speech, music, or other audio content, multichannel microphone
array recordings of the sound field can be used to render and stream dynamic binaural …