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 …

Higher-order spatial impulse response rendering: Investigating the perceived effects of spherical order, dedicated diffuse rendering, and frequency resolution

L McCormack, V Pulkki, A Politis… - Journal of the Audio …, 2020 - research.aalto.fi
This article details an investigation into the perceptual effects of different rendering
strategies when synthesizing loudspeaker array room impulse responses (RIRs) using …

Microphone array processing for parametric spatial audio techniques

A Politis - 2016 - aaltodoc.aalto.fi
Reproduction of spatial properties of recorded sound scenes is increasingly recognised as a
crucial element of all emerging immersive applications, with domestic or cinema-oriented …

Sector-based parametric sound field reproduction in the spherical harmonic domain

A Politis, J Vilkamo, V Pulkki - IEEE Journal of Selected Topics …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This papers presents a parametric method for perceptual sound field recording and
reproduction from a small-sized microphone array to arbitrary loudspeaker layouts. The …

Theory and design of multizone soundfield reproduction using sparse methods

W Jin, WB Kleijn - IEEE/ACM Transactions on Audio, Speech …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Multizone soundfield reproduction over an extended spatial region is a challenging problem
in acoustic signal processing. We introduce a method of reproducing a multizone soundfield …

Sparse representation of a spatial sound field in a reverberant environment

S Koyama, L Daudet - IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper investigates sound-field modeling in a realistic reverberant setting. Starting from
a few point-like microphone measurements, the goal is to estimate the direct source field …

Directionally weighted wave field estimation exploiting prior information on source direction

N Ueno, S Koyama, H Saruwatari - IEEE Transactions on Signal …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A wave field estimation method exploiting prior information on source direction is proposed.
First, we formulate a wave field estimation problem as regularized least squares, where the …

Transitioning of ambient higher-order ambisonic coefficients

NG Peters, D Sen - US Patent 9,922,656, 2018 - Google Patents
In general, techniques are described for transitioning an ambient higher order ambisonic
coefficient. A device comprising a memory and a processor may be configured to perform …

Beamforming-based binaural reproduction by matching of binaural signals

L Madmoni, J Donley, V Tourbabin, B Rafaely - Audio Engineering Society …, 2020 - aes.org
The capture and reproduction of spatial audio is becoming increasingly popular, with the
mushrooming of applications in teleconferencing, entertainment and virtual reality. Two …

Switching between predictive and non-predictive quantization techniques in a higher order ambisonics (HOA) framework

MY Kim, NG Peters - US Patent 9,747,910, 2017 - Google Patents
ABSTRACT A device comprising a memory and one or more processors may be configured
extract, from the bitstream, a type of quantization mode. The one or more processors may …