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 filter bank in the spherical harmonic domain: Reconstruction and application

C Hold, SJ Schlecht, A Politis… - 2021 IEEE Workshop on …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Filter banks are an integral part of modern signal processing. They may also be applied to
spatial filtering and the employed spatial filters can be designed with a specific shape for the …

Optimizing higher-order directional audio coding with adaptive mixing and energy matching for ambisonic compression and upmixing

C Hold, L McCormack, A Politis… - 2023 IEEE Workshop on …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In order to transmit sound-scenes encoded into the higher-order Ambisonics (HOA) format to
low-bandwidth devices, transmission codecs are needed to reduce data requirements …

Software Tools for Flexible Control of Radiation Synthesis

T Carpentier, O Warusfel, JM Jot - 2023 Immersive and 3D …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Compact spherical loudspeaker arrays are new tools for the creation of auditory objects in a
space. Originally designed for musical and performance purposes–as a substitute for …

Analysis of multi-exponential and anisotropic sound energy decay

G Götz, C Hold, T McKenzie, S Schlecht… - … für Akustik, Stuttgart …, 2022 - research.ed.ac.uk
Reverberation is an important cue for determining the distance and location of sounds, and
can be used to infer the size of a space. Although simple models of reverberation assume a …

Underwater soundfield visualisation using directionally constrained acoustic parameters

V Bountourakis, V Pulkki - The Journal of the Acoustical Society of …, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
This paper presents an underwater soundfield visualisation method for passive-sonar
applications employing circular hydrophone arrays. The method operates by segregating …

[PDF][PDF] Parametric binaural reproduction of higher-order spatial impulse responses

C Hold, L McCormack, V Pulkki - … Congress on Acoustics …, 2022 - leomccormack.github.io
Spherical microphone arrays may be used to capture the directional characteristics of a
room acoustic response. Spatial impulse response rendering (SIRR) is a method for …

A Parametric Spatial Audio Compression Codec for Higher-Order Ambisonics

C Hold - 2024 - aaltodoc.aalto.fi
Spatial audio has the potential to revolutionize how we consume music and other audio
content by enabling an immersive audio experience. Therefore, the technologyand …

Perceptually-Motivated Spatial Audio Codec for Higher-Order Ambisonics Compression

C Hold, L McCormack, A Politis… - ICASSP 2024-2024 …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Scene-based spatial audio formats, such as Ambisonics, are playback system agnostic and
may therefore be favoured for delivering immersive audio experiences to a wide range of …