Improving Binaural Ambisonics Decoding by Spherical Harmonics Domain Tapering and Coloration Compensation

Autor: Hannes Gamper, Ville Pulkki, Christoph Hold, Nikunj Raghuvanshi, Ivan Tashev
Přispěvatelé: TU Berlin, Microsoft Research, Dept Signal Process and Acoust, Aalto-yliopisto, Aalto University
Rok vydání: 2019
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Zdroj: ICASSP
DOI: 10.1109/icassp.2019.8683751
Popis: A powerful and flexible approach to record or encode a spatial sound scene is through spherical harmonics (SHs), or Ambisonics. An SH-encoded scene can be rendered binaurally by applying SH-encoded head-related transfer functions (HRTFs). Limitations of the recording equipment or computational constraints dictate the spatial reproduction accuracy, thus rendering might suffer from spatial degradation as well as coloration. This paper studies the effect of tapering the SH representation of a binaurally rendered sound field in conjunction with its spectral equalization. The proposed approach is shown to reduce coloration and thus improves perceived audio quality.
Databáze: OpenAIRE