Perceptually-Motivated Spatial Audio Codec for Higher-Order Ambisonics Compression
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2024-03-18
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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 (potentially unknown) devices. The number of channels required to deliver high spatial resolution Ambisonic audio, however, can be prohibitive for low-bandwidth applications. Therefore, this paper proposes a compression codec, which is based upon the parametric higher-order Directional Audio Coding (HO-DirAC) model. The encoder downmixes the higher-order Ambisonic (HOA) input audio into a reduced number of signals, which are accompanied by perceptually-motivated scene parameters. The downmixed audio is coded using a perceptual audio coder, whereas the parameters are grouped into perceptual bands, quantized, and downsampled. On the decoder side, low Ambisonic orders are fully recovered. Not fully recoverable HOA components are synthesized according to the parameters. The results of a listening test indicate that the proposed parametric spatial audio codec can improve the adopted perceptual audio coder, especially at low to medium-high bitrates, when applied to fifth-order HOA signals.Description
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Hold, C, McCormack, L, Politis, A & Pulkki, V 2024, Perceptually-Motivated Spatial Audio Codec for Higher-Order Ambisonics Compression . in ICASSP 2024 - 2024 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP) . Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Avcoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, IEEE, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, Seoul, Korea, Republic of, 14/04/2024 . https://doi.org/10.1109/ICASSP48485.2024.10447577