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

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A4 Artikkeli konferenssijulkaisussa

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2019-05

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en

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5
261-265

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ICASSP 2019 - 2019 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing

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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.

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Hold, C, Gamper, H, Pulkki, V, Raghuvanshi, N & Tashev, I J 2019, Improving Binaural Ambisonics Decoding by Spherical Harmonics Domain Tapering and Coloration Compensation . in 2019 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, ICASSP 2019 - Proceedings ., 8683751, Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, IEEE, pp. 261-265, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, Brighton, United Kingdom, 12/05/2019 . https://doi.org/10.1109/ICASSP.2019.8683751