Applications of dynamic diffuse signal processing in sound reinforcement and reproduction.

Electroacoustic systems are subject to position-dependent frequency responses due to coherent interference between multiple sources and/or early reflections. Diffuse signal processing (DiSP) provides a mechanism for signal decorrelation to potentially alleviate this well-known issue in sound reinforcement and reproduction applications. Previous testing has indicated that DiSP provides reduced low-frequency spatial variance across wide audience areas, but in closed acoustic spaces is less effective due to coherent early reflections. In this paper, dynamic implementation of DiSP is examined, whereby the decorrelation algorithm varies over time, thus allowing for decorrelation between surface reflections and direct sounds. Potential applications of dynamic DiSP are explored in the context of sound reinforcement (subwoofers, stage monitoring) and sound reproduction (small-room low-frequency control, loudspeaker crossovers), with preliminary experimental results presented.N/

In Car Audio

This chapter presents implementations of advanced in Car Audio Applications. The system is composed by three main different applications regarding the In Car listening and communication experience. Starting from a high level description of the algorithms, several implementations on different levels of hardware abstraction are presented, along with empirical results on both the design process undergone and the performance results achieved

A minimax approach for the joint design of acoustic crosstalk cancellation filters

Journal ArticleAbstract-This paper presents a method for jointly designing immersive audio rendering filters for a single listener using loudspeakers. The filters for crosstalk cancellation are assumed to have finite impulse responses and are designed using the minimax criterion. In addition to the traditional Atal-Schroeder crosstalk canceler structure, this paper explores an alternate topology that requires the approximation of a single filter. In general, the minimax approach provides improved low-frequency performance leading to a better overall separation of the direct-path and cross-path transfer functions than least-squares designs. The performance of the single-filter structure is better than that of the traditional crosstalk cancellation structure

Two-way acoustic window using wave field synthesis

Tässä diplomityössä esitellään monikanavainen ja kaksisuuntainen audiokommunikaatiojärjestelmä. Sen tavoitteena on luoda kaksisuuntainen akustinen avanne kahden tilan välille ja mahdollistaa tarkka äänilähteiden paikantuminen molemmissa tiloissa. Kun yksikanavainen kommunikaatiojärjestelmä laajennetaan monikanavaiseksi, on myös mahdollista parantaa puheen ymmärrettävyyttä. Toisaalta lisääntynyt kanavamäärä monimutkaistaa akustisen kierron poistamiseen käytettyjä tekniikoita. Tekniikat, jotka tunnetaan kaksikanavaisista järjestelmistä on mahdollista laajentaa myös monikanavaisiin järjestelmiin. Käyttämällä kaiutin- ja mikrofonihiloja on osittain mahdollista äänittää äänikenttä toisaalla ja toistaa se samanlaisena toisessa tilassa. Tämä voidaan toteuttaa tässä työssä käytetyllä menetelmällä, jota kutsutaan äänikenttäsynteesiksi. Akustisen kierron poistamiseksi toteutettiin 48-kanavainen järjestelmä, joka hyödynsi staattisten ja adaptiivisten suodinten yhdistelmää. Järjestelmä osoittautui stabiiliksi ja mahdollisti normaalin keskustelun rakennetun akustisen avanteen läpi. Aaltokenttäsynteesiä verrattiin muihin äänentoisto- ja äänitysjärjestelmiin kuuntelukokeiden avulla. Tulokset osoittavat, että äänikenttäsynteesin ominaisuudet ovat riittävät korkealaatuisen ja monikanavaisen äänikommunikaatiojärjestelmän toteuttamiseksi.In this Master's Thesis a two-way multichannel audio communication system is introduced. The aim is to create a virtual acoustic window between two rooms, providing correct spatial localization of multiple audio sources on both sides. Extending monophonic communication systems to feature multichannel sound capture and reproduction increases the intelligibility of speech and the accuracy of source localization achieved with the system. Adding multiple channels to the system also increases the complexity of the acoustic echo cancellation. Methods known from stereophonic systems extend to multichannel systems. By using arrays of microphones and loudspeakers it becomes possible to try to recreate a part of the acoustic wave field existing in the recording space. A method for achieving this is wave field synthesis (WFS). To solve the acoustic feedback problem, a 48 channel acoustic echo canceller was implemented. To maximize the achieved echo attenuation, a combination of adaptive and static filters were used. The implementation provided a stable solution that made normal conversation through the window possible. To verify the quality of the system, a listening test was performed. In the test, WFS was compared against three other recording and reproduction methods on four different attributes of the perceived sound scape. The results show that WFS offers clear potential to be used in multichannel communication systems and in creation of the acoustic opening

Surround by Sound: A Review of Spatial Audio Recording and Reproduction

In this article, a systematic overview of various recording and reproduction techniques for spatial audio is presented. While binaural recording and rendering is designed to resemble the human two-ear auditory system and reproduce sounds specifically for a listener’s two ears, soundfield recording and reproduction using a large number of microphones and loudspeakers replicate an acoustic scene within a region. These two fundamentally different types of techniques are discussed in the paper. A recent popular area, multi-zone reproduction, is also briefly reviewed in the paper. The paper is concluded with a discussion of the current state of the field and open problemsThe authors acknowledge National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) No. 61671380 and Australian Research Council Discovery Scheme DE 150100363