10 accepted papers
Classical auditory-periphery models, exemplified by Bruce et al., 2018, provide high-fidelity simulations but are stochastic and computationally demanding, limiting large-scale experimentation and low-latency use. Prior neural encoders approximate aspects of the periphery; however, few are explicitl…
Ambisonics rendering has become an integral part of 3D audio for headphones. It works well with existing recording hardware, the processing cost is mostly independent of the number of sound sources, and it elegantly allows for rotating the scene and listener. One challenge in Ambisonics headphone re…
Multi-speaker localization and tracking using microphone array recording is of importance in a wide range of applications. One of the challenges with multi-speaker tracking is to associate direction estimates with the correct speaker. Most existing association approaches rely on spatial or spectral…
Ambisonics, a popular format of spatial audio, is the spherical harmonic (SH) representation of the plane wave density function of a sound field. Many algorithms operate in the SH domain and utilize the Ambisonics as their input signal. The process of encoding Ambisonics from a spherical microphone…
High fidelity spatial audio often performs better when produced using a personalized head-related transfer function (HRTF). However, the direct acquisition of HRTFs is cumbersome and requires specialized equipment. Thus, many personalization methods estimate HRTF features from easily obtained anthro…
Telepresence for virtual meetings has gained interest due to recent travel limitations and the new reality of working from home. However, current literature supporting real-world microphone arrays for realistic telepresence in audio is very limited. This paper investigates a scenario of a distant pa…
Estimation of the properties of early room reflections is an important task in audio signal processing, with applications in beamforming, source separation, room geometry inference, and spatial audio. While methods exist to blindly estimate the direction of arrival and delay of the early reflections…
High-fidelity 3D audio experience requires accurate individual head-related transfer function (HRTF) representation. However, the process of measuring individual HRTFs typically involves measurements from hundreds of directions, with specialized and expensive equipment, which makes this process inac…
Speaker localization using microphone arrays is typically based on the expected phase and amplitude differences between microphones as a function of the wave arrival direction. However, in rooms with significant reverberation, the direct sound is contaminated by reflections and localization often fa…
Auditory systems of humanoid robots usually acquire the surrounding sound field by means of microphone arrays. These arrays can undergo motion related to the robot's activity. The conventional approach to dealing with this motion is to stop the robot during sound acquisition. This approach avoids ch…