22 accepted papers
Spatial active noise control (ANC) systems aim to control the noise field over a spatial region. However, when both the desired field and the interference field co-exist, typical ANC systems lack the ability to selectively reduce the interference field, resulting in distortions in the desired field.…
The study of spatial audio and room acoustics aims to create immersive audio experiences by modeling the physics and psychoacoustics of how sound behaves in space. In the long history of this research area, various key technologies have been developed based both on theoretical advancements and pract…
Spatial Active noise control (ANC) systems are proposed to minimize the noise over a spatial region of interest around people’s heads by generating an anti-noise field with multiple microphones and loudspeakers. Recently, a realistic microphone geometry was designed to allow the system to monitor th…
Conventional multiple-point active noise control (ANC) systems require placing error microphones within the region of interest (ROI), inconveniencing users. This paper designs a feasible monitoring microphone arrangement placed outside the ROI, providing a user with more freedom of movement. The sou…
Spatial audio reproduction and translation for virtual, augmented, and extended reality applications require an efficient representation of the recorded sound fields. In this paper, we investigate the possible sparse representations of the sound field recorded by multiple microphones in reverberant…
Spatial active noise control (ANC) aims to reduce unwanted acoustic noise over a continuous spatial region by generating an anti-noise field with secondary loudspeakers. Conventionally, spatial ANC is achieved by using complex error microphone arrays such as grid or spherical geometry, which are imp…
Blind source separation aims to recover a series of unmixed signals from only a mixture recording of source signals. For the mixture of speech signals where sources have unique spatial positions, the relative transfer function has been found useful as it contains the spatial information of each sour…
This paper presents the image source method for simulating the observed signals in the time-domain on the boundary of a spherical listening region. A wideband approach is used where all derivations are in the time-domain. The source emits a sequence of spherical wave fronts whose amplitudes could be…
The development of spherical sector harmonics benefits the sound- field decomposition and analysis over a spherical sector region. However, research on the soundfield radial extrapolation from one spherical sector region to another concentric sector region with a different radius is still insufficie…
Spatial active noise control (ANC) aims to reduce unwanted acoustic noise over a continuous spatial region by generating an anti-noise field with secondary loudspeakers. Conventionally, spatial ANC is achieved by using complex error microphone arrays such as grid or spherical geometry, which are imp…
Sound intensity is a good predictor of human perception of sound location, which can be controlled to provide impressive direction perception to humans in soundfield reproduction systems, especially when the loudspeakers are non-uniformly distributed. However, the previous works in this field are al…
A spherical harmonics domain source feature called relative harmonic coefficients (RHC) has recently been applied to address the source direction-of-arrival (DOA) estimation problem. This paper presents a compact evaluation and comparison between two existing RHC based DOA estimators: (i) a method u…
Microphone array calibration is required to accurately capture the information in an audio source recording. Existing calibration methods require expensive hardware and setup procedures to compute filters for correcting microphone responses. Typically, such methods struggle to extend measurement acc…
We propose a straightforward and cost-effective method to perform diffuse soundfield measurements for calibrating the magnitude response of a microphone array. Typically, such calibration is performed in a diffuse soundfield created in reverberation chambers, an expensive and time-consuming process.…
Active noise control (ANC) over space is a well-researched topic where multi-microphone, multi-loudspeaker systems are designed to minimize the noise over a spatial region of interest. In this paper, we perform an initial study on the more complex problem of simultaneous noise control over multiple…
This paper presents an unsupervised multi-source localization algorithm using a recently introduced feature called the relative harmonic coefficients. We derive a closed-form expression of the feature and briefly summarize its unique properties. We then exploit this feature to develop a single-sourc…
The accuracy and perception of soundfields produced by loudspeaker arrays are strongly influenced by the inherent characteristics of the commercial loudspeakers. This paper analyzes such characteristics of loudspeakers by deriving equivalent theoretical models, and by studying their impact on soundf…
The localization of acoustic sound sources is beneficial to signal processing applications of speech enhancement, dereverberation, separation and tracking. Difficulties in position estimation arise in real world environments due to coherent reflections degrading performance of subspace localization…
Active Noise Cancellation (ANC) is a well researched topic for minimizing unwanted acoustic noise, and spatial ANC is a recently introduced concept that focuses on continuous spatial regions. Adaptive filter designing for spatial ANC is often based on frequency-domain spherical harmonic decompositio…
In this paper, we propose a planar array of dipole (or first-order) loudspeakers to reproduce a full three dimensional (3D) exterior soundfield over a desired spatial region. The proposed method is inspired by the spherical harmonics based solution for 3D soundfield reproduction. When decomposed in…
This paper presents an experimental study on a novel technique to blindly estimate the directional properties of room reflections using a spherical microphone array. The algorithm is developed based on a spatial correlation model formulated in the spherical harmonics domain. This model expresses the…
In this paper, we investigate active noise control over large 2D spatial regions when the noise source is sparsely distributed. The l <inf xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">1</inf> relaxation technique originated from compressive sensing is ado…