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Perceptual Enhancement of Sound Field Reproduction in a Nearly Monaural Sensing System

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Communication and Networking (FGCN 2011)

Part of the book series: Communications in Computer and Information Science ((CCIS,volume 266))

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Abstract

In this paper, we propose a method for enhancing the sound field in a nearly monaural sensing system. The proposed method controls the inter-channel coherence (ICC) of a stereo sound source by incorporating early reflections into the sound source. The degree of ICC is controlled using both a decorrelator and a principal component analysis (PCA) technique, while a cascaded all-pass filter is used to induce early reflections. To demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed method on the perception of the sound field, a subjective test is carried out. It is shown from the test that the proposed method can reduce the ICC, thus it improves the perceived sound field.

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  1. School of Information and Communications, Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology, Gwangju, 500-712, Korea

    Chan Jun Chun & Hong Kook Kim

  2. Department of Electronic and Information Engineering, Seoul National University of Science and Technology, Seoul, 139-743, Korea

    Seung Ho Choi

  3. NSSC Center, Korea Electronics Technology Institute, Goyang, 410-380, Korea

    Sei-Jin Jang

  4. Digital Media Research Center, Korea Electronics Technology Institute, Seoul, 137-070, Korea

    Seok-Pil Lee

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  1. Multimedia Engineering Department, Hannam University, 133 Ojeong-dong, Daeduk-gu, Daejeon, Korea

    Tai-hoon Kim

  2. The Ohio State University, 470 Hitchcock Hall, 2070 Neil Avenue, 43210-1275, Columbus, OH, USA

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  3. National Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu, Taiwan, R.O.C.

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  4. University of Western Macedonia, Kozani, Greece

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  6. National Technical University of Athens, Heroon Politechniou 9, Zographou T.K., 157 73, Athens, Greece

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  7. The Computing Laboratory, University of Kent, CT2 7NF, Canterbury, UK

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  8. Universidad Complutense de Madrid, 28040, Madrid, Spain

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  9. The University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL, USA

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Chun, C.J., Kim, H.K., Choi, S.H., Jang, SJ., Lee, SP. (2011). Perceptual Enhancement of Sound Field Reproduction in a Nearly Monaural Sensing System. In: Kim, Th., et al. Communication and Networking. FGCN 2011. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 266. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-27201-1_15

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