Loading [a11y]/accessibility-menu.js
Resolving spatial sampling effects in parametric directional filtering | IEEE Conference Publication | IEEE Xplore

Resolving spatial sampling effects in parametric directional filtering


Abstract:

Directional Audio Coding (DirAC) represents an efficient scheme to analyze and reproduce spatial sound; the coded stream consists of a single-channel audio signal and few...Show More

Abstract:

Directional Audio Coding (DirAC) represents an efficient scheme to analyze and reproduce spatial sound; the coded stream consists of a single-channel audio signal and few parameters. Estimation of these parameters ideally relies on figure-of-eight microphones and one omnidirectional microphone. The figure-of-eight directivity can be efficiently approximated by first-order differential microphone arrays. However, due to spatial sampling, there are considerable deviations from the required directivity at high frequencies. These deviations lead to incorrect spatial parameter estimates; especially, the instantaneous direction-of-arrival (DOA) becomes biased and - beyond a certain aliasing frequency - ambiguous. Parameters like the DOA drive subsequent processing units, e. g., for spatial filtering. In this paper we propose a novel strategy to compensate bias and ambiguity not directly w. r. t. the DOA but the output parameters of a spatial filtering processing unit. Simulation results confirm the benefits of the novel method, which does not involve additional computational load at run-time.
Date of Conference: 22-27 May 2011
Date Added to IEEE Xplore: 11 July 2011
ISBN Information:

ISSN Information:

Conference Location: Prague, Czech Republic

Contact IEEE to Subscribe

References

References is not available for this document.