Author Archives: Sascha Spors

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Dear Visitor, welcome to Spatial Audio Research! This BLOG discusses recent research results and developments in the field of spatial sound capture and reproduction. We annouce newly published papers here and provide additional resources to our papers and talks, if … Continue reading

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Additional material for the paper “On the implementation of Range Extrapolation of Head-Related Impulse Responses by Virtual Sound Field Synthesis using Integer Delays”

This post contains additional material for the paper Sascha Spors and Hagen Wierstorf. On the Implementation of Range Extrapolation of Head-Related Impulse Responses by Virtual Sound Field Synthesis using Integer Delays. In German Annual Conference on Acoustics (DAGA), March 2012. … Continue reading

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Listening examples for the paper “Evaluation of perceptual properties of phase-mode beamforming in the context of data-based binaural synthesis” presented at ISCCSP 2012

We have presented a paper at the 5th International Symposium on Communications, Control, and Signal Processing. It discusses the influence of spatial bandlimitation in modal beamforming when used as plane wave decomposition for binaural synthesis. Besides the instrumental measures given … Continue reading

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Listening examples for the paper “A comparison of phase-mode versus delay-and-sum beamforming in the context of data-based binaural synthesis”

At the 132nd Convention of the Audio Engineering Society we presented the paper S. Spors, H. Wierstorf, and M. Geier. Comparison of modal versus delay-and-sum beamforming in the context of data-based binaural synthesis. In 132th AES Convention. Audio Engineering Society … Continue reading

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Release 0.3.3 of the SoundScape Renderer

We are proud to announce a new release of the SoundScape Renderer (SSR). The new release 0.3.3 (Harpsichord) can be downloaded here. This release contains a number of bug-fixes and extensions. Major improvements are fixed a bug in the WFS … Continue reading

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New Release of SOFiA available

A new release of the Sound Field Analysis Toolbox (SOFiA) is available! This release includes a number of bugfixes and extensions: various bug-fixes and optimizations new sampled wave generator that handels various array configurations (open/dual-open/rigid spheres, pressure/pressure-gradient microphones) for a … Continue reading

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DIY low-cost head-tracker

We have published a tutorial and firmware which allows to put together a low-cost Attitude and Heading Reference System (AHRS) that can be used as a head-tracker for virtual acoustics. A wired version of the tracker (connected via USB), as … Continue reading

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SOFiA Sound Field Analysis Toolbox

Spherical microphone arrays and sound field decomposition using spherical harmonics is a well established technique for the analysis of sound fields, room acoustics or spatial audio recording applications. The Sound Field Analysis Toolbox (SOFiA) provides a MATLAB toolbox for the … Continue reading

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Timetable for the ICSA 2011 is Online

The timetable for the International Conference on Spatial Audio 2011 in Detmold/Germany is now online: ICSA 2011 Timetable (PDF) The conference emphasizes the scientific and technical aspects of spatial audio, but a number of workshops and presentations will be devoted … Continue reading

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Release 0.3.2 of the SoundScape Renderer

The new release 0.3.2 (Spinet) of the SoundScape Renderer (SSR) is available for download. This release contains  a number of bugfixes and includes the source code of the Android SSR remote control. Thanks to all of you who have reported … Continue reading

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