Author Archives: Sascha Spors

CfP – International Conference on Spatial Audio 2011

The International Conference on Spatial Audio 2011 takes place from November 10 to 13 at Detmold University of Music.  This expert‘s summit will examine current systems for multichannel audio reproduction and complementing recording techniques, and discuss their respective strengths and … Continue reading

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Videos of our talks given at ICASSP 2011

Our and most of the other talks given at the International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP) 2011 in Prague have been recorded, processed and uploaded to this portal.  In particular you can find our talks on  Efficient range … Continue reading

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Audio examples for the paper “Efficient Range Extrapolation of Head-Related Impulse Responses by Wave Field Synthesis Techniques” presented at ICASSP 2011

These post provides supplementary binaural audio examples for the paper S. Spors and J. Ahrens. Efficient range extrapolation of head-related impulse responses by wave field synthesis techniques. In IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), May 2011. … Continue reading

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Free Database of Head-Related Impulse Response Measurements

We have measured a set of horizontal plane Head-Related Impulse Response (HRIR). The impulse responses were acquired in an anechoic chamber using a KEMAR manikin at four different loudspeaker distances – 3m, 2m, 1m and 0.5m – reaching from the … Continue reading

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New release of the SoundScape Renderer available

We have worked hard in the last months to fix serveral bugs and on various improvements of the SoundScape Renderer (SSR). The current release 0.3.1 includes: OS X 10.6 port of the SSR Android remote control (as .apk) Pure Data … Continue reading

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International Conference on Spatial Audio 2011

International Conference on Spatial Audio 2011 Initial Announcement (April 14 2011) * November 10 – 13, Hochschule für Musik, Detmold The International Conference on Spatial Audio 2011 takes place from November 10 to 13 at Detmold University of Music. This … Continue reading

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Material zum Vortrag “Schallfeldsynthese: Stand der Technik und Perspektiven” (In German)

Zur Verleihung des Lothar-Cremer Preises auf der 37. Jahrestagung für Akustik (DAGA 2011) in Düsseldorf habe ich einen Vortrag zu den Grundlagen und Anwendungen der Schallfeldsynthese gehalten. Im folgenden finden Sie die verwendeten Materialien und einige Zusatzinformationen: Vortragsfolien Animationen zur … Continue reading

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Spatio-temporal structure of sound fields synthesized by HOA & WFS

The following two videos show the synthesis of a broadband plane wave using near-field compensated higher-order Ambisonics (NFC-HOA) and Wave Field Synthesis (WFS). A circular system with a diameter of 3 meters consisting of 56 loudspeakers was simulated numerically. The … Continue reading

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Special session on “Virtual Acoustics” at the Annual Convention for Acoustics (aka DAGA)

I have called for contributions to a special session on “Virtual Acoustics” to be held at the Annual Convention of Acoustics (Jahrestagung für Akustik, DAGA) in Düsseldorf. A lot of proposals (more than 20) have been sumitted. Take a look … Continue reading

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DFG Research Unit SEACEN approved

We are pround to announce that the DFG research unit “Simulation and Evaluation of Acoustical Environments (SEACEN)” has been approved by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft. The research unit constists of 9 research projects hosted by 6 institutes.  The focus is to … Continue reading

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