Tag Archives: Binaural Synthesis

Major Release of the SoundScape Renderer

The SoundScape Renderer (SSR) is a tool for real-time spatial audio reproduction providing a variety of rendering algorithms, e.g. Wave Field Synthesis, Higher-Order Ambisonics and binaural techniques. The development team has worked hard in the past months and is proud … Continue reading

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Paper: Data-based Binaural Synthesis Including Rotational and Translatory Head-Movements

Feel free to download the poster Schultz_2013_TranslatoryMotions_AES52ndIntl_Poster_Final to our paper contribution of the recent 52nd Audio Engineering Society Conference on Sound Field Control – Engineering and Perception, Guildford, UK, September 2-4, 2013

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Article: Spatial perception of sound fields recorded by spherical microphone arrays with varying spatial resolution

This article presents an experimental study of spatial sound perception with the use of a spherical microphone array for sound recording and headphone-based binaural sound synthesis. Sound field analysis and processing is performed in the spherical harmonics domain with the … Continue reading

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CfP: EAA Joint Symposium on Auralization and Ambisonics

Integrating the 2nd International Auralization Symposium, and the 5th International Symposium on Ambisonics and Spherical Acoustics Invitation and Call for Papers The EAA Joint Symposium on Auralization and Ambisonics will be held on 3–5 April, 2014 in Berlin, hosted by … Continue reading

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Spatial audio impulse response compilation

Benjamin Bernschütz from the Laboratory for Acoustics, Audio Technology and Audio Signal Processing of the Cologne University of Applied Sciences has released a set of acoustic measurements under the Creative Commons license. The released data includes spatial impulses captured at … Continue reading

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Sonification of EEG Signals

My former colleague Robert Schleicher and his team at Quality and Usability Lab (TU Berlin) has released a set of OpenSource tools to capture and visualize Electroencephalography (EEG) signals from Emotiv EPOC and BrainVision BrainAmp devices. Take a look at … Continue reading

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Maintenance release of the SoundScape Renderer

A maintenance release of the SoundScape Renderer (SSR) is available. The major changes are several bugfixes and improvements fixed Polhemus tracker support on MacOSX introduced “reference offset” for tracking people within loudspeaker arrays The new release 0.3.4 (“Pianoforte”) can be … Continue reading

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Maintenance release of the SoundScape Renderer

Release 0.3.4 (“Pianoforte”) of the SoundScape Renderer (SSR) is available. It fixes a number of minor bugs. Find more infomation in this post of the Spatial Audio Research BLOG of the TU Berlin.

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Paper: Perception and evaluation of sound fields

In a recent paper the percetual evaluation of sound fields created by Sound Field Synthesis is discussed: H. Wierstorf, S. Spors, and A. Raake. Perception and evaluation of sound fields. In Open Seminar on Acoustics, September 2012. Abstract– Sound field … 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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