Tag Archives: Perception

Thesis: Perceptual Assessment of Sound Field Synthesis

After a few years I finally managed to end my PhD thesis and published it under CC BY 3.0: Hagen Wierstorf – Perceptual Assessment of Sound Field Synthesis It derives different sound field synthesis driving functions for Wave Field Synthesis … Continue reading

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Keynote: The Adventure of Spatial Sound Reproduction

Sascha Spors gave a keynote at the 55th International Conference of the Audio Engineering Society (AES). The talk “The Adventure of Spatial Sound Reproduction” gives a personal view on recent achievements in spatial sound reproduction. The slides can be viewed … Continue reading

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Paper: Perceptual Properties of Data-based Wave Field Synthesis

The paper “Perceptual Properties of Data-based Wave Field Synthesis” was presented by Sascha Spors and Hagen Wierstorf at the 40.Jahrestagung für Akustik (DAGA) in Oldenburg, Germany. We investigated the capture of sound fields by spherical microphone arrays and their reproduction … Continue reading

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Paper: The BoomRoom: Mid-air Direct Interaction with Virtual Sound Sources

The paper The BoomRoom: Mid-air Direct Interaction with Virtual Sound Sources from Jörg Müller, Matthias Geier, Christina Dicke and Sascha Spors will be presented at the ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems 2014. In this paper we … Continue reading

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Article: Spatial Sound with Loudspeakers and its Perception: A review of the current state

In the last Proceedings of the IEEE S. Spors, H. Wierstorf, A. Raake, F. Melchior, M. Frank and F. Zotter published a review about the current state of spatial audio reproduction and its perception. Here we are adding supplementary material … Continue reading

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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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How does a stereo sound that moves with supersonic speed?

The question how a stereo would sound that passes the listener at superonic speed was discussed in a recent post of XKCD. I was quite suprised that the publication Reproduction of Virtual Sound Sources Moving at Supersonic Speeds in Wave Field … Continue reading

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AES Conference on Sound Field Control, Engineering And Perception

The call for papers for the 52nd International Conference of the Audio Engineering Society considers contributions from Sound field control theory Sound field sampling for control purposes Signal processing for sound field control Active and adaptive sound control Transducers, array … Continue reading

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Paper: Localization of a virtual point source within the listening area for Wave Field Synthesis

Hagen Wierstorf has presented a conference paper at the 133rd Convention of the Audio Engineering Society in San Fransisco. The paper investigates the localization properties of Wave Field Synthesis at different listening positions with the listening area for different array … Continue reading

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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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