Tag Archives: Wave Field Synthesis

Paper: How to Design a Delay-and-Sum Beamformer for Rigid Rotationally Symmetric Arrays?

Karim Helwani has presented a paper at the Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems, and Computers on beamforming algorithms for microphone arrays with acoustically rigid surfaces. Principles from Wave Field Synthesis and time-reversal acoustics are used to derive computationally efficient and … 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: 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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Article: A Modal Analysis of Spatial Discretization of Spherical Loudspeaker Distributions Used for Sound Field Synthesis

In a recent article the spatial discretization of a spherical secondary source distribution was discussed in depth: J. Ahrens and S. Spors. A modal analysis of spatial discretization in spherical loudspeaker arrays used for sound field synthesis. IEEE Transactions on … 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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Sound Field Synthesis Toolbox 0.2 released

We are happy to announce the first public and open source release of our Sound Field Synthesis (SFS) Toolbox. It is a toolbox for Matlab/Octave to numerical simulate different SFS methods like Wave Field Synthesis (WFS) or higher order Ambisonics … Continue reading

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Book on Sound Field Synthesis

I proudly announce that some time ago, I submitted the manuscript of a monography on sound field synthesis to Springer who will publish it under the title Analytic Methods of Sound Field Synthesis in spring 2012. You can find the … Continue reading

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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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