We have previously proposed a way to use stereo microphones with spatial audio coding to record and code surround sound. In this paper we are describing further considerations and improvements needed to convert stereo microphone signals directly to MPEG Surround, i.e.~downmix signal plus bitstream. It is described in detail how to obtain from the microphone channels the information needed for computing MPEG Surround spatial parameters and how to process the microphone signals to transform them to an MPEG Surround compatible downmix.

Authors: Tournery, Christof; Faller, Christof; Kuech, Fabian; Herre, Jürgen
Affiliations: Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits IIS, Erlangen, Germany; IllusonicLLC, Lausanne, Switzerland(See document for exact affiliation information.)
AES Convention: 128 (May 2010) Paper Number: 7982
Publication Date: May 1, 2010 Import into BibTeX
Subject: Spatial Signal Processing
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