Based on the higher order Ambisonics theory, a loudspeaker-based room auralization system was implemented in this paper in combination with a room acoustics computer model. In the decoding part of the Ambisonics technique, the generally used mode-matching decoding method requires a uniformly arranged loudspeaker array, which sometimes cannot be satisfied. A recently proposed method, the matching projection decoding method, which can solve this problem, was introduced in the room auralization system to realize reproduction of room re-verberation with non-uniform loudspeaker arrays. Moreover, the performance of the matching projection method was evaluated objectively through room impulse response reconstruction analysis. Besides, the room auralization system is validated through subjective experiments.

Authors: Ge, Zhongshu; Qiao, Yue; Wang, Shusen; Wu, Xihong; Qu, Tianshu
Affiliations: Peking University, Beijing, China; AES (Beijing) Science & Technology Co., Ltd., Beijing, China(See document for exact affiliation information.)
AES Convention: 145 (October 2018) Paper Number: 10124
Publication Date: October 7, 2018 Import into BibTeX
Subject: Spatial Audio
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