Parametric spatial audio rendering promises fast and perceptually convincing audio cues that remain playback-system agnostic and enable aesthetic modifications of the acoustic experience within games and virtual reality. We propose a parametric encoder for spatial room impulse responses that is tested with nine simulated rooms spanning a large range of sizes and reverberation times. A key component of the pipeline is a perceptually inspired model for determining a minimal set of salient early reflections to reduce computational complexity. The results of a listening study with 27 subjects suggest that rendering six early reflections is indiscernible from a fully-rendered reference for the tested speech content and frequency-independent room simulations based on the image source method. However, the proposed model requires further improvements with respect to detecting and selecting the most-salient early reflections.

Authors: Brinkmann, Fabian; Gamper, Hannes; Raghuvanshi, Nikunj; Tashev, Ivan
Affiliations: Audio Communication Group, TU Berlin; Microsoft Research Redmond, WA, USA; Microsoft Research Redmond, WA, USA; Microsoft Research Redmond, WA, USA(See document for exact affiliation information.)
AES Convention: 148 (May 2020) Paper Number: 10380
Publication Date: May 28, 2020 Import into BibTeX
Subject: Room Acoustics
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