Acoustic Contrast Control (ACC) has been widely used to achieve individual audio delivery in shared environments. The effectiveness of this method is reduced when the control is performed in reverberant environments. Even if control filters are computed using measured transfer functions, the robustness of the system is affected by the presence of reverberation in the plant matrix. In this paper a new optimization method is presented to improve the ACC algorithm by applying a frequency-dependent windowing of the measured impulse response used for the filter computation, thus removing late reflections. The effects of this impulse response optimization are presented by means of sound zoning results obtained from experimental measurements performed in a car cabin.

Authors: Ebri, Michele; Strozzi, Nicolo; Fazi, Filippo Maria; Farina, Angelo; Cattani, Luca
Affiliations: University of Parma, Italy; ASK Industries, Italy; University of Southampton, UK(See document for exact affiliation information.)
AES Convention: 149 (October 2020) Paper Number: 10409
Publication Date: October 22, 2020 Import into BibTeX
Subject: Audio Processing
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