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Immersive virtual reality audio rendering adapted to the listener and the room

Immersive virtual reality audio rendering adapted to the listener and the room
Immersive virtual reality audio rendering adapted to the listener and the room
The visual and auditory modalities are the most important stimuli for humans. In order to maximise the sense of immersion in VR environments, a plausible spatial audio reproduction synchronised with visual information is essential. However, measuring acoustic properties of an environment using audio equipment is a complicated process. In this chapter, we introduce a simple and efficient system to estimate room acoustic for plausible spatial audio rendering using 360° cameras for real scene reproduction in VR. A simplified 3D semantic model of the scene is estimated from captured images using computer vision algorithms and convolutional neural network (CNN). Spatially synchronised audio is reproduced based on the estimated geometric and acoustic properties in the scene. The reconstructed scenes are rendered with synthesised spatial audio.
3D modeling, Acoustic properties, Audio acoustics, Computer vision, Convolutional neural networks, Room acoustics, Sound reproduction, Spatial Audio, virtual reality
293-318
Springer
Kim, Hansung
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Remaggi, Luca
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Jackson, P.J.B.
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Hilton, Adrian
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Magnor, M
Sorkin-Hornung, A
Kim, Hansung
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Remaggi, Luca
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Jackson, P.J.B.
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Hilton, Adrian
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Magnor, M
Sorkin-Hornung, A

Kim, Hansung, Remaggi, Luca, Jackson, P.J.B. and Hilton, Adrian (2020) Immersive virtual reality audio rendering adapted to the listener and the room. In, Magnor, M and Sorkin-Hornung, A (eds.) Real VR – Immersive Digital Reality. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 11900) Cham. Springer, pp. 293-318. (doi:10.1007/978-3-030-41816-8_13).

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Abstract

The visual and auditory modalities are the most important stimuli for humans. In order to maximise the sense of immersion in VR environments, a plausible spatial audio reproduction synchronised with visual information is essential. However, measuring acoustic properties of an environment using audio equipment is a complicated process. In this chapter, we introduce a simple and efficient system to estimate room acoustic for plausible spatial audio rendering using 360° cameras for real scene reproduction in VR. A simplified 3D semantic model of the scene is estimated from captured images using computer vision algorithms and convolutional neural network (CNN). Spatially synchronised audio is reproduced based on the estimated geometric and acoustic properties in the scene. The reconstructed scenes are rendered with synthesised spatial audio.

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e-pub ahead of print date: 3 March 2020
Published date: 2020
Additional Information: Publisher Copyright: © Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020.
Keywords: 3D modeling, Acoustic properties, Audio acoustics, Computer vision, Convolutional neural networks, Room acoustics, Sound reproduction, Spatial Audio, virtual reality

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Local EPrints ID: 440611
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/440611
PURE UUID: 5efe9acf-30fa-4efd-a81e-c8b0a39c8221
ORCID for Hansung Kim: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0003-4907-0491

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Date deposited: 12 May 2020 16:35
Last modified: 17 Mar 2024 04:01

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Author: Hansung Kim ORCID iD
Author: Luca Remaggi
Author: P.J.B. Jackson
Author: Adrian Hilton
Editor: M Magnor
Editor: A Sorkin-Hornung

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