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Virtual navigation via higher order distributed sound sources

Virtual navigation via higher order distributed sound sources
Virtual navigation via higher order distributed sound sources
With the rise of virtual reality, there is a demand for recording and recreating real-world experiences that allow users to move throughout audio-visual scenes. Sound field translation achieves this by building an equivalent environment of virtual sources to recreate the recording spatially. However, combining multiple microphone array recordings and dealing with mix fields of exterior and interior together is difficult. In this paper, we explain a novel method of virtual navigation by representing complex sound fields by distributed virtual higher order sound sources. The technique combine recordings from spatially separated microphones and decompose them to a sparse representation of multiple higher order sources. The method can be thought of sound field decomposition into a grid of higher order sources. We show the method can be used in VR applications involving navigation within complex sound scenes.
2221-3767
647-653
European Acoustics Association, EAA
Abhayapala, Thushara D.
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Zhang, Jihui (Aimee)
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Xu, Shaoheng
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Alon, David Lou
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Ben-Hur, Zamir
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Samarasinghe, Prasanga N.
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Astolfi, Arianna
Asdrubali, Francesco
Shtrepi, Louena
Abhayapala, Thushara D.
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Zhang, Jihui (Aimee)
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Xu, Shaoheng
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Alon, David Lou
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Ben-Hur, Zamir
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Samarasinghe, Prasanga N.
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Astolfi, Arianna
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Shtrepi, Louena

Abhayapala, Thushara D., Zhang, Jihui (Aimee), Xu, Shaoheng, Alon, David Lou, Ben-Hur, Zamir and Samarasinghe, Prasanga N. (2023) Virtual navigation via higher order distributed sound sources. Astolfi, Arianna, Asdrubali, Francesco and Shtrepi, Louena (eds.) In Proceedings of the 10th Convention of the European Acoustics Association Forum Acusticum 2023. European Acoustics Association, EAA. pp. 647-653 . (doi:10.61782/fa.2023.0942).

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Abstract

With the rise of virtual reality, there is a demand for recording and recreating real-world experiences that allow users to move throughout audio-visual scenes. Sound field translation achieves this by building an equivalent environment of virtual sources to recreate the recording spatially. However, combining multiple microphone array recordings and dealing with mix fields of exterior and interior together is difficult. In this paper, we explain a novel method of virtual navigation by representing complex sound fields by distributed virtual higher order sound sources. The technique combine recordings from spatially separated microphones and decompose them to a sparse representation of multiple higher order sources. The method can be thought of sound field decomposition into a grid of higher order sources. We show the method can be used in VR applications involving navigation within complex sound scenes.

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Published date: 11 September 2023
Venue - Dates: 10th Convention of the European Acoustics Association, EAA 2023, , Torino, Italy, 2023-09-11 - 2023-09-15

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Local EPrints ID: 492901
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/492901
ISSN: 2221-3767
PURE UUID: bde59f27-fbb9-45da-ac70-a32308bb0613
ORCID for Jihui (Aimee) Zhang: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0001-6817-139X

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Date deposited: 20 Aug 2024 16:31
Last modified: 22 Aug 2024 02:07

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Author: Thushara D. Abhayapala
Author: Jihui (Aimee) Zhang ORCID iD
Author: Shaoheng Xu
Author: David Lou Alon
Author: Zamir Ben-Hur
Author: Prasanga N. Samarasinghe
Editor: Arianna Astolfi
Editor: Francesco Asdrubali
Editor: Louena Shtrepi

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