Enhancement of spatial sound quality: A new reverberation-extraction audio upmixer

IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing

Volumn 15, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 2141-2150

  Usher, John ^a,b   Benesty, Jacob ^c  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b Personics   (Canada)

^c INRS EMT   (Canada)

Author keywords

Adaptive filtering; Ambiance extraction; Loudspeakers; Reverberation; Sound quality; Spatial audio; Upmixing

Indexed keywords

AMBIANCE EXTRACTION; AUDIO SIGNALS; AURALIZATION; EMPIRICAL MEASUREMENTS; INPUT SIGNALS; LEAST-MEAN SQUARES; MULTICHANNEL; NEW SYSTEMS; ROOM IMPULSE RESPONSE; SOUND QUALITY; SPATIAL AUDIO; SPATIAL SOUNDS; SPECTRAL MAGNITUDES; SUBJECTIVE EVALUATIONS; SYSTEM-BASED; THEORETICAL MODELS; TWO CHANNELS; UPMIXING;

ACOUSTIC VARIABLES MEASUREMENT; ADAPTIVE FILTERING; ADAPTIVE FILTERS; AUDIO SYSTEMS; IMPULSE RESPONSE; LOUDSPEAKERS; REVERBERATION; STOCHASTIC MODELS;

AUDIO ACOUSTICS;

EID: 64249127692     PISSN: 15587916     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TASL.2007.901832     Document Type: Article

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