Interactive teleconferencing combining Spatial Audio Object Coding and DirAC technology

AES: Journal of the Audio Engineering Society

Volumn 59, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 924-935

  Herre, Jürgen ^a   Falch, Cornelia ^b   Mahne, Dirk ^b   Del Galdo, Giovanni ^b   Kallinger, Markus ^b   Thiergart, Oliver ^a  

^a INTERNATIONAL AUDIO LABORATORIES ERLANGEN   (Germany)

^b FRAUNHOFER INSTITUTE FOR INTEGRATED CIRCUITS IIS   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUDIO CODING; AUDIO COMMUNICATIONS; DAILY LIVES; FRONT END; INDIVIDUAL OBJECTS; OBJECT BASED; OBJECT CODING; SPATIAL AUDIO; SPATIAL SOUND; TRANSCODER;

AUDIO ACOUSTICS; MOTION PICTURE EXPERTS GROUP STANDARDS; TELECONFERENCING;

LOUDSPEAKERS;

EID: 84857831587     PISSN: 15494950     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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