Design of Ambisonic decoders for irregular arrays of loudspeakers by non-linear optimization

129th Audio Engineering Society Convention 2010

Volumn 2, Issue , 2010, Pages 1208-1229

  Heller, Aaron J ^a   Benjamin, Eric ^b   Lee, Richard ^c  

^a SRI INTERNATIONAL   (United States)

^b Surround Research   (United States)

^c Pandit Littoral   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARBITRARY ARRAYS; DECODER PERFORMANCE; ENERGY LOCALIZATION; FIGURES OF MERITS; IMPLEMENTATION AND OPTIMIZATION; INFORMAL LISTENING; LOUDSPEAKER ARRAY; NON-LINEAR OPTIMIZATION; NONLINEAR FUNCTIONS; OPEN-SOURCE;

ACOUSTICS; FUNCTIONS; OPTIMIZATION;

LOUDSPEAKERS;

EID: 84866032659     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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