Spatial sound with loudspeakers and its perception: A review of the current state

Proceedings of the IEEE

Volumn 101, Issue 9, 2013, Pages 1920-1938

  Spors, Sascha ^a   Wierstorf, Hagen ^b   Raake, Alexander ^b   Melchior, Frank ^c   Frank, Matthias ^d   Zotter, Franz ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROSTOCK   (Germany)

^b TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^c BBC RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT   (United Kingdom)

^d Universitat fur Musik und darstellende Kunst Graz   (Austria)

Author keywords

Evaluation; higher order ambisonics; panning; perception; sound field synthesis (SFS); spatial sound reproduction; wave field synthesis (WFS)

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC FIELDS; CELL PROLIFERATION; LOUDSPEAKERS; SENSORY PERCEPTION;

AMBISONICS; EVALUATION; FIELD SYNTHESIS; PANNING; WAVE FIELD SYNTHESIS;

QUALITY CONTROL;

EID: 84883133767     PISSN: 00189219     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JPROC.2013.2264784     Document Type: Review

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