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Sound Field Reconstruction in a room through Sparse Recovery and its application in Room Modal Equalization

Vu Thach Pham

The acoustics of a room often refer to the quality of the room in terms of sound recording as well as sound reproduction. At low frequencies, where the wavelengths are of the same order of magnitude with the dimensions of the room, due to the standing wave ...

EPFL2021

Low frequency sound field reconstruction in a non-rectangular room using a small number of microphones

Hervé Lissek, Vu Thach Pham

An accurate knowledge of the sound field distribution inside a room is required to identify and optimally locate corrective measures for room acoustics. However, the spatial recovery of the sound field would result in an impractically high number of microp ...

2020

Good Vibrations and Unknown Excitations

Dalia Salem Hassan Fahmy El Badawy

Inspired by the human ability to localize sounds, even with only one ear, as well as to recognize objects using active echolocation, we investigate the role of sound scattering and prior knowledge in regularizing ill-posed inverse problems in acoustics. In ...

EPFL2020

Pyramic: Full Stack Open Microphone Array Architecture And Dataset

Robin Scheibler, René Beuchat

In this paper we introduce an open source and reproducible microphone array hardware design and an anechoic dataset recorded with this array. The Pyramic array has 48 microphones spread onto six identical modules connected to an FPGA-ARM combo. The arrange ...

IEEE2018

Low Frequency Sound Field Reconstruction in Non-rectangular Room: A Numerical Validation

Hervé Lissek, Etienne Thierry Jean-Luc Rivet, Vu Thach Pham

Characterization of sound fields in rooms has always been a challenging task. A faithful reconstruction of sound fields in rooms generally would require an impractically high number of microphones. At low frequencies, where sound field can be modeled as a ...

2018

Binary Sparse Coding of Convolutive Mixtures for Sound Localization and Separation via Spatialization

Volkan Cevher, Hervé Bourlard, Afsaneh Asaei, Saeid Haghighatshoar, Mohammadjavad Taghizadeh

We propose a sparse coding approach to address the problem of source-sensor localization and speech reconstruction. This approach relies on designing a dictionary of spatialized signals by projecting the microphone array recordings into the array manifolds ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2016

Dynamic Range Limiting of HRTFs: Principle and Objective evaluation

Hervé Lissek, Patrick Marmaroli, Gilles André Courtois, Lukas Rohr

This research addresses the challenge of incorporating dynamic range limiting of the magnitude response of HRTFs for hearing-impaired listeners who are using binaural hearing aids. In this application, a direct implementation of spatialization using the or ...

2016

Spatial Sound Localization via Multipath Euclidean Distance Matrix Recovery

Philip Neil Garner, Hervé Bourlard, Afsaneh Asaei, Mohammadjavad Taghizadeh, Saeid Haghighatshoar

A novel localization approach is proposed in order to find the position of an individual source using recordings of a single microphone in a reverberant enclosure. The multipath propagation is modeled by multiple virtual microphones as images of the actual ...

Ieee-Inst Electrical Electronics Engineers Inc2015

Evaluation of audio source separation in the context of 3D audio

Lukas Rohr

The emergence and broader availability of 3D audio systems allows for new possibilities in mixing, post-production and playback of audio content. Used in movie post-production for cinemas, as special effect by disk jockeys for example and even for live con ...

EPFL2015

Enabling Speech Applications using Ad Hoc Microphone Arrays

Mohammadjavad Taghizadeh

Microphone arrays are central players in hands-free speech interface applications. The main duty of a microphone array is capturing distant-talking speech with high quality. A microphone array can acquire the desired speech signals selectively by leading t ...

EPFL2015

Through the Hourglass: A Faithful Audiovisual Reconstruction of the Old Montreux Casino

Martin Vetterli

In architecture, space is traditionally understood as a cumulus of forms, colors and textures that form a conceived area, or-in other words-architectural space design is mainly achieved by following visual concepts. The human experience of space, however, ...

Springer2015

Hardware and Algorithms for Ultrasonic Depth Imaging

Ivan Dokmanic

Depth imaging is commonly based on light. For example, LIDAR and Kinect use infrared light, while stereo cameras use visible light. These systems require hardware operating at high sampling frequencies, precise calibration, and they dissipate significant p ...

Ieee2014

How to Localize Ten Microphones in One Fingersnap

Martin Vetterli, Ivan Dokmanic

A compelling method to calibrate the positions of microphones in an array is with sources at unknown locations. Remarkably, it is possible to reconstruct the locations of both the sources and the receivers, if their number is larger than some prescribed mi ...

IEEE2014

Perception and Reproduction of Auditory Spatial Impression

Andreas Walther

As audio reproduction systems evolve to incorporate many loudspeakers, the potential to evoke faithful auditory spatial impressions increases. Psychoacoustic principles of auditory spatial perception, and methods for production and reproduction of acoustic ...

EPFL2013

Computational Methods For Structured Sparse Component Analysis of Convolutive Speech Mixtures

Volkan Cevher, Hervé Bourlard, Afsaneh Asaei

We cast the under-determined convolutive speech separation as sparse approximation of the spatial spectra of the mixing sources. In this framework we compare and contrast the major practical algorithms for structured sparse recovery of speech signal. Speci ...

2012

Reproducing Sound Fields Using MIMO Acoustic Channel Inversion

Martin Vetterli, Christof Faller, Mihailo Kolundzija

Sound fields are essentially band-limited phenomena, both temporally and spatially. This implies that a spatially sampled sound field respecting the Nyquist criterion is effectively equivalent to its continuous original. We describe Sound Field Reconstruct ...

2011

Direct-Ambient Decomposition and Upmix of Surround Signals

Christof Faller, Andreas Walther

Various direct-ambient signal decompositions, applicable to two-channel stereophonic signals, have been proposed previously. Strategies to enhance these decompositions for multi-channel surround audio signals are not obvious. A method is proposed, which es ...

Ieee Service Center, 445 Hoes Lane, Po Box 1331, Piscataway, Nj 08855-1331 Usa2011

Dictionary learning in stereo imaging

Pascal Frossard, Ivana Tosic

This paper presents a new method for learning overcomplete dictionaries adapted to efficient joint representation of stereo images. We first formulate a sparse stereo image model where the multi-view correlation is described by local geometric transforms o ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2011