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Directional emphasis in ambisonics

Audio and Speech Processing 2018-05-25 v2 Sound

Abstract

We describe an ambisonics enhancement method that increases the signal strength in specified directions at low computational cost. The method can be used in a static setup to emphasize the signal arriving from a particular direction or set of directions. It can also be used in an adaptive arrangement where it sharpens directionality and reduces the distortion in timbre associated with low-degree ambisonics representations. The emphasis operator has very low computational complexity and can be applied to time-domain as well as time-frequency ambisonics representations. The operator upscales a low-degree ambisonics representation to a higher degree representation.

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@article{arxiv.1803.06718,
  title  = {Directional emphasis in ambisonics},
  author = {W. Bastiaan Kleijn},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1803.06718},
  year   = {2018}
}
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