no code implementations • 12 Mar 2024 • Lior Arbel, Ishwarya Ananthabhotla, Zamir Ben-Hur, David Lou Alon, Boaz Rafaely
High fidelity spatial audio often performs better when produced using a personalized head-related transfer function (HRTF).
no code implementations • 29 Feb 2024 • Bar Shaybet, Anurag Kumar, Vladimir Tourbabin, Boaz Rafaely
Ambisonics, a popular format of spatial audio, is the spherical harmonic (SH) representation of the plane wave density function of a sound field.
no code implementations • 27 Feb 2024 • Yhonatan Gayer, Vladimir Tourbabin, Zamir Ben-Hur, Jacob Donley, Boaz Rafaely
In the rapidly evolving fields of virtual and augmented reality, accurate spatial audio capture and reproduction are essential.
no code implementations • 7 Jan 2024 • Hai Morgenstern, Boaz Rafaely, Franz Zotter
The system is shown to have unit-rank, regardless of the array types, and its singular vectors are related to the directions of arrival and radiation at the microphone and loudspeaker arrays, respectively.
no code implementations • 7 Jan 2024 • Hai Morgenstern, Boaz Rafaely
Microphone arrays have been employed for spatial analyses with an important objective being the estimation of the direction-of-arrival (DOA) of direct sound and early room reflections using room impulse responses (RIRs).
no code implementations • 7 Jan 2024 • Hai Morgenstern, Boaz Rafaely
The system under investigation includes a spherical microphone array and an SLA comprising a multiple-input multiple-output system.
no code implementations • 6 Jan 2024 • Vladimir Tourbabin, Boaz Rafaely
However, no theoretical framework for the design of these arrays has been presented.
no code implementations • 6 Jan 2024 • Hai Morgenstern, Boaz Rafaely, Markus Noisternig
However, such a framework does not exist for the joint design of a SMA and a SLA that comprise a MIMO system.
no code implementations • 4 Jan 2024 • Vladimir Tourbabin, Boaz Rafaely
It is also demonstrated that by using the motion-based enhancement method it is possible to improve the direction of arrival estimation performance, as compared to that obtained when using a stationary array.
no code implementations • 1 Jan 2024 • Eran Miller, Boaz Rafaely
The importance of the information in the direct sound to human perception of spatial sound sources is an ongoing research topic.
no code implementations • 21 Dec 2023 • Yogev Hadadi, Vladimir Tourbabin, Paul Calamia, Boaz Rafaely
Additionally, performance in terms of perception is investigated through a listening test.
no code implementations • 28 Nov 2023 • Or Berebi, Zamir Ben-Hur, David Lou Alon, Boaz Rafaely
Results indicate that the ILD error could be substantially reduced, while the HRTF magnitude error remains similar to that obtained with MagLS.
no code implementations • 28 Nov 2023 • Daniel A. Mitchell, Boaz Rafaely
Although the localization algorithm performs well in static environments, its performance degraded substantially when used on the EasyCom dataset.
no code implementations • 22 Nov 2023 • Ami Berger, Vladimir Tourbabin, Jacob Donley, Zamir Ben-Hur, Boaz Rafaely
The capture and reproduction of spatial audio is becoming increasingly popular, with the mushrooming of applications in teleconferencing, entertainment and virtual reality.
no code implementations • 31 Oct 2023 • Yanir Maymon, Israel Nelken, Boaz Rafaely
Speaker localization for binaural microphone arrays has been widely studied for applications such as speech communication, video conferencing, and robot audition.
no code implementations • 6 Oct 2023 • Boaz Rafaely, Dima Khaykin
Spherical loudspeaker arrays have been recently studied for directional sound radiation, where the compact arrangement of the loudspeaker units around a sphere facilitated the control of sound radiation in three-dimensional space.
no code implementations • 6 Oct 2023 • Boaz Rafaely
Spherical microphone arrays have been recently studied for spatial sound recording, speech communication, and sound field analysis for room acoustics and noise control.
no code implementations • 6 Oct 2023 • Boaz Rafaely
Recent results on the spatial-temporal correlation of broadband diffuse sound fields are used in this study to develop a theoretical framework for predicting the extension of the zones of quiet in broadband diffuse sound fields.
no code implementations • 5 Oct 2023 • Boaz Rafaely, Koby Alhaiany
Estimation of the direction-of-arrival (DoA) of a speaker in a room is important in many audio signal processing applications.