Search Results for author: Boaz Rafaely

Found 19 papers, 0 papers with code

On HRTF Notch Frequency Prediction Using Anthropometric Features and Neural Networks

no code implementations12 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).

Ambisonics Networks -- The Effect Of Radial Functions Regularization

no code implementations29 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.

Ambisonics Encoding For Arbitrary Microphone Arrays Incorporating Residual Channels For Binaural Reproduction

no code implementations27 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.

Theory and investigation of acoustic multiple-input multiple-output systems based on spherical arrays in a room

no code implementations7 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.

Modal smoothing for analysis of room reflections measured with spherical microphone and loudspeaker arrays

no code implementations7 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).

Spatial Reverberation and Dereverberation using an Acoustic Multiple-Input Multiple-Output System

no code implementations7 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.

Design framework for spherical microphone and loudspeaker arrays in a multiple-input multiple-output system

no code implementations6 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.

Direction of Arrival Estimation Using Microphone Array Processing for Moving Humanoid Robots

no code implementations4 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.

Direction of Arrival Estimation Motion Compensation

The role of direct sound spherical harmonics representation in externalization using binaural reproduction

no code implementations1 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.

Blind Localization of Room Reflections with Application to Spatial Audio

no code implementations21 Dec 2023 Yogev Hadadi, Vladimir Tourbabin, Paul Calamia, Boaz Rafaely

Additionally, performance in terms of perception is investigated through a listening test.

iMagLS: Interaural Level Difference with Magnitude Least-Squares Loss for Optimized First-Order Head-Related Transfer Function

no code implementations28 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.

Study of speaker localization under dynamic and reverberant environments

no code implementations28 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.

Audio Signal Processing

Performance Analysis Of Binaural Signal Matching (BSM) in the Time-Frequency Domain

no code implementations22 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.

Study of speaker localization with binaural microphone array incorporating auditory filters and lateral angle estimation

no code implementations31 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.

Optimal model-based beamforming and independent steering for spherical loudspeaker arrays

no code implementations6 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.

Spatial sampling and beamforming for spherical microphone arrays

no code implementations6 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.

Zones of quiet in a broadband diffuse sound field

no code implementations6 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.

Speaker localization using direct path dominance test based on sound field directivity

no code implementations5 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.

Audio Signal Processing

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