Toward Agentic Immersive Audio Generation

Open Access

Authors: Hirvonen, Toni; Ocampo, Carlos Tejeda; Blanes, Ema Souza

Affiliation: Samsung Research America; Samsung Research America; Samsung Research Tijuana

Publication Date: October 2025

Type: Convention Paper

Cost: Open Access (Free to all)

Object Coding Masking Model Evaluation with Opus Codec for Next Generation Audio Applications

Open Access

Authors: Hirvonen, Toni; Souza Blanes, Ema; Tejeda Ocampo, Carlos

Affiliation: Samsung Research America; Samsung Research America; Samsung Research Tijuana

Publication Date: August 2024

Type: Conference Paper

Cost: Open Access (Free to all)

Listening Test Methodology for Headphone Evaluation

Authors: Hirvonen, Toni; Vaalgamaa, Markus; Backman, Juha; Karjalainen, Matti

Affiliation: Helsinki University of Technology Lab. Of Acoustics and Audio Signal Processingm, Espoo, Finland ; Nokia Moble Phones, Espoo, Finland

Publication Date: March 2003

Type: Convention Paper

Cost: Free to AES members & institutions and $33 to non-members

Pre- and Post-Processing of Ambisonics Signals for Legacy Audio Codecs

Open Access

Authors: Namazi, Mahmoud; Hirvonen, Toni; Bharitkar, Sunil; Souza Blanes, Ema

Affiliation: Samsung Research America; Samsung Research America, and University of California, Santa Barbara; Samsung Research America; Samsung Research America

Publication Date: June 2024

Type: Express Paper

Cost: Open Access (Free to all)

Immersive Audio Delivery Using Joint Object Coding

Open Access

Authors: Purnhagen, Heiko; Hirvonen, Toni; Villemoes, Lars; Samuelsson, Jonas; Klejsa, Janusz

Affiliation: Dolby Sweden AB, Stockholm, Sweden

Publication Date: May 2016

Type: Convention Paper

Cost: Open Access (Free to all)

Perceptually Motivated Bitrate Allocation for Object-Based Audio Using Opus Codec

Open Access

Authors: Hirvonen, Toni; Tejeda-Ocampo, Carlos; Souza-Blanes, Ema; Bharitkar, Sunil

Affiliation: Samsung Research America; Samsung Research Tijuana; Samsung Research America; Samsung Research America

Publication Date: October 2023

Type: Express Paper

Cost: Open Access (Free to all)

Immersive Audio Reproduction and Adaptability for Irregular Loudspeaker Layouts Using Modified EBU ADM Renderer

Open Access

Authors: Hirvonen, Toni; Tejeda Ocampo, Carlos; Souza Blanes, Ema; Bharitkar, Sunil

Affiliation: Samsung Research America; Samsung Research Tijuana; Samsung Research America; Samsung Research America

Publication Date: June 2024

Type: Express Paper

Cost: Open Access (Free to all)

Exploring Rendering Variability in Next-Generation Audio Reproduction

Authors: Hirvonen, Toni; Williams, Phill; Souza Blanes, Ema; Kwon, Yongmin; Jo, Wonbeen

Affiliation: Samsung Research; Samsung Research; Netflix

Publication Date: May 2026

Type: Convention Paper

Cost: Free to AES members & institutions and $33 to non-members

Perceptual Evaluation of a Mix Presentation for Immersive Audio with IAMF

Authors: Ocampo, Carlos Tejeda; Hirvonen, Toni; Blanes, Ema Souza; Namazi, Mahmoud; Skoglund, Jan

Affiliation: Samsung Research Tijuana; Samsung Research America; Samsung Research America; Samsung Research America; Google

Publication Date: May 2025

Type: Convention Paper

Cost: Free to AES members & institutions and $33 to non-members

AC-4 – The Next Generation Audio Codec

Open Access

Authors: Kjörling, Kristofer; Rödén, Jonas; Wolters, Martin; Riedmiller, Jeff; Biswas, Arijit; Ekstrand, Per; Gröschel, Alexander; Hedelin, Per; Hirvonen, Toni; Hörich, Holger; Klejsa, Janusz; Koppens, Jeroen; Krauss, K.; Lehtonen, Heidi-Maria; Linzmeier, Karsten; Muesch, Hannes; Mundt, Harald; Norcross, Scott; Popp, J.; Purnhagen, Heiko; Samuelsson, Jonas; Schug, Michael; Sehlström, L.; Thesing, R.; Villemoes, Lars; Vinton, Mark

Affiliation: Dolby Sweden AB, Stockholm, Sweden; Dolby Germany GmbH, Nuremberg, Germany; Dolby Laboratories, San Francisco, CA USA

Publication Date: May 2016

Type: Convention Paper

Cost: Open Access (Free to all)