AES Budapest 2012
Workshop W12
Saturday, April 28, 12:30 — 14:30 (Room: Brahms)
W12 - Spatial Sound Reproduction with Height: Why, Where, How, and When?
Co-chairs:
Frank Melchior, BBC R&D - Salford, UK
Florian Völk, Technical University Munich - Munich, Germany
Panelists:
Jan-Mark Batke, Technicolor, Research and Innovation - Hannover, Germany
Kimio Hamasaki, NHK Science and Technical Research Laboratories - Tokyo, Japan
Michael Kelly, DTS, Inc. - London, UK
Stephan Mauer, IOSONO GmbH - Erfurt, Germany
Norbert Niemczyk, Daimler AG - Sindelfingen, Germany
Jan Plogsties, Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits IIS - Erlangen, Germany
Nicolas Tsingos, Dolby Laboratories - San Francisco, CA, USA
Abstract:
At the present time, expanding spatial audio reproduction to the vertical plane seems to be the next logical step from an engineering point of view. The consequence is that new transmission formats, reproduction and production techniques, and processing methods are required. Before starting the discussion from a technical point of view, we propose to determine applications and environments for such new reproduction systems. The aim of this workshop is to ask and discuss the six W’s of information gathering in terms of spatial audio with height: Who is it about? What will happen? Where will it take place? When will it take place? Why will it happen? How will it happen? The workshop will bring together experts of different approaches and use cases where spatial audio reproduction with height is considered being important now and in the future.
