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Sound Field Control in a Reverberant Room Using the Finite Difference Time Domain Method

Authors: Antonello, Niccolò; De Sena, Enzo; Moonen, Marc; Naylor, Patrick A.; van Waterschoot, Toon

AES Conference: 60th International Conference: Dereverberation and Reverberation of Audio, Music, and Speech · Paper 8-2 · January 2016

Abstract

In this paper a novel approach for sound field reproduction and multi-zone sound field control in a reverberant room is proposed. Sound field reproduction and multi-zone sound field control are jointly formulated as an optimization problem. The optimization problem relies on a physical model of the room acoustics which is computed numerically using the finite difference time domain (FDTD) method. Furthermore a novel regularization of the optimization problem is proposed. A non-convex sparsity-inducing term is used to obtain convenient control source positions and control source signals simultaneously. Finally, simulation results are presented: the proposed method is used to recreate an anechoic sound in a highly reverberant room while keeping part of the room silent.

Details

Published in
AES Conference: 60th International Conference: Dereverberation and Reverberation of Audio, Music, and Speech
Paper number
8-2
Publication date
January 6, 2016
Session subject
Paper Session 8
Affiliation
Imperial College London, London, UK; KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium; KU Leuven, Geel, Gelgium (See document for exact affiliation information.)
Type
Conference Paper