Calculation of Directivity Patterns from Spherical Microphone Array Recordings

Anemüller C, Herre J. Calculation of Directivity Patterns from Spherical Microphone Array Recordings. In: AES Convention 147. Audio Engineering Society; 2019. Paper 10285. Available from: https://aes.org/publications/elibrary-page/?id=20658

@inproceedings{Anemuller2019_20658,
  author = {Anemüller, Carlotta and Herre, Jürgen},
  title = {{Calculation of Directivity Patterns from Spherical Microphone Array Recordings}},
  booktitle = {AES Convention 147},
  note = {Paper 10285},
  year = {2019},
  month = oct,
  publisher = {Audio Engineering Society},
  url = {https://aes.org/publications/elibrary-page/?id=20658}
}

TY  - CPAPER
TI  - Calculation of Directivity Patterns from Spherical Microphone Array Recordings
AU  - Anemüller, Carlotta
AU  - Herre, Jürgen
T2  - AES Convention 147
M1  - Paper 10285
PY  - 2019
DA  - 2019/10/06
UR  - https://aes.org/publications/elibrary-page/?id=20658
PB  - Audio Engineering Society
LA  - en
AB  - Taking into account the direction-dependent radiation of natural sound sources (such as musical instruments) can help to enhance auralization processing and thus improves the plausibility of simulated acoustical environments as, e.g., found in virtual reality (VR) systems. In order to quantify this direction-dependent behavior, usually so-called directivity patterns are used. This paper investigates two different methods that can be used to calculate directivity patterns from spherical microphone array recordings. A comparison between both calculation methods is performed based on the resulting directivity patterns. Furthermore, the directivity patterns of several musical instruments are analyzed and important measures are extracted. For all calculations, the publicly available anechoic microphone array measurements database recorded at the Technical University Berlin (TU Berlin) was used.
ER  -