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Reduction of 3D Ambisonic to 2D using plane-wave decomposition

Authors: Carpentier, Thibaut

AES Convention 152 · Paper 10549 · May 2022

Abstract

This articles deals with the reduction – or “projection” or “downscaling” – of a 3D-encoded Ambisonic sound field (“full-sphere” or “periphonic”) into a 2D representation (“horizontal-only” or “planar” or “pantophonic”). We show that the reduction operation can be equivalently achieved by 1) applying conversion formula of the normalization factors, or 2) performing a plane-wave decomposition of the original sound field and re-encoding the resulting plane waves to 2D Ambisonic. The latter approach provides greater flexibility in adapting the content to horizontal-only reproduction.

Details

Published in
AES Convention 152
AES Convention
152
Paper number
10549
Publication date
May 6, 2022
Session subject
Spatial Audio
Affiliation
STMS, IRCAM – CNRS – Sorbonne Université – Ministère de la Culture, Paris, France (See document for exact affiliation information.)
Type
Convention Paper