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Sound Field Capture with Microphone Arrays, Proximity Microphones, and Optimal Filters

Authors: Gauthier, Philippe-Aubert; Padois, Thomas; Ramanana, Telina; Bolduc, Anthony; Pasco, Yann; Berry, Alain

AES Conference: 55th International Conference: Spatial Audio · Paper 1-1 · August 2014

Abstract

The aim of sound field reproduction is to physically reproduce a sound field in an extended area using loudspeaker arrays. Typically, the virtual scene is described by a composition of simple sources (spherical waves, plane waves) fed by monophonic signals from proximity microphones or a microphone array recording. It would be useful to combine these approaches in order to separate monophonic signals to drive simple foreground virtual sources from the remaining immersing sound environment. In this paper, the combination of proximity microphones and microphone arrays is investigated in order to separate the sound source signals with proximity microphones from the remaining sound environment. Optimal (Wiener) filters are used for this purpose. Results of numerical simulations and acoustic imaging illustrate the viability of the approach.

Details

Published in
AES Conference: 55th International Conference: Spatial Audio
Paper number
1-1
Publication date
August 6, 2014
Session subject
Spatial Sound Techniques
Affiliation
Université de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, Canada; Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in Music, Media, and Technology, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada (See document for exact affiliation information.)
Type
Conference Paper