Spatial Analysis and Synthesis of Car Audio System and Car Cabin Acoustics with a Compact Microphone Array

Tervo S, Pätynen J, Kaplanis N, Lydolf M, Bech S, Lokki T. Spatial Analysis and Synthesis of Car Audio System and Car Cabin Acoustics with a Compact Microphone Array. J Audio Eng Soc. 2015;63(11):914-925. doi:10.17743/jaes.2015.0080

@article{Tervo2015_18051,
  author = {Tervo, Sakari and Pätynen, Jukka and Kaplanis, Neofytos and Lydolf, Morten and Bech, Søren and Lokki, Tapio},
  title = {{Spatial Analysis and Synthesis of Car Audio System and Car Cabin Acoustics with a Compact Microphone Array}},
  journal = {Journal of the Audio Engineering Society},
  volume = {63},
  number = {11},
  pages = {914--925},
  year = {2015},
  month = nov,
  publisher = {Audio Engineering Society},
  doi = {10.17743/jaes.2015.0080},
  url = {https://doi.org/10.17743/jaes.2015.0080}
}

TY  - JOUR
TI  - Spatial Analysis and Synthesis of Car Audio System and Car Cabin Acoustics with a Compact Microphone Array
AU  - Tervo, Sakari
AU  - Pätynen, Jukka
AU  - Kaplanis, Neofytos
AU  - Lydolf, Morten
AU  - Bech, Søren
AU  - Lokki, Tapio
T2  - Journal of the Audio Engineering Society
J2  - J. Audio Eng. Soc.
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PY  - 2015
DA  - 2015/11/06
DO  - 10.17743/jaes.2015.0080
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PB  - Audio Engineering Society
LA  - en
AB  - This research proposes a spatial sound analysis and synthesis approach for automobile sound systems, where the acquisition of the measurement data is much faster than with the Binaural Car Scanning method. This approach avoids the problems that are typically found with binaural reproduction and dummy head measurements. In combination with a compact microphone array, the approach is based on the recently introduced parametric spatial sound analysis method, called the Spatial Decomposition Method (SDM). An objective analysis of the sound field with respect to direction and energy enables the synthesis of multichannel loudspeaker reproduction. Because of the extreme acoustics of an automobile cabin, the authors recommend several steps to improve both the objective and perceptual performance. Because SDM is a parametric approach to spatial impulse response analysis, this allows automobile audio systems to be tuned in a laboratory environment instead of in-situ.
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