Near-Field Compensated Higher-Order Ambisonics Using a Virtual Source Panning Method

Wei T, Sang J, Zheng C, Li X. Near-Field Compensated Higher-Order Ambisonics Using a Virtual Source Panning Method. In: AES Convention 145. Audio Engineering Society; 2018. Paper 10123. Available from: https://aes.org/publications/elibrary-page/?id=19849

@inproceedings{Wei2018_19849,
  author = {Wei, Tong and Sang, Jinqiu and Zheng, Chengshi and Li, Xiaodong},
  title = {{Near-Field Compensated Higher-Order Ambisonics Using a Virtual Source Panning Method}},
  booktitle = {AES Convention 145},
  note = {Paper 10123},
  year = {2018},
  month = oct,
  publisher = {Audio Engineering Society},
  url = {https://aes.org/publications/elibrary-page/?id=19849}
}

TY  - CPAPER
TI  - Near-Field Compensated Higher-Order Ambisonics Using a Virtual Source Panning Method
AU  - Wei, Tong
AU  - Sang, Jinqiu
AU  - Zheng, Chengshi
AU  - Li, Xiaodong
T2  - AES Convention 145
M1  - Paper 10123
PY  - 2018
DA  - 2018/10/06
UR  - https://aes.org/publications/elibrary-page/?id=19849
PB  - Audio Engineering Society
LA  - en
AB  - The commonly adopted higher order ambisonics (HOA) mainly concentrates on far-field sources and neglects the rendering of near-field sources. Some studies have introduced near-field compensated HOA (NFC-HOA) to preserve the original spherical wave front curvature with lots of loudspeakers. It is worthy to combine the advantages of a physical reproduction approach with a hearing-related model approach to avoid using lots of loudspeakers in regular arrangement. In this paper an all-around virtual source panning method was proposed to improve driving functions of NFC-HOA with panning functions. In this way, a near-field sound source encoded in HOA can be rendered to arbitrary arrangement of only a few loudspeakers. Both the simulation and experimental results show the validity of the proposed method.
ER  -