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The advent of mixed reality consumer products brings about a pressing need to develop and improve spatial sound rendering techniques for a broad user base. Despite a large body of prior work, the precise nature and importance of various sound localization cues and how they should be personalized for an individual user to improve localization performance is still an open research problem. Here we propose training a convolutional neural network (CNN) to classify the elevation angle of spatially rendered sounds and employing Layerwise Relevance Propagation (LRP) on the trained CNN model.

This paper provides some considerations regarding using individualized head-related transfer functions for rendering binaural spatial audio over headphones. It briefly considers the degree of benefit that individualization may provide. It then examines the degree of variation existing within the ear morphology across listeners within the Sydney-York Morphological and Recording of Ears (SYMARE) database using kernel principal component analysis and the large deformation diffeomorphic metric mapping framework.

This tutorial aims to equip the participants with basic and advanced signal processing techniques that can be used in VR/AR applications to create a natural and augmented listening experience using headsets.
This tutorial is divided into 5 sections and cover following topics:
Introduction to spatial audio, fundamentals in natural listening, and emerging audio applications

Sound zones are typically created using Acoustic Contrast Control (ACC), Pressure Matching (PM), or variations of the two. ACC maximizes the acoustic potential energy contrast between a listening zone and a quiet zone. Although the contrast is maximized, the phase is not controlled. To control both the amplitude and the phase, PM instead minimizes the difference between the reproduced sound field and the desired sound field in all zones.

This tutorial aims to equip the participants with basic and advanced signal processing techniques that can be used in VR/AR applications to create a natural and augmented listening experience using headsets.
This tutorial is divided into 5 sections and cover following topics:
Introduction to spatial audio, fundamentals in natural listening, and emerging audio applications

A method for sound field reproduction with the suppression of exterior radiation is proposed, which makes it possible to synthesize a desired sound field in a reverberant environment without prior knowledge of the transfer functions of the multiple loudspeakers. The objective function used to achieve this is formulated as the weighted sum of the interior reproduction error and exterior radiation power. The optimal driving signals are derived by harmonic expansion of both the interior and exterior sound fields.

This study proposes a principled method to jointly determine the placement of acoustic sources (loudspeakers) and sensors (control points/microphones) in sound field control. The goal of this setup is to efficiently produce a sound field using multiple loudspeakers, approximately matching a target sound field over a region of interest.

n this paper, source localization and dereverberation are formulated jointly as an inverse problem. The inverse problem consists in the interpolation of the sound field measured by a set of microphones by matching the recorded sound pressure with that of a particular acoustic model. This model is based on a collection of equivalent sources creating either spherical or plane waves. In order to achieve meaningful results, spatial, spatio-temporal and spatio-spectral sparsity can be promoted in the signals originating from the equivalent sources.

A parametric array loudspeaker (PAL) consists of a lot of ultrasonic transducers in most cases and is driven by an ultrasonic which is modulated by audible sound. Because each ultrasonic transducer has each difference resonant frequency, there is the individual difference in ultrasonic transducers of a PAL in a manufacturing process. In this paper, two PALs are made of each set of transducers with large and small variance of resonant frequencies.