Surround by sound: A review of spatial audio recording and reproduction

Wen Zhang; Parasanga N. Samarasinghe; Hanchi Chen; Thushara D. Abhayapala

doi:10.3390/app7050532

Surround by sound: A review of spatial audio recording and reproduction

Wen Zhang^*, Parasanga N. Samarasinghe, Hanchi Chen, Thushara D. Abhayapala

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Abstract

In this article, a systematic overview of various recording and reproduction techniques for spatial audio is presented. While binaural recording and rendering is designed to resemble the human two-ear auditory system and reproduce sounds specifically for a listener's two ears, soundfield recording and reproduction using a large number of microphones and loudspeakers replicate an acoustic scene within a region. These two fundamentally different types of techniques are discussed in the paper. A recent popular area, multi-zone reproduction, is also briefly reviewed in the paper. The paper is concluded with a discussion of the current state of the field and open problems.

Original language	English
Article number	532
Journal	Applied Sciences (Switzerland)
Volume	7
Issue number	5
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.3390/app7050532
Publication status	Published - 20 May 2017

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