Spatial Audio and Signal Processing

Dear Colleagues,

Spatial audio is one of the key technologies for achieving an immersive audio experience, which has a wide range of applications in the area of gaming, personal entertainment, telepresence, virtual and augmented reality, etc. Sound spatialization requires thinking about sound in three dimensions, including the source orientation, directivity, trajectories, and spatial characteristics of the environment (e.g., reverberation). This poses new challenges in the advancement of spatial audio and its signal processing to fulfill the aim of generating a natural or even enhanced experience. This Special Issue intends to present new ideas and results in spatial audio for modelling, capturing, processing and rendering auditory scenes.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

• Sound field analysis, synthesis and reconstruction.
• Sound field modelling and interpolation.
• Spatial audio coding and up-mixing.
• Spherical array processing.
• Binaural processing and HRTF individualization.
• Source directivity modelling.
• Personal audio.
• Immersive audio for VR/AR.
• Room compensation and calibration.
• Reverberation modelling and artificial reverberation.

Prof. Dr. Wen Zhang
Prof. Dr. Thushara Abhayapala
Guest Editors

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