Abstract

Multichannel audio can immerse a group of listeners in a seamless aural environment. Previously, we proposed a system capable of synthesizing the multiple channels of a virtual multichannel recording from a smaller set of reference recordings. This problem was termed multichannel audio resynthesis and the application was to reduce the excessive transmission requirements of multichannel audio. In this paper, we address the more general problem of multichannel audio synthesis, i.e., how to completely synthesize a multichannel audio recording from a specific stereophonic or monophonic recording, which would significantly enhance the recording's acoustic impression. We approach this problem by extending the model employed for the resynthesis problem. This is accomplished by adapting the resynthesis conversion parameters to the statistical properties of the recording that we wish to enhance. This …

Date

2005

Authors

Athanasios Mouchtaris, Shrikanth S Narayanan, Chris Kyriakakis

Journal

IEEE transactions on speech and audio processing

Volume

13

Issue

2

Pages

263-274

Publisher

IEEE