Binaural Rendering Using Mixed-Order Ambisonic Scheme

Jiawei Xia, Wen Zhang

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Abstract

Headphone-based reproduction of Ambisonic sound scenes, also known as binaural Ambisonic rendering, provides an effective method for real-time renderings, such as rendering dynamic sound scenes caused by head rotation. However, the low-order Ambisonic decoding results in the degradation of the rendering quality, while the high-order decoding increases the computation complexity. A mixed-order Ambisonic (MOA) rendering scheme is proposed in this paper, which uses only the most relevant direction-related terms for sound field rendering. The proposed method is compared with traditional higher-order Ambisonic (HOA) rendering in terms of modeling error and computational complexity. To evaluate auditory perception, four participants are invited to participate in a listening experiment. The results demonstrate that using a direction-related MOA scheme can reduce computation complexity for dynamic binaural rendering without affecting auditory perception.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings of the 10th Conference on Sound and Music Technology - Revised Selected Papers from CMST
EditorsKun Qian, Xin Wang, Qinglin Meng, Mingzhi Chen
PublisherSpringer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
Pages85-99
Number of pages15
ISBN (Print)9789819779611
DOIs
StatePublished - 2025
Event10th Conference on Sound and Music Technology, CSMT 2023 - Guangzhou, China
Duration: 10 Jun 202312 Jun 2023

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Electrical Engineering
Volume1268 LNEE
ISSN (Print)1876-1100
ISSN (Electronic)1876-1119

Conference

Conference10th Conference on Sound and Music Technology, CSMT 2023
Country/TerritoryChina
CityGuangzhou
Period10/06/2312/06/23

Keywords

  • Binaural rendering
  • Computational complexity
  • Mixed-order ambisonics (MOA)
  • Spherical harmonic (SH) expansion

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