Emerging Technology Trends in Spatial Audio

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Publisher: SMPTE — White Plains, NY, USA
Doc Type: Journal Article
Content Type: Original Research
Abbreviated Title: SMPTE Mot. Imag. J
Volume: 121, No. 6, pp. 95–100
Abstract: Over the past two years, academic research trends in spatial audio of the last decade are finding their way into commercial application. This development is mainly driven by the computer game and cinema industries. This article provides an overview of the current trends in spatial audio with a focus on applications and new paradigms for storage and future formats. Further development driven by the changing environments for audio applications are described and current trends in research are highlighted.
Publication Date: 2012-09-01
DOI: 10.5594/j18221
ISSN: Print: 1545-0279
Link: https://doi.org/10.5594/j18221
Author(s): Frank Melchior
bio
Frank Melchior is head of the audio research team at BBC R&D. He received a Dipl.-Ing. (equiv. to Master of Science) in media technology from the Technical University Ilmenau and a doctoral degree on the topic of spatial sound design and acoustics from the University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands. Melchior worked as a researcher and project manager at the Fraunhofer Institute for Digital Media Technology. He has spent his professional career developing audio systems including wave field synthesis-based system and leading R&D teams on various topics including authoring, live sound applications, automotive audio and motion picture sound. Before he joined the BBC Melchior was the chief technical officer at IOSONO, Erfurt, Germany, which develops spatial audio solutions. Melchior's research interests include spatial array signal processing, spatial audio reproduction, user interface technology for audio systems and listening experiments. Dr Frank Melchior is very passionate about finding the best way to bring the emotion and creative ideas embedded in sound to the listener.
Anthony Churnside
bio
Anthony Churnside joined BBC R&D in 2008 after completing an MSc in audio acoustics at the University of Salford. He is currently working towards a PhD in designing and creating next-generation audio experiences and broadcasting systems. Churnside also advises television, radio and multiplatform productions on how to make the best creative use of current technology. He is technical director of the relaunched Radiophonic Workshop and is a committee member of the Radio Festival and the International Broadcasting Convention. Churnside was honored with The Royal Television Society's Young Technologist 2010 award and is responsible for the BBC Philharmonic Maestro project which, in 2012, was nominated for Design Week and Webby awards and was given a One Show Interactive Award.
Sascha Spors
bio
Sascha Spors joined the Deutsche Telekom Laboratories in 2005 as a senior scientist, where he is heading the audio technology group. He obtained a Doctoral degree (Dr.-Ing.) with distinction in January 2006, from the Electrical, Electronic and Communication Engineering Faculty of the University Erlangen-Nuremberg, as a result of his work as a research scientist as the chair of Multimedia Communications and Signal Processing. The topic of his doctoral thesis was the active compensation of the listening room characteristics for sound reproduction systems. His research interests include sound field analysis, sound field synthesis, and massive multichannel adaptation problems. Spors is member of the IEEE, the “Deutsche Gesellschaft für Akustik (DEGA)” and the Audio Engineering Society (AES). In 2011, he recieved the Lothar- Cremer-Preis of the “Deutsche Gesellschaft für Akustik (DEGA).” Spors is a member of the IEEE Audio and Acoustic Signal Processing Technical Committee and chair of the AES Technical Committee on Spatial Audio.
Copyright: © 2012 Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers, Inc.

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