Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft Zur Foerderung Der Angewandten Forschung E.v.

Friedrich-Alexander-Universitat Erlangen-Nürnberg

Oliver Thiergart

Fabian Küch

Guillaume Fuchs

Stefan Bayer

Markus Multrus

Jürgen Herre

Giovanni Del Galdo

Stefan Döhla

Emanuel Habets

Alexandre Bouthéon

Fabian Kuech

Florin Ghido

Wolfgang Jaegers

Dirk Mahne

Stefan Doehla

Achim Kuntz

Oliver Wübbolt

Srikanth Korse

Markus Kallinger

Andrea Eichenseer

Juergen Herre

Oliver Wuebbolt

Alexandra Craciun

Alexandre Boutheon

Fabian Kuch

Richard Schultz-Amling

Alexander Niederleitner

Sascha Disch

Ville Topias Pulkki

Affan-Hasan Khan

Jurgen Herre

Mikko-Ville Laitinen

Andreas Silzle

Matthias Lang

Konrad Kowalczyk

Michael Kratschmer

Stefan Kraegeloh

Mikko-ville Laitinen

Axel Plinge

Jukka Ahonen

Cornelia Falch

Juliane Borsum

Tobias Bliem

Stefan Krägeloh

Ville Pulkki

Sebastian Braun

Maja Taseska

Wolfgang Jagers

Florian Kolbeck

Moritz Wild

Dominik Weckbecker

Wolfgang JÄGERS

Oliver WÜBBOLT

Stefan Krageloh

An apparatus for encoding a plurality of audio objects and related metadata indicating direction information on the plurality of audio objects has: a downmixer for downmixing the plurality of audio objects to obtain one or more transport channels; a transport channel encoder for encoding one or more transport channels to obtain one or more encoded transport channels; and an output interface for outputting an encoded audio signal comprising the one or more encoded transport channels, wherein the downmixer is configured to downmix the plurality of audio objects in response to the direction information on the plurality of audio objects.

Apparatus and method for encoding a plurality of audio objects using direction information during a downmixing or apparatus and method for decoding using an optimized covariance synthesis

An apparatus generating a sound field description includes an input signal analyzer acquiring diffuseness data from the input signal; a sound component generator for generating, from the input signal, one or more sound field components of a first group of sound field components comprising for each sound field component a direct component and a diffuse component, and for generating, from the input signal, a second group of sound field components comprising only a direct component. The sound component generator is configured to perform an energy compensation when generating the first group of sound field components, the energy compensation depending on the diffuseness data and at least one of a number of sound field components in the second group, a number of diffuse components in the first group, a maximum order of sound field components of the first group and a maximum order of sound field components of the second group.

Apparatus, method and computer program for encoding, decoding, scene processing and other procedures related to DirAC based spatial audio coding using diffuse compensation

An apparatus for generating a sound field description using an input signal having a mono-signal or a multi-channel signal includes: an input signal analyzer for analyzing the input signal to derive direction data and diffuseness data; a low-order components generator for generating a low-order sound field description from the input signal up to a predetermined order and mode; a mid-order components generator for generating a mid-order sound field description above the predetermined order or at the predetermined order and above the predetermined mode and below or at a first truncation order using a synthesis of at least one direct portion and of at least one diffuse portion using the direction data and the diffuseness data; and a high-order components generator for generating a high-order sound field description having a component above the first truncation order using a synthesis of at least one direct portion.

Apparatus, method and computer program for encoding, decoding, scene processing and other procedures related to DirAC based spatial audio coding using low-order, mid-order and high-order components generators

There are disclosed several examples of encoding and decoding technique. In particular, an audio synthesizer for generating a synthesis signal from a downmix signal, includes:

Parameter encoding and decoding

An apparatus for encoding a spatial audio representation representing an audio scene to obtain an encoded audio signal includes: a transport representation generator for generating a transport representation from the spatial audio representation, and for generating transport metadata related to the generation of the transport representation or indicating one or more directional properties of the transport representation; and an output interface for generating the encoded audio signal, the encoded audio signal including information on the transport representation, and information on the transport metadata.

Apparatus and method for encoding a spatial audio representation or apparatus and method for decoding an encoded audio signal using transport metadata and related computer programs

An apparatus for encoding directional audio coding parameters including diffuseness parameters and direction parameters includes: a parameter calculator for calculating the diffuseness parameters with a first time or frequency resolution and for calculating the direction parameters with a second time or frequency resolution; and a quantizer and encoder processor for generating a quantized and encoded representation of the diffuseness parameters and the direction parameters.

Apparatus and method for encoding or decoding directional audio coding parameters using different time/frequency resolutions

An apparatus for encoding directional audio coding parameters comprising diffuseness parameters and direction parameters having a parameter calculator () for calculating the diffuseness parameters with a first time or frequency resolution and for calculating the direction parameters with a second time or frequency resolution; and a quantizer and encoder processor () for generating a quantized and encoded representation of the diffuseness parameters and the direction parameters.

Apparatus and method for encoding or decoding directional audio coding parameters using quantization and entropy coding

An apparatus for generating a description of a combined audio scene, includes: an input interface for receiving a first description of a first scene in a first format and a second description of a second scene in a second format, wherein the second format is different from the first format; a format converter for converting the first description into a common format and for converting the second description into the common format, when the second format is different from the common format; and a format combiner for combining the first description in the common format and the second description in the common format to obtain the combined audio scene.

Apparatus, method and computer program for encoding, decoding, scene processing and other procedures related to DirAC based spatial audio coding

Apparatus for processing a sound field representation related to a defined reference point or defined listening orientation for the sound field representation including: a sound field processor for processing the sound field representation using a deviation of a target listening position from the defined reference point or a target listening orientation from the defined listening orientation to obtain a processed sound field description which, when rendered, provides an impression of the sound field representation at the target listening position being different from the defined reference point or for the target listening orientation being different from the defined listening orientation, or for processing the sound field representation using a spatial filter to obtain the processed sound field description which, when rendered, provides an impression of a spatially filtered sound field description, the sound field processor being configured to process the sound field representation to apply the deviation or the spatial filter in a spatial transform domain with an associated forward transform rule and backward transform rule.

Apparatus, method or computer program for processing a sound field representation in a spatial transform domain

There are disclosed several examples of encoding and decoding technique. In particular, an audio synthesizer for generating a synthesis signal from a downmix signal includes:

An apparatus for generating a sound field description using an input signal having a mono-signal or a multi-channel signal comprises: an input signal analyzer for analyzing the input signal to derive direction data and diffuseness data; a low-order components generator for generating a low-order sound field description from the input signal up to a predetermined order and mode; a mid-order components generator for generating a mid-order sound field description above the predetermined order or at the predetermined order and above the predetermined mode and below or at a first truncation order using a synthesis of at least one direct portion and of at least one diffuse portion using the direction data and the diffuseness data; and a high-order components generator for generating a high-order sound field description having a component above the first truncation order using a synthesis of at least one direct portion.

An apparatus for generating a sound field description from an input signal having at least two channels has: an input signal analyzer for obtaining direction data and diffuseness data from the input signal; an estimator for estimating a first energy- or amplitude-related measure for an omnidirectional component derived from the input signal and for estimating a second energy- or amplitude-related measure for a directional component derived from the input signal, and a sound component generator for generating sound field components of the sound field, wherein the sound component generator is configured to perform an energy compensation of the directional component using the first energy- or amplitude-related measure, the second energy- or amplitude-related measure, the direction data and the diffuseness data.

Apparatus, method and computer program for encoding, decoding, scene processing and other procedures related to DirAC based spatial audio coding using direct component compensation

An audio scene encoder for encoding an audio scene, the audio scene having at least two component signals, has: a core encoder for core encoding the at least two component signals, wherein the core encoder is configured to generate a first encoded representation for a first portion of the at least two component signals, and to generate a second encoded representation for a second portion of the at least two component signals, a spatial analyzer for analyzing the audio scene to derive one or more spatial parameters or one or more spatial parameter sets for the second portion; and an output interface for forming the encoded audio scene signal, the encoded audio scene signal having the first encoded representation, the second encoded representation, and the one or more spatial parameters or one or more spatial parameter sets for the second portion.

Audio scene encoder, audio scene decoder and related methods using hybrid encoder-decoder spatial analysis

An apparatus for generating a sound field description from an input signal having one or more channels including: an input signal analyzer for obtaining diffuseness data from the input signal; a sound component generator for generating, from the input signal, one or more sound field components of a first group of sound field components having for each sound field component a direct component and a diffuse component, and for generating, from the input signal, a second group of sound field components having only a direct component, the sound component generator being configured to perform an energy compensation when generating the first group of sound field components, the energy compensation depending on the diffuseness data and a number of sound field components in the second group, a number of diffuse components in the first group, or a maximum order of sound field components.

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Oliver Thiergart