Sound Field Reproduction of Focused Virtual Sources with Symmetry Sigmoid Regularization Function

JIA Maoshen; WANG Wenbei; SUN Jundai; BAO Changchun

doi:10.1049/cje.2018.04.009

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JIA Maoshen, WANG Wenbei, SUN Jundai, et al., “Sound Field Reproduction of Focused Virtual Sources with Symmetry Sigmoid Regularization Function,” Chinese Journal of Electronics, vol. 27, no. 4, pp. 835-844, 2018, doi: 10.1049/cje.2018.04.009

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JIA Maoshen, WANG Wenbei, SUN Jundai, et al., “Sound Field Reproduction of Focused Virtual Sources with Symmetry Sigmoid Regularization Function,” Chinese Journal of Electronics, vol. 27, no. 4, pp. 835-844, 2018, doi: 10.1049/cje.2018.04.009

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Sound Field Reproduction of Focused Virtual Sources with Symmetry Sigmoid Regularization Function

doi: 10.1049/cje.2018.04.009

Faculty of Information Technology, Beijing University of Technology, Beijing 100124, China

Funds: This work is supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No.61231015), China Postdoctoral Science Foundation Funded Project (No.2017M610731), and the Project supported by Beijing Postdoctoral Research Foundation.

Received Date: 2016-12-01
Rev Recd Date: 2017-07-09
Publish Date: 2018-07-10

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Reproduction of focused sound sources is a fundamental problem in acoustic signal processing. Based on the cylindrical harmonic expansion of higher order Ambisonics (HOA), a novel method for focused sound source reproduction is proposed. To restrict the near-field distortion caused by higher order harmonic components of focused sound sources, a Symmetry sigmoid regularization function (SSRF) is designed, which exhibits a more suitable attenuation characteristic. By using SSRF, we first give the generalized cylindrical harmonic expansion of focused sound sources. The concept of continuous loudspeaker is utilized over a circular array to generate the discrete loudspeaker driving function. Based on the wideband error analysis, the match relationship between the SSRF and the variance pair (i.e., the operating frequency and the expansion order) is established. Objective evaluation results show that the near-field distortion is eliminated significantly by the proposed method. The reproduction errors of interior/exterior sound field are evidently lower than the state-of-the-art techniques. The subjective evaluations also confirm that the proposed approach is able to achieve higher reproduction quality compared to the referenced methods.
- Focused sound source reproduction,
- higher order ambisonics,
- near-field distortion,
- Symmetry sigmoid regularization function (SSRF)

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