Capturing 360° Audio using an Equal Segment Microphone Array (ESMA)
- Submitting institution
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The University of Huddersfield
- Unit of assessment
- 12 - Engineering
- Output identifier
- 47
- Type
- D - Journal article
- DOI
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10.17743/jaes.2018.0068
- Title of journal
- AES: Journal of the Audio Engineering Society
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- First page
- 13
- Volume
- 67
- Issue
- 1/2
- ISSN
- 0004-7554
- Open access status
- Compliant
- Month of publication
- January
- Year of publication
- 2019
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
- No
- Number of additional authors
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0
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- This study proposed and verified a novel psychoacoustic model for designing a 360° audio capture method for virtual and augmented reality (VR/AR) applications. This work led to the development of ESMA-3D, a novel 360° microphone array, which provides better localisation accuracy and spatial impression than conventional techniques. The ESMA-3D is now widely used by major players in the industry (e.g. Abbey Road Studios (mirek.stiles@abbeyroad.com), Philharmonia (axel@spatialaudiolabs.com), Afterlight (sjb@afterlightinc.com) and MagicBeans (gareth@magicbeans.xyz)). This work also resulted in a consultancy work for a renowned acoustics firm Arup (adam.thomas@arup.com) and a collaborative project with New York University (ar137@nyu.edu) on urban soundscape capture.
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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