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http://dx.doi.org/10.5909/JBE.2020.25.5.723

MPEG-I Immersive Audio Standardization Trend  

Kang, Kyeongok (Media Coding Research Section, Media Research Division, Communication & Media Research Laboratory, ETRI)
Lee, Misuk (Media Coding Research Section, Media Research Division, Communication & Media Research Laboratory, ETRI)
Lee, Yong Ju (Media Coding Research Section, Media Research Division, Communication & Media Research Laboratory, ETRI)
Yoo, Jae-hyoun (Media Coding Research Section, Media Research Division, Communication & Media Research Laboratory, ETRI)
Jang, Daeyoung (Media Coding Research Section, Media Research Division, Communication & Media Research Laboratory, ETRI)
Lee, Taejin (Media Coding Research Section, Media Research Division, Communication & Media Research Laboratory, ETRI)
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Journal of Broadcast Engineering / v.25, no.5, 2020 , pp. 723-733 More about this Journal
Abstract
In this paper, MPEG-I Immersive Audio Standardization and related trends are presented. MPEG-I Immersive Audio, which is under the development of standard documents at the exploration stage, can make a user interact with a virtual scene in 6 DoF manner and perceive sounds realistic and matching the user's spatial audio experience in the real world, in VR/AR environments that are expected as killer applications in hyper-connected environments such as 5G/6G. In order to do this, MPEG Audio Working Group has discussed the system architecture and related requirements for the spatial audio experience in VR/AR, audio evaluation platform (AEP) and encoder input format (EIF) for assessing the performance of submitted proponent technologies, and evaluation procedures.
Keywords
MPEG; Immersive audio; Virtual Reality; Augmented Reality;
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