EP2898707A1 - Calibration optimisee d'un systeme de restitution sonore multi haut-parleurs - Google Patents
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- the present invention relates to a method and a device for calibrating a sound reproduction system comprising a plurality of loudspeakers or sound reproduction elements. Calibration makes it possible to optimize the quality of listening of the rendering system which constitutes all the elements of reproduction, including the device of the loudspeakers and the listening room.
- the systems of restitution particularly concerned are the sound reproduction systems of the multichannel type (5.1, 7.1, 10.2, 22.2, etc.) or ambisonic type (Ambisonics in English or Higher Order Ambisonics (HOA)).
- the current acoustical calibration devices of the listening place are based on a general method of the "multichannel equalization" type in which the impulse responses of each loudspeaker of the listening system are measured using one or more microphones at one or more points of the listening location and frequency equalization filtering is performed on each speaker, independently, inverting all or part of the measured impulse response for the speaker concerned.
- the inversion is intended to correct the speaker response so that it is as close as possible to a "target" curve generally defined in the frequency domain to improve the rendering of the timbre of the sound sources.
- This type of calibration or correction focuses on the correction of the frequency aspect of the response of the playback system of the listening place without exploiting the temporal information such as reflections phenomena and in particular the first reflections of the sound signals.
- the analysis of the impulse responses carried out in the existing calibration methods is of the monophonic type, that is to say that it also does not take into account the spatial information of the reflections like the direction of incidence. .
- the present invention improves the situation.
- the method is such that it comprises the following steps:
- the effect of the first reflections of the sound waves diffused by the playback system on the auditory perception of the direct waves is evaluated and taken into account to adapt the treatment applied to the channel channels muiti channel according to the specific perceptual effect associated with each reflection.
- the filtering of the channels of the muiti channel signal thus takes into account exclusively the reflections that have an impact on the auditory perception of the direct waves.
- the perceptibility threshold is determined according to characteristics of the direct wave and the first reflections of the predetermined audio signal.
- the threshold of perceptibility can be obtained from characteristics determined by the step of analyzing the multidirectional impulse responses of the loudspeakers.
- the threshold of perceptibility is determined according to the direction of incidence of the direct wave and / or its amplitude, and the directions of incidence of the first reflections and / or their arrival times with respect to Direct tondon.
- the effect of a reflection on the perception of the direct wave generally depends on five parameters in total; on the one hand it depends on two characteristics of the direct wave: its amplitude and its direction; on the other hand it depends on three characteristics of the reflection: its amplitude, its moment of arrival and its incidence.
- the perceptual effect of the reflection by setting the missing characteristic to an arbitrary value, for example by taking the value corresponding to the case the more unfavorable in order to increase the perceptibility.
- the arrival time characteristic of the reflection it is possible to set a value to the arrival time characteristic of the reflection to determine a value of the perceptibility threshold only in relation to the value from the direction, even if only the arrival time information of the reflection is known, one can set the direction value and determine the threshold of perceptibility only according to the value of the time of arrival.
- the value of the threshold can be determined according to these two characteristics.
- the determination of the filtering matrix comprises the steps of:
- the error signal thus determined allows to take into account in the calculation of the filter matrix, only the reflections that have an impact on the auditory perception of the direct wave. Indeed, only the reflections that are not perceptible are removed for the determination of the error signal.
- the predetermined target response signal corresponds to the response of the direct wave alone without any reflection.
- the predetermined target response signal corresponds to the response of a direct wave associated with reflections representative of a predetermined listening location.
- the reference response can then be deliberately chosen as a desired listening place in which the sound is at a desired quality.
- the predetermined target response signal corresponds to the response of a direct wave associated with reflections representative of a different set of restitution.
- the reference response is here chosen according to a chosen reference restitution system, in which the number and the position of the loudspeakers may be different from the restitution system that is the object of the correction.
- the present invention also provides a device for calibrating a sound reproduction assembly of a multi-channel sound signal comprising a plurality of loudspeakers.
- This device is such that it comprises:
- a module for comparing the amplitude of each of the reflections with a determined perceptibility threshold and for identifying non-perceptible reflections for which the amplitude is below the determined threshold;
- This device has the same advantages as the method described above, which it implements.
- the invention also relates to an audio decoder comprising a calibration device as described.
- It relates to a computer program comprising code instructions for implementing the steps of the calibration method as described, when these instructions are executed by a processor.
- the invention relates to a storage medium, readable by a processor, integrated or not to the calibration device, optionally removable, storing a computer program implementing a calibration method as described above.
- FIG. 1 represents a sound reproduction system and a calibration device of the reproduction system according to one embodiment of the invention
- FIG. 2 represents in flowchart form the main steps of a calibration method according to one embodiment of the invention
- Figure 3a is a representation of a spherical landmark
- FIG. 3b illustrates the spherical harmonic components in the case of an ambisonic spatial representation of order 3;
- FIG. 4 represents an example of a table of values in dB that the perceptibility threshold used in the calibration method according to one embodiment of the invention can take, for a direct 60 ° incidence angle sound, in function of the angle of incidence (expressed in degrees) of the reflection and the arrival time (expressed in ms) of this reflection with respect to the instant t0 of arrival of the direct wave; the perceptibility threshold is defined as the level (in dB) of the reflection from which the level (in dB) of the direct wave is subtracted;
- FIG. 5 proposes another illustration of the values taken by the threshold of perceptibility: the threshold is this time represented as a function of the incidence of reflection, and this for different directions of the direct wave; in all cases, the delay of the reflection with respect to the direct wave is fixed and is worth 15 ms;
- FIG. 6 represents an example of an impulse response of a loudspeaker of a rendering system; the threshold of perceptibility associated with each reflection is also reproduced by a dotted line;
- FIG. 7 represents an example of a hardware embodiment of a calibration device according to one embodiment of the invention.
- FIG. 1 thus illustrates an exemplary sound reproduction system in which the calibration method according to one embodiment of the invention is implemented.
- This system comprises a processing device 100 comprising a calibration device E according to an embodiment of the invention driving a reproduction assembly 180 which comprises a plurality of rendering elements (loudspeakers, loudspeakers, ...) represented here by speakers HPi, HP 2 , HP 3 , HP, and HP N.
- rendering elements represented here by speakers HPi, HP 2 , HP 3 , HP, and HP N.
- These speakers are arranged in a listening room in which a microphone or set of microphones MA is also provided.
- a processing device 100 which can be a decoder such as a "set top box” type set-top box for playing or broadcasting audio or video contents, a processing server capable of handling audio and video contents and retransmit them to the rendering assembly, a conference bridge capable of processing the audio signals of different conference locations or any multi-channel audio signal processing device.
- a decoder such as a "set top box” type set-top box for playing or broadcasting audio or video contents
- a processing server capable of handling audio and video contents and retransmit them to the rendering assembly
- a conference bridge capable of processing the audio signals of different conference locations or any multi-channel audio signal processing device.
- the processing device 100 comprises a calibration device E according to one embodiment of the invention and a filtering matrix 170 composed of a plurality of processing filters which are determined by the calibration device according to a calibration method such as illustrated later with reference to Figure 2.
- This filtering matrix receives as input a multi-channel signal Si and outputs the signals SC 1 , SC 2 , SQ, SC N able to be restored by the reproduction unit 180.
- the calibration device E comprises a reception and transmission module 110 capable of transmitting, on the one hand, reference audio signals (Sref) to the various speakers of the reproduction assembly 180 and to receiving by the microphone or the microphone.
- set of microphones MA multidirectional impulse responses (RIS) of these different speakers corresponding to the diffusion of these reference signals.
- a multidirectional impulse response contains the temporal information and the spatial information relating to all the sound waves induced by the speaker considered in the reproduction room.
- the reference signals are for example signals whose frequency increases logarithmically with time, these signals being called in English “chirps” or “sweeps” logarithmic.
- the microphone capable of measuring the multidirectional impulse responses of the loudspeakers is an HOA type microphone placed at a point of the listening location, for example in the center of the speakers of the restitution ensemble.
- This microphone will receive, for each speaker rendering a reference audio signal, the sound restored in several directions.
- the microphone HOA consists of a plurality of microphones.
- the spatial information of the different sounds picked up can be extracted.
- this type of microphone one can refer to the document entitled "Study and realization of advanced spatial encoding tools for sound spatialization technique Higher Order Ambisonics: 3D microphone and distance control" from S. Moreau quoted at Univ. of Maine, PhD thesis, 2006.
- the microphone HOA then retrieves the multidirectional impulse responses of each of the speakers to transmit them to the calibration device or to store them in memory in a local or remote memory space.
- the analysis module 120 of the device E performs a joint analysis of the impulse responses obtained, which makes it possible to obtain these characteristics and in particular the characteristics of the first reflections of the restored signals.
- multidirectional impulse responses are obtained in a spatio-temporal representation where the spatial information is described on the basis of spherical harmonics and makes it possible to identify the directions of incidence. different sound components.
- the analysis of the impulse responses is made on a predetermined time scale, including the moments of the first reflections.
- this time window has a length of between 50 and 100 ms, which corresponds to the time scale of the arrival times of the first reflections.
- the embodiment thus described is adapted to the field of representation of spherical harmonics, but it is quite possible to carry out these same steps in a representation domain WFS (for "Wave Field Synthesis" in English) or in the field of plane waves.
- WFS for "Wave Field Synthesis” in English
- the means for capturing the signals reproduced by the loudspeakers will have to be adapted to these areas of representation to obtain multidirectional impulse responses, without this being outside the scope of the invention.
- the calibration device E also comprises a module 130 for comparing and identifying non-perceptible reflections.
- This module implements a step of comparing the amplitudes of the reflections, obtained by the analysis module 120, at a predetermined threshold of perceptibility Se.
- This perceptibility threshold is determined by the module 140 from a predefined table of values and stored in a memory space.
- the amplitude of a reflection is below the threshold of perceptibility as defined, it means that this reflection has no significant impact on the auditory perception of the direct wave of the restored signal.
- a step of identification of these "non-perceptible" reflections is then implemented by the module 130. These identified reflections allow to implement by the module 150 a step of determining perceptual impulse responses which are deduced from the impulse responses obtained by the module 110 by deleting the reflections judged as not perceptible.
- FIG. 2 illustrates in flowchart form the main steps implemented in one embodiment of the calibration method according to the invention.
- step E201 the multidirectional impulse responses of the various loudspeakers of the reproduction assembly as described with reference to FIG. 1, are obtained. They are obtained by the calibration device, either by simple reading in memory if these were saved in advance, either by receiving the microphone or a set of microphones that made the measurement.
- a step E202 for analyzing the multidirectional impulse responses thus obtained is then implemented.
- This analysis is carried out in a field of spatio-temporal representation.
- Spatial information can for example be described in the field of representation of spherical harmonics.
- each point has, for spherical coordinates, a distance r with respect to the origin 0, an angle ⁇ of azimuth or orientation in the horizontal plane and an angle ⁇ of elevation or d orientation in the vertical plane.
- an acoustic wave is perfectly described if one defines at any point at each instant t, the acoustic pressure noted p (r, ⁇ , ⁇ , t) whose time Fourier transform is noted P (r, ⁇ , ⁇ , where f denotes the time frequency.
- the spatial components are ambisonic components m a n which correspond to the decomposition of the acoustic pressure wave p on the basis of spherical harmonics.
- the ambisonic components B m a n are given by:
- the P mn (sin ⁇ ) are the associated Legendre functions.
- Decomposition on the basis of spherical harmonics can be considered as the dual transform between spatial coordinates and spatial frequencies.
- the components B n therefore define a spatial spectrum.
- a multidirectional impulse response is obtained which consists of K impulse responses corresponding to the K components of the chosen spatial representation.
- K impulse responses corresponding to the K components of the chosen spatial representation.
- the multidirectional impulse response associated with it is thus composed of K elementary responses H t) where the index I locates the index of the spatial component and t corresponds to the temporal sample.
- the vector of the K spatial components measured for the jth loudspeaker is denoted by h j (t):
- h j (t) [ ⁇ :) ... H j i (t) ... H jK (t)].
- the reproduction system comprises a total of N loudspeakers
- the set of multidirectional impulse responses measured for the N loudspeakers and the K spatial components defines a matrix H of size KxN, in which the jth column corresponds to the impulse response multidirectional associated with the jth speaker.
- the K spatial components contained in the vector h j (t) represent the spatial spectrum of the sounds picked up by the microphone.
- This inverse transformation is performed by reconstructing the pressure wave p (r, ⁇ , ⁇ , t) by linear combination of spherical harmonics, each harmonic being weighted by the amplitude of the component associated with it.
- the pressure wave p (r, ⁇ , ⁇ , t) can then be evaluated at any point of a sphere centered on the measurement point of the multidirectional impulse responses by reconstructing the point-by-point pressure wave by linear combination of spherical harmonics.
- This spatial decoding step is for example described in the document entitled “Jérians Daniel, Jean-Bernard Rault and Jean-Dominique Polack's” Ambisonics encoding of other audio formats for multiple listening conditions "in AES 105th Convention, September 1998.
- this transformation of the spatial frequencies (ambisonic components) to the spatial coordinates is carried out by multiplying, for each speaker and each time sample t, the vector hj (t) by a decoding matrix D.
- each column consists of the values of the spherical harmonic K for a given loudspeaker.
- the index i identifies the reflection index considered.
- the estimation accuracy of these characteristics therefore depends on the number P of virtual speakers used for this analysis.
- the first time sample for which a maximum is observed defines the instant of arrival of the direct wave.
- We also note the amplitude (A D ) and the incidence of the latter (C D (9 D , ⁇ D ) where 9 D and ⁇ respectively define the azimuth angle and the angle of elevation identifying the direction of the direct wave).
- the characteristics of the direct wave are determined on the one hand the characteristics of the direct wave as its amplitude A D (j), its arrival time on the microphone T D (j) or its direction of incidence C D (j); and on the other hand the characteristics of the reflections as their amplitudes A Ri (j), their arrival times on the microphone T Ri (j) or their directions bearings C Ri (j).
- the characteristics of the direct wave are determined on the one hand the characteristics of the direct wave as its amplitude A D (j), its arrival time on the microphone T D (j) or its direction of incidence C D (j); and on the other hand the characteristics of the reflections as their amplitudes A Ri (j), their arrival times on the microphone T Ri (j) or their directions bearings C Ri (j).
- the first reflections of a restored audio signal depend on the listening location in which the playback set is placed. In general, these first reflections appear in a time in a range of 50 to 100ms after the direct wave.
- the analysis time window of step E202 will, in a suitable embodiment, be between 50 and 100 ms.
- Step E203 compares the amplitudes obtained by the analysis step with a threshold of perceptibility Se of the reflections which has been previously defined and stored in memory.
- Step E204 makes it possible to recover the predefined threshold value as a function of characteristics of each reflection and of the associated direct wave, obtained at the analysis step E202.
- a first exemplary embodiment only the directional information of the reflections is known and recovered from the analysis step.
- the value of the arrival time characteristic of the reflection for example the most critical value (that which gives a maximum perceptibility) and we determine the value of the threshold of perceptibility only relative to the value of the direction.
- the direction value for example the most critical value (that which gives a maximum perceptibility)
- the perceptibility threshold according to the value of the instant of arrival.
- the value of the threshold can be determined, with a better accuracy, according to these two characteristics.
- an array of perceptibility threshold values is stored in memory.
- An example of such a table is illustrated with reference to FIG. 4.
- the threshold is defined as the relative level of reflection, that is, it represents the difference between the amplitude values (expressed in dB) of the reflection and the direct wave considered.
- This table of values is an example of threshold values defined from psycho-acoustic experiments carried out by considering different types of sound signal (speech, clicks, music, etc.), different angles of incidence and different arrival times of reflections and of the direct wave. A threshold of perceptibility of these reflections is defined according to these parameters.
- FIG. 5 shows different perceptibility threshold curves expressed in dB (which always corresponds to the relative threshold corresponding to the difference between the level of the reflection and that of the direct wave). These different curves correspond to different positions of the direct wave (azimuth of 0 ° for D1, 60 ° for D2, 90 ° for D3 and 150 ° for D4) and represent the thresholds of perceptibility as a function of the direction of reflection, this for a fixed arrival time (corresponding in this case to 15 ms).
- step E204 the threshold value corresponding to the characteristics obtained in the analysis step is recovered.
- This threshold value is compared with the magnitude value of each reflection in step E203.
- the value of the amplitude of reflection is referenced to that of the associated direct wave and expressed in dB:
- Step E203 thus makes it possible to identify all the reflections that have no impact on the perception of the direct wave. Step E203 therefore identifies all the reflections for which the amplitude is below the perceptibility threshold.
- FIG. 6 represents an exemplary impulse response, for a given direction, of one of the speakers of the reproduction assembly in comparison with the curve in dashed line representing the threshold of perceptibility (RMT for "Reflection Masked Threshold") obtained by the table described above with reference to Figure 4.
- the reflections whose level is below the threshold curve are thus identified. Note that in the case illustrated, the first reflections occurring in the first 15 ms are not noticeable.
- the modification consists in eliminating the non-perceptible reflections identified in step E203 in the impulse responses.
- this operation is carried out for example by a thresholding operation.
- the value of the perceptibility threshold S1 is deducted from the impulse response signal that was obtained in step E201.
- the processing can also be applied in the dual domain of space coordinates. In the following, we will describe the operation performed in the case of the spatial spectrum.
- the thresholding operation consists in comparing for each identified reflection its amplitude with the perceptibility threshold associated with its characteristics.
- the threshold Se (i) is determined according to its characteristics [T R (J), C Ri (j)] - This reflection is located at time t , given by:
- HP j i (t) designates the perceptual impulse response associated with H t).
- perceptual impulse responses retain only reflections that have a significant impact on the perception of the direct wave.
- step E206 This filtering matrix is then used to process the multi-channel audio signal before its sound reproduction by the system playback assembly.
- a possible embodiment comprises a step of determining an error signal defined by the difference between a predetermined target response signal of the set. of restitution and a reconstructed response signal from the perceptual impulse responses and a multichannel inversion step by minimizing the error signal thus determined.
- the error signal thus obtained therefore takes into account only the perceptible reflections since it is calculated from a reconstructed signal based on the perceptual impulse responses.
- the inversion can be performed by a gradient descent algorithm or its variants.
- An example of a possible inversion algorithm is that of the ISTA type (for "Iterative Shrinkage-Thresholding algorithm) as described in the document entitled” A Fast Iterative Shrinkage-Thresholding Algorithm for Linear Inverse Problems "by Amir authors. Beck & Marc Teboulle, published in SIAM J. IMAGING SCIENCES, Vol. 2, No. 1, pp. 183-202 in 2009.
- the problem that arises in calculating the filters of the processing matrix is as follows.
- N loudspeakers that make up the actual reproduction system.
- the space of spatial representation is of dimension K.
- the spatial information is thus described by K coefficients.
- the objective is to reproduce with the system of N loudspeakers, a set of V signals defining the multichannel audio input signal.
- V signals are dedicated to an ideal reproduction system consisting of V loudspeakers.
- This ideal system defines the V target signals that one wishes to reproduce, and which therefore correspond to the responses of a fictitious system of V virtual speakers.
- the KxN dimension matrix comprising the impulse responses of the N elements of the rendering system in the spatial analysis domain
- T the matrix containing the V target responses defined in the spatial analysis domain, of dimension KxV
- Each matrix is a matrix of vectors, in the sense that the third dimension corresponds to the time scale.
- the purpose of the inversion operation is to find the elements of the matrix W.
- the resolution of this operation can be done in two stages. Firstly, the correction filters are calculated by correcting only the room effect of the place of restitution, that is to say we take into account the actual loudspeaker device, ie N high- speakers. In a second step, the arrangement of the loudspeakers is compensated for adapting the V signals to a restitution according to a non-ideal configuration of N loudspeakers. For this purpose, the V signals are distributed by matrixing on the N channels associated with the real reproduction system in order to emulate a system of V virtual speakers.
- the elements of the matrix H comprise the perceptual impulse responses as obtained in step E205.
- the target responses may vary depending on the expected sound restitution result.
- this target response corresponds to the impulse response given by the direct wave alone without any reflection. This amounts to removing all the room effect in the expected signal.
- the target response signal corresponds to the response of a direct wave associated with reflections representative of a predetermined listening location.
- a typical listening place with good listening quality may be desired (eg the Pleyel TM room listening room).
- the processing filters will be calculated to obtain a sound reproduction close to this listening quality.
- the target response signal corresponds to the response of a direct wave associated with reflections representative of a set of restitution different from that used to restore the resulting signal.
- a desired rendering system for example having more loudspeakers, is taken as a reference to obtain a restitution close to that which would have been obtained with such a system.
- the implementation of the described method makes it possible to obtain a better quality of listening during the restitution of a multi-channel audio signal by taking into account only the perceptible reflections of the signals by the restitution set in the listening place.
- FIG. 7 represents an example of a hardware embodiment of a calibration device according to the invention. This may be an integral part of an audio / video decoder, a processing server, a conference bridge or any other audio or video playback or broadcasting equipment.
- This type of device comprises a ⁇ processor cooperating with a memory block MEM having a storage and / or working memory.
- the memory block may advantageously comprise a computer program comprising code instructions for implementing the steps of the calibration method in the sense of the invention, when these instructions are executed by the processor, and in particular the steps of obtaining answers.
- multi-directional impulses of the speakers of the reproduction unit to the reproduction of a predetermined audio signal analysis of the multidirectional impulse responses obtained, in a domain of spatio-temporal representation, over at least one time window including the instants d arrival of the first reflections of the reproduced predetermined audio signal to determine a set of characteristics of the first reflections, of comparing the amplitude of each of the reflections with a threshold of predetermined perceptibility and identification of the non-perceptible reflections for which the amplitude is lower than the predetermined threshold, modifying the impulse responses obtained to obtain perceptual impulse responses, by eliminating the reflections identified as non-perceptible and determining a filtering matrix from the perceptual impulse responses for an application of this filtering matrix to the multi-channel audio signal before sound reproduction.
- FIG. 2 repeats the steps of an algorithm of such a computer program.
- the computer program can also be stored on a memory medium readable by a reader of the device or downloadable in the memory space thereof.
- the memory MEM stores a table of perceptibility threshold values as a function of the characteristics of the sound components constituted by the direct wave and the reflections used in the method according to one embodiment of the invention and, in general, all the necessary data. to the implementation of the method.
- Such a device comprises an input module I adapted to receive impulse responses of a reproduction set and an output module S adapted to transmit to a processing module, the calculated filters of a filtering matrix.
- the device thus described may also include the processing functions by the implementation of the processing matrix in the I reception of a multi-channel signal Si for outputting processed signals SCi suitable for be returned by the restitution ensemble.
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