Publications by Christof Faller

Social rules govern vocal competition in the barn owl

To resolve the share of limited resources, animals often compete through exchange of signals about their relative motivation to compete. When two competitors are similarly motivated, the resolution of conflicts may be achieved in the course of an interacti ...

Elsevier2015

Echo thresholds for reflections from acoustically diffusive architectural surfaces

Christof Faller, Andreas Walther

When sound reflects from an irregular architectural surface, it spreads spatially and temporally. Extensive research has been devoted to prediction and measurement of diffusion, but less has focused on its perceptual effects. This paper examines the effect ...

Acoustical Society of America2013

Perceptual Coding of High-Quality Digital Audio

Christof Faller, Karlheinz Brandenburg

This paper introduces high-quality audio coding using psychoacoustic models. This technology is now abundant, with gadgets named after a standard (mp3 players) and the ability to play high-quality audio from literally billions of devices. The usual paradig ...

Ieee-Inst Electrical Electronics Engineers Inc2013

Interaural correlation discrimination from diffuse field reference correlations

Christof Faller, Andreas Walther

Just noticeable differences in interaural correlation (rho-jnds) from diffuse sound field reference correlations are obtained. In a three-interval, three-alternative forced-choice procedure, rho-jnds are measured for positive and negative deviations from n ...

Acoustical Soc Amer Amer Inst Physics2013

Big brother is watching you: eavesdropping to resolve family conflicts

Christof Faller

Adult animals can eavesdrop on behavioral interactions between potential opponents to assess their competitive ability and motivation to contest resources without interacting directly with them. Surprisingly, eavesdropping is not yet considered as an impor ...

Oxford University Press2013

Multi-channel low-frequency room equalization using perceptually motivated constrained optimization

Martin Vetterli, Mihailo Kolundzija, Christof Faller

We consider the problem of multiple-loudspeaker low-frequency room equalization for a wide listening area, where the equalized loudspeaker is helped using the remaining ones. Using a spatial discretization of the listening area, we formulate the problem as ...

Ieee2012

Obtaining Binaural Room Impulse Responses from B-Format Impulse Responses Using Frequency-Dependent Coherence Matching

Hervé Lissek, Christof Faller, Fritz Menzer

Measuring binaural room impulse responses (BRIRs) for different rooms and different persons is a costly and time-consuming task. In this paper, we propose a method that allows to compute BRIRs from a B-format room impulse response (B-format RIR) and a set ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2011

Direct-Ambient Decomposition and Upmix of Surround Signals

Christof Faller, Andreas Walther

Various direct-ambient signal decompositions, applicable to two-channel stereophonic signals, have been proposed previously. Strategies to enhance these decompositions for multi-channel surround audio signals are not obvious. A method is proposed, which es ...

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Spatiotemporal Gradient Analysis of Differential Microphone Arrays

Martin Vetterli, Mihailo Kolundzija, Christof Faller

The literature on gradient and differential microphone arrays makes a distinction between the two types, and nevertheless shows how both types can be used to obtain the same directional responses. A more theoretically sound rationale for using delays in di ...

2011

Reproducing Sound Fields Using MIMO Acoustic Channel Inversion

Martin Vetterli, Mihailo Kolundzija, Christof Faller

Sound fields are essentially band-limited phenomena, both temporally and spatially. This implies that a spatially sampled sound field respecting the Nyquist criterion is effectively equivalent to its continuous original. We describe Sound Field Reconstruct ...

2011