Exploring audio immersion using user-generated recordings

Daniel Gomes; Joao Magalhaes; Sofia Cavaco
DAFx-2019 - Birmingham
The abundance and ever growing expansion of user-generated content defines a paradigm in multimedia consumption. While user immersion through audio has gained relevance in the later years due to the growing interest in virtual and augmented reality immersion technologies, the existent user-generated content visualization techniques are still not making use of immersion technologies. Here we propose a new technique to visualize multimedia content that provides immersion through the audio. While our technique focus on audio immersion, we also propose to combine it with a video interface that aims at providing an enveloping visual experience to end-users. The technique combines professional audio recordings with user-generated audio recordings of the same event. Immersion is granted through the spatialization of the user generated audio content with head related transfer functions.
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