Spatial Acoustics Library for MATLAB (SALM)

The spatial acoustics library for MATLAB (SALM) contains a collection of Matlab functions and scripts for spatial acoustic signal processing and spatial audio processing.

If you use any script, function, or dataset available in this repository, please cite SALM as below.

• C. D. Salvador, Spatial Acoustics Library for MATLAB (SALM), GitHub, February 2024.
  DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.10648288.
  

SALM has been used in our papers listed below. If a particular component of SALM is of special help in your projects, please properly cite the papers listed in the header of the corresponding M-file.

1. C. D. Salvador, S. Sakamoto, J. Treviño, and Y. Suzuki, “Boundary matching filters for spherical microphone and loudspeaker arrays,” IEEE/ACM Trans. Audio, Speech, Language Process., vol. 26, no. 3, pp. 461--474, Mar. 2018.
   DOI: 10.1109/TASLP.2017.2778562.
   PDF file available here.

2. C. D. Salvador, S. Sakamoto, J. Treviño, and Y. Suzuki, “Distance-varying filters to synthesize head-related transfer functions in the horizontal plane from circular boundary values,” Acoust. Sci. Technol., vol. 38, no. 1, pp. 1–13, Jan. 2017.
   DOI: 10.1250/ast.38.1.
   PDF file available here.

3. C. D. Salvador, S. Sakamoto, J. Treviño, and Y. Suzuki, “Design theory for binaural synthesis: Combining microphone array recordings and head-related transfer function datasets,” Acoust. Sci. Technol., vol. 38, no. 2, pp. 51–62, Mar. 2017.
   DOI: 10.1250/ast.38.51.
   PDF file available here

4. C. D. Salvador, S. Sakamoto, J. Treviño, and Y. Suzuki, “Dataset of near-distance head-related transfer functions calculated using the boundary element method,” presented at the Proc. Audio Eng. Soc. Int. Conf. Spatial Reproduction —Aesthetics and Science—, Tokyo, Japan, Aug. 2018.
   Permalink: http://www.aes.org/e-lib/browse.cfm?elib=19602.
   PDF file available here.

5. A. Urviola, S. Sakamoto, and C. D. Salvador, “Ear centering for accurate synthesis of near-field head-related transfer functions,” Appl. Sci., vol. 12, no. 16, 2022.
   DOI: 10.3390/app12168290.
   PDF file available here.

6. C. D. Salvador, A. Urviola and S. Sakamoto, “Ear centering in the spatial and transform domains for near-field head-related transfer functions,” 24th International Congress on Acoustics (ICA 2022), Gyeongju, South Korea, Oct. 2022.
   PDF file available here.

7. A. Urviola, S. Sakamoto, and C. D. Salvador, “Ear centering for near-distance head-related transfer functions,” International Conference on Immersive and 3D Audio (I3DA), Bologna, Italy, Sep. 2021.
   DOI: 10.1109/I3DA48870.2021.9610891.
   PDF file available here.

8. A. Campos, S. Sakamoto, and C. D. Salvador, “Directional early-to-late energy ratios to quantify clarity: A case study in a large auditorium,” International Conference on Immersive and 3D Audio (I3DA), Bologna, Italy, Sep. 2021.
   DOI: 10.1109/I3DA48870.2021.9610935.
   PDF file available here.

9. J. Alarcón, J. Solis, and C. D. Salvador, “Regularized spherical Fourier transform for room impulse response interpolation,” XXVII International Conference on Electronics, Electrical Engineering, and Computing (INTERCON), Lima, Peru, Aug. 2021.
   DOI: 10.1109/INTERCON52678.2021.9532805.
   PDF file available here.