Temperature Robust Active-Compensated Sound Field Reproduction Using Impulse Response Shaping

Spatial audio may be performed in rooms using active-compensated sound field reproduction (AC-SFR), to cancel the reverberant reflections. Reproduction of a sound field may be performed using precalculated loudspeaker filters. However the robustness can be poor due to the temperature-induced perturbation of the room impulse responses (RIR). To compensate for reverberation, filters with significant non-causal components are designed. It is known that the requirements on the loudspeaker filters for room equalization may be reduced by applying the method of impulse response shaping (IRS). In this paper, we show that actively compensating paths with a long propagation distance are more heavily influenced by temperature than short paths. We hence impose a shaping penalty on the non-causal components of designed loudspeaker filters, to reduce the error caused by a change in temperature. We obtain AC-SFR designs that are more robust to changes in temperature.