Publication Details

Title: SpatDIF: Principles, Specification, and Examples
Author: N. Peters, J. Schacher, and T. Lossius
Group: Other
Date: July 2012
PDF: http://www.icsi.berkeley.edu/pubs/other/ICSI_SpatDif12.pdf

Overview:
SpatDIF, the Spatial Sound Description Interchange Format, is an ongoing collaborative effort offering a semantic and syntactic specification for storing and transmitting spatial audio scene descriptions. The SpatDIF core is a lightweight minimal solution providing the most essential set of descriptors for spatial sound scenes. Additional descriptors are introduced as extensions, expanding the namespace and scope with respect to authoring, scene description, rendering and reproduction of spatial audio. A general overview of the specification is provided, and two use cases are discussed, exemplifying SpatDIF’s potential for file-based pieces as well as real-time streaming of spatial audio information.

Acknowledgements:
This work was partially funded by the Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Diesnst (DAAD) through a postdoctoral fellowship.

Bibliographic Information:
Proceedings of the 9th Sound and Music Computing Conference (SMC 2012), Copenhagen, Denmark

Bibliographic Reference:
N. Peters, J. Schacher, and T. Lossius. SpatDIF: Principles, Specification, and Examples. Proceedings of the 9th Sound and Music Computing Conference (SMC 2012), Copenhagen, Denmark, July 2012