A Joint Minimax Approach for Binaural Rendering of Audio Through Loudspeakers

This paper describes a method for jointly designing the crosstalk cancellation filters to facilitate binaural rendering of audio through loudspeakers. The minimax criterion is used to design the immersive audio rendering filters having finite impulse responses for a single listener using loudspeakers. The work presented is applied to the traditional Atal-Schroeder crosstalk canceler structure. The minimax approach provides improved low frequency performance and a better overall separation of the direct path and cross path transfer functions than the conventional least-squares designs.