FOA Tokenizer: Low-bitrate Neural Codec for First Order Ambisonics with Spatial Consistency Loss

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Main Authors:	Sudarsanam, Parthasaarathy, Braun, Sebastian, Gamper, Hannes
Format:	Preprint
Published:	2025
Subjects:	Sound
Online Access:	Acceder al recurso
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