PhaseCoder: Microphone Geometry-Agnostic Spatial Audio Understanding for Multimodal LLMs

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Main Authors:	Dementyev, Artem, Zulfikar, Wazeer, Hersek, Sinan, Getreuer, Pascal, Kumar, Anurag, Kumar, Vivek
Format:	Preprint
Published:	2026
Subjects:	Sound Artificial Intelligence Audio and Speech Processing
Online Access:	Acceder al recurso
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