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Research - Virtual Acoustics - no longer active

This page is a collection of links and articles that are helpful to me with my research. The information here is intended for myself only. I use this as a central location for my research information. This page is in a state of constant change.

Aside from this note, it was last updated 2001-09-03 and no longer actively maintained. Many links are broken.

• Auralization
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• Parallel Programming
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Auralization Links

This page is a list of links for my research. I've included a usefulness rating and some information to help me remember what information each one contains. Many of these links came from the Ultimate Spatial Audio Index

• HUT - Helsinki University of Technology
  http://www.acoustics.hut.fi
  great info, publications available
  DIVA, VBAP, etc
  9/10 XXXXXXXXX-
  
  
• MIT Media Lab
  http://www.media.mit.edu
  HRTFs
  Made a reference to spatial audio but nothing found.
  Bill Gardner
  Keith Martin
  9/10 XXXXXXXXX-
  
  
• Durand Begault's work
  http://vision.arc.nasa.gov/IHH/durandbegault.html
  http://olias.arc.nasa.gov/publications/begault/iwhit2/IWHIT2.html
  One of Begault's papers. Great references.
  8/10 XXXXXXXX--
  
  
• HDRL
  http://www.waisman.wisc.edu/hdrl/home.html
  Lots of publications on Spatial Hearing
  7/10 XXXXXXX---
  
  
• CNMAT at UCB
  http://www.cnmat.berkeley.edu/
  publications (OSE?)
  work on real-time audio processing software
  and speaker placement in visualization theaters
  7/10 XXXXXXX---
  
  
• CCRMA at Stanford
  http://ccrma-www.stanford.edu/
  have to go through individual's web pages to find info
  Julius Orion Smith III
  7/10 XXXXXXX---
  
  
• Institute of Communications Acoustics at Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany
  http://www.ika.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/indexeng.htm
  They have a DSP based spatialization system for an immersive virtual environment.
  They have lots of document references. They have no documents.
  5/10 XXXXX-----
  
  
• Georgia Tech
  http://www.cc.gatech.edu/gvu/multimedia/spatsound/spatsound.html
  good intro to spatial sound.
  A few publications.
  5/10 XXXXX-----
  
  
• ICAD
  http://www.icad.org
  Not surprisingly this is mostly dedicated to auditory displays,
  but there is some good information here.
  Lots of publications
  4/10 XXXX------
  
  
• IRCAM
  http://www.ircam.fr/
  SPAT - Mac based spatializing software.
  no publications
  3/10 XXX-------
  
  
• San Jose State University
  http://www.engr.sjsu.edu/~duda
  Dr. Duda's research on machine hearing.
  Well documented. Not a lot for me.
  2/10 XX--------
  
  
• Penn State Virtual Acoustics Class
  http://www.acs.psu.edu/users/sparrow/classes/fall2000VACS.html
  Victor Sparrow's Virtual Acoustics Class
  Class syllabus and a few references.
  2/10 XX--------
  
  
• Interactive Audio Special Interest Group
  http://www.iasig.org
  Industry standard for interactive audio.
  Several specifications for Microsoft Direct 3D Sound.
  2/10 XX--------
  
  
• Chalmers Applied Acoustics
  http://cthta4.ta.chalmers.se/www/webben/index.html
  Rendell's here.
  Haven't found anything _useful_ here so far
  1/10 X---------
  
  
• TU-Berlin - Networking and Multimedia Technology
  http://wwwpc.prz.tu-berlin.de/prz/english/index.htm
  This is where the client-server parallel auralization system
  was developed. No information, but email addresses.
  1/10 X---------
  
  

• Acoustic Design Ahnert
  http://www.ada-acousticdesign.de/
  This is the design group of EASE and EARS.
  They don't have their publications available here.
  0/10 ----------
  
  
• Naval Postgraduate School
  
• University of Miami
  
• Army Research Lab
  
• HIT lab at Univ of Washington
  
• Parmly Hearing Institute
• New York University

• Lake Technology

Articles

• JAES
  • M. R. Schroeder, "Natural-sounding artificial reverberation," J. Audio Eng. Soc.., vol. 10, pp. 219-223, (1962).
  • M. Kleiner, B.-I. Dalenback, P. Svensson, "Auralization -- An Overview," J. Audio Eng. Soc., vol. 41, no. 11, pp.861-875, 1993.
  • V. Larcher, J.-M. Jot, J. Guyard, and O. Warsusfel, "Study and comparison of efficient methods for #D audio spatializaton base on linear decomposition of HRTF data," presented at the 108th Convention of the Audio Engineering Society, Paris, France
  • E. Wenzel, "Analysis of the Role of Update Rate and System Latency in Interactive Virtual Acoustic Environments," presented at the 103rd Convention of the Audio Engineering Society, J. Audio Eng. Soc. (Abstracts), vol. 45, pp. 1017, 1018 (1997 Nov.), preprint 4633.
  
  
• JASA
  
  
  • H. Bass and H. J. Bauer, "Atmospheric Absorption of Sound: Analytical Expressions," J. Acoust. Soc. Am., vol. 52, pp. 821-825 (1972).
  • J. B. Allen and D. A. Berkley," Image Method for Efficiently Simulating Small-Room Acoustics," J. Acoust. Soc. Am., vol. 65, pp. 943-950(1979).
  • J. Borish, "Extension of the Image Model to Arbitrary Polyhedra," J. Acoust. Soc. Am., vol. 75, pp. 1827-1836(1984).
  • F. L. Wightman and D. J. Kistler, "Headphone Simulation of Free-Field Listening. I: Stimulus Synthesis," J. Acoust. Soc. Am., vol. 85, pp. 858-867(1989).
  • D. J. Kistler and F. L. Wightman, "A Model of Head-Related Transfer Functions Based on Principal Components Analysis and Minimum-Phase Recontsruction," J. Acoust. Soc. Am., vol. 91, pp. 1627-1647(1992).
  • W. Gardner and K. Martin, "HRTF Measurements of a KEMAR," J. Acoust. Soc. Am., vol. 97, pp. 3907-3908(1995).
    
    
  • proceedings
    • 19970618-am.pdf
      
    • 19980622-am.pdf
      
    • 19990315-am.pdf
      
    • 19990317-am.pdf -- pg 1162!!!
      
    • 19990317-pm.pdf -- lots here
      
    • 19990318-am.pdf -- Rendell and client-server
      
    • 20000601-am.pdf
      
  
  
• Applied Acoustics
  • H. Moller, "Fundamentals of Binaural Technology," Appl. Acoust., vol. 36, pp. 171-218 (1992).
  
  
• Computer Music Journal
  • J. A. Moorer, "About This Reverberation Business," Comput. Music J., vol. 3, pp.13-28(1979).
  • J. Stautner and M. Puckette, "Designing Multi-Channel Reverberators," Comput. Music J., vol. 6, pp. 569-579(1982).
  
  
• MIT
  • W. G. Gardner, " Efficient Convolution without Input-Output Delay," J. Audio Eng. Soc., vol. 43, pp. 127-136(1994).
  • Gardner, W. G. (1992). The virtual acoustic room. Master's thesis, MIT Media Lab.
  
  
• CCRMA
  • ``The Bark and ERB Bilinear Transforms'' by Julius O. Smith III and Jonathan S. Abel, preprint of version accepted for publication in the IEEE Transactions on Speech and Audio Processing, November, 1999.
  • ``Circulant and Elliptic Feedback Delay Networks for Artificial Reverberation'' by Davide Rocchesso and Julius O. Smith III, preprint of paper published in the IEEE Transactions on Speech and Audio, vol. 5, no. 1, pp. 51-60, Jan. 1996.
  
  
• MRToolkit
  • "The MR Toolkit Peers Package and Experiment", Chris Shaw and Mark Green. In IEEE Virtual Reality Annual International Symposium (VRAIS 93), pages 463-469, Seattle, Washington, September 18-22, 1993, IEEE.
  
  
• HUT
  • Lokki, T., Gröhn, M., Savioja, L., and Takala, T., A Case Study of Auditory Navigation in Virtual Acoustic Environments in Proceedings of International Conference on Auditory Display (ICAD'2000), pp. 145-150, Atlanta, Georgia USA, April 2-5, 2000.
  • Savioja, L. 1999. Modeling Techniques for Virtual Acoustics. Doctoral thesis Doctoral Thesis, Helsinki University of Technology, Telecommunications Software and Multimedia Laboratory, Report TML-A3.
  • Savioja, L., Huopaniemi, J., Lokki, T., and Väänänen, R. 1999. Creating Interactive Virtual Acoustic Environments. Journal of the Audio Engineering Society (JAES), vol. 47, no. 9, pp. 675-705, Sept. 1999.
    ***Journal on paper***
  • Huopaniemi, J., Zacharov, N., Karjalainen, M. 1999. Objective and subjective evaluation of head-related transfer function filter design. Journal of the Audio Engineering Society, vol. 47, no. 4, pp. 218-239, April 1999.
    ***Journal on paper***
  • Savioja, L., Huopaniemi, J., Lokki, T., and Väänänen, R. 1997. Virtual environment simulation - Advances in the DIVA project. Proc. Int. Conf. Auditory Display (ICAD'97), Palo Alto, California, USA, Nov. 3-5, 1997, pp. 43-46.
    Conference Paper in PostScript format (ICAD97.ps)
    Conference paper in browsable WWW format
  • Huopaniemi, J, Savioja, L., Karjalainen M. 1997. Modeling of reflections and air absorption in acoustical spaces: a digital filter design approach. Proc. 1997 IEEE Workshop on Applications of Signal Processing to Audio and Acoustics (WASPAA'97), Mohonk Mountain House, New Paltz, New York, Oct. 19-22, 1997, Session 5.2.
    Conference Paper in PostScript format (refair.ps)
    
  • Huopaniemi, J., and Karjalainen, M. 1997. Review of digital filter design and implementation methods for 3-D sound. 102nd Audio Engineering Society (AES) Convention, preprint no. 4461, Munich, Germany, March 22-25, 1997.
    ***article on paper***
  • Huopaniemi, J., Savioja, L., and Takala, T. 1996. DIVA virtual audio reality system. Proc. Int. Conf. Auditory Display (ICAD96), Palo Alto, California, USA, Nov. 4-6, 1996, pp. 111-116.
    Conference Paper in PostScript format (ICAD96.ps)
    Conference paper in browsable WWW format
    
  • Huopaniemi, J., and Karjalainen, M. 1996. Comparison of digital filter design methods for 3-D sound. Proc. IEEE Nordic Signal Processing Symposium (NORSIG96), Helsinki, Finland, Sept. 24-27, 1996, pp. 131-134.
    Conference Paper in PostScript format (NS96HRTF.ps)
    
  • Huopaniemi, J., Savioja, L., Huotilainen, T., Takala, T. 1996. Implementation of a virtual audio reality system. Proc. Nordic Acoustical Meeting (NAM 96), Helsinki, Finland, June 12-14, 1996, pp. 331-338.
    Conference Paper in PostScript format (56m.ps)
    
  • Huopaniemi, J., and Karjalainen, M. 1996. HRTF filter design based on auditory criteria. Proc. Nordic Acoustical Meeting (NAM 96), Helsinki, Finland, June 12-14, 1996, pp. 323-330.
    Conference Paper in PostScript format (55m.ps)
    
  • Huopaniemi, J. 1995. Real-Time Binaural Room Simulation. In Proc. 1995 Finnish Signal Processing Symposium (FINSIG'95), Espoo, Finland, June 2, 1995, pp. 11-15.
    Conference Paper in PostScript format (FINSIG95_Room.ps)
    
  
  
• wanna get (on paper)
  
  
  • Applied Acoustics
    • G. M. Naylor, "ODEON - Another Hybrid Room Acoustical Model," Applied Acoustics, vol. 38, pp. 131-143, 1993.
    
    
  • JAES
    • J.-M. Jot, V. Larcher, and O. Warusfel, "Digital signal processing issues in the ontext of binaural and transaural streophony," presented at the 98th Audio Engineering Society Convention, Paris, France, 1995 Feb 25-28, preprint 3980
    
    
  • JASA
    • C. F. Eyring, "Reverberation time in "dead" rooms," J. Acoust. Soc. Am., vol. 1, no. 2, pp. 217--241, 1930.
    • E.~C.~Cherry, "Some Experiments on the Recognition of Speech with One and Two Ears," Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 25:975--979 (1953)
    • C. M. Harris, "Absorption of Sound in Air in the Audio Frequncy Range," Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 35:11, (1963)
    • C. M. Harris and W. Tempes, "Absorption of Sound in Air below 1000 cps," Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 36:2390, (1964)
    • S. Mehrgardt, and V. Mellert, "Trasformation characteristics of the external human ear," Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, vol.61, no. 6 pp.1567--1576
    • J.~Flanagan, "Analog Measurements of Sound Radiation from the Mouth," Journal of the Acoustical Society of America {\bf 32}:1613--1620 (1960)
      
      
      • Ruhr-University
        • Blauert, J., Brüggen, M., Hartung, K., Bronkhorst, A.W., Drullmann, R., Reynaud, G., Pellieux, L., Krebber, W., Sotteck, R., (1998). The AUDIS Catalog of Human HRTFs, in: Proc. 16th Int. Congr. Acoust. ICA, Inst. of Physics, USA-NY, CD-ROM.
        • Hartung, K., Sterbing, S.J., (1997) Generation of Virtual Sound Sources for the Electrophysiological Characterization of Auditory Spatial Tuning in the Guinea Pig, in: Acoustical signal processing in the Central Auditory System, (J. Syka, ed.), 407-412, Plenum, USA-New York.
        • Hartung, K., Sterbing, S.J. (1997). Investigating Auditory Spatial Tuning in the Guinea Pig Using Virtual Sound Sources, in: Proc. 4th French Congr. Acoust., 113-116.
        • Hartung, K., Hocke, M. (1999). Comparison of different Methods for the Interpolation of Head-related Transfer Functions, in: Proc. 16th AES Conf. Spatial Sound Reproduction, in press.
        • Strauss, H. (1998). Implementing Doppler Shifts for Virtual Auditory Environments, 104th Audio Eng. Soc. Conv., May 16-19, NE-Amsterdam, preprint #4687.
        
        
      • HUT
        • Huopaniemi, J. 1999. Virtual Acoustics and 3-D Sound in Multimedia Signal Processing Doctoral Thesis, Helsinki University of Technology, Laboratory of Acoustics and Audio Signal Processing, Report 53.
          ***ASKED FOR THIS THROUGH EMAIL from J. Huopaniemi***
        • Huopaniemi, J. 1995. Design and implementation of a real-time binaural room simulation system. Thesis for the degree of Master of Science, Helsinki University of Technology, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Laboratory of Acoustics and Audio Signal Processing, 79 p.
          ***ASKED FOR THIS THROUGH EMAIL from J. Huopaniemi***
        • Lokki, T., Hiipakka, J., and Savioja, L. 1999. Immersive 3-D Sound Reproduction in a Virtual Room. in Proceedings AES 16th International conference on spatial sound reproduction, pp.172-177, Rovaniemi, Finland, April 10-12, 1999.
        • Lokki, T., Savioja, L., Huopaniemi, J., Hänninen, R., Ilmonen, T., Hiipakka, J., Pulkki, V., Väänänen, R., and Takala, T. 1999. Virtual Concerts in Virtual Spaces - in Real Time. (Invited paper) Joint ASA/EAA Meeting - a Special Session on Auditory Display, Berlin, Germany, March 14-19, 1999.
          ***ASKED FOR THIS THROUGH EMAIL from J. Huopaniemi***
        • Lokki, T., Väänänen, R., Savioja, L., Huopaniemi, J. 1998. Advanced 3-D Audio in an Interactive Multimedia Environment. Proc. Norsig'98, pp. 201-204, Vigso, Denmark, June 8-11, 1998.
          ***ASKED FOR THIS THROUGH EMAIL from J. Huopaniemi***
        • Savioja, L., Huopaniemi, J., Huotilainen, T., Takala, T. 1996. Real-time virtual audio reality. Proc. International Computer Music Conference (ICMC'96), Hong Kong, Aug. 18-21, 1996, pp. 107-110.
          ***ASKED FOR THIS THROUGH EMAIL from J. Huopaniemi***
        • Pulkki, V., Huopaniemi, J., Huotilainen, T., Karjalainen, M. 1996. DSP approach to multichannel audio mixing. Proc. International Computer Music Conference (ICMC'96), Hong Kong, Aug. 18-21, 1996, pp. 93-96.
          ***ASKED FOR THIS THROUGH EMAIL from J. Huopaniemi***
        • Riitta Väänänen. Efficient Modeling and Simulation of Room Reverberation. Masters Thesis, 89 pp. Helsinki University of Technology. June 1997.
          
        • Riitta Väänänen, Vesa Välimäki, Jyri Huopaniemi, and Matti Karjalainen. Efficient and Parametric Reverberator for Room Acoustics Modeling. In Proceedings of the International Computer Music Conference, pages 200-203, Thessaloniki, Greece, September 1997
          
        
        
      • from "Creating Interactive Virtual Environments"
        • M. Kahrs and K. Brandenburg, Eds. Applications of Digital Signal Processing to Audio and Acoustics, (Kluwer Academic, Boston, MA, 1997), pp. 85-131
        • M. Tammienen, "The EXCELL Method for Efficient Geometric Access to Data," Acta Polytechnica Scandinavica, Math. and Comput. Sci. Ser., no. 34 (1981).
        • J. O. Smith, "Techniques for Digital Filter Design and System Identification with Applications to the Violin," Ph. D. thesis, Stanford Univerity, Stanford CA (1983 June).
          I asked Dr. Smith for a copy, but that is not available electronically. I will have to get this through the libray.
        • M. P. Hollier and A. N. Rimell, "An Experimental Investigation into Multi-Modal Synchronisation Sensitivity for the Perceptual Model Development," presented at the 105th Convention of the Audio Engineering Society, J. Audio Eng. Soc. (Abstracts), vol. 46, p. 1033 (19998 Nov.), preprint 4790.
        • E. Wenzel, "Effect of Increasing System Latency on Localization of Virtual Sounds," in Proc. AEES 16th Int. Conf. on Spatical Sound Reporduction (Rovaniemi, Finland, 1999 Apr.), pp. 42-50.
        
        
      • from looking around
        • Maher, Robert C.(Euphonics, Inc., Boulder, CO),"A Low Complexity Spatial Localization System" presented at the 103rd Convention of the Audio Engineering Society, J. Audio Eng. Soc. (Abstracts), vol. 45, pp. 1018 (1997 Nov.), preprint 4567.
        
        
    
    

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    Books

    Books I have on the subject
    • D. Begault, 3-D Sound for Virtual Reality and Multimedia (Academic Press, Cambridge, MA, 1994).
    • G. Kramer, Ed. Auditory Display:Sonification, Audification, and Auditory Interface, SFI Studies in the Sciences of Complexity (Addison-Wesly, Reading, MA, 1994)
      
      
    • library
      • H. Kuttruff, Room Acoustics, 3rd Eed. (Elsevier, Essex, UK, 1991).
      • J. Blauert, Spatial Hearing. Cambridge, Massachusetts; MIT Press. 1983.
    
    

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    Parallel Programming

    Here are some references for parallel programming. Get what you can.

    • Books and ideas
      • MPI - Message Passing Interface, available on Linux, FreeBSD, and SGI systems (and many others)
        • Parallel Programming With Mpi by Peter Pacheco
        • Designing and Building Parallel Programs : Concepts and Tools for Parallel Software Engineering by Ian T. Foster
          Web site for the book
        • Mpi : The Complete Reference: The Mpi Core/the Mpi Extensions (Scientific and Engineering Computation Series) by Gropp William, Marc Snir, William Gropp, Bill Nitzberg, Ewing Lusk
        
        
      • PVM - Parallel Virtual Machines???
      • Threads ???
      
      
    • Articles
      • Parallel real-time systems: formal specification Choudhary, A.N.; Gehlot, V.; Narahari, B. High-Performance Computing, 1997. Proceedings. Fourth International Conference on , 1997 Page(s): 186 -191
      • Real-time parallel MPEG-2 decoding in software Bilas, A.; Fritts, J.; Singh, J.P. Parallel Processing Symposium, 1997. Proceedings., Ilth International , 1997 Page(s): 197 -203
      • Real-time communications scheduling for massively parallel processors Games, R.; Kanevsky, A.; Krupp, P.; Monk, L. Real-Time Technology and Applications Symposium, 1995. Proceedings , 1995 Page(s): 76 -85
      • Fine grain parallel processors and real-time applications: MIMD controller/SIMD array Raghavan, R.; Jung, K.K.; Nguyen, H.T. Pattern Recognition, 1990. Proceedings., 10th International Conference on , Volume: ii , 1990 Page(s): 324 -331 vol.2
      • Real-time moving human face synthesis using a parallel computer network Hasegawa, O.; Wongwarawipat, W.; Lee, C.-W.; Ishizuka, M. Industrial Electronics, Control and Instrumentation, 1991. Proceedings. IECON '91., 1991 International Conference on , 1991 Page(s): 1380 -1385 vol.2
      • An application of parallel processing to distributed real time control of aircraft testing Burnett, G.; Patterson, A.; Powlesland, I.; Morris, P.; Roelofs, B. Control Applications, 1994., Proceedings of the Third IEEE Conference on , 1994 Page(s): 817 -824 vol.2
      • Real-time distributed and parallel processing for MPEG-4 Yong He; Ahmad, I.; Liou, M.L. Circuits and Systems, 1998. ISCAS '98. Proceedings of the 1998 IEEE International Symposium on , Volume: 3 , 1998 Page(s): 603 -606 vol.3
        
        
      • want
        • Parallel architecture and the process conifuration with conversations for ultra reliable real-time computing Yang, Seung M.'Lin, Tsair C.; Carroll, Bill D. Author Affiliation: Univ of Texas Source: American Society of Mechanical Engineers, Petroleum Division (Publications PD v 47 pt 4 Jun29-Jul 3 1992 19992 Sponsored by: ASME, Petroleum Div Publ by ASME p 55-62.
        • Homogeneous and heterogeneous parallel architectures in real-time signal processing and control Tokhi, M. O.' Hossain, M.A. Author Affiliation : Univ of Sheffield Source: Control Engineering Practice 3 12 Dec 1995 Perfamon Press Ltd p 1675-1686 0967-0061.
        • Development on the parallel operation and real-time communication of TCP netowrk Yu, A. P.; Yu, J. P.; Yan, G.M.; Wang, Y. Z.;Sheng, W. Author Affiliation: Second Artillery Engineering Inst Source International Symposium on Test and Measurement, Proceedings Jun 1-4 1997 1997 International Academic Publishers p 302-305.
        
        

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    Audio Scene Analysis

    Here are some references for audio scene analysis. They obviously need to be organized (at all!).

    • 1
    • 2
    • 3
    • 4

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    Sonification

    Here are some references for sonification. Organization would be nice.

    • Magnitude Estimation of Conceptual Data Dimensions for Use in Sonification by Bruce N. Walker

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    Last updated 2001-09-03.