Spatial Sound and 3D Audio

Catalog description

This course gives an overview of the recent research in virtual acoustics. These techniques are becoming increasingly more common to provide 3-D sound for home theatre systems, video games, displays for flight simulators, and other virtual reality and immersive environment systems. Virtual acoustic systems are also making their way into cellphones, VOIP and online communication, and automobile sounds. The course is integrative pulling from many subdisciplines of acoustics including psychoacoustics, physical acoustics, signal processing, active acoustic control, architectural acoustics, audio engineering, and computational acoustics.