Topics

  • Auditory Cues and Sound Perception
    • ITD
    • ILD
    • Spectral Cues (outer ear), HRTF
    • Reverberation
    • High Frequency Loss (distance)
    • Doppler Effect
    • Small Head Movements
  • Approaches to Spatialization (in ear, cinema, orchestra)
  • Simple Amplitud Panning
  • Vector Based Amplitude Panning (VBAP)
  • Head Related Transfer Functions (HRTF)
  • Reverberation
  • Virtual Room Simulations
  • Ambisonics (basic concepts and history)
  • Ambisonics (higher order systems)
  • Wave Field Synthesis

Calendar

This calendar is tentative and will very likely change.

  Week Fri Topics Assignment
APR 1 25 Course overview, Auditory Cues
MAY 2 2 -
  3 9 Approaches to Spatialization, Reverberation
  4 16 Amplitude Panning
  5 23 VBAP Project Proposal due
  6 30 HRTF
JUN 7 6 Reverberation
  8 13 Virtual Room Simulation
  9 20 Ambisonics (history, simple ambisonics, different systems)
  10 25 Ambisonics (higher order ambisonics) Project Presentations
JUL 11 4 Wave Field Synthesis Project Presentations
  12 11 Wave Field Synthesis Project Presentations
  13 18 Project Presentation