Overview
- First book focused and detailed textbook on acoustic virtual reality
- Gives an introduction into modelling of acoustic sources, sound and vibration propagation, signal processing and sound reproduction
- Unique in this combination
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: RWTHedition (RWTH)
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About this book
Auralization is the creation of audible acoustic sceneries from computer-generated data. The term "auralization" is to be understood as being analogue to the well-known technique of "visualization". In visual illustration of scenes, data or any other meaningful information, in movie animation and in computer graphics, we describe the process of "making visible" as visualization. In acoustics, auralization is taking place when acoustic effects, primary sound signals or means of sound reinforcement or sound transmission, are processed to be presented by using electro-acoustic equipment. This book is organized as comprehensive collection of basics, methodology and strategies of acoustic simulation and auralization. With mathematical background of advanced students the reader will be able to follow the main strategy of auralization easily and work own implementations of auralization in various fields of applications in acoustic engineering, sound design and virtual reality. For readersinterested in basic research the technique of auralization may be useful to create sound stimuli for specific investigations in linguistic, medical, neurological and psychological research and in the field of human-machine interaction.
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Table of contents (17 chapters)
Reviews
From the reviews:
"Particularly attractive about this book is its very complete coverage of auralization techniques, presenting applications not only in room acoustics but also in sound insulation and in other noise control engineering applications, as well as in real-time virtual reality. … The book serves as an excellent overview of the auralization technique and gives around 230 references for more detailed studies… . Being very much up-to-date today, we can expect that it will stay so far years to come." (Peter Svensson, Sprachrohr, Issue 45, 2008)
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Michael Vorländer became director of the institute and professor of technical acoustics at RWTH Aachen University, Germany, in 1996. After education in physics and a doctorate degree in 1989 he worked in various fields of acoustics, mainly architectural acoustics and binaural technology.
His main areas of research are room acoustics, building acoustics, psychoacoustics, acoustic measurements, virtual acoustics.
Professor Vorländer is active in international societies, like
2004 - 2007 President of the European Acoustics Association (EAA)
2007 - 2010 Vice President of the European Acoustics Association (EAA)
2004 - Board of the International Commission for Acoustics (ICA)
Acoustical Society of America (ASA)
German Acoustical Society (DEGA)
German Physical Society (DPG)
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Auralization
Book Subtitle: Fundamentals of Acoustics, Modelling, Simulation, Algorithms and Acoustic Virtual Reality
Authors: Michael Vorländer
Series Title: RWTHedition
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-48830-9
Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg
eBook Packages: Physics and Astronomy, Physics and Astronomy (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2008
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-540-48829-3Published: 26 October 2007
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-642-08023-4Published: 10 October 2011
eBook ISBN: 978-3-540-48830-9Published: 27 October 2007
Series ISSN: 1865-0899
Series E-ISSN: 1865-0902
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 335
Topics: Acoustics, Vibration, Dynamical Systems, Control, Signal, Image and Speech Processing, Simulation and Modeling