Book on DAFX - Digital Audio Effects (Second Edition) Edited by Udo Zölzer ISBN: 978-0-470-66599-2 John Wiley & Sons, 2011

Chapter 5

V. Pulkki, T. Lokki and D. Rocchesso

Contents

• Introduction
• Concepts of spatial hearing
  • Head-related transfer functions
  • Perception of direction
  • Perception of the extent of the sound source
  • Room effect
  • Perception of distance
• Basic spatial effects for stereophonic loudspeaker and headphone playback
  • Amplitude panning in loudspeakers
  • Time and phase delays in loudspeaker playback
  • Listening to two-channel stereophonic material with headphones
• Binaural techniques in spatial audio
  • Listening to binaural recordings with headphones
  • Modeling HRTF filters
  • HRTF processing for headphone listening
  • Virtual surround listening with headphones
  • Binaural techniques with cross-talk canceled loudspeakers
• Spatial audio effects for multichannel loudspeaker layouts
  • Loudspeaker layouts
  • 2-D loudspeaker setups
  • 3-D loudspeaker setups
  • Coincident microphone techniques and Ambisonics
  • Synthesizing the width of virtual sources
  • Time delay-based systems
  • Time-frequency processing of spatial audio
• Reverberation
  • Basics of room acoustics
  • Convolution with room impulse responses
• Modeling of room acoustics
  • Classic reverb tools
  • Feedback delay networks
  • Time-variant reverberation
  • Modeling reverberation with a room geometry
• Other spatial effects
  • Digital versions of classic reverbs
  • Distance effects
  • Doppler effect
• Conclusion
• Acknowledgements
• References

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